Texas fans can't help but attempt to rewrite history and project onto Texas A&M football ahead of decisive matchup
With this weekend's huge matchup between Texas A&M football and the Longhorns looming, there's been a healthy amount of trash talk going on. Given how long the history between these two programs is, you have a healthy amount of appealing to that history going on.
And then, you have something like this.
They did everything in their power to run from it.
— Kieran (@carebearkieran) November 26, 2024
They broke the news early to try to shut it down.
They said we weren’t built for this conference.
They said they run this state.
They wanted the first game to be at home.
They gotta see us on Saturday.
I'll give you a second to emotionally process just how corny this is.
You good? Okay.
Of course, to anyone paying attention, you know that it is not the Aggies who were running from this rivalry. The Longhorns refused to keep playing the game, like the petulant children that they are, because they didn't like that A&M made the jump to the SEC. In fact, they reportedly worked along with other Big 12 teams to make sure no one from the conference scheduled A&M at all.
DeLoss Dodds said their nonconference schedule was full, and then when the Longhorn program nosedived following A&M's departure, he said that Texas should get to decide when the two teams play again. All the while, the Aggies' brass was saying that they were very open to playing; even after Dodds left, the Texas AD was still dodging the game. Even the Texas coaches were saying how much they were afraid of taking on the Aggies.
How anyone can read that and say that it's the Aggies who have been running from this matchup boggles the mind. But the Texas fanbase has a special penchant for finding new lows in making mind-numbingly awful points, even when it's tough to theoretically conceive of someone going lower.
Now that the Longhorns have followed in the Aggies' footsteps, though, they are, indeed, forced to play the Aggies again. Like then-Texas AD Steve Patterson said, well-representing the cowardly Longhorn sentiment:
UT AD Steve Patterson told us ``unless there is a compelling reason,'' the football series between Texas and Texas A&M is dead.
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) April 25, 2014
Well, there's a compelling reason now. You're about to get compelled up and down the field for four quarters.
Is that anything? Someone let me know if that's anything.