re: Texas - TAMU Rivalry

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It would be humorous if that was actually true. Unfortunately, that is only the reality on texags.com
The actual reality is: this will be an offseason topic every offseason until the game is played or 15 more years have passed. Until then, there's always going to be a writer that's going to bring it up in July when they don't have anything to talk about to get the two sides to scream at each other in the comments section or twitter.
Texas fans (not according to texags.com) want the game to be played because it was an interesting rivalry game played on thanksgiving every year. It was a lot of fun and those games were/are what college football is all about. If it ends up happening again - great. If not - who cares? Texas has got plenty of other big games. But yea, when it's a topic like it always is, it has never been because "OMG Texas just can't live without us rough tough, real stuff Texas A&M aggies. They know we're the biggest name they could ever have and could only BE so lucky." That is the opposite of the truth.
The truth is, Texas has more teams that consider it a rival than just about anybody in college football. A&M has nobody that considers them their biggest rival. Literally nobody, not even us. Texas plays three power 5 opponents from the state every season. A&M plays zero power 5 opponents from the state of Texas.
So they like to perpetuate that we're pining for them, when in reality, we bring up that it'd be fun to play again, but we're pretty booked in advance and are fine without it also.
Also - have any of you on this board met any aggies? They're fricking weird. Like realllllly fricking weird. They have to use nicknames for you, sing entire songs about you (when you're not playing them), and have these bizarre-arse traditions that do not make sense to anybody (including things like only having 5 male cheerleaders, jizz jars, "hump it ags", friday night pep rallies, etc.). It's honestly like being in high school summer church camp for your 4 college years. If your high school were a cult.
Trust me - if you ask any of the big 12 opponents how much they miss being around that, they'd tell you they're glad the aggies are someone else's problem.
Jim Rome (albeit, is a huge douche) sums it up pretty well

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