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This $#@! is so stupid. I want that game back, you don't, we disagree, and OU sucks. That's whatever.
But to act like A&M wasn't a rival is like saying the sky is green. They're the only team in our fight song, we've played them more than any other team, and that game was always rowdy as hell. It wasn't just a rivalry, it was one of THE great traditional rivalries. It was a tradition older than burnt orange, older than Bevo, older than our team being called the Longhorns. Much like the announcers in the OP's video, I mourn the loss of a great Texas tradition. Not just Texas the school, Texas the state. That was something that belonged to all of us: players, students, alums, and just plain people who lived in this crazy state of ours. It was our birthright and it got thrown away over a few million dollars and a bunch of big egos. A $#@!ing tragedy, no matter who is to blame.
Thanksgiving just is not the same without the hatred and the broken aggy dreams.
I miss the game too.
Before I get flamed for this, one of the earliest memories of myself as a child was watching the Thanksgiving game with my dad and Grandfather [class of '43 graduated and commissioned early to fight the nazis, and class of '83 also Corps of Cadets D&C in M1 studied to become a vet.]
I was 9 and was outside raking leaves in the front yard and could hear my dad upstairs in the house cussing obscenities and yelling YEAH GIG EM AGSSSS!!! he told me I could stop raking if I wanted to watch the game with the rest of the family. My brother and I obliged and watched it. That was the bonfire game. I remember we recorded that game and I think I rewatched that game every night till Christmas that year. To this day for some reason I still have random dreams hearing Dave South say "Hodges Mitchell" because he said it like 40 times that game (that may have been the only t sip player he actually knew the name of). That was the day I decided I wanted to play quarterback for Texas A&M someday. My high school football career got cut short, but I still marched on that field on Thanksgiving day in 2009 with B-2 and I still remember that cold night being one of the happiest memories of my life--even though we lost.
I was in Kyle right next to the t sip band in 2007 too. As well as in 2011 as a junior when we blew it against derp mccoy.
I still banter with my t sip friends I have met throughout the years, and it's still fun. I know we are better off now, but I still miss it. If we were to bring it back as an OOC matchup, I would be all for it... give it a few years though.
The sip nails it in his rambling, and I couldn't agree more.
Anyway. GIG EM AGS! btho LSU and **** those ***** ass t sips.