Friday Follies: Oh, For the Good Old Days!

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Melissa Kean

When people could just fling toilet paper around like it was nothing:

I’m guessing late ’80s based on the fact that the player’s shorts are still actually short.

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10 Responses to Friday Follies: Oh, For the Good Old Days!

  1. William A Cooke '75 says:
    March 20, 2020 at 1:18 pm

    Thanks for the much needed levity and perspective in these trying times!

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  2. Melissa Crowfoot Keane, Jones '72 says:
    March 20, 2020 at 1:27 pm

    now THAT made me laugh out loud! thanks!!

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  3. William A. Wheatley (Weiss '66) says:
    March 20, 2020 at 1:39 pm

    Frankly, I don’t see any shorts in the picture. Maybe they were too short for public consumption. 😉

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    • Lynne (WRC '88) says:
      March 20, 2020 at 3:12 pm

      There is one player in the background at the far left of the photo. It’s too blurry to make out who it might be, but the shorts are hemmed in white, which makes it easy to see their length.

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  4. almadenmike says:
    March 20, 2020 at 3:09 pm

    The scoreboard seems to indicate that Rice is trailing, 6-2, with 18:04 left in the (first?) half. I wonder what precipitated TP tossing so early in the game?

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  5. George Webb says:
    March 22, 2020 at 10:57 am

    I love the “Go, Fight, Win!” sign

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  6. Steve Lukingbeal, Hanszen ‘76 says:
    March 23, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    Surely someone can pin point the date of this game. I vaguely remember this game and why the TP was thrown. The three cheerleaders look familiar so someone out there should ID them. I agree that the dress indicates that it probably was in the 80s.

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  7. grungy1973 says:
    March 23, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1989
    https://bit.ly/33I35Lq

    p13

    Last Saturday night, the Owls temporarily exorcised many of their personal demons by downing the Texas A&M Aggies 79-77 before 3,306 yowling faithful at Autry. The fans were a factor early on, as they cascaded the court with toilet paper after Rice sank its first bucket. The officials assessed a technical, and the two shots helped the Aggies to an early 11-2 lead.

    Coach Thompson regretted the technical foul, but lavished praise on the support of the Rice student section. “I can’t say enough about our student support,” he said. “It’s tough to give up the two points, but our fans were just great tonight.”

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