SteveA said:
Much of her argument makes sense. Why do we throw horns down signs ever? It's stupid. Sure, screw tu, but I would rather concentrate on A&M than give them validity when they aren't valid.
This. Problem is, many (or most?) Ags willfully refuse to see it.
Tell me, what, and be very specific, is wrong about this statement (which is the gist of the article, even if crappily written)?
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While we should not care about them, we have chosen to do the opposite. We have glorified them to such a degree that they've become embedded into our school's culture.
We spend actual money on merchandise dedicated to them, spread their symbols during our football games when the game isn't even against them and make animal sounds when someone brings up their name.
We give them capital. We give them exposure. We give them power.
Humiliating.
Personally, I don't want some Longhorn walking around the SEC with an overinflated ego thinking they live in our head rent-free. They're already obnoxious enough from believing living in Austin is a personality trait.
The worst part about our infatuation with UT is that it's completely one-sided. They don't have chants, merchandise, or hand gestures dedicated to us. They don't even think of us as their main rival.
This is also true:
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At this point, we are literally an obsessive ex-girlfriend who refuses to move on from their previous heartbreak. Meanwhile UT is "winning" the breakup, already canoodling with other people.
We shouldn't be reducing ourselves to this level of fan behavior. We have been in a higher, more competitive football division for 12 years and we still frequently beat them in other sports,
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I enjoy being a hater as much as the next person, but thinking UT is a worthy opponent anymore is obsolete.
While their entrance to the SEC might prove otherwise, we cannot let them believe we're already fan-girling them as we giggle in excitement about having an excuse to use the horns down symbol or obsessively talk about them throughout social media.
Why be a crazy ex-girlfriend when we were the hotter partner to begin with?
So, let's stop giving them unnecessary attention and direct our energy towards new rivals and make new traditions. After all, is that not what Aggies are known for?
Besides being better than UT.
Generally speaking, the Batt is worthless and most of the articles are even worse. But simply because it is an article there doesn't necessarily mean it is also worthless - taking the 2 minutes to actually read it would yield that the author is making sense.
Hell, look at how many threads have been started in the 12 freaking years since we have played tu about tu. How many threads about whether it is a rivalry or not? How many threads obsessing over whether they suck or lamenting their win over UGA a few years back in the Sugar Bowl? How many threads of Ags that spend more time harkening to the old days when we played them under the lense of revisionist history and nostalgia?
Fact - most Ags seem to obsess over everything tu related and measure their worth on whether we beat them in a sport or not, and it's fuggin stupid and juvenile. The horns down at every opportunity is stupid and juvenile and is indicative of the inability to kick tu out of your head. The stupid horns down shirts and stickers and all the other stuff - yep, equally stupid and juvenile. And, frankly, obsessive. She's right, like it or not. For over a decade Ags have had the chance to change their mentality and focus on A&M...and here we are, talking about tu. Again.