(09-11-2021 09:06 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  So here's the sad thing. I used to get really angry but I am so beat down that all this is just an out of body experience as I have gotten to the point where I barely care any more. But I am clearly a glutton for punishment as I am going to the texans game tomorrow. And they, possibly, may be more of a mess than even rice. And this is what leebron needs to know-there was nobody left in the stadium club with 10 minutes to go. Maybe like the opera house, they can find donors who are charged with felonies.

Sadly enough I am about at the same point. My first Rice football game was 21 years ago, a thrilling OT win over UH (anyone know what the attendance was? I couldn't find it), and I have watched or listened to around 2/3 of the games in that time span, including all the ones when the team was having a good season. But nostalgia, the powerful force it is, can only carry my fandom so far.

Nice tribute to the 2001 team. That 2001 game at LA Tech is one of the great "what if" games in my Rice football fandom. A win there would have brought Rice to 7-1 and in the driver's seat for a bowl game. Instead they lost, lost again the next week to Fresno St (though Rice would most likely have lost that game anyway), and mailed it in for the season finale against SMU when a bowl game wasn't possible. That team was very close to being 10-2.

I took my son to tonight's game, and luckily he's young enough to be bribed with sugar and doesn't (yet) ask me why I bother going. He tried to talk me into saying hi to Chuck T, but I couldn't bring myself to stay in the stadium after that punt on 4th and 1 down 24. Come on. At that point getting to the Chocolate Bar before they closed was a higher priority.

At least the weather was gorgeous.