ables@cyb-eng.UUCP (King Ables) (12/07/84)
The following appeared on net.jokes recently: > Latest Aggie joke: > > Texas A&M University ------------------------------------ 37 > texas university teasips (aka Longhorns) ---------------- 12 > > Another Aggie joke: > > A bad call by the ref cost tu the game. What I want to know is, what bad call?? And how could one call cost us a game with a score like that?? I'm about as orange-blooded as they come, and it broke my heart to lose to the Aggies (along with losing to *burp* Houston and *ug* Baylor) after beating or tying really GOOD teams like OU and Auburn (our win over Penn St. isn't as impressive in December as it was in September, sorry Joe). Be that as it may, we got the sh*t kicked out of us by the Aggies. For the first time all season we didn't beat ourselves. We played a reasonably decent game and got killed. The Aggies looked good that night, there's no taking that away from them. Jackie has UT to thank for his job. He could go 1-10 every year, but as long as that one was against T.U. (sic) the A&M faithful would be happy. (Personally, I'm afraid of Jim Wacker. I knew this was going to happen for TCU when Wacker left Southwest Texas State in San Marcos and went up to Ft. Worth.) I'm not always a good loser, and I STILL believe our team has more talent than most of you think. I see things about the UH, OU, and Baylor games that show me we could have won all three of them on a better day instead of 2 loses and a tie. But, the A&M game is the one game in the last two seasons that I can say definitely, absolutely, positively, that the best team won. It just shows me how close all these teams in the Southwest Conference are (at least the front runners SMU, UH, TCU, UT). It's real funny, I remember when SMU and UH lost their second games. Traditionally, any team with 2 loses in conference was out since the champ never had more than 1 loss. This year SMU and UH came out of nowhere and ended up tying for the conference championship with 2 loses each (after being couted out back in Oct/Nov) and the year-long front runners (UT and TCU) tied for 3rd with 3 losses (TCU kinda self- destructed there at the end, too). They may not say 2 losses and you're out anymore. By the way, for Aggie fans and those who don't believe they are really any good and that the UT game was a fluke... A&M is the ONLY SWC team to beat both Texas and TCU this season, and they did it in consecutive weekends! *NOT* an Aggie fan, but (grudgingly) willing to admit when "they done good." -King ARPA: ables%cyb-eng.UUCP@ut-sally.ARPA UUCP: ...{ctvax,gatech,ihnp4,nbires,seismo,ucb-vax}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!ables