What do longhorns call aggies

We will still play tu. Either they end up indy or Pac 16 with OU, either way, we play them. Joined: Jan 29, Posts: 5, Just to clarify a couple of points. It's actually "teasippers. That's why some OU twerps still call them Aggies. And do we want to come? Well, even those of us who were skeptical have been born again after the crap pulled by our colleagues in this league. Hell yeah, we want to come. Joined: Jan 31, Agreed with Rev. We have a history with Bama and coaches, and I think we owe y'all a good whipping for taking Bear and giving us Fran.

Joined: Sep 20, Posts: 17, As I heard it, our boys were at war while the horns were home sipping tea. A stretch, perhaps, but looking at the football records during those years indicates there may be some truth to that.

It goes back to the old Merrill Land Grant days. Since then a lot of these colleges have renamed themselves. Joined: Aug 22, Posts: 4, Don't forget Klanhorns as a result of their school's history with the KKK and who they honor and Al Q'lanni in relation to their support of Palestinian terrorists. Joined: Oct 10, Posts: 47, Joined: Oct 29, Joined: Dec 10, Posts: 54, I don't think I'm the only one who believes that even if we end up in a different conference than Texas, we'll end up playing again.

Maybe not immediately, but despite current posturing, somewhere down the line probably relatively soon. Joined: Jan 25, We gave up most of our "natural rivals" in the 90's when we joined the Big The tu game is the only game that I would regret losing, and that game isn't going anywhere. We aren't going to stop playing them regardless of all the threats. Joined: Nov 11, Posts: 2, The only rivalries that we will lose by leaving the Big XII is: texas: many aggies want to keep the rivalry alive but if the horns elect not to continue the match-up, then so be it.

Baylor, as you may have heard, will go out of their way to get the aggies attention to try to validate their existence as a rival. Personally I hope we never play them again in any sport. Joined: Oct 21, There was a great article linked on this forum 5 or 6 years ago about the origin of the term "tea sippers" for t.

There was a citation from the Battalion in the mid 's referring to the students from Austin as tea sippers, which contradicts the assertion that the term originated during ww2, as in the ags were fighting while t. The best evidence is that the term became popular in the Panhandle around the turn of the century for effete, genteel, citified people It's not hard to imagine how and why the term was quickly applied to the pansies in Austin.

Attorney General's office, he'd spent most of the year in West Texas assisting with raids on cattle rustlers. A raid near Laredo in late September turned up a steer whose fur was so orange Pinckney knew he'd found his mascot. Loaded onto a boxcar without food or water, the steer arrived at the Austin train station just in time for the football game.

After presenting the longhorn to the students, the animal was removed to a South Austin stockyard for a formal photograph and a long overdue meal. The steer, though, wasn't very cooperative. It stood still just long enough for a flash photograph, and then charged the camera. The photographer scurried out of the corral just in time, and both the camera and photograph survived the ordeal. In the meantime, the Texas football team ran two punts in for scores to win the game 21 - 7.

To spread the news, the December issue of the Texas Exes Alcalde magazine was rushed into press. Editor Ben Dyer, BA , gave a full account of the game and halftime proceedings. About the longhorn, Dyer stated simply, "His name is Bevo. Long may he reign! With the football season over, the steer remained in South Austin while UT students discussed what to do with him. The Texan newspaper favored branding the longhorn with a large "T" on one side and "21 - 7" on the other as a permanent reminder of the Texas victory.

Others were opposed, citing animal cruelty, and wondered if the steer might be tamed so that it could roam and graze on the Forty Acres. The debate was abruptly settled early on Sunday morning, February 12, Only a week later, amid rumors that the Aggies planned to kidnap the animal outright, the longhorn was removed to a ranch sixty miles west of Austin.

Out of sight and away from Austin, the branded steer was all but forgotten until the end of the war in November Since food and care for the animal was costing the University fifty cents a day, and because the steer wasn't believed to be tame enough to roam the campus or remain in the football stadium, it was fattened up and became the barbecued main course for the January football banquet.

Sprung from the selfless gesture of Aggie E. King Gill at a football game, the tradition embodies the core values held by the university. Students still show the 12th Man spirit at each athletic event — during football games, the student body stands for the entire event, ready to go into the game if needed.

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