TXAGBQ76 said:
So the game will be meaningless unless it is Thanksgiving night? The stadiums will be dead and no one will attend unless it is Thanksgiving night?
Why are the Dallas Cowboys America's team?
One of the reasons is that they took advantage of every marketing advantage known to man....including being one of the only teams that ever wanted to annually play on Thanksgiving.
Quit thinking small time. The late NFL game starts at 7:25 on Thanksgiving night, and ends at roughly 10:30PM.
If you start the game at 8PM you get the entire nation watching the last 1.5 quarters of the game after the NFL game ends.
You would get an whole nation wide audience of football fans (raises hands) who have no rooting interest at all in the Thanksgiving NFL night game.
Does anyone in America really care about the Egg Bowl? That would be the other rivalry game you'd be competing against on Thanksgiving night.
People all over the country are going to be fascinated to learn which school gets to earn those coveted Texas bragging rights for the year.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving is just another day, and many people are already focused on Christmas.
Sure....everyone on this board can pretend that beating the University of Mississippi, Arkansas or LSU feels the same as it does to stomp Texas.....but we all know we'd be lying.
Texas A&M will never have a rival as big as the University of Texas. Its time to make this rivalry game the biggest in the country.