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Tired Horn

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  1. Things never get awkward for a cultist. The cult is always right.
  2. That's how life works. Nebraska entered a new world when they went to the Big 10 that has cut them off from both their history and their historical recruiting edge (which had already been somewhat degraded in the Big 12). They are simply not what they were and never will be again. The spell has been broken--they're just a middle of the pack destination in a lower-middle-of-the-pack state that lacks amenities. They might have a good season every now and then, but really, who cares? Texas has underperformed a lot since 1985, which I suppose can fairly be used to question our blue blood status. What keeps us in the conversation is the fact that we're rich, and we're the flagship university of a huge state that produces a lot of football players. We innately have the potential to be what we've been at times and always will have that potential.
  3. Who the fuck still thinks Nebraska is a blue blood program? Historically yes. Now, just so much corn row trash.
  4. Well, they did sort of make him into a demigod over their tribe ("Don't care, got Jimbo"). I can't wait him to snap and scrawl "exterminate the brutes" before pronouncing final judgment of College Station on his deathbed: "The horror! The horror!" Maybe they can add that one to yell practice.
  5. Yeah, but dealing shows initiative, right?
  6. Thanks. Hope you're right.
  7. As I recall, it appeared first as the "college bit" advertisement on football games. You know, the one at halftime where you get to present your school as more than a football factory and is usually full of fresh-faced young people changing the world. That sort of generic, good-natured thing. Leave it to Aggie to reduce the "college bit" to nothing but football, and then to compound the ridiculous hubris of it all by presenting the SEC as being intimidated by them and their stupid 12th man. That's what's important to them as a UNIVERSITY. The chef's kiss is closing out with that rancid hobbit Jimbo smiling knowingly into the night. That is what they think presents their school in a positive light. Fucking weirdos.
  8. They didn't lose. They just ran out of innings.
  9. Well, they kind of have to believe this stuff, right? The alternative is looking in the mirror and realizing they're just a bunch of fucking weirdos. By choice. I swear, somewhere hidden away in the A&M Academic Building there must be a painting of an Adonis Aggie surrounded by championship trophies -- The Portrait of Dorian Aggy. The hideous one is walking around in real life because they want to be the hideous one.
  10. We're in a lot better shape than anyone expected us to be after Beard lost his mind, and that's got to count for something. Hire him for goood.
  11. I'm all in with Maroon Goons. That should be the nickname for A&M in general.
  12. When you're stuck with a turd, you polish that turd.
  13. What's Bjork supposed to do? The game, it be over. The Aggy, it be sad.
  14. If "buzz's team are never great defending the 3," isn't that a problem? Last time I looked, "the 3" is kind of relevant to modern basketball.
  15. What else could they do, given that every single action in the college sporting world is taken with the intent of screwing A&M. Everyone knows the NCAA was giving them a 7th seed for the sole purpose of demoralizing them. The only honorable response was to preemptively demoralize themselves.
  16. They really though that when they joined the SEC, they'd found a cultural fit that would appreciate all their weirdness. When that didn't happen, they became determined to buy respect with Jimbo Baggins and his bags of power. It never occurs to them to just be normal and see what happens. Now all the "true Ags" are filled with fury that their love for the SEC, which was always just another version of their bizarre self-love, is unrequited. They're going to make everybody pay! (snarl, snarl) And then they'll be great. Aggie--they want so badly to be an abusive spouse, but they can't find anyone stupid enough to marry them.
  17. You just don't understand how awesome they are. Nobody understands how awesome they are, and they're going to whine and snivel about it, and do fucking Yell Practice wherever is most annoying in your home town, and kill as many of themselves with gigantic logs as it takes until all you Godless heathens acknowledge the sublime perfection that is Aggy. Cuz that's how life works, right?
  18. In the interest of further fairness, there are a number of Ags who attended it simply because it was a big university in the state and who are almost as appalled by its cult-like attributes as we are. The TRUE AG is becoming a smaller percentage with each generation.
  19. It's inherent to their world view. The fact that they haven't achieved the greatness that is their birthright is proof that everyone has conspired to keep them down. The possibility that they're just some weird, country ass rubes with fetishes masquerading as traditions never occurs to them.
  20. There's a simple reason Texas-Texas A&M isn't big on a national level, and it's the same reason Texas-Texas A&M pales compared to Texas-Oklahoma. Basically, Texas and Texas A&M haven't played each other much when they were both good. Historically, one of them has typically been down, compared to Texas-Oklahoma, which have played a lot of games when both were considered good. The wins feel epic, the loses hurt, and the whole thing thus feels bigger. Now, I'll admit that the scheduling alone accounts for some of that. Texas plays OU early in the season when the cumulative opportunities to shit the bed are limited. So maybe on of the two teams is inflated in the rankings. But it is what it is. I've really known the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat with Texas-OU over the years. I can still recall tiny details of many games. Most games with Aggie barely make an impression at all. If they're on TV, I watch them just because they're a Texas game. I don't give a shit about the Aggie side of the equation. And as cruel as it sounds, the most significant game-related impression Aggie has made in memory is offing themselves with the bonfire. And yes, it was a tragedy, and the students killed had loved ones. But is was also an irresponsible, stupid, and completely avoidable tragedy. I remember when the news bulletin first flashed that students had been killed in "the collapse of a large structure on campus." I instantly knew what it was. My other distinct memory is of a loathsome Aggy with no sense of perspective explaining to a horrified national reported that bonfire symbolized "our burning hatred of TU." Jesus Christ. Young people are dead for no reason at all, and they just can't quit. Even for a minute.
  21. So, that would be a clear "fuck Ketch" recommendation? I can't say I have a problem with that.
  22. You forgot a dysfunctional culture engendered by a senile owner playing favorites.
  23. Well, at least we're consistent...
  24. I don't get this, either. The Cowboys made it to 50% of the Super Bowls in the 70s and 70% of the NFC championship games. They followed that up by making three straight NFC title games in 80-82. That's a hell of a run even if you acknowledge the Steelers as the dominant team of the 70s. It was a lot of fun and is in no rational way comparable to a team that has failed to win a divisional round playoff team in 27 years. To say that was a fucking myth is total bullshit.
  25. I looked at an NRL video on hip drop tackles, and rugby seems to be dealing with a severe manifestation. All of the examples shown involved a ball carrier who was already engaged in the upper body by one or two tacklers when another defender engaged low with what seemed clear intent to place his body weight on the leg. That seems like a circumstance that can clearly be recognized and disallowed. Interestingly, the one example they showed of something not ruled as a hip drop tackle involved a lone defender tackling from behind with his body drop just the natural movement downward that physically happens in a tackle.
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