RIce versus Texas

October 1, 1988

Rice Stadium

ENTRANCE: MOB on sidelines or endzones or everywhere they let us

ANNOUNCER: "Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep

And doesn't know where to find them,

Leave them alone and they'll come home

Wagging their tails behind them."

 

ACTION: MOB scatters onto field to form...

FORMATION: EWE

ACTION: during the script, the show assistants hold up sheets with the extra letters EWE H, SM EWE, and EWE T in accordance to the script:

 

ANNOUNCER: They're not lost, they've gone to college. Poor Bo is in deep sheep dip - no sheep, no money. Personal ads don't help, because sheep can't read. Where could they have gone? Could it be... EWE-H? No - sheep can't drive; they have to be driven. Could it be... SM-EWE? No - right now they're the black sheep of the Conference. Could it be... [UT].

MUSIC: U.T. INTRO

 

ANNOUNCER: Naahhhh...

 

FORMATION: BAA

 

ANNOUNCER: Bo is nearly broke when she finds a copy of Farmboy magazine in a gutter. She takes a peek, and sees a feature on Livestock of the Southwest Conference, with photos of naked farm animals. Incredibly, Bo sees a picture of her favorite sheep, BaaBaa Ann, shorn of all her wool. Which school does she go to? Why - OF COURSE!

(sheepishly) The State Sheep School (pause)

in College Station.

MUSIC: BEACH

FORMATION: changes to GIRL

ACTION: something interesting, to be sure...

FORMATION: ATM

ANNOUNCER: Hitching a ride to College Station on a turnip truck, Bo finds BaaBaa Ann and the other sheep. They're hungry and broke - the grass on campus is sacred and they're awakened by Reveille on most mornings. Life isn't all baad, however; thanks to her recent exposure, BaaBaa Ann is one of the most popular creatures on campus, especially with the animal husbandry majors.

MUSIC: YOU CAN CALL ME AL

ACTION: Sheep dance, scattering to

 

FORMATION: TRACTOR

 

ANNOUNCER: BaaBaa Ann raised some money by posing for Farmboy, but the sheep promptly ate it because it's green. Impoverished, they were impressed into service in the psychology department... where sleep-studies involving sheep jumping over fences were in progress.

Unfortunately, jumping sheep excites Aggies.

MUSIC: DO YOU LOVE ME?

ACTION: Sheep hop over fence, do other things, then scatter to...

FORMATION: MOB

ANNOUNCER: Bo saves the day, however, when she points out a potent sleep-aid right on campus - the Aggie Band. The sheep are freed, and Bo and BaaBaa Ann are hailed worldwide. Years later the two are awarded the first Nobel Prize in Livestock for their discovery that cows have bells around their necks because their horns don't work. As for the MOB, they're part of the Shepherd School of Music here at Rice, OUR cowbell works and so do OUR horns. Go... horns... go...

MUSIC: LOUIE, LOUIE

ACTION: To the sound of the cowbell, the MOB rises up and exits the field.