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re: Can Texas A&M ever change their image?
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:12 pm to giveemhell
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:12 pm to giveemhell
If he's still here on Earth, thank him for his service for me, please.
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Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:12 pm to 1loyalbamafan
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Joe Namath still says he got a raw deal at the goal line.
I'm too young to know details about that game, but I'm old enough to remember seeing Joe Namath play the Dallas Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl in person circa 1968 or 1969 (my dad had season tix). He was of course called Broadway Joe back then and the Dallas fans loved to make fun of that, but I've always liked the guy.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:18 pm to Jabontik
quote:This is the way
A&M gets alot of shite but it's a good university and the alumni are pretty cool too, more down to earth than the UT guys. The yell leaders need to go however
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:20 pm to FootballFrenzy
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If he's still here on Earth, thank him for his service for me, please.
Oh, I so wish. Lost him around 20 years ago, but appreciate the sentiment just the same...
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:21 pm to giveemhell
I'm sorry for your loss.
You have a favorite story about him?
You have a favorite story about him?
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:32 pm to FootballFrenzy
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I'm sorry for your loss.
You have a favorite story about him?
I wouldn't say this is a favorite story necessarily, but it's the first one that came to mind. Me, my dad and my little Aggie brother (haha) all went to the airshow in Oshkosh sometime in the mid-nineties. They had a B-17, which my dad flew, sitting out there for people to climb up and explore.My brother and I begged my dad to join us, but he wouldn't do it, which killed me. I think it reminded him too much of his youth, and he didn't want to go back there (not because of bad memories, but because he was no longer young). That memory haunts me, sorry I couldn't come up with a happier memory.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:39 pm to giveemhell
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That memory haunts me, sorry I couldn't come up with a happier memory.
Me, too.
God bless, man. You're one of the good ones.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:43 pm to SEC Doctor
Leslie got 20% of the vote for mayor. Ducking freaks
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:51 pm to 1loyalbamafan
quote:If you want an iconic matchup of uniforms on your tv, it's kinda hard to beat Bama crimson home uni's versus Texas' road Storm Trooper look. Our two schools are among a very small handful who have kept their iconic uniforms all these years...and survived the alternate uni craze of a few years back that still seems to be a thing
If you are sincere Im good. Texas has beaten some of Bama's best teams in the past.
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Joe Namath still says he got a raw deal at the goal line.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 11:04 pm to giveemhell
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Lol, you're hilarious, not to mention clueless (and clearly are not in the know). Household names headquartered in Austin that are not named Tesla: Whole Foods, Dell, AMD, Yeti Coolers, Alamo Drafthouse, Kendra Scott, Vrbo, etc., etc., etc. This of course doesn’t count companies like Apple, Amazon, Meta and Google that have a massive presence here, but are not headquartered here. Congrats, though, on having a lot of things “planned" in Collie Station...
No one here gives a shite about that crap. I don’t live in College Station or Austin you insecure pissant.
You idiots became bedfellows with a bunch of California companies for what…? To push out actual Texans who don’t want to pay your inflated housing and property costs?
Austin used to be weird. That was cool.
Now you’re not even Texas.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 11:11 pm to truth22
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And NOW for the absolute truth: Texas A&M is a great academic institution and leads the country in Fortune 500 CEOs because it produces talent from kids that are the "everyday all-american salt of the earth traditional values..." The kids that go there are into family, god, country, sports, outdoors. Texas is rated higher academically, and its typical student is the asian/woke/nerd egghead liberal that was a loner in school and uninvolved in sports, cares little for traditional values.
Spot on
Posted on 10/9/24 at 11:14 pm to Armymann50
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Leslie got 20% of the vote for mayor. Ducking freaks
I was at the Black Cat Lounge on 6th Street with my girlfriend about 20 years ago to see some band, and around midnight the front door flies open and Leslie is standing there in his bathrobe and slippers. He proceeds to stroll through the crowd like he owns the place, with a tube of toothpaste in one hand and a toothbrush in the other, and the crowd parted like the Red Sea. He made his way to the bathroom to brush his teeth and then left (presumably to go to bed, wherever that was). One of my weirdest, fondest Austin memories.
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 10/10/24 at 5:47 am to giveemhell
We lived in Killeen for 5 years (2001-2006) a school teacher from el paso came over to visit us so we took her to Austin site seeing . One of the sites was Leslie she could look at the fontal view. 
Posted on 10/13/24 at 5:34 pm to North Dallas Tiger
I also grew up in Texas, went to Texas, and have always marveled at the ‘Group Think Culture’.
Quite honestly, if you talk to a normal Ag one on one and avoid ‘Aggie Issues’, they are really all right. Unfortunately, put them in groups, and it becomes really strange.
If a Tradition is questioned, watch out, they become absolutely out of control. Take ‘Bonfire’, the sacred Tradition that caused the death of 12 young people.
The way I understand it, A&M paid out a small (or large) fortune to some of the families to settle lawsuits. Yes, they had been warned.
Yet, normally even tempered Ags, will get very defensive if the subject of the ‘underground’ Bonfire is brought up.
I think it’s nuts. Doesn’t working on houses for Habitat for Humanity build teamwork in the same way, without the danger?
Just my point of view.
Quite honestly, if you talk to a normal Ag one on one and avoid ‘Aggie Issues’, they are really all right. Unfortunately, put them in groups, and it becomes really strange.
If a Tradition is questioned, watch out, they become absolutely out of control. Take ‘Bonfire’, the sacred Tradition that caused the death of 12 young people.
The way I understand it, A&M paid out a small (or large) fortune to some of the families to settle lawsuits. Yes, they had been warned.
Yet, normally even tempered Ags, will get very defensive if the subject of the ‘underground’ Bonfire is brought up.
I think it’s nuts. Doesn’t working on houses for Habitat for Humanity build teamwork in the same way, without the danger?
Just my point of view.
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