Rice vs. SMU (Nov 5, 1994)

ENTRANCE:        GO RICE!  MOB scatters on to form...

FORMATION:      1962

ANNOUNCER:      25 years ago, NASA thought they had fullfilled a directive
		issued by President John F. Kennedy at Rice Stadium in 
		1962, to put a man on the moon. But recently, historians 
		have found that Kennedy originally had a much more 
		ambitious goal... to place a marching BAND on the moon.

MUSIC:  	Hail to the Chief tag

ACTION: 	a JFK imitator; formation changes to...

FORMATION:      NASA

ANNOUNCER:      Kennedy believed it should be our goal, by the end of the
		decade, to put a marching band on the moon and return it 
		safely to the earth.  Why do we do these things?  Why does 
		Rice beat Texas?  Not because it is easy, but because we can.

MUSIC:  	Space Medley - Star Trek

ACTION: 	M.O.S.S. appears from tunnel to pick up JFK, S.A.'s also 
		unroll a big banner with a moon painted on it, similar to the 
		storefront from A&M.; formation changes to...

FORMATION:      Space Shuttle

ANNOUNCER:      The MOB decided that they should be that band. A spacecraft
		was designed by Rice Engineers using state-of-the-art technology 
		and the best material NASA money could buy - duct tape.  But 
		even duct tape can't do everything.  The need for metal would have 
		put the project overbudget if the student body hadn't generously 
		donated some torn-down goal posts.

MUSIC:  	Vehicle

ACTION: 	Formation moves 10 yards, MOSS stops at Port-a-Potty .  At the 
		end of the song, the MOSS crashes through the moon banner;song 				ends, formation changes to...

FORMATION:      Crescent Moon  S.A.'s provide some stars

ANNOUNCER:     	After a successful landing, the crew of the Owl encountered a 
		problem...
		(radio crackle) Houston? Tranquility Base here.  The Owl has landed.
        	Roger that MOB. Congratulations.
        	Standby for initiation of halftime performance.
        	Now show us what a band on the Moon sounds like.

MUSIC:  	Silent Louie 8 bars or so w/ motion

ACTION: 	Unfurl banner reading "Sound doesn't travel in space, get it?"

ANNOUNCER:     	Houston, we have a problem...
        	Roger that MOB...
        	Sadly, the MOB had slept through their freshman physics 
		lectures...It was one small note for the MOB, one giant silence 
		for band-kind.  They decided that next time they would find a 
		place with a little more...atmosphere.

FORMATION:     	Full Moon

MUSIC:  	Time Warp

ACTION: 	A lunar lander descends from the upper deck during song, 
		formation changes to...

FORMATION:     	Clock

ACTION: 	hands on clock go around, song ends; formation changes to...
FORMATION:     	script RICE

ANNOUNCER:     	One more crisis awaited, during the long voyage home.  The
		MOB had to use slide rules to compute  their re-entry, because 
		the Owlnet computers were down - again.  Picking the wettest 					splashdown site in recent memory, the MOB soon found itself safely 				home - at Rice Stadium.

MUSIC:  	Rice's Honor

ACTION: 	we all fall down, with gong sounding and falling over at end

EXIT:   	flee

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