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Rice vs. Air Force Academy
Rice Stadium - September 6, 1997

THEME:                 Summer Recap

MOB:                     GO RICE!

FORMATION:                MIB

ANNOUNCER:                This summer held a big surprise for the MOB.  Recently declassified Air Force documents revealed our director of the past seventeen years, Doctor Ken Dye, is in reality an alien from the planet Louie.

MUSIC:                  first playing of Close Encounters Intro

ANNOUNCER:                What's that?  Good Lord, the aliens have come back for him!

MUSIC:                  second playing of Close Encounters Intro

ACTION:                               SAs dressed as Roswell-type aliens abduct Ken look-a-like and replace him with Sean.

ANNOUNCER:                This year, we're pleased to introduce Mister Sean Williams as our director.  Sean is completely human - as far as we know.

MUSIC:                  third playing of Close Encounters Intro (with tubas) into Men in Black Intro

ACTION:                               rest of MOB enters to form...

FORMATION:                MIB -> MOB

ACTION:                               formation changes during rap part while MIB agents chase aliens; music ends and MOB scatters to...

FORMATION:                treble clef and sixteenth notes

ANNOUNCER:                And now for something completely different: MOBsters traditionally can play whatever instruments they can bring onto the field.  Normally, we get some violins or violas or even 'cellos, but this year a freshman wanted to play organ.  So we, uh... borrowed the new Old Grand Organ from the Shepherd School.  With seventy-five stops, eighty-four ranks, and four thousand, four-hundred and ninety-three pipes, it's truly a magnificent instrument.  Here it comes out of the tunnel!

 MUSIC:                  Toccata

 ACTION:   Big Organ Prop (BOP) rolls down the tunnel and keeps going straight into the goalpost.  BOP goes BOOM!

 MOB:                     D'OH!

 ANNOUNCER:                Oops!  That was the new Old Grand Organ from the Shepherd School.  Oh, well - Timmy, I guess you'll just have to stick with the cowbell.

 MUSIC:                  Louie^2

 ACTION:                               BAND EXEUNT

 

 

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