“We love you guys, like a kid brother, who is slightly uglier, not as cool, and not as good at sports.” Thats funny because we feel the same way about ya’ll except for the sports part. I cannot defend that part in this decade, at least in football, basketball, and baseball anyways.

The view I posted about the bandaged horns first came to my attention by a friend on mine, who is an Aggie. I have several of those, including my sister. I like College Station. I like the tradition of cheering and standing the entire time at the games (side note: personally I like the tradition of winning more, but I can appreciate good fans).

The thing that gets me, and every Aggie I have talked to is that you would never see a UT fan wearing anything closely resembling support of an Aggie (outside of the Bonfire tragedy which everyone I know of treated with the utmost respect). We love you guys, like a kid brother, who is slightly uglier, not as cool, and not as good at sports. We understand that vicarious living is part of being a little brother. I just know I’d be irrate if (and it’s a big if) aTm made it to the national championship and I saw an ornage shirt with Old Srg.’s thumb sown back on.

-The Stos

To start, Steve let me briefly explain the “Don’t walk on the grass rule.” We have a building at A&M named the MSC, Memorial Student Center. This is a building that is dedicated to all Texas A&M students that have passed away, and out of respect people are asked to not walk on the grass. We also take off our hats while in the building, similar to what you do at funerals. I’m sorry if you do not like or respect this, but we do.

LSUfan-
Our original mascot, Reveille the dog, was known to love the football games and the band. When she died in 1944, she was buried at the head of Kyle field so she could watch the scoreboard and hear the band during all of the games. This tradition has been followed all the way to the latest Reveille VI. This is somewhat similar to when your parents die or any married couple dies and they are buried next to each other so they can spend eternity together. I guess you think this is stupid as well. Also, as our crowds grew so did our stadium. Instead of digging up the dogs, we decided to give them their own personal scoreboard. Personally, I think it’s thoughtful.

And yah, we were dominated 70-0 by OU. I guess you forgot about a year earlier when A&M(an unranked team) unseated the #1 team in the nation… OU. I would be pissed of with a vengeance too, and I am surprised that powerhouse offense didn’t score 100.

The Stos-
The “bandaged horns” was representing our friendly rivalry and that most of us were pulling for our fellow Texas team in the championship game.

My view of the 12th man issue-
When I first heard about it, I believed that it was a petty argument. “The 12th Man” at A&M is arguably our biggest tradition, and has been actively followed since 1922. The Seahawks, according to the article above, first used the 12th man in the mid-80’s and “…its playoff run has rekindled the “12th Man” symbol…” To me this means that it has only recently been used again by the Seahawks. I personally don’t care if you call your fans the 12th man, but look at it from this perspective. As I said before, The 12th Man is a huge part of A&M along with other long traditions that have spawned from it. If we do not protect this trademark then in a few years the Seahawks can claim it and legally stop us from using it. To us, The 12th Man is a whole lot more that just words (I guess that is hard for you to understand) and loosing it would be like loosing a huge part of our university. I can guarantee it does not have near that kind of meaning to the Seahawks till just recently. And I bet it still wouldn’t have as much meaning if the media had not of pumped such a big dispute into it. This issue has come up a couple times in the past with other NFL teams, and had been peacefully settled outside of the courtroom. The media has made us look bad, so please jump off their bandwagon and look a little harder.

Really the Aggies have become a joke of late. UT beats them 40-29 and its like a victory to them. Fran is a bust. They made shirts with the horns bandaged back on the UT logo (they have a deal about saying how they saw the horns off…also lame, and they even went against themselves for the bandage deal).

One thing sums it up best for me though. When Vince Young was a redshirt Freshman and Reggie McNeal was not redshirted, and played a little….an aggie once told me how much better Reggie was going to be in college than Vince…I’m still laughing.

Classic, I love it