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MOB in tunnel

ENTRANCE: tunnel entrance through spirit lines

ANNOUNCER: Attention ! Attention ! Here comes the MOB ! Return to your seats ! Clear the restrooms ! Come back from the concession stand ! The halftime is about to begin ! the 1989 Marching Owl Band is led by Rice's Grammy Award winning Dr. Ken Dye, and is under the field direction of Playboy Playmate of the Year Mary Beth gracy, and I'm your announcer, Joe Isuzu

FORMATION: Squiggles

MUSIC: Everybody's Everything

ACTION: the usual, MOB scatters at end of song too...

FORMATION: FRED

ACTION: MOB does exercise things...

ANNOUNCER: The MOB would like to welcome Fred Goldsmith with our annual salute to the new coach. In his debut as head coach of the Fighting Owls, Fred took the team to first place in the Southwest Conference.

We like that. And we hope he'll stay .

MUSIC: Stay

ACTION: who knows, MOB scatters at end of song too...

FORMATION: Bat and Ball

ANNOUNCER: version 1 Holy Toledo sports fans, the baseball season is winding up and the Astros aren't racing for home -- they're sliding into third . We'd like to take this time to remind you of some other things from baseball's past: Cy Young

Babe Ruth

day games

grass

pitchers that hit

Pete Rose

But you can bet that some things will never change.

Things like: sign language {pause}

spitting {pause}

scratching

MUSIC: Batman

ACTION: bat hits ball

FORMATION: Basketball Court

ANNOUNCER: Can a basketball team be too HOT for its own good?

MOB: NO !

ANNOUNCER: Can a basketball court be too HOT for its own team ?

MOB: YES !

ANNOUNCER: Basketball in Autrey Court is sooooo hot...

MOB: How hot is it !

ANNOUNCER: It's sooo hot they'll have to replace the fans

with air conditioning.

And the hottest fan of all is Basketball Coach Scott

Thompson, who's going to direct the MOB now as an

invitation to all of you to come to Midnight Madness on

October 15th to help the Basketball Owls get a JUMP on

their season.

MUSIC: JUMP

ACTION: strangely inappropriate basketball routine

ANNOUNCER: And now a message on behalf of Brown and Root for this,

the 40th year of Rice Stadium: {Red Duke voice}

While other universities have banned the playing of

LOUIE LOUIE because of troubles with their stadiums, we assure you that Rice Stadium can take any

gy-rations and un-due-lations ya'll can dish out. Go to it.

MUSIC: LOUIE[2]

EPILOGUE: Their band ran long. There was an award given at the beginning of halftime. We were running real late. So, by the basketball bit, we were really behind. Then the USL team ran on in front of us (with about 3:30 still left on the clock and their fans cheered loudly, drowning out the script which needed vocal responses from the MOB. We just started playing, without Scott Thompson being introduced. We dropped the entire closing segment and just played Louie Louie, barely exiting the field in time to avoid a penalty. We lost the game.

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