Texas A+M vs. UT

Texas A+M is an all male college located in Bryan/College Station, Texas, which are the worst two towns in Texas put together to make one even crappier city.

They have many strange traditions at TAMU, like having a small portion of the student body dress up as World War I reenactors every day and parade around the campus waving their swords. At TAMU you are supposed to greet other students by saying "Howdy." If you don't do this, they assume you are a visitor from the University of Texas and they beat the snot out of you for not being polite. They also build a large bonfire every year before their big football game against the University of Texas. This is the one thing they know how to build, but unfortunately it frequently falls down, sometimes with lethal consequences.

Another strange tradition is that their fight song is all about beating the University of Texas, and they sing it no matter who they are playing. This can be confusing to out of state visitors who are often heard saying, "maybe they would be playing better if they knew they were playing Ohio State and not UT." It's also strange that they are called aggies, but their mascot is a small sheltie dog. Maybe they are trying to deny their history and would be embarrassed to have the all-male cheerleaders dressed as auto mechanics (in case you didn't know the A+M stands for auto mechanics).

While they started as a school for auto mechanics, TAMU has also branched out into landscape services and animal husbandry. They also have a campus in Galveston, on the Texas coast, that trains people to clean aquariums and sell small fish. They don't call their alumni, graduates; they refer to them as "Former Students," this is probably due to the low graduation rate.

Over the years, aggies have been the but of many jokes, which is unfortunate that more abuse is piled on top of people that have already made a bad college choice. On top of being academically inferior they are also not very good at sports. TAMU's biggest football rivalry is with the University of Texas, but it seems to be a very one sided rivalry as UT leads the series 75-36-5. This year however, it looks like the tea-sips (this is how graduates of the University of Texas prefer the aggies refer to their academic and societal betters) are venerable. Usually a win against the "varsity" is enough to make an aggies year and save an embattled coach. This year it is the other way around, and it's the Longhorns that are desperate for a win to earn a bowl game and avoid a loosing season.

Unfortunately it is not looking good for the home team today, and it is very possible there might be a big crowd of future farm hands and auto mechanics out on 6th street in Austin tonight looking for women to celebrate their sporting achievement with.