Our next destination on the globe - Houston - as the Wildcats take on the Rice Owls this Saturday.
I'll paraphrase Atoine Dodson and say "Grab your maps. Grab your beers. Because we're making fun of Houston out here."
After the jump.
Without further ado, we turn it over to Dr. John C. for our fix on the home of Rice.
Houston was smaller than Topeka, Kansas, before the first oil discoveries in Texas (1901), but by 1970 Houston was the sixth largest city in the United States. Its role as the leading manufacturer of oil-industry equipment brought its steel industry into regional prominence. Houston is the most important headquarters city for U.S. petroleum companies, the center of the largest amount of activity in oil- and gas-land leasing, and the leading manufactrurer of both petroleum products and petrochemicals.
So from this, it sounds like we're going to be playing at team from a giant-sized version of Topeka! And you thought regular-sized Topeka was plenty.
Honestly, we don't get a lot of surprises this week. Houston=oil. You know, like "The Oilers," who, fittingly, used to play in Houston. Pretty much our boy Hudson enlightened us with info any sports fan alive before 1997 (i.e. pretty much anyone reading this blog) would know.
But still, let's play a little Houston oil trivia. I bet you can't guess whose North American headquarters are in this mega-city. Could it be BP? (answer: yes it could be!)
So, using a very obtuse version of the transitive property (and really no regard for reality or facts), we have Rice to blame for images like this. If you didn't hate Rice before, I don't know what you're waiting for.
Filed under: General
Tags: geography lessons, Houston, John C. Hudson, oil, rice
Houston is also the city that James Caan's "Jonathon" played for in Rollerball. Watch out Wildcats, they play rough!