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They didn’t score an offense TD on us last year. The difference this year is they are a lot better at WR. Our back 7 is going to have to be up to the task of covering those crossings routes and the TE’s.

 I’m not sure if they are better on defense than last year. We should be able to run the ball but we’ll see just how much better our OL has become.  I’d say their secondary is worse than ours, based on what I’ve seen, so if Arch is given time he should have another good game. 

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18 hours ago, wood said:

In a nutshell, this is it for me, down to a tee. I mean I love knowing we'll win more than 2 out of 3 against these fucks on average, but it usually just feels like a game we should win and beating them is rarely anywhere near as satisfying as beating ou sucks.

Before they bolted, the TexAggies were in an uproar over the statement that Longhorns see the Sooners as our biggest rival. Nobody said A&M wasn't a rival, just not the most important. Instant identity crisis on TexAgs. They listed all the stuff we do regarding them (their line in our song, hex rally...okay, the two things we do) as proof.

So, we start talking about it on whatever the principal horn site was at the time. My thought was that it's a bigger deal to beat OU and a bigger deal to lose to A&M. That's pretty much for the reasons you state.

Relatedly, when Nebraska rose to prominence, OU's game against them was huge every season. The games were great. I wondered if Sooners considered Nebraska their main rival. I honestly didn't know their history. You know what? I didn't really care. Texas-OU was still one of the great games nationally and I've never been present at any game that meets the intensity of that game being played on a hot day.

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18 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

It's not the dread of losing; it's just the whole experience of going there. They are on a whole another level of strangeness. It was hard to explain to anybody that doesn't experience it for themselves.

Trying to explain it is almost impossible. I usually say that OU is a big rival. We dislike each other. The week before and after that game are actually affected by what happens. That said, Sooner students aren't that much different than Longhorn students or Tech students or any students. It's just a game. Other than those two weeks, it stays in the back of the mind.

Aggies think we are genuinely evil and represent all that is bad in the world. They never cease obsessing on us and making embarrassing asses of themselves hissing when introduced to one. It happened to me in the workplace once. For us it's a game, for them it's a holy war around which they've invented myths and legends untethered from reality.

I think about them more often because I'm fascinated by fans who choose to be stalkers. You start to study their quirks and oddball notions then find yourself in a full anthropological analysis. 

Of course, I exempt 2%ers who pretty much fit the same mold as students that we do. They want to beat Texas. They don't want to eat, drink, and think Texas all the livelong day.

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20 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I think about them more often because I'm fascinated by fans who choose to be stalkers. You start to study their quirks and oddball notions then find yourself in a full anthropological analysis. 

I don’t. I’ve been fortunate to not have any in my workplace since 1996, when we worked their asses over, and I only have a couple of tshirt aggy in my extended family. They know I think they’re stupid because they couldn’t get into that diploma mill, even with their 60%+ acceptance rate.

Since 1999, the aggy game has been unhealthy and dangerous. They’d kill 12 more of their kids or 12 of ours if it meant beating us. You never know how their fans will act out, but they WILL act out. 

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25 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Trying to explain it is almost impossible. I usually say that OU is a big rival. We dislike each other. The week before and after that game are actually affected by what happens. That said, Sooner students aren't that much different than Longhorn students or Tech students or any students. It's just a game. Other than those two weeks, it stays in the back of the mind.

Aggies think we are genuinely evil and represent all that is bad in the world. They never cease obsessing on us and making embarrassing asses of themselves hissing when introduced to one. It happened to me in the workplace once. For us it's a game, for them it's a holy war around which they've invented myths and legends untethered from reality.

I think about them more often because I'm fascinated by fans who choose to be stalkers. You start to study their quirks and oddball notions then find yourself in a full anthropological analysis. 

Of course, I exempt 2%ers who pretty much fit the same mold as students that we do. They want to beat Texas. They don't want to eat, drink, and think Texas all the livelong day.

this is absolutely true . i was in the burnet heb last night and i told an old timer, good luck next week as i was reaching around him to grab some queso . his response was-"yes , we are gonna teach the wicked sips a lesson "  then he stood up saw me and i flashed him a hook em . the word wicked seemed odd to me 

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15 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

I only have a couple of tshirt aggy in my extended family. They know I think they’re stupid because they couldn’t get into that diploma mill, even with their 60%+ acceptance rate.

 

The aggys I know claim that A&M doesn't have any t-shirt fans

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

Texas-OU was still one of the great games nationally and I've never been present at any game that meets the intensity of that game being played on a hot day.

Took brother in law to first ever Texas  - OU game in 2013. Right before the kick-off he mentioned things were really intense. I told him yea and this side thinks it is going to lose. Now imagine it when both sides think they are going to win. We won that day and it was great. After the game he said he was tired since he had only been to soccer games and had no idea there would be some much participation required by the fans. He said clap, get up, sing, yell and do it all over again non stop.

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25 minutes ago, mr.goodkat said:

this is absolutely true . i was in the burnet heb last night and i told an old timer, good luck next week as i was reaching around him to grab some queso . his response was-"yes , we are gonna teach the wicked sips a lesson "  then he stood up saw me and i flashed him a hook em . the word wicked seemed odd to me 

Maybe it was the reacharound?

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

Trying to explain it is almost impossible. I usually say that OU is a big rival. We dislike each other. The week before and after that game are actually affected by what happens. That said, Sooner students aren't that much different than Longhorn students or Tech students or any students. It's just a game. Other than those two weeks, it stays in the back of the mind.

Aggies think we are genuinely evil and represent all that is bad in the world. They never cease obsessing on us and making embarrassing asses of themselves hissing when introduced to one. It happened to me in the workplace once. For us it's a game, for them it's a holy war around which they've invented myths and legends untethered from reality.

It's also the fan behavior at the game that is such a stark difference from anything else I've experienced.

Sure, we hate OU.  But in all my times at the Cotton Bowl, they're really not that much different than Texas fans.  Really passionate about the game, mostly non-threatening shit-talking with some drunk morons on both sides, no utterly goofy cheers or behavior.

aggy's just fucking weird.  Like J.D. Vance weird (#noCR).  Weird cheers with weird vocabulary, much of it on the cringy side.  There's really no fanbase that comes close that that kind of game-day behavior, and that uniqueness is nothing to be proud of.

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38 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

The aggys I know claim that A&M doesn't have any t-shirt fans

None with any sense.

I mean choose a school with a winning history. 

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1 minute ago, Tex Pete said:

None with any sense.

I mean choose a school with a winning history. 

"Not having t-shirt fans" is the dumbest flex ever. But, aggy, right?

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Just now, DFW Horn said:

"Not having t-shirt fans" is the dumbest flex ever. But, aggy, right?

They are probably actually right about that. Who the fuck would become an aggy fan if they didn't go to school there and had other choices in football teams?

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43 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

The aggys I know claim that A&M doesn't have any t-shirt fans

I always thought the aggy comments on t-shirt fans was a complete lack of awareness.  My former in-laws live in deep East Texas and I had to make the drive there a few times a year for family gatherings.  I consistently saw folks wearing aggy shirts at gas stations who I was damned sure never set foot on a college campus as a student, let alone the one in College Station.

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2 minutes ago, Horn Dogg said:

They are probably actually right about that. Who the fuck would become an aggy fan if they didn't go to school there and had other choices in football teams?

I can't argue with that logic, but they exist.

I know more than a few of them. Many went to SHSU and other semi-rural colleges. The merchandise selection in Houston area Academy stores is proof - aggy merch all over the place.

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Reed is improved, but he is still absolute trash under pressure. When SCar was getting to him he had more interceptions than completions to his own team in the first half. This game is going to be higher scoring than last year, I just hope whatever is going on in our secondary gets patched up enough to make Reed work for it.  

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28 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I always thought the aggy comments on t-shirt fans was a complete lack of awareness.  My former in-laws live in deep East Texas and I had to make the drive there a few times a year for family gatherings.  I consistently saw folks wearing aggy shirts at gas stations who I was damned sure never set foot on a college campus as a student, let alone the one in College Station.

You sure? They’d get accepted. 

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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Before they bolted, the TexAggies were in an uproar over the statement that Longhorns see the Sooners as our biggest rival. Nobody said A&M wasn't a rival, just not the most important. Instant identity crisis on TexAgs. They listed all the stuff we do regarding them (their line in our song, hex rally...okay, the two things we do) as proof.

Aggy arguing with us that they are actually our biggest rival and not ou is the aggyest thing ever.

The only way they could out-aggy that is to start putting fake championships on their stadium.  Oh, wait...

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I just imagine David Attenborough  narrating:

 

"In the first video, we see the model image of what corps members see as the ideal Aggie - the yell leaders.  Voted on by the cadets, these individuals are the most bought-in to Aggie tradition."
"In the second video, we see the bizarre tradition of first year cadets, who they refer to as "fish," chasing down and capturing the yell leaders in a simulated gang rape ritual."
"In the third video we again see the yell leaders at what the Aggies call "Midnight Yell," where the students gather in the stadium at night to worship the yell leaders and practice their chants. In perhaps the most disconnected of all Aggie traditions is the yell leaders using strange body language and intonations while making "jokes" about the opposing team.  In a show of solidarity and hero-worship, the students pretend to laugh."
"Finally, we see the essence of Aggie corps culture - the awkward language and actions of closeted and conservative homosexuals who, being insulated from outside opinions through their elevated status and praise of their fellow Aggies, have no idea how strange and ridiculous they actually are.  It's a sad tale."

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