Texas A&M is just........... weird...

Florida just went up 21-13 on Bama with 6:47 left in the 4th.

 

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College Station is in the middle of freaking nowhere. It's an isolated town which, IMO, helps contribute to their weirdness. Like the crazed charicters in rural set horror movies-left alone, cut off from the world-you go a little crazy.

They have a lot of arrogance for a team that hasnt shown up for several years. After the Sugar Bowl I came back to work and was talking a little ball with coworkers. An A&M grad said "You know, I think we could have beaten LSU this year". Laughter ensued.

A couple of weeks ago my husband and I went to "the country" to go to a peach orchard-hey, it was something to do- anyway, we were 15 miles from College Station so I asked if we could go. I'd never seen Kyle Field or A&M and wanted to see what the big deal was. It's a nice enough campus, Kyle Field is okay (seen better, seen worse). The one thing about the campus is that it doesnt have much character-it reminds me of a bunch of office buildings put together. We decided to eat at the Dixie Chicken- I had heard about it on Gameday and it seemed "world famous". Was fun-ky. We sat down next to a guy and his girlfriend. Guy loudly starts talking about A&M history-like we care, buddy. THEN some Civil War ballad starts playing- guy gets up, takes off his hat, starts singing to the top of his lungs and walking around the entire restaurant. After that I looked at my husband and said "We have to leave here. We are in some warped Twilight Zone"

A friend (who is one of the 5% of the normal people from A&M) took her husband (UT grad) to a game. Guy wasnt wearing anything UT, and was just there for a good time with friends. Kickoff is about to start, crowd stands up, someone raps him on the shoulder and told him to take off his hat and put it over his heart. The guy told him "You're on holy ground, buddy, show some respect". Look, aggies, everybody has their traditions-I'm sure Chinese Bandits looks weird to those who dont get it- but a football field isnt holy ground.

Also, check out the crowd next time you see a game on tv. No, they are not all going to the bathroom in the stands- they are bending over because the yell leaders (aka-dude cheerleaders) have shown them-in their weekly "yell pratices" that if you bend down like that your voice carries. It's louder.

Reveille, their dog, is taken care of by one member of the Core. He lives with the guy and goes everywhere he goes. If you have a class with Reveille and he barks class is desmissed.

I'd also like to see the LSU vs A&M game back. We can all make a pilgramage to the holy ground and jam out to confederate ballads together.

 

i've stated on this board previously my distaste for TAMU.
first of all, if you try to make "everything" a tradition, then traditions lose their luster.

i dated a girl summer b4 freshman year who went to a&m and we stayed together thru about thnksgiving. so i've been to tamu twice for a football game (once for LSU in '95) and a few other times.

i've also been to midnight yell (which i can't decide if it's impressive or pathetic. i.e. if some cult leader gets 10,000 people to drink the kool aid, i'm still a little impressed)

the fact that everyone has their own special cheer that goes along with their year in school (the whoops and whoo's and all that stuff) is just straight summer camp.

their entire fight song is based on their p-envy of UT (or TU as they call it)
"goodbye to texas university..."

also the kissing after the TD's was probably started as a way to get these social rejects some action.

i think tamu should change it's name to the "culty summer campish school for the socially awkward."

i hope they go 4-8 this year.

 

It is nothing more than a cult. They all drink the coolaid.

 

Where's Bitter to argue about who has the holiest ground in football stadiums?

How is it no one beat me to this...

Later,
Fur

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Can't wait for Tiger football!

 

yea but less than half end up going into service and so the other half is just playing dress-up. They're a silly bunch anyway you look at it. Their grabbing their nuts in order to make noise for cryin out loud!

 

What a bunch of puss-boys...they still cry about LSU dropping out of that series as reason not do re-up for a new one, yet they have zero problem inking a deal w/ LSU in other sports (see LSU at TAMU on Jan 5, 2008).

So, when it's football and their chances of losing both games of a home and home to LSU are about 99.9999999999%, they refuse to negotiate "out of principal".

When it's men's basketball when they think they have the upper hand, they invite LSU w/ open arms.

Whatever. I'd rather play Texas than A&M anyways...

 

First of all, I completely wish we still played A & M to start every season. It's SO much fun to hate them--and make fun of them.

I moved to Texas 10 years ago this summer, and while I couldn't stand the Aggie talk for the first three or four years, they up and fired Slocum--and when Fran came in, it's been pretty easy sailing since then.

I have to admit it: some of my best friends in Texas are Aggies; some of my other best friends here are Longhorns. It just happens that way...Still, if my daughters want to go to school in Texas when they graduate (and let's face it, they probably will), I would be far happier to drive them down to Austin, rather than College Station (Lubbock is just out of the question).

When my husband and I were still dating ('98, I think), we went to the A & M/UNT game in College Station (hubby is a "Mean Green" Eagle). We went with a couple of Aggie friends, one of whom has a father on the board of regents. So, we had to go to a reception at the Union after the game. My husband had hat hair to the extreme, but he had to take off his cap to enter the Union, then the board of regents reception was really weird with all of the yokels coming up to us and saying, "Howdy." We said, "Hi," etc. In short, they knew we weren't Aggies, and we were nearly thrown out when they found out an LSU alum was in the inner sanctum. Good times...

The Bonfire collapse happened two days before my wedding in '99. The school doesn't allow it on campus anymore because they are currently in litigation with the families of the victims, survivors and the dead. It wasn't the same as the Va. Tech massacre because it was an accident, but it was horrific just the same. Our best man was an Aggie, and he was more than a little troubled over it.

The injuries that came out of the bonfire collapse were really horrible. A boy from Plano, where I live, lost his legs. Several of the survivors were women. They had their pelvises crushed, and neither will be able to bear children. It was, and is, a nightmare.

About the guy in the Corp with Reveille. The dog goes home with that Corp member during the summer, too. Reveille's "human" was a kid from Plano a few years back, and much was made of Reveille spending the summer in Plano that year.

As for the Dixie Chicken, it's kinda weird--especially that rattlesnake in the glass case. Dudley's Draw next door to the Chicken is more fun. I believe they have the drink special of "10 cent beer until the first person goes to the bathroom." Apparently, a chick ruins it every time.

 

I moved to Houston about 6 years ago and have found that Horns are must more normal (although arrogant at times) than Aggies. One of the other Aggie traditions include bending over as if they're in the "receive" position which is so gay that I couldn't believe it was real.

I went to a couple of LSU's big wins over A&M in the 80's but was unfortunately at the game in College Station when they returned the opening kickoff and ruined our season. I was about 12 at the time and we played football on the field after the game (astro-turf at the time). This seems to go against their tradition that only "invited" (players, referee, coaches) are allowed on the field. There was some kind of incident a few years back where a fan of an opposing team got beaten up pretty bad and all of the Aggies were quick to point out that it was a deserved punishment.

There may not be a better word than "cult" to describe them which is why you hear it so often.