...and do the other things...

[dvandom]

JFK was famously quoted as saying, "We choose to go to the moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." But no one talks about the other things. Here's a quote from right before the famous one, taken from WikiSource:

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

Note that the speech was given at Rice. So...how's Rice doing against Texas lately?

Comments

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

A check of Stassen shows Rice has lost 10 straight versus Texas, since 1994. They don't play each other as often anymore, since they're no longer in the same conference.

http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/opp-opp.pl?start=1869&end=2008&team1=Rice&team2=Texas

[acoustic-rob.livejournal.com]

About as well as NASA's been doing lately, unfortunately.

2008: Texas 52, Rice 10.
2007: Texas 58, Rice 14.
2006: Texas 52, Rice 7.
2005: Texas 51, Rice 10.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Even though I'm not an NCAA fan...that hurts just to read!

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

At least Rice isn't losing because they've been hit by lightning....

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Reasonably well at baseball- six or seven years ago Rice beat Texas to win the College World Series, and they're still a fairly potent team there.

All other sports... not so much.