Please not thanksgiving day. That day is for NFL. Friday or Saturday would be so much better.

I would love to have a completely empty stadium on our side for this game, just to cost the SEC but then reality sets in and I realize the consequences to us and the improbability of pulling something like that off…

But it is a nice fantasy…..

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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aeon-ag said:

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HWDYDMIT said:

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Preference would be tu as our first SEC game and keep LSU Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend. That way tu would either be stuck with moving ou out of the State Fair/Cotton Bowl as the rivalry game or keep it and be stuck playing an Arky or Mizzou or MSState as their new "rival".
Sankey likely offered tu their preference and ou/tu will stay at rhe Cotton Bowl and TAMU will be Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend.
All that really matters is to BTHO tu.

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LSU is not A&M's rival. Never has been never will be. I don't care if we haven't played those SOB's in 50 years, tu has always been and always will be!!!!!! So you new army children grow a pair and get with OL' ARMY!!!!

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Class of '89 here. I consider myself an Old Ag while knowing that there are older Ags than me who post on here.

Absolutely, tu is the #1 rival. That is the "always has been, always will be" here. But during my years at A&M, I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU to start those years (well, not '85). Then throw in baseball '89 for good measure.

You may not consider LSU a rival, but I sure as hell do. And the two programs have played one another in sufficient numbers over a long period of time to be classified as big rivals, unlike the forced "rivalry" we have with South Carolina.

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You know rivalries don't have anything to do with the record right? I'd argue the biggest rivalry in the SEC is the iron bowl and I bet the record is completely lopsided in favor of Bama.

SEC decision makers want to maximize revenue and excitement by going to 9-game SEC schedules to preserve major rivalries. Also, the SEC's practice of scheduling cupcake games for most teams on the weekend before Thanksgiving needs to end. Our final home game should be an SEC game every year. Since we joined the SEC, our final home game has been a cupcake game 4 times: 2015 against FCS Western Carolina, 2017 against New Mexico, 2021 against FCS Prairie View A&M, and 2023 against FCS Abilene Christian.

I agree that we should play Texas on Thanksgiving weekend, but not on Thanksgiving day. Since 2006, there have always been 3 NFL games on Thanksgiving Day. That's why I think holding this game on Friday or Saturday would be much better.

DecadePlan said:

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Texas has their rival, and it ain't us. I'm so ready to move on, but since we can't have that, just make it another early season game.

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This.

Is "saw varsities horns off" still yelled at games?

There's your answer.

rootube said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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aeon-ag said:

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HWDYDMIT said:

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Preference would be tu as our first SEC game and keep LSU Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend. That way tu would either be stuck with moving ou out of the State Fair/Cotton Bowl as the rivalry game or keep it and be stuck playing an Arky or Mizzou or MSState as their new "rival".
Sankey likely offered tu their preference and ou/tu will stay at rhe Cotton Bowl and TAMU will be Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend.
All that really matters is to BTHO tu.

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LSU is not A&M's rival. Never has been never will be. I don't care if we haven't played those SOB's in 50 years, tu has always been and always will be!!!!!! So you new army children grow a pair and get with OL' ARMY!!!!

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Class of '89 here. I consider myself an Old Ag while knowing that there are older Ags than me who post on here.

Absolutely, tu is the #1 rival. That is the "always has been, always will be" here. But during my years at A&M, I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU to start those years (well, not '85). Then throw in baseball '89 for good measure.

You may not consider LSU a rival, but I sure as hell do. And the two programs have played one another in sufficient numbers over a long period of time to be classified as big rivals, unlike the forced "rivalry" we have with South Carolina.

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You know rivalries don't have anything to do with the record right? I'd argue the biggest rivalry in the SEC is the iron bowl and I bet the record is completely lopsided in favor of Bama.

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Where did I mention record? By that metric, how the hell are the sips a rival for the Ags? They have essentially double our wins in the series.

Alabama leads Auburn 49-37-1, which is far closer than I might have guessed.

won't be on Thanksgiving.

that day now belongs to the NFL

don't want to compete with that as the ratings will be terrible.

if it's rivalry weekend it will be on Saturday

the SEC already has the Egg bowl on Thanksgiving because no one really cares about that game anyway.

SociallyConditionedAg said:

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DecadePlan said:

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Texas has their rival, and it ain't us. I'm so ready to move on, but since we can't have that, just make it another early season game.

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This.

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So much do that they brought them along to the SEC with them.

A&M Vs Tu is a big rivalry game but given what has transpired the last decade it doesn't look like THE biggest rivalry, necessarily.

For both schools it is going to be a sort of 1a, 1b thing.

jonb02 said:

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Is "saw varsities horns off" still yelled at games?

There's your answer.

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Is "good-bye to texas university, so long to the orange and the white" still sung as well?

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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rootube said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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aeon-ag said:

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HWDYDMIT said:

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Preference would be tu as our first SEC game and keep LSU Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend. That way tu would either be stuck with moving ou out of the State Fair/Cotton Bowl as the rivalry game or keep it and be stuck playing an Arky or Mizzou or MSState as their new "rival".
Sankey likely offered tu their preference and ou/tu will stay at rhe Cotton Bowl and TAMU will be Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend.
All that really matters is to BTHO tu.

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LSU is not A&M's rival. Never has been never will be. I don't care if we haven't played those SOB's in 50 years, tu has always been and always will be!!!!!! So you new army children grow a pair and get with OL' ARMY!!!!

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Class of '89 here. I consider myself an Old Ag while knowing that there are older Ags than me who post on here.

Absolutely, tu is the #1 rival. That is the "always has been, always will be" here. But during my years at A&M, I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU to start those years (well, not '85). Then throw in baseball '89 for good measure.

You may not consider LSU a rival, but I sure as hell do. And the two programs have played one another in sufficient numbers over a long period of time to be classified as big rivals, unlike the forced "rivalry" we have with South Carolina.

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You know rivalries don't have anything to do with the record right? I'd argue the biggest rivalry in the SEC is the iron bowl and I bet the record is completely lopsided in favor of Bama.

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Where did I mention record? By that metric, how the hell are the sips a rival for the Ags? They have essentially double our wins in the series.

Alabama leads Auburn 49-37-1, which is far closer than I might have guessed.

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Makes sense that it is closer. For almost 90 years of the game versus 'sip it was basically VMI vs UVA.

Reno Hightower said:

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jonb02 said:

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Is "saw varsities horns off" still yelled at games?

There's your answer.

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Is "good-bye to texas university, so long to the orange and the white" still sung as well?

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Correct.

Our rivalry with tu is bigger than a 12 year break from playing. Imagine the hype when game week arrives. It's going to be a spectacle, don't kid yourself.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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rootube said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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aeon-ag said:

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HWDYDMIT said:

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Preference would be tu as our first SEC game and keep LSU Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend. That way tu would either be stuck with moving ou out of the State Fair/Cotton Bowl as the rivalry game or keep it and be stuck playing an Arky or Mizzou or MSState as their new "rival".
Sankey likely offered tu their preference and ou/tu will stay at rhe Cotton Bowl and TAMU will be Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend.
All that really matters is to BTHO tu.

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LSU is not A&M's rival. Never has been never will be. I don't care if we haven't played those SOB's in 50 years, tu has always been and always will be!!!!!! So you new army children grow a pair and get with OL' ARMY!!!!

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Class of '89 here. I consider myself an Old Ag while knowing that there are older Ags than me who post on here.

Absolutely, tu is the #1 rival. That is the "always has been, always will be" here. But during my years at A&M, I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU to start those years (well, not '85). Then throw in baseball '89 for good measure.

You may not consider LSU a rival, but I sure as hell do. And the two programs have played one another in sufficient numbers over a long period of time to be classified as big rivals, unlike the forced "rivalry" we have with South Carolina.

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You know rivalries don't have anything to do with the record right? I'd argue the biggest rivalry in the SEC is the iron bowl and I bet the record is completely lopsided in favor of Bama.

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Where did I mention record? By that metric, how the hell are the sips a rival for the Ags? They have essentially double our wins in the series.

Alabama leads Auburn 49-37-1, which is far closer than I might have guessed.

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Didn't you talk about record here??

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I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU

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My point is that the record is irrelevant. I'm not sure what your point is but by the sound of it we are about the same age and I never considered LSU a big rival.

rootube said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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rootube said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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aeon-ag said:

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HWDYDMIT said:

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Preference would be tu as our first SEC game and keep LSU Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend. That way tu would either be stuck with moving ou out of the State Fair/Cotton Bowl as the rivalry game or keep it and be stuck playing an Arky or Mizzou or MSState as their new "rival".
Sankey likely offered tu their preference and ou/tu will stay at rhe Cotton Bowl and TAMU will be Thanksgiving/Rivalry weekend.
All that really matters is to BTHO tu.

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LSU is not A&M's rival. Never has been never will be. I don't care if we haven't played those SOB's in 50 years, tu has always been and always will be!!!!!! So you new army children grow a pair and get with OL' ARMY!!!!

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Class of '89 here. I consider myself an Old Ag while knowing that there are older Ags than me who post on here.

Absolutely, tu is the #1 rival. That is the "always has been, always will be" here. But during my years at A&M, I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU to start those years (well, not '85). Then throw in baseball '89 for good measure.

You may not consider LSU a rival, but I sure as hell do. And the two programs have played one another in sufficient numbers over a long period of time to be classified as big rivals, unlike the forced "rivalry" we have with South Carolina.

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You know rivalries don't have anything to do with the record right? I'd argue the biggest rivalry in the SEC is the iron bowl and I bet the record is completely lopsided in favor of Bama.

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Where did I mention record? By that metric, how the hell are the sips a rival for the Ags? They have essentially double our wins in the series.

Alabama leads Auburn 49-37-1, which is far closer than I might have guessed.

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Didn't you talk about record here??

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I actually had more hatred of LSU. That's largely because while we were kicking tu's ass in football each year, we were losing to LSU

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My point is that the record is irrelevant. I'm not sure what your point is but by the sound of it we are about the same age and I never considered LSU a big rival.

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If you took it as record, then I should have been more clear with my words. The intent was that we were kicking their ass. I hated them, yes, but they were little different than Baylor or Cougar High with regard to the scoreboard. LSU regularly beat us in those days, which ramped up my loathing dislike of them.

That's all well and good but Saban's statement supported by Freeze's comment are good sources for the rumor of 7-1 to be considered reliable. If they had voted on it then it wouldn't be a rumor, it would be official.

If you want to say there's nothing official then say that. Don't say there's nothing "reliable" then use the fact there's nothing official to move the goal posts.

LSU was (and is today) a big game and I wanted to win much like Alabama is today. I don't consider Bama a rivalry even though it's a big game and they are beating us consistently.Here are the future SEC rivalries in my view.

It's hard to rank these because it depends on if you live in Texas/Mississippi/Alabama/Oklahoma

1) Iron Bowl
2) Egg Bowl (This might be lower if you ranked them because of the stakes involved)
3) A&M/Texas
4) Texas/OU

To me at least, these are second tier rivalries
Florida/Georgia
UT/Bama

That's it. There are other big games but not rivalries.

jonb02 said:

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Reno Hightower said:

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jonb02 said:

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Is "saw varsities horns off" still yelled at games?

There's your answer.

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Is "good-bye to texas university, so long to the orange and the white" still sung as well?

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Correct.

Our rivalry with tu is bigger than a 12 year break from playing. Imagine the hype when game week arrives. It's going to be a spectacle, don't kid yourself.

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Then play them the week after they play ou. Put them in the worst position possible.

rootube said:

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LSU was (and is today) a big game and I wanted to win much like Alabama is today. I don't consider Bama a rivalry even though it's a big game and they are beating us consistently.Here are the future SEC rivalries in my view.

It's hard to rank these because it depends on if you live in Texas/Mississippi/Alabama/Oklahoma

1) Iron Bowl
2) Egg Bowl (This might be lower if you ranked them because of the stakes involved)
3) A&M/Texas
4) Texas/OU

To me at least, these are second tier rivalries
Florida/Georgia
UT/Bama

That's it. There are other big games but not rivalries.

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So A&M/Arkansas isn't a rivalry? In SWC days, Texas/Arkansas was. That has the potential to be revived.

I don't think so. I don't consider Arkansas/Texas/A&M a big rivalry game. It's a great game and I would be disappointed if we didn't play Arkansas every year but I think A&M/LSU is bigger for example. I also bet if you asked the average hog fan who is a bigger rival A&M or horn most would probably pick horn.

If we could only keep one game it would be A&M/horn. If we could keep only two it would be LSU/A&M, and if we could keep only three it would be A&M/Arkansas. The rest of the SEC can be on rotation in my view.

I suppose if you had to pick four it would be OU just because it seems more regionally significant than Mississippi, but I feel far less for that game than the other three.

A&M and t.u. have played over 50 times...

on a day other than Thanksgiving

rootube said:

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LSU was (and is today) a big game and I wanted to win much like Alabama is today. I don't consider Bama a rivalry even though it's a big game and they are beating us consistently.Here are the future SEC rivalries in my view.

It's hard to rank these because it depends on if you live in Texas/Mississippi/Alabama/Oklahoma

1) Iron Bowl
2) Egg Bowl (This might be lower if you ranked them because of the stakes involved)
3) A&M/Texas
4) Texas/OU

To me at least, these are second tier rivalries
Florida/Georgia
UT/Bama

That's it. There are other big games but not rivalries.

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No offense, but you are just showing you don't know the history of the conference.

The two you list as "second tier" are huge rivalries.

You left off Auburn-UGA. One of the biggest!

Panama Red said:

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rootube said:

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LSU was (and is today) a big game and I wanted to win much like Alabama is today. I don't consider Bama a rivalry even though it's a big game and they are beating us consistently.Here are the future SEC rivalries in my view.

It's hard to rank these because it depends on if you live in Texas/Mississippi/Alabama/Oklahoma

1) Iron Bowl
2) Egg Bowl (This might be lower if you ranked them because of the stakes involved)
3) A&M/Texas
4) Texas/OU

To me at least, these are second tier rivalries
Florida/Georgia
UT/Bama

That's it. There are other big games but not rivalries.

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No offense, but you are just showing you don't know the history of the conference.

The two you list as "second tier" are huge rivalries.

You left off Auburn-UGA. One of the biggest!

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Actually, I'm saying they are rivalries, just not as big as the others. I'm also saying these are my personal opinions. For example if we added FSU to the SEC tomorrow the FSU/UF game would be bigger than Florida/Georgia immediately. There is nothing like state bragging rights. The same goes for Clemson/SC.

I'm just a T-Shirt Ag (despite my Great Uncle being the first President of A&M), but history matters.

Aggies have played tips since 1894. My entire life the game was on Thanksgiving and did better ratings than the NFL most years because the NFL matchup was not interesting. I remember going to the Aggie game the year the Cowboys played the Dolphins in the snow when Leon Lett ruined the game for the Cowboys, but I didn't care because the number 8 Aggies took out the tips 18-9. Still tu is leading the series 76-37-5 so I'd like to even it up some more.

Aggies have been playing the Swamp Kitties since 1899. I remember the Aggies dominating in the 90s to the point that LSU cancelled the game because they were tired of losing an OOC game every year while playing in the SEC. Still Red Stick leads the series 31-23-3 and they've dominated the rivalry since the good guys joined the SEC. Close to even on this one so let's keep it too.

Aggies and Razorbacks have played 80 game since 1903. I know some younger Aggies think this isn't a rivalry because the Aggies have dominated the Pigs since we joined the SEC, but those Aggies don't remember Frank Broyles nor recognize that Arkie still leads the series 42-35-3.

All 3 should be on our SEC schedule and that's why I support a 6-3 model.

I don't like it anymore than most texags posters, but the reality is tu is our rival. I've done the same as many here and pretended they're not, mostly because they don't see us as their rival (much the same way we used to look down our nose at tek and scoff at the idea that they were our rival). So I understand why many of us want it to not be true.

But they're back, and that rivalry is pretty real with nearly everyone not on texags. Again, I would prefer we treat them like any other game, but that's not how it's going to be.

ETA: And I don't really care what day we play them.

By the current scheduling model we won't even play them yearly. They wanted OU as their rival. LSU will be rivalry week.

As long as it's not Tday or Tday weekend it doesn't matter. Much better to play a big name out of state team Tday weekend.

and definitely need to bring Arkansas game to Kyle. Forget Jerryworld

Hope not,

I don't care if they move the Texas game back to the last game or keep LSU. Good with either.

But, I would rather the game be on Friday or Saturday.

I do not wish ANY game on Thanksgiving. The TV ratings for college games are crap because the NFL now owns the entire day.

Make it on Friday or Saturday so the exposure will be the best. I want as many eyeballs on TV sets as we can get.