A big hello from Aggieland Texas to all you Blazers in Alabama! We're looking forward to hosting a great game with yall at Kyle Field this season and hope that those of you who join us as our guests in College Station have a great visit.
We pride ourselves on our unique game day tradition and hope yall enjoy it as much as we do.
Points of interest visitors enjoy:
Midnight Yell
The night before a home game, Aggies get together at Kyle Field to practice our yells and fight song for the next day’s game. Attendance is typically around 40K and visitors are always welcome to come and watch (and even join in if you like).
The Dixie Chicken
The Chicken is located on Nothgate, a collection of bars across from campus and is the place to be before and after the game. Stop on by for beer and dominos before checking out the rest of Northgate.
The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
The halftime show at Kyle is always a great one, especially if you've never seen the FTAB before. Their military marching patterns and patriotic music is always a crowd pleaser.
Tailgating
Stop on by and say hi cuz there’s always plenty of hot BBQ and cold beer. A&M prides itself on being good hosts.
Looking forward to talking football with yall in the coming month!
(07-23-2009 11:48 AM)Gig Em 05 Wrote: [ -> ]A big hello from Aggieland Texas to all you Blazers in Alabama! We're looking forward to hosting a great game with yall at Kyle Field this season and hope that those of you who join us as our guests in College Station have a great visit.
We pride ourselves on our unique game day tradition and hope yall enjoy it as much as we do.
Points of interest visitors enjoy:
Midnight Yell
The night before a home game, Aggies get together at Kyle Field to practice our yells and fight song for the next day’s game. Attendance is typically around 40K and visitors are always welcome to come and watch (and even join in if you like).
The Dixie Chicken
The Chicken is located on Nothgate, a collection of bars across from campus and is the place to be before and after the game. Stop on by for beer and dominos before checking out the rest of Northgate.
The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
The halftime show at Kyle is always a great one, especially if you've never seen the FTAB before. Their military marching patterns and patriotic music is always a crowd pleaser.
Tailgating
Stop on by and say hi cuz there’s always plenty of hot BBQ and cold beer. A&M prides itself on being good hosts.
Looking forward to talking football with yall in the coming month!
yall supplying gas or plane tickets?
Howdy, 5.
You get a gold star for knowing the difference between us and those yahoos in Tuscaloosa.
Criminy, will football season never get here?
I'm gonna have to figure out a way to make this into a grad school visit or something to justify getting over there. We need to get on the horn (pun not initially intended) and see how many Texan Blazers can make it to the game.
(07-23-2009 11:48 AM)Gig Em 05 Wrote: [ -> ]Stop on by for beer and dominos
Well that's different, but it sounds interesting.
Great first post! Cheers back to you for being accommodating.
I'm schemimg a way to make the trip to Kyle Field.
(07-23-2009 12:03 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]Howdy, 5.
You get a gold star for knowing the difference between us and those yahoos in Tuscaloosa.
They should...they got Franchioned too.
(07-23-2009 12:03 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]Criminy, will football season never get here?
You know what they say, something about a pot being watched. As for you 5, many thanks for sending a warm invite, I really hope that I get to go to the game.
Welcome to the board, '05.
I'm a little different than most of the posters here, 'cause I went to Cougar High back in the SWC days. (That's the University of Houston for the UAB peeps.) As a result, the Aggies were number two on my hate list, behind the Teasips at UT. I'm going to be at Kyle Field if theres any possible way at all I can swing it, and it would plumb tickle my root if we could drop an upset on y'all.
No offense intended, '05.
Aggie yell practice is a spectacle well worth seeing, although I'm not sure about attending as an opposing fan. Tons of tradition at A&M, this is a road game to make if you possibly can.
(07-23-2009 01:26 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote: [ -> ]Welcome to the board, '05.
I'm a little different than most of the posters here, 'cause I went to Cougar High back in the SWC days. (That's the University of Houston for the UAB peeps.) As a result, the Aggies were number two on my hate list, behind the Teasips at UT. I'm going to be at Kyle Field if theres any possible way at all I can swing it, and it would plumb tickle my root if we could drop an upset on y'all.
No offense intended, '05.
Aggie yell practice is a spectacle well worth seeing, although I'm not sure about attending as an opposing fan. Tons of tradition at A&M, this is a road game to make if you possibly can.
Unfortunately, the SWC was before my time I grew up with the Big 12 for the most part. Folks my age don't really feel any of the hate for Houston or SMU like Old Army A&M does
We're looking forward to a good game and I think it'll be a very good one. IMO it'll be an excellent early indicator of how our defense is doing because last year we had a terrible time against teams like Baylor and KSU whose overall talent was not superior to our but had a VERY athletic, mobile quarterback who was a big play maker and ended up whipping us.
Your kid Joe Webb strikes me a similar type of QB and if our D can find a way to contain him, I'll feel a lot better about our chances and the rest of the season.
I was a senior in high school the year your coach sold the house your alumni had given him, pocketed the money and came back "home 'cause Momma called". Bama alumni regard his "Junction Boys" as our next of kin, especially since one of them coached Bama to its last National Championship and still does car ads on local area TV. Most Bama fans still love Gene even though he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s.
I hope to go to the game in Texas since my cousins in the state live in Austin, the Houston area, San Antonio and a niece in Dallas. I truly hope to enjoy the trip, the game (complete with a Blazer victory) and seeing the area's sites. How far from College Station is that town that has the annual "BBQed GOAT Festival" each year? When i was out there in 1960, I couldn't find ANY places that sold BBQ PORK like I was used to in Alabama. they only had beef, chicken, goat and ham.
(07-23-2009 04:03 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]I was a senior in high school the year your coach sold the house your alumni had given him, pocketed the money and came back "home 'cause Momma called". Bama alumni regard his "Junction Boys" as our next of kin, especially since one of them coached Bama to its last National Championship and still does car ads on local area TV. Most Bama fans still love Gene even though he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s.
Quote:You get a gold star for knowing the difference between us and those yahoos in Tuscaloosa.
Bamablazerfan - doing his part to make sure opposing teams confuse UAB fans with yahoos in Tuscaloosa :muttering:
(07-23-2009 04:14 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ] (07-23-2009 04:03 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]I was a senior in high school the year your coach sold the house your alumni had given him, pocketed the money and came back "home 'cause Momma called". Bama alumni regard his "Junction Boys" as our next of kin, especially since one of them coached Bama to its last National Championship and still does car ads on local area TV. Most Bama fans still love Gene even though he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s.
Quote:You get a gold star for knowing the difference between us and those yahoos in Tuscaloosa.
Bamablazerfan - doing his part to make sure opposing teams confuse UAB fans with yahoos in Tuscaloosa :muttering:
I'm pretty sure BAMANBLAZERFAN threw in a few obligatory jabs in there there... "pocketed the money"..."years or probation"...
"Most Bama fans still love Gene even though he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s."
Most Blazer fans still love Gene BECAUSE he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s. He learned his cheating on his knees before the Rotting Dead Drunk himself.
It is our holy Blazer mission to cleanse the college sports world of the stain of the Drunken Bear and his loathsome offspring. If "Momma" fears to play us, if the crimson ones quake in fear at the very thought of our Blazer Ethics, our terrible dragon and our Raven Haired Wonder, then we can only take out our wrath on the other Bear Dens. We hold a winning record over Kentucky, which also housed this racist, criminal pestilence. Let aTm stand in for the stench of Tuscaloosa, let us head west and devastate their lands. TWICE they have been coached by bammer scum (plus Jackie Sherill, who's his own brand of scum. And anyone who cheats that much, that badly, HAS to have some kind of Bryant connection) - what better proxy will we find?
Thank you, confused Brother ****ANDBLAZERFAN, for clarifying our purpose. This is no longer a football game, it is a holy crusade! Let the Aggie War Hymn become a dirge, let the Spirit of Aggieland become a miasma of alcoholic depression, let them remember the Texas Tech game as a squeaker.
Bear Bryant lived there, Bear Bryant became famous there. We need no other incentive. We will defeat them, we will humiliate them, we will turn "Aggies Never Quit" into a sad memory. They will pitch the rotting corpse of the Dead Bear into their Aggie Bonfire to propitiate our terrible wrath lest we ever return.
Damn it feels good to be a Blazer.
What he said.
I am not going over there to lose. Our players believe we will win that game when it rolls around on the schedule and that's half the battle.
Now if we can also defeat the Big 12 officials we will march out of there with a win.
(07-23-2009 07:55 PM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]What he said.
I am not going over there to lose. Our players believe we will win that game when it rolls around on the schedule and that's half the battle.
Now if we can also defeat the Big 12 officials we will march out of there with a win.
Kind of like the Big 12 Officials that screwed us against OU?
Yep.
We should have could have won that game.
(07-23-2009 05:30 PM)58-56 Wrote: [ -> ]"Most Bama fans still love Gene even though he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s."
Most Blazer fans still love Gene BECAUSE he started the years of probation that Bama has suffered since the '90s. He learned his cheating on his knees before the Rotting Dead Drunk himself.
It is our holy Blazer mission to cleanse the college sports world of the stain of the Drunken Bear and his loathsome offspring. If "Momma" fears to play us, if the crimson ones quake in fear at the very thought of our Blazer Ethics, our terrible dragon and our Raven Haired Wonder, then we can only take out our wrath on the other Bear Dens. We hold a winning record over Kentucky, which also housed this racist, criminal pestilence. Let aTm stand in for the stench of Tuscaloosa, let us head west and devastate their lands. TWICE they have been coached by bammer scum (plus Jackie Sherill, who's his own brand of scum. And anyone who cheats that much, that badly, HAS to have some kind of Bryant connection) - what better proxy will we find?
Thank you, confused Brother ****ANDBLAZERFAN, for clarifying our purpose. This is no longer a football game, it is a holy crusade! Let the Aggie War Hymn become a dirge, let the Spirit of Aggieland become a miasma of alcoholic depression, let them remember the Texas Tech game as a squeaker.
Bear Bryant lived there, Bear Bryant became famous there. We need no other incentive. We will defeat them, we will humiliate them, we will turn "Aggies Never Quit" into a sad memory. They will pitch the rotting corpse of the Dead Bear into their Aggie Bonfire to propitiate our terrible wrath lest we ever return.
Damn it feels good to be a Blazer.
But how do yall
REALLY feel about anything connected to Bama? :sly:
I think you'll find we have no love for the Criminal Tide either.
We Aggies are much more likely to support Auburn (and a few of their fans are regulars on our main board) since our two schools share a very similar history and culture.
"But how do yall REALLY feel about anything connected to Bama?"
Since you ask, let me repeat 2007's Post of the Year (for which, Brother Attalla, I still have no medal icon):
My brothers, my sisters,
The first misconception is this: UAB and Alabama-Tuscaloosa are not rivals. Though it is true that in 1982 Sports Illustrated named this as the most heated rivalry in America, “even though Alabama is deathly afraid to play UAB” to quote said magazine, they are not a rival. A rival is someone with whom you engage in heated but friendly competition. I do not hope they lose their games: I am affronted that such a corrupt institution is allowed to play competitive intercollegiate sports at all.
In the dawn times, we had a new program. We welcomed Gene Bartow from UCLA. At his first public appearance, Tide supporters printed and handed out flyers with pictures of Gene and Richard Nixon, asking, “Would you buy a used car from either of these men?” It was the bammers who struck the first blow, it was the bammers who inaugurated their relationship with UAB athletics with the childish smearing that has been their way ever since.
This is not, as the on-their-knees apologists in the so-called local news media would have it, a myth. I have one here before me.
In the earliest years Alabama-Tuscaloosa DID play UAB in baseball. It was when Harry “the Hat” Walker’s team utterly destroyed the crimson ones that the Drunken Bear declared that Alabama-Tuscaloosa would never, ever play UAB in anything. For the past 24 years, bammers have attempted to fellate a dead bear back to life. Many appear to feel that, in his honor, they must destroy anything that comes out of UAB.
As UAB basketball gained success after success, so did crimson envy rage ever hotter. And in those days we truly were the “commuter school” for which we were ridiculed. Our students worked, usually 40 hour low-paying service jobs, while theirs lay drunk on Fraternity Row, their bills happily paid by Daddy and their careers fully assured by The Machine. On weekends, there were bars for them, and bars for us. We did not go into the Courtyard; when they dared venture into the Nick, we beat the living hell out of their izod-wearing preppie asses. It was class warfare, pure and simple, class warfare that continues today.
The state of Alabama and city of Birmingham are beset by social, economic and political problems. Anyone not blind or stupid knows this. And anyone not blind or stupid knows that this is the result of over a century of misrule by the “Big Mules,” the politically-connected families that provide our so-called leaders in business and politics, the degenerate third- and fourth-generation incompetents and slackards who have driven our state into Third World misery. And what forges their connections? The University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa and The Machine.
Tuscaloosa is the past. We will NEVER recover from the disastrous legacy of George Corley Wallace with leadership produced in the cesspool of the UAT-SGA. Poverty, oppression, despair – these are the legacy of “class” and “tradition.”
UAB represents a hopeful future, a green-and-gold vision of brotherhood and prosperity for all our citizens. UAB has never been segregated; Tuscaloosa is the very symbol of American racist shame. UAB gave the world fiber-optic technology; Tuscaloosa gave it the Tijuana Hotplate. UAB discovered the origins of AIDS; Tuscaloosa grads wrote the state’s 1901 constitution.
The lesson of Tuscaloosa is that success does not come from hard work, it does not come from talent, skill or the application of these qualities. “If at first you don’t succeed,” goes the Tide mantra, “ask Daddy to buy it for you.” Athletic programs are symbols, and what theirs symbolizes is the rot at their hearts. When they cannot win, they cheat. And when that fails, they just make up championships.
And often this cheating has centered on UAB. They bought Ennis Whatley after he had committed to UAB. They bought Alfonso “Buck” Johnson, roommate of Mike Davis, so blatantly that his mother demanded he take the payoff and sign with the Tide IN FRONT OF THE NEWS MEDIA. They bought player after player, and yet they have little to show for it but flocks of alumni in the NBA and proud claims of the Sweet Sixteen. After our glorious victory over Virginia in 1982 to advance to the Elite Eight, the bammer-controlled state legislature celebrated by deleting funding for dorms from the upcoming budget.
We hate them for their arrogance. We hate them for selling this state’s poor on the notion that they can exchange a satisfying, fulfilled life for one of poverty and ignorance as long as they can wear bammer shirts and hats. We hate them for the lies, for the criminal acts, for the sodomization of this state’s people. We hate them for their moral cowardice, for their twisting of sports to their sick purposes.
We hate them because they are evil.
We who follow the Blazer Ethics know what it is to work, to sacrifice, and to never, ever settle. We know that sports are only a symbol and not a substitute for reality. We are ethical, we are grounded, we are the future.
To hell with the Tide. No one can be "a fan of both programs," for there is no compromise with evil.
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As for what I think of the wargles, those ass-headed bumpkins of the Plains? I don't think of them at all.