OK, I was at the CU vs aTm game this Saturday (Go Buffs!) and a lot of aTm fans had shirts that said "My two favorite teams are A&M and whomever is playing t.u." T.U.? Is there a reference I'm missing here?
UT is "TU" because TAMU thinks they were around first. I am not sure who was around first nor do I care. Gag em
Yeah, there's no point in trying to explain Aggie humor. All I know is that things that aren't funny or clever to most people are hilarious and brilliant to anyone who's been through Aggie Fish Camp, the A&M freshman summer orientation/brainwashing.
Aggie are bizarre people, no doubt. I read the Michener book on Texas, and I'm pretty sure the 40 acres set aside for UT takes a massive **** on whatever land they gave the aggies to build their stockyard with a professor on.
I think the t.u. has to be lower-cased so that Aggies can think that they are the more superior institution. I can never explain their irrational hatred toward us... I guess it's along the same line as our hatred toward OU
A long time ago, A friend of mine told me her friend went to the Nebraska vs Aggies football game and all the Nebraska fans never understood why the Aggie fans kept chanting "beat the hell out of TU" when they were playing the Huskers. This was when Nebraska was good at football. I always ask the Aggies what happens when they play Tulane, the REAL TU!
Yeah, I think that is why they are so freaking bitter about things. It is obvious which school was being considered to be the premier public school in Texas when you look at the land given to them by the state government. Land 1: Land in a growing city and the capitol of Texas where the state government could take a look at it from their doorsteps. Land 2: Farmland in the middle of nowhere. The only thing that I don't understand about the bitterness of Aggies is that they chose to go there. Anyone who go in to A&M could have gotten in to UT also, for the most part. It was their decision to go there. I guess it is because they realize what a terrible decision it may have been after living in college station for a month. When I was interviewing for post grad at A&M, we asked the current students what was the best and worst part about going to A&M for med school. For the worst part, almost all of them (excluding the ones who did go to A&M for undergrad) said "Aggies"
Texas A&M was founded on October 4, 1876 as the first public University in the state of Texas The University of Texas in Austin was founded in 1883, nearly a decade after A&M (insert Aggies are bad at math joke here ), so comparing the "land" given to the by the state isn't really relevant since they weren't in the same time frame. Also, A&M is a top 5 research Institution in the United States in terms of spending, definitely ahead of Texas. The Engineering program is top notch (with more money flowing in than UT's engineering), and what we call the "aggie network" makes the aggies the 6th highest salary potential in the south, just behind Rice and Georgia-Tech, and ahead of Texas. So no, we're not all bitter because we didn't go to Austin. To the contrary, I'm quite happy (but I'm a nerd so what do you know ) And the whole rivalry thing is just in good fun, even though we go a little overboard with the obsession with Texas (like, there are 2 verses in the aggie war hymn: one about how awesome our university is, and one about "**** you, TEXAS!", but we always sing the second verse even if we're not playing UT lol). But we have tons of respect for longhorns. When the bonfire collapsed, no one showed more class than UT, they held memorials and when we played them in College Station, their band raised our flags with theirs. It was an awesome display of class by them. Now, Tech on the other hand, didn't do $h!t.. **** Tech! oh and to the OP, t.u basically stands for just another "texas university", not THE University of Texas.
Here's the classic internet Aggie rant, allegedly from Jim Rome though it's almost certainly not. Pay attention to #6. Thoughts on Texas A&M... Fox Sports Show And Radio Host Jim Rome 1) They won't shut up. They have to go on about spirit, and old army, and red ass, and how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat UT, and blah blah blah. Shut up. You start to get the feeling the entire school was built to spite UT. 2) Forget the fact that when the Texas Legislature back in the 1870's passed legislation to start a state university they also decided to have a subsidiary branch of the main school (University of Texas) that would teach agriculture and mechanics. Aggies love to say their school is older, from where they get that I don't know ... the fact is, the state intended A&M to be a branch of UT. They are like the afterbirth from the original creation. Like Danny Devito in "Twins". 3) So they apparently have this complex, so much so, that they must devote their entire school to trying to prove to UT that they are just as good. All the while, nobody at UT denies that A&M is a good school, yet they won't shut up. So they write a fight song ... about? ... Texas, and how they want to beat them. They have a Fish Camp for freshman where they tell them how bad Texas is and how good A&M and all its traditions are. It is the world's largest known case of penis envy, and it is manifested in everything A&M does. 4) The people at A&M. Now we all have friends who went to A&M or are at A&M. There are some nice people there. However ... There is the Corp. East Texas' answer to dreams of ROTC kids everywhere. For every boy scout who never learned to stop playing with his GI Joe Toys, there is the Corp. Now, forget the fact that A&M will actually let people with sub-par grades enroll if they agree to join the Corp. Forget the fact that the Corps looked like a Gestapo-hate rally while beating down students on Kyle Field in 1995. Forget the fact that along with the numerous hazing charges that have been filed against them, and swept under the rug over the years, they just this past month have had one Corps member bring charges against another Corps member who apparently had been propositioning others for a little actual sodomy. Not only could I go on with more instances of idiocracy by these Khaki-clad-shaven-headed-dorks, I am sure each of you have your own stories. The point is: We all respect West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force Academy; however, nobody respects the Corp. I imagine they are kind of the laughing stock of the military world. Just because you dress like the Army, and try and act like the Army, does not make you the Army. People at A&M don't even respect these clowns. It is not cool to shave your head and dress up. Halloween is only supposed to be one day of the year. If you want to carry guns and beat up civilians, move to Israel. 5) It is even less cool to slobber on somebody's daughter on national television and call it a tradition. Dry humping 18-year-old girls in the stands at football games is not cool. Not only is it not cool, it should be against the law. I know that in College Station, students are just prone to mount each other on the campus lawn, or in the middle of class, or anytime anything good happens you can just grab the girl sitting next to you and start sucking on her face. But everywhere else in the world, it is looked down upon. Especially if you are doing it on my TV. That is why we have moved the game from Thanksgiving. Because people across the nation were gagging on their turkey when in the middle of watching a football game, some boy scout is tongue thrashing some overweight co-ed during somebody's Thanksgiving dinner. We do not need to see burly women engaged in a suckfest every time your woeful offense manages to put points on the board. Some of these girls are in desperate need of a trip to the Clinique counter. Screw that, forget make-up, it is too late for that, just give them a veil. 6) "T.U." is not funny. It is not insulting. It is dumb. Just imagine if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A and giggling. That would not be funny. In fact, it would be r****ded. That's why UT fans don't do it. Please learn. 7) You want to lose the image of country bumpkins, of a people fond of sheep, of people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down. Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national TV. Quit whooping in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboards for the enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how to yell. Quit telling rape jokes to reporters when you're running for Governor. When you are filling out season ticket renewals, and the form asks for your phone number, h&w. quit putting 258-3999, Height 6'3", Weight 185. Just, collectively, stop making asses of yourselves. Go to East Texas, tour every small town, and ask every red neck with a fifth-grade education why they cheer for A&M and wear maroon. That is your fan base. This is why you are perceived by the educated masses as stupid. 8) Nobody cares if you think your band is better. They might be louder, they might march in neat little zig zags, but they have no musical ability. The point is, nobody cares who wins halftime. Quit getting geeked up about marching bands. I find it hard to believe you stood through your high school band's entire halftime performance. And why? Cause nobody cared then and nobody cares now. Plus, you can hear them fine sitting down even if you do care. Why is it cool all of a sudden now that you're in college? 9) Men should never let out high-pitched whooping sounds. Perhaps the only justifiable situation in which this can be tolerated is perhaps during an anal probe. Oh wait...I understand now. 10) Dogs are not ladies. They don't look or smell like ladies. Dogs eat their own feces and should be treated accordingly. 11) Finally, College Station is an arm-pit of a town. Quit pretending that it is a great college town. It is a town, and there is a college there. That should be the end of this comparison. If you feel that life doesn't get any better than the Dixie Chicken, and enjoy being stuck in a never-ending "Dukes of Hazard" episode, then move there. More importantly, don't move to Austin ... They are trying to create an educated, technological, and open-minded population base. Austin is, and will continue to be, the birthplace and final resting place of all that is cool. As my friend, Stephen Johnson, once said: "If the world were ever to get an enema, College Station is where you would connect the hose." If you go to school at A&M, please don't be an Aggie. God bless the great state of Texas.
