re: Now I'm nervous

First off, I'm a former Corps member too, and let's just say you can't paint all of us with the same brush. Yeah, some will stick out and give the University a bad name, but so will many non-Corps members. Just a byproduct of being one of the largest universities in the nation.

Lots of misconceptions are out there concerning the A&M-Texas rivalry, but regardless of whether you hate burnt orange or maroon, there's much evidence to the fact that the hate is a two-way street.

First of all, Texas A&M's alma mater is "The Spirit of Aggieland," which does not reference Texas at all. The Aggie War Hymn (our fight song) is the one that references Texas in it's SECOND verse (the first verse is completely A&M related. Aggies chose to sing the second verse twice not because we're obsessed with Texas, but because the lyrics to the first song were too "ivy league-ish" for Aggies (and before you lambast Aggie weirdness for so choosing, note that Texas scrapped it's original version of "The Eyes of Texas" for much the same reason).

As far as Texas goes, their fight song "Texas Fight" owes its very existence to Texas A&M (and not just for the "goodbye to A&M line"). The man who composed the song wrote it specifically to combat the popular Aggie fight song of the time period ("Farmers Fight"). Link is provided below the post.

I understand that debates about our respective colleges will be highly charged with emotion--just trying to bring some balance to the discussion. The A&M-Texas rivalry is hardly one-sided.

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