Especially gaylor and tceh... I've really never understood why. It's not like we win a lot in major sports. I don't get why they like t.u. better than us. The sips are the ones who usually win and beat these two teams just about everytime in every sport. Please explain.

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today has got to rank on the all time list for sheer number of crap threads being started

***** envy?

Okay maybe now I know why...

You just explained why. They are pissed that they aren't at the level we are at competitively, across the board in sports. They will never match our facilities, or reputation, yet they have beat us regularly in football (tech), and in some other minor sports (Baylor). It pisses them off because we will always be a "bigger name" than they are, but they feel like they are worth of our stature, but THEY AREN'T.

a couple of thoughts:

1)its easier to hate what you don't understand.
2)we are a more cohesive unit to hate, Sips dont really seem to care that much where you graduate from, but Ags care - to the exclusion of the other schools
3) they do beat us every now and then, its easier to attack a weaker big brother then a stronger big brother (sips)
4) they dont understand how we are so far superior in academics when we are just a bunch of farmers.

I was thinking about this today...almost every single school in Texas hates A&M more than any other school in the state. Really odd...if it was ***** envy then you would think it would UT that we hated the most.

for a serious answer I'm about 99% sure that it's because of the way we act. It doesn't bother us because we're part of it, but our spirit, loyalty, and passion for Texas A&M probably annoys the hell out of everybody else.

yea, good summary bob

but thats why i say "eff em"

eh I bet on average more fans hate Texas because they are good

I think we annoy others because we do weird stuff.......yell practice in their town before games.....we are a tight group....we're loud in their arenas...have milkmen...it would annoy me too

I mean really if you're not in a frat you hate frats for a lot of the same reasons

it stems from the Football teams we had during the 80s and 90s when we were at the top of the food chain in the SWC. We owned everyone in those days, and the bitterness they got back then has just transferred over to now.

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Everyone=people who have to see us every year. Familiarity breeds contempt....especially over 100 years w/ Baylor and Texas.

There's a reason that teams that come down from Clemson and Virginia Tech think we're the nicest group they've ever visited and the Big 12 South can't stand us.

Also, we're a proud lot. People take it as arrogance because they didn't go to A&M and don't think we should like it so much.

It doesn't matter. This goes for Bears/Aggies/Horns...whoever, and I've told the story before. At my first job, one guy made fun of another guy for wearing the same shirt to work too often. Another guy told him "You don't have to take that. If your shirt bothers him so much, tell him to stop looking at it or go **** himself". Excellent life lesson.

I always hope when I post on here/read this stuff that people realize that this is a fan message board. In real life or at work, if you're over the top Aggie/Horn or whatever and get in peoples' faces about it and harbor grudges against Zutroy over in accounting because he went to Baylor....you're a do**he and everyone hates you. This isn't the real world. "Everyone" doesn't hate us.

this is about as lamo as my HOW DOES ONE GET AN AGTAG that I post about every 3 months

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for a serious answer I'm about 99% sure that it's because of the way we act. It doesn't bother us because we're part of it, but our spirit, loyalty, and passion for Texas A&M probably annoys the hell out of everybody else.

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I think it is the fact that aggies think that they are the only ones who do have loyalty and passion for their team. The old saying that one aggie is great but 3 or more of them together and they are annoying as hell is very true.

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Also, we're a proud lot. People take it as arrogance because they didn't go to A&M and don't think we should like it so much.

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Good point...I know my roommates @ Disney World were getting f'n tired of hearing about how great the state of Texas is.

it's not as much about "loyalty for the team" as it for the school itself. That's where I think our Texas brethren get annoyed.

I don't know about you guys, but I grew up hearing a lot of Aggie jokes. I always had this idea in my head that Aggies were dumb. Occasionally you come across the type of Aggie fan that reinforces those thoughts (hick accent, talking about skipping class and drinkin' with the buds [note: I'm skipping class right now]).

It's easy to ignore A&M's academic prestige and accomplishments due to image. Throw in the fact that thousands of us are PROUD of our crappy 4-8 football teams, and we're easy to mock and/or look down upon.

So if we're keeping score:

Reasons we're hated:
-Loyalty
-Traditions
-Passion for team


Keep it up Ags

I agree 100% on spirit that it is about our school pride and traditions. People do not like what is different, and those who do not want to take the time to fully understand, they hate on us.

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I think people just think our traditions are annoying and combine that with our usually competitive teams and schools like baylor can go on forever about why they hate us. I don't really get it because I think we treat opposing fans pretty well and I really believe Aggies are pretty nice people. But they just want to label us a certain way and call us a cult for having a lot of spirit and loyalty.

Who cares.

....and because it hasn't been put in here yet....

Exactly, we are widely regarded as some of the classiest and nicest fans in the Big 12 (I do know that Nebraska is held higher in that regard in football though). Heck, there was a questionaire survey that was done last fall by SI. The results were quite interesting. Overall, we were ranked as like the 2nd most liked fans but we were also ranked as the 4th most hated fans.

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Y'all were nice to my friends from the U when the visited last year, but y'all don't exactly roll out the red carpet when the Big XII Texas schools visit.

It's because they don't understand us.

Fine with me.

We really don't...why saw em off when you aren't playing Texas. Why Texas Aggies?

Because it looks cool, of course.

...because there are Aggies from Utah, California, and New Mexico. We're Texas Aggies. Duh.

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Why does Texas sing about us in Texas Fight?

Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And it's goodbye to A&M.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
And we'll put over one more win.
Texas Fight, Texas Fight,
For it's Texas that we love best.
Give 'em Hell, Give 'em Hell, Go Horns Go,
And it's good-bye to all the rest!

why would we ever roll out the red carpet for somebody who hates us as passionately as Baylor and Tech do...

I'm pissed that we don't have our own podcast!!!

In Baylor's case, and Tech's as well..........

They hate because at the end of the day, they are still a Bear or a Raider. Just couldn't make the cut.

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We really don't...why saw em off when you aren't playing Texas. Why Texas Aggies?

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I lol'ed when I read this. Just the way it was worded was funny.

The best way I can think to answer that is just that our rivalry with t.u. is so engrained in us and they are the school we've been battling against since basically we were founded.

One thing to note is that that is our War Hymn. Take note of the title. They are our enemy in the context of the song. Our other big song is "The Spirit of Aggieland". We don't mention texas or anybody else in that song, because that's just about our spirit. That's how I think of it at least.

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...because there are Aggies from Utah, California, and New Mexico. We're Texas Aggies. Duh.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about the Oklahoma Cowboys, Missouri Bears, & Kansas Wildcats.