AFLAC trivia of the day for the longhorn's game. I'm expecting some revisionist history when they announce the answer.

13-0 may have something to do with it. But I doubt that they tell you that.

They'll give the Varsity/Bevo Beer(?) version no doubt. But maybe they'll tell the truth since THIS is on the sip website.

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I'm expecting some revisionist history when they announce the answer.

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So true!

[This message has been edited by BoyNamedSue (edited 10/18/2008 8:15p).]

Good edit Sue! I was just about to getcha!

Musberger was LYING tonight. 13-0 is the TRUTH! Just more sip suckoff on spermburgers part!

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Musberger was LYING tonight

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BOMC

[edit] Origin of the name Bevo
"Bo" made his first public appearance at the halftime of the 1916 Thanksgiving Day football game between Texas and archrival the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (later Texas A&M University), a game in which Texas defeated the Aggies 22 - 7.[8] Following the game, Ben Dyer, editor of the UT campus magazine The Alcalde, referred to the mascot as BEVO.[9] It is not known why he chose this name, though various theories have been put forth, including that the article is a fabrication of Longhorns who hate the fact that the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state, Texas A&M, had a hand in naming their mascot.[9]

The best-known tale has been called into question.[9][10] The legend claims that the name came about due to an incident of vandalism led by students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.[11][12][9] It is true that in 1917, four Texas A&M Aggies kidnapped the longhorn and branded him with "13 - 0", the score of A&M's 1915 win over Texas.[9][12][10] Texas students are rumored to have retaliated by changing the steer's brand to Bevo, as is sometimes claimed.[9][10] However, there is actually evidence that Bevo was fattened up and served at a football banquet in 1920, due to the fact the university did not have the money to take care of him and he was not tamed to roam the campus.[9][10] The Aggies were fed the side they had branded and presented with the hide, which still read 13–0.[9][10] Since Ben Dyer had used the term one year previously, this would mean that the A&M prank could not have led to the name.[9] Another story states that it is possible the editor had Bevo in mind, which was a near beer.[9]

Perhaps the most plausible story was the one reported in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of UT: "Through the 1900s and 1910s, newspapers ran a series of comic strips drawn by Gus Mager. The strips usually featured monkeys as the main characters, all named for their personality traits. Braggo the Monk constantly made empty boasts, Sherlocko the Monk was a bumbling detective, and so on. The comic strips were popular enough to create a nationwide fad for persons to nickname their friends the same way, with an 'o' added to the end. The Marx Brothers were so named by their colleagues in Vaudeville: Groucho was moody, Harpo played the harp, and Chico raised chicks when he was a boy. Mager's strips ran every Sunday in newspapers throughout Texas, including Austin. In addition, the term 'beeve' is the plural of beef, but is more commonly used as a slang term for a cow (or steer) that's destined to become food. The term is still used, though it was more common among the general public in the 1910s when Texas was more rural. The jump from 'beeve' to 'Bevo' isn't far, and makes more sense given the slang and national fads of the time."[9]

At least we got a little love. They present our side of the Bevo story, aka the TRUE story, first. Then they said the "current" theory was he was named after some non-alcoholic beer. That is pretty ghey.

'82 = troll

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[edit] Origin of the name Bevo
"Bo" made his first public appearance at the halftime of the 1916 Thanksgiving Day football game between Texas and archrival the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (later Texas A&M University), a game in which Texas defeated the Aggies 22 - 7.[8] Following the game, Ben Dyer, editor of the UT campus magazine The Alcalde, referred to the mascot as BEVO.[9] It is not known why he chose this name, though various theories have been put forth, including that the article is a fabrication of Longhorns who hate the fact that the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state, Texas A&M, had a hand in naming their mascot.[9]

The best-known tale has been called into question.[9][10] The legend claims that the name came about due to an incident of vandalism led by students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.[11][12][9] It is true that in 1917, four Texas A&M Aggies kidnapped the longhorn and branded him with "13 - 0", the score of A&M's 1915 win over Texas.[9][12][10] Texas students are rumored to have retaliated by changing the steer's brand to Bevo, as is sometimes claimed.[9][10] However, there is actually evidence that Bevo was fattened up and served at a football banquet in 1920, due to the fact the university did not have the money to take care of him and he was not tamed to roam the campus.[9][10] The Aggies were fed the side they had branded and presented with the hide, which still read 13–0.[9][10] Since Ben Dyer had used the term one year previously, this would mean that the A&M prank could not have led to the name.[9] Another story states that it is possible the editor had Bevo in mind, which was a near beer.[9]

Perhaps the most plausible story was the one reported in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of UT: "Through the 1900s and 1910s, newspapers ran a series of comic strips drawn by Gus Mager. The strips usually featured monkeys as the main characters, all named for their personality traits. Braggo the Monk constantly made empty boasts, Sherlocko the Monk was a bumbling detective, and so on. The comic strips were popular enough to create a nationwide fad for persons to nickname their friends the same way, with an 'o' added to the end. The Marx Brothers were so named by their colleagues in Vaudeville: Groucho was moody, Harpo played the harp, and Chico raised chicks when he was a boy. Mager's strips ran every Sunday in newspapers throughout Texas, including Austin. In addition, the term 'beeve' is the plural of beef, but is more commonly used as a slang term for a cow (or steer) that's destined to become food. The term is still used, though it was more common among the general public in the 1910s when Texas was more rural. The jump from 'beeve' to 'Bevo' isn't far, and makes more sense given the slang and national fads of the time."[9]

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Garbage fed by the tu media machine!

13-0 is the TRUTH!

I just copied and pasted from Wikipedia. 13-0 works for me.

The name "Bevo" was around back then because of the drink. From what I've read, the Longhorn mascot had no official name until he was branded by the Ags.

BTW, Bevo was not quite as calm as the ones you see today. He was barbequed in January of 1920 in Austin and several A&M people(including my grandfather, who wrote the War Hymn)were invited. My grandfather did in fact attend the barbeque.

A few years ago my father gave me my grandfathers trunk from Pinky's A&M days. Among other A&M items was a cowhorn. Bevo's horn???? Nobody can verify, so for now, it's just a good story to tell when people ask about the horn.

[This message has been edited by war hymn aggie (edited 10/18/2008 8:30p).]

$BILL:

SCREW BRENT SHI+BAG. NEVER LET HIM CALL ANOTHER A&M GAME! EVEN IF IT MEANS NO TV!

war hymn, do you have any suggestions as to where i can buy an early, early, early copy of the war hymn sheet music?

How bout them longhorns

how about them longhorn tools hanging out on texags during their game. does this guy know how to party or what?

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This is absolutely the greatest place to be when the Horns are doing well.

speaks volumes about you and your self-esteem

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Doesn't matter, his new nickname is BiBBO

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Yes, I am pithy

wrestler-

I bought one from 1920 sheet music version on ebay a few years ago. I always keep an eye out for any other copies. I've only seen 2 of these in about 10 years of collecting on ebay. There is a 1938 version that gets auctioned off once or twice a year. I even sold a extra '38 copy on ebay once. They are not cheap....around $100 for the '38 version. I have a '38 autographed by my grandfather.

prediction of the year.

a&m improves just enough to do another 13 - 0 on tu this year while they are #1 in the nation.

tu fans meltdown and get naked as the tshirts come flying off and head off to the cattle company to 'release steam'.

This is what will happen.

13-0

and Cart's brother is left crying in his beer. again.

At least they did mention the correct way first, even if they did try to explain it again and neglected to show the picture. But what else do you expect from the sip fan club?

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Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

I actually edited to check something - and yes, about a year ago on a bet a poster went to the Texas library and snapped a photo with his cell of the article referencing "Bevo" a year before the infamous branding.

Yeah, and then last year, I also went online to make claims that are complete bull****.

I don't know what the real story is, but I certainly like the way the Aggies tell it the best. Taking the branding and making into your mascot's name is such a cool story. I'll stick with that one.

I like our story better. . . . . .



Although, fake beer/fake juevos is pretty fair. Maybe that's the angle they were going for.

And nobody has ever forged anything.. RE ACORN - president candidate Hussein.

actually, that was me. sadly, for you aggies, the story is cute, but not true.

the Texas Alcalde announced Bevo's name a full year before the actual game wherein you beat us 13-0. now it MAY be true that you came along and branded our steer (in fact, i believe that IS true) and we may have "corrected" the branding by adding the necessary brand to create "BEVO" but he had been named so previous to the whipping you put on is in 1918 or whatever it was.

the popular story is well know, but false. i first read this in the main building about 10 years ago, but then everyone is so convinced of the false story that i began to doubt myself. i decided to do my own research and did so about a year to 18 months ago. sure enough, i was able to dig the Alcalde out of the vault and prove that Bevo had been named "Bevo" before you even beat us 13-0.

Nice try at changing the facts. We are fortunate enough to have the branded picture or you would be disputing that too!