farmer1 said:
This supposedly tradition was started 3 or 4 years ago by Childress. You would not think it was great if the bubbles hit you in the face and made you feel sticky I have had this ticket for 35 years
It was started by Corbin Martin if you really want to get down to the brass tacks of it. Childress had nothing to do with it other than he was physically present in the same dugout as Martin. I guess you could say that Childress could have stopped it, but he didn't. Martin had a bubble machine that he called "Whammy" that he would blow bubbles with when we hit home runs.
The bubbles thing is organic from our players and has now extended to our crowd. It is a very, very Olsen thing now, whether we like it or not. It is what college baseball is all about and what makes Texas A&M different than a lot of places.
I do find it very interesting that of all mornings, this is the one where it is being discussed. Where was the discussion after the Cornell game in which we scored 22 runs? There were lots and lots and lots of bubbles then, so there must have been lots of sticky feeling. What about when we scored 19 against LBSU? Lots of runs = lots of bubbles = lots of sticky feeling.