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re: Aggies - Question about bonfire

Posted on 12/19/12 at 4:28 pm to
Posted by TeLeFaWx
Dallas, TX
Member since Aug 2011
29177 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 4:28 pm to
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I don't know, the way Tennessee is playing these days, one might consider them to be quite forgettable.


Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 4:31 pm to
TeLeFaWx,

Which do you prefer? A&M Lite or Burnt-Orange Baylor?
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
9536 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 5:19 pm to
As an outsider, I think the tradition should resume, but it doesn't need to be so big. Maybe build a tower along the lines of the River Parish Christmas Eve bonfires. Like these:





Posted by Big12fan
Dallas
Member since Nov 2011
5340 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 5:25 pm to
quote:

you might want to see what the success rate was like once we stopped being an all male military college and when the scholarship limit was put in place, you know, the universally understood beginning of modern college football


No school apologizes for its history more than A&M. And the scholly limit whine is so old. If you'll check, A&M had same scholly limit as UT and any other school. In a nutshell, you can't use being an Aggie as an excuse (although it is somewhat rational).
Posted by Big12fan
Dallas
Member since Nov 2011
5340 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 5:31 pm to
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What do you know? A fricking burnt-orange bitch that can't let Daddy go. Get used to those burnt-orange tears, cocksmoke. We're your frickING DADDY now and will be in perpetuity. The fact that a buttfricker like you is on the SEC Rant (not a Big Twatever board) is more indicative of your obsession with your Daddy, A&M. We're the "Joneses" now, you little bitch. Get your shine box, Burnt-Orange Balyor....or do you prefer A&M Lite?


You seem to be obsessed with cocks & butts. Would you happen to be on Gov Perry's staff (not literally) :)

Posted by daboman of Aggieland
Columbia, MO
Member since Aug 2011
1330 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 5:34 pm to
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As an outsider, I think the tradition should resume, but it doesn't need to be so big. Maybe build a tower along the lines of the River Parish Christmas Eve bonfires. Like these:

Part of the point of bonfire was that it was so big. It took 125,000 man hours to build. That's some serious dedication. There was a saying when I was in school ...

"If it was easy, anyone could build one."
Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 5:35 pm to
No school talks about how they are the Joneses and does less with much more than A&M Lite.

You can keep your ancient history and (hopefully) Mack/Delost. We'll keep our Boss status. I know it sucks, but don't kill yourself. It could be worse. Tech could be your daddy.


Enjoy eternal marginalization in the Big Twatever, burnt-orange Baylor.
Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 5:36 pm to
Do you prefer burnt-orange Baylor, or A&M Lite?
Posted by ErnestTBassmaster
Bird Whistle, Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
2583 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:08 pm to
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polo fields


Y'all have more than one?

Posted by DWag215
Houston, TX
Member since Aug 2011
7213 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:13 pm to
If your team graphic is any indication of your loyalty, you'll be sobbing come January 4th.
Posted by DWag215
Houston, TX
Member since Aug 2011
7213 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:15 pm to
Oh, and you're on an SEC board.
Posted by trickydick12
college station
Member since Sep 2012
1671 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:16 pm to
IMO the students would have to rally together to get the General, and Loftin on board. To do this with minimal changes to how the Bonfires use to be ran. You would have get the University Profs back involved with it at full swing. The design needs to be made standard. If changes are implemented, the reasoning should not just be to make it "Larger" however to make it safer. I hate using military terms "Lessons Learned" should be the only measure used to change actual implemenation of the project. "Tribal Knowledge" shouldn't be the standard as it was before. Experience is one thing however it started to become a "Tribal Knowledge" thing. A Quality Control team needs to be put in place to make sure all materials used in this project are compliant with design parameters. The students should be able to still build it the ol' school style, as it was before with supervision.

The other way would be to hire a company and to oversee this project and therefore tarnishing the actual spirit of Bonfire.

I remember when it fell, I was in highschool and our teacher got a phone call, and ran down and got a tv from the library. So we could watch it on the NEWS. Pretty emotional day in class, for a lot of us knew people who went to A&M at the time.
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34330 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:46 pm to
Don't let the butthurt sip derail this really good discussion. The fact he is willing to change his fan preference to OU, even if that is the custom of the forum, shows how butthurt he is.

I never got to go to an official bonfire and I never went to an off campus one. As a mid 00's Aggie with no bonfire the only big get together I was apart of was Chilifest.

Overall I think it the reason I hate Texas less than the average Aggie and why I am so excited to move on past them with LSU on Tday weekend.

I hate OU way more than Texas.
This post was edited on 12/19/12 at 6:50 pm
Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:47 pm to
DWag,

Which do you think this butthurt left-behind prefers?
A. Burnt-Orange Baylor
B. A&M Lite

I don't want to offend him because I am respectf.... I couldn't say that with a straight face.
Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:48 pm to
boxer,

Same question:
A. Burnt-Orange Baylor
B. A&M Lite
Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34330 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 6:51 pm to
First one. A&M should never stand for them.
Posted by Whens lunch
San Antonio
Member since Oct 2012
557 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 7:12 pm to
quote:

quote:
polo fields


Y'all have more than one?




Doesn't everyone?
Posted by LegacyAggie
Member since Sep 2011
691 posts
Posted on 12/19/12 at 8:01 pm to
I know people died, but losing people and a tradition isn't the answer and it never was. When something bad happens, you learn and rebuild or continue on. Not quit. Just like how they are rebuilding the World Trade Center. Not to say the loss is the same etc etc etc, but similar concept.

I'd like to see it return, in a supervised safe way that doesn't compromise safety but also tries to keep it as intact as possible. I'd like to see this when we start playing tu again. You can say never but there won't be a better time to mount support and 2 years ago, no one ever thought we could split from the Big 12 basically on our own. SEC dollars should help with insurance and you know if they let the 12th man raise money for it, it would be able to pay for insurance.

This post was edited on 12/19/12 at 8:02 pm
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