This was heard on Jim Rome's radio show recently. For those of you who don't know who Rome is, he is a nationally syndicated sports talk show personality based in California with no other connections to Texas.

You see, ESPN is spending the season following the A & M Football team for some documentary. Well, I guess Rome has something to say about the Aggies & College Station. Here it goes:

"They won't shut up. They have to go on about spirit, and old army, and red ***, and how bonfire represents the burning sensation they have in their urine to beat UT, and blah blah blah. Shut up. You start to get the feeling the entire school was built to spite UT. Forget the fact that when the Texas Legislature back in the 1870's passed legislation to start a state university they also decided to have a subsidiary branch of the main school(University of Texas) that would teach agriculture and mechanics. Aggies love to say their school is older, from where they get that I don't know......the fact is, the State intended A&M to be a branch of UT. They are like the afterbirth from the original creation. Like Danny Devito in "Twins". So they apparently have this complex, so much so, that they must devote their entire school to trying to prove to UT that they are just as good. All the while, nobody at UT denies that A&M is a good school, yet they won't shut up. So they write a fight song......about?....Texas, and how they want to beat them. They have a Fish Camp for freshman where they tell them how bad Texas is and how good A&M and all its traditions are.

It is the world's largest known case of ***** envy, and it is manifested in everything A&M does. The people at A&M. Now we all have friends who went to A&M or are at A&M. There are some nice people there. However...there is the Corp. East Texas' answer to dreams of ROTC kids everywhere. For every boy scout who never learned to stop playing with his GI Joe Toys, there is the Corp. Now, forget the fact that A&M will actually let people with sub-par grades enroll if they agree to join the Corp. Forget the fact that the Corps looked like a Gestapo hate rally while beating down students on Kyle Field in 1995. Forget the fact that along with the numerous hazing charges that have been filed against them, and swept under the rug over the years, they just this past month have had one Corps member bring charges against another Corps member who apparently had been propositioning others for a little actual sodomy. Not only could I go on with more instances of idiocracy by these Khaki-clad-shaven-headed-dorks, I am sure each of you have your own stories.

The point is: We all respect West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force Academy; however, nobody respects the Corp. I imagine they are kind of the laughing stock of the military world. Just because you dress like the Army, and try and act like the Army, does not make you the Army. People at A&M don't even respect these clowns. It is not cool to shave your head and dress up. Halloween is only supposed to be one day of the year. If you want to carry guns and beat up civilians, move to Israel. It is even less cool to slobber on somebody's daughter on national television and call it a tradition. Dry humping 18 year old girls in the stands at football games is not cool. Not only is it not cool, it should be against the law. I know that in College Station, students are just prone to mount each other on the campus lawn, or in the middle of class, or anytime anything good happens you can just grab the girl sitting next to you and start sucking on her face. But everywhere else in the world, it is looked down upon. Especially if you are doing it on my TV. That is why we have moved the game from Thanksgiving. Because people across the nation were gagging on their turkey when in the middle of watching a football game, some boy scout is tongue thrashing some overweight co-ed during somebody's Thanksgiving dinner. We do not need to see burly women engaged in a suckfest every time your woeful offense manages to put points on the board. Some of these girls are in desperate need of a trip to the Clinique counter. Screw that, forget make-up, it is too late for that, just give them a veil.

"t.u." is not funny. It is NOT insulting. It is dumb. Just imagine if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A and giggling. That would not be funny. In fact, it would be retarded. That's why UT fans don't do it. Please learn. You want to lose the image of country bumpkins, of a people fond of sheep, of people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down. Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national TV. Quit whooping in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboards for the enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how to yell. Quit telling rape jokes to reporters when you're running for Governor. When you are filling out season ticket renewals, and the form asks for your phone #, H & W, quit putting 258-3999, Height 6'3", Weight 185. Just, collectively, stop making asses of yourselves.

Go to East Texas, tour every small town, and ask every red neck with a 5th grade education why they cheer for A&M and wear maroon. That is your fan base. This is why you are perceived by the educated masses as stupid. Nobody cares if you think your band is better. They might be louder, they might march in neat little zig zags, but they have no musical ability. The point is, nobody cares who wins halftime. Quit getting geeked up about marching bands. I find it hard to believe you stood through your high school band's entire halftime performance. And why? Cause nobody cared then and nobody cares now. Plus, you can hear them fine sitting down even if you do care. Why is it cool all of a sudden now that you're in college? Men should never let out high pitched whooping sounds. Perhaps the only justifiable situation in which this can be tolerated is perhaps during an **** probe. Oh wait...I understand now.

Dogs are not ladies. They don't look or smell like ladies. Dogs eat their own feces and should be treated accordingly.

Finally, College Station is an arm-pit of a town. Quit pretending that it is a great college town. It is a town and there is a college there. That should be the end of this comparison. If you feel that life doesn't get any better than the Dixie Chicken, and enjoy being stuck in a never ending "Dukes of Hazard" episode, then move there. More importantly, don't move to Austin.....they are trying to create an educated, technological, and open minded population base. Austin is, and will continue to be, the birthplace and final resting place of all that is cool.

As my friend Stephen Johnson once said: "If the world were ever to get an enema, College Station is where you would connect the hose." If you go to school at A&M, please don't be an Aggie.



God Bless the Great State of Texas.

 

LOL... old but damn funny

 

Lol, that is an old one. Its worth a chuckle and does have a lot of truth in it though.

 

ouch!!

 

What a load of ****... the only thing correct in that whole article is about the corps. THEY SUCK and I shun everyone of them. They make me not want to claim my education sometimes....

 

old stuff. i liked jim rome when he first came around, but quickly realized how pathetic it was to either pretend not to care or to hate something enough to rant endlessly and completely. it's not like u can't make a huge rant and pick apart tons of stuff about anything anyway . i guess if he had something worthwhile to bitch about it would be better. he's just dennis miller but hasn't been cancelled yet.

 

well if you go to atm, you know that school is based around the corp right? the first civilians allowed to go there were in 1950's(if im not mistaken).

 

clap clap clap... im sorry anyone who can talk **** like that is preatty darn amazing. btw im going to A&M next year.

 

HAHAHA, wow i cant believe i just read all that ****.

 

the school was based around the corps, there are alot of traditions still here that have a heavy corps influence. But the corps has been dwindelling in the past years, and alot of money is still being pumped into the program even though its decline in enrollment.

Jim Rome....i started reading through it and had to stop. Not only is it a biased and out dated article, i just didn't see the reason to keep listening/reading it.

 

I think Rome goes up against Dan PAtrick daily on A.M. radio, I choose Patrick. Jim Rome speaks out of both sides of his mouth constantly, he also usually back tracks when he is called out. I prefer Dan Patrick his show is more humorous and seems more thought goes into it!

 

i have always like the jim rome show and all the clones baby

 

Thats a load of ****. I'm not gonna break down everything he said and why its ****, but jesus, can someone please talk out of their *** some more? A&M freakin rocks, I will be attending it next year, as a member of the Corps. (NROTC, then off to the Navy, hopefully as an aviator) Gig 'em

 

Wow, someone in the corps who actually intends on going into the military. What is it, something like less than 10% of the kiddie corps who go to the services?

 

Very very old and he didn't say that.

 

well, that ends that.

 

Whether Rome did or didn't say it its still funny if you're not an ag, lol.

 

Funny five years ago. ...and yes, i'm a huge UT fan.