(09-04-2025 10:48 AM)OwlWKIF Wrote:  The new helmets look great. I assume we’re wearing them this weekend.

Shoutout to the equipment staff!

Rice 20, Coog High 17

What do they look like? A cartoon Owl strangling a couger?

(09-04-2025 12:43 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 10:48 AM)OwlWKIF Wrote:  The new helmets look great. I assume we’re wearing them this weekend.

Shoutout to the equipment staff!

Rice 20, Coog High 17

What do they look like? A cartoon Owl strangling a couger?

They look like UNC uniforms (aside from red trim around the numbering on the jersey), which is a tough coincidence.

Can one of you post a picture? I don't see them on the athletics website.

(09-04-2025 01:28 PM)Ourland Wrote:  Can one of you post a picture? I don't see them on the athletics website.

https://x.com/CFBKings/status/1963349232...62/photo/1

https://x.com/RiceFootball/status/196361...28/photo/1

Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

(09-04-2025 02:25 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

Totally agree. I don’t know who made that color decision but surely it wasn’t someone who’s actually in touch with Rice University and it’s basic color scheme for the last 100+ years.

Completely awful in every way. I bet we play like crap in those.

(09-04-2025 02:25 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

It's the same Oilers throwback but with light blue helmets to match the jerseys. I didn't really like the silver helmets we wore in the first version of the Oilers throwback, this is much better to me.

UH fans already crying that Rice "copies everything UH does." If that's the case, I'm truly scared...

Beat UH

I don't care what shade of blue a Rice player wears as long as he is standing in the UH end zone with the ball.

(09-04-2025 02:32 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:25 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

Totally agree. I don’t know who made that color decision but surely it wasn’t someone who’s actually in touch with Rice University and it’s basic color scheme for the last 100+ years.

When your most liked and shared social media posts of 2023 and 2024 (and now 2025) are the reveals of the powder blue uniforms, you make sure you keep wearing them. The fans like them, we've beaten ECU and UTSA in them, they're just a one game thing each season.

(09-04-2025 05:43 PM)TheOwl84 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:32 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:25 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

Totally agree. I don’t know who made that color decision but surely it wasn’t someone who’s actually in touch with Rice University and it’s basic color scheme for the last 100+ years.

When your most liked and shared social media posts of 2023 and 2024 (and now 2025) are the reveals of the powder blue uniforms, you make sure you keep wearing them. The fans like them, we've beaten ECU and UTSA in them, they're just a one game thing each season.

That is correct.

In 2023 Rice wore the powder blue vs. E. Caro. and won 24-17.

Last year Rice wore the powder blue vs. UTSA and won 29-27.

(09-04-2025 05:47 PM)ArmChairOwl Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:43 PM)TheOwl84 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:32 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:25 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

Totally agree. I don’t know who made that color decision but surely it wasn’t someone who’s actually in touch with Rice University and it’s basic color scheme for the last 100+ years.

When your most liked and shared social media posts of 2023 and 2024 (and now 2025) are the reveals of the powder blue uniforms, you make sure you keep wearing them. The fans like them, we've beaten ECU and UTSA in them, they're just a one game thing each season.

That is correct.

In 2023 Rice wore the powder blue vs. E. Caro. and won 24-17.

Last year Rice wore the powder blue vs. UTSA and won 29-27.

All that, plus they are a HTown Takeover Thing
We thought of it first and got permission.

UH just jumped the shark and wore theirs first without asking anyone in the NFL or the Oilers.

I think it’s flippin awesome. Luv ya Blue and Gray.

If anything, wear the space uniforms every year. Those were much nicer than these Oiler rags, and they were an original look. No one gives a damn about the Oilers anymore. Let it go.

(09-04-2025 08:57 PM)Ourland Wrote:  If anything, wear the space uniforms every year. Those were much nicer than these Oiler rags, and they were an original look. No one gives a damn about the Oilers anymore. Let it go.

The 2022 space uniforms were given to the team so not possible to get those back. But I imagine once we're with Nike we'll get new space uniforms, and probably new baby blue uniforms since they're so popular. Nike's best uniforms are their alternates.

More than it being about the Oilers its about the claim of that baby blue as a Houston color. The Rockets wear the color, all UH teams wear the color, even the Texans have added a candy blue to one of their uniforms. Nobody may care about the Oilers but the Houston outrage over the Titans wearing the Oiler throwbacks made a whole lot of people care about reclaiming that blue. The buzz these uniforms generate every time we announce them are the proof of that.

(09-04-2025 06:43 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:47 PM)ArmChairOwl Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:43 PM)TheOwl84 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:32 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:25 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Hate the powder blue. That is not a Rice color.

Why not green? Why not orange?

Totally agree. I don’t know who made that color decision but surely it wasn’t someone who’s actually in touch with Rice University and it’s basic color scheme for the last 100+ years.

When your most liked and shared social media posts of 2023 and 2024 (and now 2025) are the reveals of the powder blue uniforms, you make sure you keep wearing them. The fans like them, we've beaten ECU and UTSA in them, they're just a one game thing each season.

That is correct.

In 2023 Rice wore the powder blue vs. E. Caro. and won 24-17.

Last year Rice wore the powder blue vs. UTSA and won 29-27.

All that, plus they are a HTown Takeover Thing
We thought of it first and got permission.

UH just jumped the shark and wore theirs first without asking anyone in the NFL or the Oilers.

I think it’s flippin awesome. Luv ya Blue and Gray.

Wasn’t the “Htown Takeover” a UH slogan?

(09-04-2025 11:03 PM)UHfan Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 06:43 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:47 PM)ArmChairOwl Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:43 PM)TheOwl84 Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 02:32 PM)greyowl72 Wrote:  Totally agree. I don’t know who made that color decision but surely it wasn’t someone who’s actually in touch with Rice University and it’s basic color scheme for the last 100+ years.

When your most liked and shared social media posts of 2023 and 2024 (and now 2025) are the reveals of the powder blue uniforms, you make sure you keep wearing them. The fans like them, we've beaten ECU and UTSA in them, they're just a one game thing each season.

That is correct.

In 2023 Rice wore the powder blue vs. E. Caro. and won 24-17.

Last year Rice wore the powder blue vs. UTSA and won 29-27.

All that, plus they are a HTown Takeover Thing
We thought of it first and got permission.

UH just jumped the shark and wore theirs first without asking anyone in the NFL or the Oilers.

I think it’s flippin awesome. Luv ya Blue and Gray.

Wasn’t the “Htown Takeover” a UH slogan?

Yep. Tom Herman ... mid-2010s:

https://www.fox26houston.com/sports/west...-americans

(09-05-2025 12:45 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 11:03 PM)UHfan Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 06:43 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:47 PM)ArmChairOwl Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:43 PM)TheOwl84 Wrote:  When your most liked and shared social media posts of 2023 and 2024 (and now 2025) are the reveals of the powder blue uniforms, you make sure you keep wearing them. The fans like them, we've beaten ECU and UTSA in them, they're just a one game thing each season.

That is correct.

In 2023 Rice wore the powder blue vs. E. Caro. and won 24-17.

Last year Rice wore the powder blue vs. UTSA and won 29-27.

All that, plus they are a HTown Takeover Thing
We thought of it first and got permission.

UH just jumped the shark and wore theirs first without asking anyone in the NFL or the Oilers.

I think it’s flippin awesome. Luv ya Blue and Gray.

Wasn’t the “Htown Takeover” a UH slogan?

Yep. Tom Herman ... mid-2010s:

https://www.fox26houston.com/sports/west...-americans

And speaking of Tom Herman, I’ll remind the UH fans that “we had him first”

Same with Major Applewhite.

It’s time for an #HTownTakeover-Takeover!

(09-05-2025 07:26 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-05-2025 12:45 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 11:03 PM)UHfan Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 06:43 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 05:47 PM)ArmChairOwl Wrote:  That is correct.

In 2023 Rice wore the powder blue vs. E. Caro. and won 24-17.

Last year Rice wore the powder blue vs. UTSA and won 29-27.

All that, plus they are a HTown Takeover Thing
We thought of it first and got permission.

UH just jumped the shark and wore theirs first without asking anyone in the NFL or the Oilers.

I think it’s flippin awesome. Luv ya Blue and Gray.

Wasn’t the “Htown Takeover” a UH slogan?

Yep. Tom Herman ... mid-2010s:

https://www.fox26houston.com/sports/west...-americans

And speaking of Tom Herman, I’ll remind the UH fans that “we had him first”

Same with Major Applewhite.

It’s time for an #HTownTakeover-Takeover!

You were focused on “We thought of it first”. And then used a slogan that UH had first. I thought it was ironic. And UH got the best out of Herman. Applewhite, we would probably like to forget those seasons.

(09-05-2025 07:33 AM)UHfan Wrote:  

(09-05-2025 07:26 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-05-2025 12:45 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 11:03 PM)UHfan Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 06:43 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  All that, plus they are a HTown Takeover Thing
We thought of it first and got permission.

UH just jumped the shark and wore theirs first without asking anyone in the NFL or the Oilers.

I think it’s flippin awesome. Luv ya Blue and Gray.

Wasn’t the “Htown Takeover” a UH slogan?

Yep. Tom Herman ... mid-2010s:

https://www.fox26houston.com/sports/west...-americans

And speaking of Tom Herman, I’ll remind the UH fans that “we had him first”

Same with Major Applewhite.

It’s time for an #HTownTakeover-Takeover!

You were focused on “We thought of it first”. And then used a slogan that UH had first. I thought it was ironic. And UH got the best out of Herman. Applewhite, we would probably like to forget those seasons.

Well, we've never had to use the "Academic Cornerstone" slogan because it is already understood. And perhaps UH's ability to recruit whoever they want for athletics was instrumental in Herman's success there. Rice can't do that, so we have to focus on unique systems that will fit the student-athlete we're able to recruit. I think we have finally done that this year in football, but we are not naive and thus realize it will take awhile for the system to take hold. Hopefully Rice will pull off the upset on Saturday, but there is a reason UH is a double-digit favorite. Best of luck to both teams!

(09-05-2025 07:47 AM)ArmChairOwl Wrote:  

(09-05-2025 07:33 AM)UHfan Wrote:  

(09-05-2025 07:26 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(09-05-2025 12:45 AM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(09-04-2025 11:03 PM)UHfan Wrote:  Wasn’t the “Htown Takeover” a UH slogan?

Yep. Tom Herman ... mid-2010s:

https://www.fox26houston.com/sports/west...-americans

And speaking of Tom Herman, I’ll remind the UH fans that “we had him first”

Same with Major Applewhite.

It’s time for an #HTownTakeover-Takeover!

You were focused on “We thought of it first”. And then used a slogan that UH had first. I thought it was ironic. And UH got the best out of Herman. Applewhite, we would probably like to forget those seasons.

Well, we've never had to use the "Academic Cornerstone" slogan because it is already understood. And perhaps UH's ability to recruit whoever they want for athletics was instrumental in Herman's success there. Rice can't do that, so we have to focus on unique systems that will fit the student-athlete we're able to recruit. I think we have finally done that this year in football, but we are not naive and thus realize it will take awhile for the system to take hold. Hopefully Rice will pull off the upset on Saturday, but there is a reason UH is a double-digit favorite. Best of luck to both teams!

Well, Herman won with Tony Levine’s recruits. He was just a better coach. Be safe and good luck on Saturday.