Deep in the heart of Houston’s Third Ward, a wide-eyed Briton, far from his home across the pond, stared awestruck and amazed at what unfolded in front of him.
A large cannon fired Houston-branded shirts to tens of thousands of screaming fans and the largest arrangement of booming tubas and trombones he has ever seen made their presence felt on the field as students in trenchcoats and cowboy hats ran across holding a large red flag bearing the old-school UH logo.
“They’ve got a canon?” he asked, bewildered by the Spirit of Houston’s generosity during their self-proclaimed“World’s Largest T-Shirt Toss.