It's early....but look at weather prediction for Houston!

[MrMustang1965]

That's a typical winter day forecast for steamy, tropical Houston. Lived there from 1988 - 2004. Hardly ever had to wear a winter coat.

Another tidbit about Rice Stadium: The Stadium has also held major concerts. Huge crowds were part of the excitement for the Pink Floyd, Eagles, Elton John\Billy Joel, and George Strait concerts in recent years.

Now think about this: Rice Stadium is also in a residential area of Houston (West University), much like Ford Stadium is in Dallas (University Park). Both residential areas are similar in demographics.

Question: should SMU allow concerts to be held in Ford Stadium like Rice University allows to be held in Rice Stadium?

[texd]

I haven't been there since the Rice game 2 years ago so I haven't seen the improvements first hand. I'm just passing along the info. from their website.

Another Rice fan posted these to our message board as the upgrades were made.

http://homepage.mac.com/grungy/PhotoAlbum44.html

The Jumbotron still stands bare. It will be finished out with brick, but not until after the season is over. (They rolled the crane assembling the jumbotron out of the stadium about 2 hours before the Houston game Sept. 2).

The big differences are the jumbotron and the men's rooms. My wife says there's nothing special about the ladies' rooms, but then they were never peeing on the wall while looking another person in the eye across that very short wall.

Also the large concrete step areas past the goal lines that make for a good place to set up a blanket or ground-level camp chairs.

[texd]

I think that was when Kennedy said, "We choose to do these things because they are hard.'' or something like that.

The same could be said for the Rice athletic marketing department.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

This has never made that much sense to me since it was back when Rice beat Texas often.

[Come and Take It]

For the record, that is Rice Eccles Stadium in Utah.

This is Rice Stadium.

No...the first photo is Rice Stadium in Houston...this is Rice-Eccles Stadium:

The original picture Special Delivery had up was of Rice Eccles.

[ALEX LIFESON]

weather forecast today, calls for 77 on saturday! better bring the sunblock, and red hats!