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I'll take any one that's a true fan of A&M and knows traditions.
How often do you see this though? People that never went to TAMU that know ALL of the traditions of TAMU and the stories behind them.
To quote a friend of mine "Responsibility to an Aggie is Staying up all night to pull tickets and still making your 8am class"
While I dont begrudge a t-shirt fan his loyalties He/she never stayed up all night at the "C" studying for a physics exam and had to fight for a seat at the libraries, coffee shops, and any other place in College Station for a place to study during finals. They never yelled at the extremist preacher for standing on the Grass at the MSC.
Many of them never worked on the Big Event.
They never heard their professor drill into their heads "Aggies Do not Lie cheat or steal..."
Most t-shirt fans have never put pennies on Sully's boots in hopes that you would really get the luck you needed.
Most t-shirts have never walked the tunnels at TAMU and seen the graffiti of the Aggies from long ago.
Most T-shirts have never walked across campus and said howdy and felt the connection to 100k+ other Aggies in that one simple word.
You see there's a comradery about being an Aggie that goes far beyond the traditions.
There is a large difference between knowing and living it. My family has been going to TAMU since 1913 and I'm the first woman. All of them in the Corps of Cadets. Never in all of my years prior to attending classes at TAMU had I been more of an Aggie than someone who had gone to school here.
From the outside looking in you cant understand it (though some try and we thank them for that) and from the inside looking out you cant explain it.
One thing people should know is that there is more to being an Aggie than Football, baseball, and Basketball. A whole hell of a lot more.
[This message has been edited by Tmoneyag99 (edited 7/12/2009 8:03p).]
