Nuggets4, I don't doubt your story. I'm sure that's happened. It's also happened to me at other schools and I'm sure it happens at all schools. When we lost to Stanford in 2000, I had the same exact experience. A bunch of drunk Cardinal fans yelling at us as we were leaving the stadium, telling us to go home to Texas. It happened at Baylor everytime I went to either football or basketball games there. I heard it from Rice fans after UT escaped with a narrow win in 1997 (that was classic and typical, Rice fans talking **** after they lost). I was in Boulder in 2000 and got all kinds of vulgarities spewed my way for having the audacity to wear my UT shirt the night after the Horns beat y'all. You should've heard the things yelled at me when we went to an OU bar in the West End two years ago. My lifelong OU fan friend was even embarassed. Luckily, I've never been to a game in College Station. All schools have bad fans. I'd say that those you saw in Denver aren't the majority. We were tailgating Saturday next to a huge group of UNT tailgaters. No bad blood between the two drunk groups, just good conversation.
I don't hate UT I just like UA. It's no different. Pointing them down after beating UT is just the same as pointing them up if you win, you point them up to show that you're victorious if you lose we point them down to show that UT went down and we were victorious and were classless for doing this at least in your eyes yet you all should be considered just as classless.
But you're missing the key part. They don't just put them up when they win. They put them up for the fans before the game. They put them up all game. Win or lose, they do it after as well. They do it because it's representing UT, not to rub anything in the faces of the other team.
Trust me, we did it before games and after games but since we have lost to you guys in a while I don't know if we'd do it after a loss.
We have a winner. Nothing, in my mind, holds a candle to what some A&M students did to my ex's parents after UT beat them in 1995 at Kyle Field. They were walking back to their car when a few students approached them screaming in their faces. These were 50-something, as nice as can be people they were yelling at. Saying UT was a bunch of fags, that they can't even respect a field dedicated to soldiers who lost their lives and that they should beat the crap out of them right there. My ex's Dad turned to him and asked him what he thought about the Aggies who tore up Memorial Stadium's field the year before, and he just responded that they were just a bunch of dead T-Sips, so who cares.
It's still not the same thing. Are you saying that when the band plays "The Eyes of Texas" and the fans and players have the Horns up, that they're taunting the opposition?
What is "The Eyes of Texas?" So, if Arkansas fans put the horns down after a loss would you consider that taunting? You put them up to represent the school or so you say we put them down because we don't. If they are up or if they're down it doesn't matter.
ITT Tech is based in Lubbock? Never knew that. They must have a nerdy coach. If you're talking about Texas Tech, there are some bad fans, but not much worse than anywhere else.
Obviously, you have no idea what you're talking about. "The Eyes of Texas" is the school song that's played after and before every game, win or lose. During the song, the fans, players, coaches, etc. put the Horns up. We put them up to represent the school. It's a symbol that fans, players, and coaches alike use to salute a good play or game by a Texas player or team. It's like a big, simultaneous high-five. We don't use it to say, "HA! Arkansas sucks!" like you, OU, Rice, or any other school does when they put the Horns down.
OK, whatever you say RM95. I'm not going to argue with you anymore, I like you too much to do that. You have your opinion and I have mine so let's leave it at that. I can't believe we are arguing over hand signs.
Ditto. I'm just feeling a little fiesty this morning, the eve of my own personal greatest weekend of sports ever!
No, who represent the athletic department, which is a separate entity from the school. That's why it makes sense for people who never attended the school to do it. They're saluting the athletic teams they root for. If they were saluting a school they never attended, well heck, that wouldn't make a lick of sense. YAY GO BUSINESS SCHOOL!
