One of my good friend's dad graduated from Aggieland and even he says it is disturbing how aTm fans and alums are. "Cult like" is the term he uses. Of course he doesn't say that around his dad. LOL!
Don’t Understand A&M Infatuation with Kyle Field
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There are any number of things you will not understand about Aggie things unless you are an Aggie. I’m married to one. I still don’t get it.
Aggieland where if you do things twice it's a tradition. It's like these things are sure to bring some kind of magic. Do this, do that, then watch the magic happen. Cult is right.
However, I do like them as a fan base. They are normally polite and respectful, but delusional.
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However, I do like them as a fan base. They are normally polite and respectful, but delusional.
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Read that with blue. He's talking like he's an Aggie. Aggies do something to lose, the visiting team didn't win it.
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I went to the Bama-Aggie game four years ago. Observations: 1- the stadium is awful - one takes his life in his hands climbing up those steep steps to the nose bleed Tide Pride seats that we got. It’s down right scary and I don’t scare easily. 2 -Their cheers are bizarre. It’s really like a cult. 3- Compared to the Cowboys stadium, Kyle Field is like a slum. The fans are really close to the field. 4 - All that being said, those Aggie fans were so nice that they make one feel very welcomed. LSU and AU should take lessons from these fans.
I wonder how much of that is gratitude to have escaped from the B12 and UTw to the SEC? They say much harsher things about B12 fans than they do SEC fans...
Mizzou, aTm, and South Carolina fans are probably the nicest fans I’ve met in the SEC at their place.
Michigan St were really nice in Dallas. Oklahoma and Washington were pretty nice in those bowl games. Really didn’t get a feel for Buckeye fans in NOLA because I think they were too shocked that they won the game to trash talk ( sat by Bosa’s family members at that game)
The big 12 fans that I’ve met while living in Nebraska I think Nebraska, Texas, and Kansas fans were some of the worst I’ve met. But they don’t even compare to UGA, UF (sorry Bazza), and Michigan fans in terms of donkey fans as a whole
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This! Now they have added SEC on their jerseys as, in their mind, another way of one upping Texas. Everything they do is a form of self-agrandizement that hides a huge inferiority complex.
Every power in a state has the tradition of winning nationally while the little brother has a bunch of wacky traditions. I honestly don’t know much about Okie Lite, but teams like MSU (both of them), Auburn, aTm, KSU, Fla St, GT, VT, Vandy, ISU, and WSU have more Nationally recognized traditions than their more successful state counterpart.
Probably talking about the "climb" into the upper deck section. Sat. our seats were in the former players/family section 411 row 39. VERY TOP ROW OF THE NORTH UPPER DECK. Climb up there is like climbing a mountain.
Yep, there are escalators to get to the top decks, but then, you still have to climb to your seat.
Later, I'll try to make a post about my experience there Saturday. In brief: overall it was great!
Thoughts on Kyle Field and experience:
Drove down from Dallas Sat. morning to meet friends. Traffic was really light around 10:30 coming in from the north into Bryan. We left on same route heading home about 8:00 and traffic was no problem.
Our group looked for a place to eat around 11:00. Went to Dixie Chicken but line was out the door. Didn't want to walk any further so we crashed an Aggie tailgate: My sister's husband's employer had a corporate tent and they were friendly and we got some food before the game.
Saw the cadets march in about 2 hours before game time. It was neat.
Entered KF about 1:30. Our seats where in section 411 in the North Endzone. We sat on the top row, #39. We didn't know there was a connection beween the west upper deck and north endzone upper deck so we walked up their version of BDS's spiral to get to the upper deck endzone section. Once we saw the connector, on the way down we took the escalators. The upper deck is pretty steep, but similar to BDS's. Sight lines were good.
Sitting at the very top, I still felt like I could see quite well, except when play was near the south endzone. Our seats were among former players and family so not too many A&M fans there, but just a few and they were nice.
The stadium is very modern and nice. Aesthetically, if very much reminds me of BDS. Concessions, bathrooms and walking corridors were better. They announced there were 107K. They were loud.
Fans were very nice. We were told many times, "welcome" to campus. One older A&M fan came up to me and said, "Can you do us a favor?" (I thought he'd say something like "Take it easy on us today"). When I said, "What?" He said, "Can y'all kick Auburn's tail for us???" I take it that he wasn't impressed with Auburn after their visit there.
I see why some call TAMU a cult. They have some very strange chants and yells. They keep doing it all thru the game, no matter the score. When they lock arms and sway it almost makes you dizzy. To their credit, the majority stayed engaged and they were loud when we were on offense. I only recall one delay of game, however, so I don't know how much the crowd noise was a factor. The place blew up though when they scored to take a 7-0 lead. And when if was a third down in our first drive, the place was really loud. But later in the game, even when we had the game in control after the blocked punt/TD, very few of their fans left.
Enjoyed the day. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
Drove down from Dallas Sat. morning to meet friends. Traffic was really light around 10:30 coming in from the north into Bryan. We left on same route heading home about 8:00 and traffic was no problem.
Our group looked for a place to eat around 11:00. Went to Dixie Chicken but line was out the door. Didn't want to walk any further so we crashed an Aggie tailgate: My sister's husband's employer had a corporate tent and they were friendly and we got some food before the game.
Saw the cadets march in about 2 hours before game time. It was neat.
Entered KF about 1:30. Our seats where in section 411 in the North Endzone. We sat on the top row, #39. We didn't know there was a connection beween the west upper deck and north endzone upper deck so we walked up their version of BDS's spiral to get to the upper deck endzone section. Once we saw the connector, on the way down we took the escalators. The upper deck is pretty steep, but similar to BDS's. Sight lines were good.
Sitting at the very top, I still felt like I could see quite well, except when play was near the south endzone. Our seats were among former players and family so not too many A&M fans there, but just a few and they were nice.
The stadium is very modern and nice. Aesthetically, if very much reminds me of BDS. Concessions, bathrooms and walking corridors were better. They announced there were 107K. They were loud.
Fans were very nice. We were told many times, "welcome" to campus. One older A&M fan came up to me and said, "Can you do us a favor?" (I thought he'd say something like "Take it easy on us today"). When I said, "What?" He said, "Can y'all kick Auburn's tail for us???" I take it that he wasn't impressed with Auburn after their visit there.
I see why some call TAMU a cult. They have some very strange chants and yells. They keep doing it all thru the game, no matter the score. When they lock arms and sway it almost makes you dizzy. To their credit, the majority stayed engaged and they were loud when we were on offense. I only recall one delay of game, however, so I don't know how much the crowd noise was a factor. The place blew up though when they scored to take a 7-0 lead. And when if was a third down in our first drive, the place was really loud. But later in the game, even when we had the game in control after the blocked punt/TD, very few of their fans left.
Enjoyed the day. I'd go back in a heartbeat!
I don't see the problem. They're trying to magnify their home field advantage.
Do they try too hard? May be, but it sure beats not trying hard enough and leaving in the third quarter.
Do they try too hard? May be, but it sure beats not trying hard enough and leaving in the third quarter.
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