A man of peace, harmony and love among the inhabitants of the earth shows his true colors. Go Buddha! Oh wait... I thought this was the D&D.
Yes, they are plenty of determined Aggie haters on the UT side, but it is eclipsed by the insanity that is the Aggies psychotic antipathy toward all things UT. For the love of God, Aggies: tsips? tu? wtf? Grow up! You have plenty of good thing of your own to crow about. Defining your school's character through the attempted belittling of another university is downright idiotic. Signed, Baylor grad <ducks>
If the team (not 3rd party vendors, but the Seattle Seahawks) hasn't used "12th man" on anything (the stadium, merchandise, etc.), and only the #12 instead, then all of this is pretty silly. You can't own a number.....
oh my god what a ****ing sip he and his other tu sips will go have a circle jerk after the game don't they know they simply have to ask for help with that
Aggies want to boycott Gallery Furniture now. Insanity Aggies, stop. Please. Wilbon just trashed you. It isn't turning out for the best.
So far, Rocketteen has been the only one that I have noticed that has come into this thread and use any of those terms against UT. I think IRoc it or someone else may have brought the term "tu" up, but wasn't using it as an insult in his post. However, it seems like every other post so far in thread has used the term "aggy" to try to belittle A&M. It's what makes the fourth paragraph of the alleged Rome rant even funnier. Also, I won't even mention the fact that this thread so far has been used more to make fun of A&M rather than discuss the actual trademark infraction. If you want to go with the arguement that the Seahawks have been using the 12th Man since the '80's, while the Aggies have only had the trademark since the 90's, well they still have to defend their trademark. As someone else mentioned, if the trademark is not defended, it is essentially lost, though I'll be the first to admit I'm not completely sure how that works. The point is though, they have to defend their trademark in every case that they witness an infringement, otherwise they lose legal rights to the trademark under the law. I'm proud that I went to A&M, and I'm proud of my school. Does A&M have it's problems? Sure. So does every major university. I seem to remember a couple of UT football players getting in trouble before the Rose Bowl, but I don't remember people piling on them or UT when they did something that was illegal. Here you're making fun of a school for defending something that is in their right to defend. So far, the majority of the people's reactions in this thread that either went to UT or are t-shirt fans reminds me of why I chose to go to A&M. It's funny to me that A&M's sports department came up in this thread, despite the fact that UT has a much bigger budget to do what they want. It's no wonder they do well year in and year out, and it's only going to get better for you guys with all the merchandise money that is going to be coming in now. Congratulations on being the New York Yankees of college football, or even colleges. I found the knock about A&M not showing up to games this much as in previous years also to be funny. The majority of UT students that I have talked to don't go to any of the games, especially before this year. I don't think most people understand how the loss of Bofire effected A&M. I went there for three and a half years, graduating this past December, and I still don't understand it. Bonfire never burned while I was there. Talking to the people that had been there longer though, I can tell you that things are completely different. But that's neither here nor there. As for the Corps, they run around at all hours of the day, are generally annoying, and most of the underclassmen are rough around the edges. However, I never met an upperclassmen in the Corps that I did not like. I don't know what they do, but the people that come out of the Corps are good people. They either lose the bad ones or change them. Either way, I don't see how you're making fun of an organization that year in and year out produces officers for the Army. Anyway, I'll let you people continue to pile on and mock away, and I'm sure I won't be left out of it.
From UT's website: "The Eyes of Texas" "The Eyes of Texas" "The Eyes of Texas" is the official Alma Mater of the University of Texas. It was written in 1903 by John Sinclair, in response to a request that a song be written for the Cowboy Minstrel Show. Since he was given only a few hours in which to come up with a tune, Mr. Sinclair hit upon the idea of using a famous saying of Colonel Prather, who was the President of the University. The Colonel always told his audiences to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you." This expression was fitted to the tune of "I've Been working on the Railroad." Sinclair, dressed in minstrel attire with a black face, sang the song in imitation of President Prather's serious tone and solemn expression. The beloved President soon passed away, and it was not until after the song was sung at his funeral in tribute that it achieved its complete dignity. Now, it is played prior to the start and at the close of all Texas sporting events and at all other official University of Texas functions. The original manuscript hangs in the Alumni Center. The complete original lyrics are as follows: I once did know a President, Away down South, in Texas. And, always, everywhere he went, He saw the eyes of Texas. Original quartet to sing 'The Eyes of Texas' The Eyes of Texas are upon you, All the live long day. The Eyes of Texas are upon you, You can not get away. Do not think you can escape them At night or early in the morn- The Eyes of Texas are upon you 'Till Gabriel blows his horn. Sing me a song of Prexy, Of days long since gone by. Again I seem to great him And hear his kind reply. Smiles of gracious welcome Before my memory rise, Again I hear him say to me, "Remember Texas' Eyes." "Texas Fight" "The Eyes of Texas" is frequently followed by another traditional song: "Texas Fight", known to LHB as "Taps". "Taps" is the official fight song of The University of Texas and was written by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt in collaboration with James E. King, then director of the Marlin High School Band. The words of the song as finally adopted, were written by "Blondie" Pharr, director of the Longhorn Band from 1917 to 1937. "Taps" is played following touchdowns and extra points at Texas football games as well as on thousands of other occasions. From a 1952 letter by Colonel Walter S. Hunnicutt on the history of Texas Fight: "I wrote 'Texas Fight' ... in an attempt to counteract the songs and yells of the Texas Aggies, which were not too complimentary to our Student Body and some of which tended to ridicule 'The Eyes of Texas'. "Long before I entered The University of Texas in 1909 and until about the year 1928 the Aggies had one of the most effective and awe inspiring songs used by any student body any where any time. 'Farmers Fight' at that time was their sacred College song. ... It was to them what 'The Eyes of Texas' had always been to us. The song was a repetition of the words 'Farmers Fight' sung to the well known bugle call 'Taps' in the same slow tempo as the bugle call is used by the army for lights out at night. "Returning to Marlin, TX after World War One I resumed my practice of attending most of the Texas foot-ball games, especially those with A. & M. It occurred to me that an effective way to strike back at the Aggies was to write a 'Texas Fight' song in answer to their 'Farmers Fight' using the same bugle call 'Taps' changed to lively march time and having 'Texas' throughout the song instead of 'Farmers'. 'Texas Fight' (Texas Taps) is the result." Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And it's goodbye to A&M. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And we'll put over one more win. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, For it's Texas that we love best. Hail, Hail, The gang's all here, And it's good-bye to all the rest! (YELL) Yea Orange! Yea White! Yea Longhorns! Fight! Fight! Fight! Texas Fight! Texas Fight, Yea Texas Fight! Texas Fight! Texas Fight, Yea Texas Fight! The Eyes of Texas are upon you, All the livelong day. The Eyes of Texas are upon you, You cannot get away. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, For it's Texas that we love best. Hail, Hail, The gang's all here, And it good-bye to all the rest! Note: The line, "Hail, Hail, the gang's all here" is usually replaced with "Give 'em hell, Give 'em hell, Go Horns Go!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I could make fun of the fact that the first time that UT's Alma Mater was sang by it's writer, he "dressed in minstrel attire with a black face." However, I'm going to refrain, because nobody's perfect.
A&M has already failed to defend the trademark. And the reason that people aren't really talking about the trademark infringement - because they just don't care. I really don't care if A&M gets Seattle to stop using the 12th Man - I've already been amused by this whole thing. Texas A&M looks poorly in this, because Seattle has been using this for 20 years, fifteen of which A&M has had the trademark - and they didn't do anything. So why did they wait this long to go after Seattle? I guess they couldn't bear the thought of the 12th Man being associated with a winning team. HA. See what I mean, no matter what happens - I've been amused by A&M's raging incompetence and buffoonery in this matter.
Oddly enough, Rome DID talk about the Aggies today on Rome Is Burning. While the original Rome speech on A&M is of unknown origin, here's Rome on the Aggies from today's show:
Again, I am a Baylor grad and thus fit, in an objective sense, to make my pronouncements with impunity. Heh. arkoe, you DO realize that the very article you posted shows that the UT fight song, not even the official school song, was created in RESPONSE to the taunting of the Aggies. So, if the Aggies had not one day just up & decided to start talking trash, none of this would even be an issue. Again, I do not understand why the Aggies define their school's very character through its relationship with ANOTHER school. Talk about insecurity...
http://www.tamu.edu/singing_cadets/schoolsongs.htm The Aggie War Hymn Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck All hail to dear old Texas A&M Rally around Maroon and White Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies They are the boys who show the real old fight That good old Aggie Spirit thrills us And makes us yell and yell and yell So let's fight for dear old Texas A&M We're gonna beat you all to Chigaroogarem Chigaroogarem Rough, Tough, real stuff Texas A&M Good bye to texas university So long to the orange and the white Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies They are the boys who show the real old fight 'the eyes of Texas are upon you' That is the song they sing so well Sounds Like Hell So good bye to texas university We're gonna beat you all to Chigaroogarem Chigaroogarem Rough, Tough, Real stuff, Texas A&M Saw varsity's horns off Saw varsity's horns off Saw varsity's horns off Short! A! Varsity's horns are sawed off Varsity's horns are sawed off Varsity's horns are sawed off Short! A! The second verse of the Aggie War Hymn was written by J.J. "Pinky" Wilson in 1918 while he was standing guard on the Rhine River during World War I. When he returned to the U.S., he wrote the first verse (the one no one sings) in lieu of the fact that we don't always play t.u. However, the Ags of the time felt that the first verse was too much like the Ivy League fight songs and refused to sing it. As a result, it never caught on and that is why we sing the second verse twice. The Singing Cadets sing both verses of the song to reflect the entire work of Pinky Wilson.
