A&M '87

ENTRANCE: MOB marches out slowly in block band

ANNOUNCER: In the begining there was football. And the Lord said "I shall

divide football games into halves." And between those halves there was a void, without form or entertainment. So the Lord said "Let there be Marching Bands!" And it was good. And the years and the bands marched by. A second void formed, in the minds of the fans, for they were bored . And lo, in 1970, there appeared a special group of entertainers to fill this void. The group was called the MOB. And it was great .

ACTION: wild scatter to form...

FORMATION: MOB

ANNOUNCER: And during the last seventeen years, the football team has won 47 games. The MOB is undefeated. The MOB's greatest victory came against the burnt orange horde, when, in 1982 we annihilated the t-sip band with our own version of the extra-terrestrial who won America's heart AND (coyly) WE helped him to go home again...

FORMATION: ET

MUSIC: U.T. FINALE

ACTION: E.T. figure gets pushed around on some kind of ceremonial

display vehicle and then taken to the space ship/balloon, which is launch in its own special... idiom... to wreak havoc in the air traffic lanes above our fine city... at the music's end

we scatter to...

FORMATION: DRUMSTICK

ANNOUNCER: Rice University Homecoming, 1987, is proud to present the

Second Annual Alumni Band. (pause for wild ovation)

The MOB poked fun at foes, and they loved it. Except for one very loud opponent with more fans in Rice Stadium on that November day than the total number of Rice graduates - ever. We joked about things that we didn't know were special: songs, letters of the alphabet, boots. (pause for possible boos) Maybe the halftime score spoiled things. But one little lady didn't complain about our most notorious show: she just wagged her tail.

FORMATION: scatters to FIRE HYDRANT

MUSIC: IN THE MOOD

ACTION: ??? at end of song the mob scatters to...

FORMATION: concerty thing

ANNOUNCER: The Marching Owl Band does many things. We sing.

MOB: AAAAHHHHHH.

ANNOUNCER: We tell jokes. Did you hear the one about the Aggie?

MOB: hahahahaha

ANNOUNCER: And... we march...

MOB: NO WAY!

ANNOUNCER: No. We don't march... ...and neither does SMU.

And we do it all for you...

MUSIC: I GET A KICK

ACTION: usual extreme stuff

FORMATION: changes during music ??? and at end of song scatters to

script pre - RICE OWLS

ANNOUNCER: The Alumni MOB isn't ex -MOBsters, or former MOBsters,

they're just older MOBsters. Both the young and the oldER would like to thank you, our audience, for NOT leaving your seats to consume a hot dog or to relieve your ------ tension during halftime. And while we try to entertain all of you, we try hardest for that small group, here and away, our own people - current and older - who are proud to call themselves Rice Owls.

ACTION: possibly snap to script RICE OWLS

MUSIC: RICE'S HONOR

EXIT: LOUIE, LOUIE