Should the Texas vs. A&M Football Rivalry Live On? (Poll)
Now that the last scheduled Texas vs. Texas A&M football game is over (27-25. Remember it!), and the Thanksgiving food comas are ending, there are rumblings about saving the 117-year rivalry between the Longhorns and Aggies.
Joe Manero wrote in the Houston Chronicle Tuesday that the city of Houston should make a play to host the game at Reliant Stadium, the way the Texas-OU Red River Rivalry game is held at the Cotton Bowl or the A&M vs. Arkansas game is now scheduled for Cowboys Stadium, both in Dallas.
There are 84,026 UT grads in the Houston area, by the way, and 54,535 in the DFW area.
On the other hand, Jimmy Burch of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Cotton Bowl officials would be over the moon about hosting the matchup there in Dallas.
What do you think? Should the rivalry move to one of those two cities, keep alternating between the schools, or just be allowed to become history?
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The farmers need Texas more than Texas needs them. They’re the ones leaving, let ‘em go. Without Texas to compare themselves to, A&M has nothing.
So now we want TWO netural-field games a year? Please, let’s think of even more ways to be SOFT. Hold on to the self-respect and either let it die or do it home and away.
I think we should restart this rivalry, but not immediately. Make them realize how good they had it getting to lose to UT every year.
Regarding the location, I hate having 2 neutral site games (especially another in DFW). Even being a resident of Houston, I’d prefer a home-and-home. Also, consider the Aggies less than stellar record of sportsmanship and fan violence [http://barkingcarnival.fantake.com/2011/11/22/and-its-good-bye-to-am/]. I personally think having the game at neutral site is MORE dangerous than the game at Kyle field every other year, where the school is at least accountable for any security lapses.
I don’t really care to play them anymore. They wanted to leave, so let them leave.
Hatred of UT has been the theme they’ve used for years to unify their student body behind one purpose. We don’t need any more of that. Let them go find some other defining focus for their school. This rivalry got way out of reasonable proportion to where it became sick.
If we were so bad that we forced them too leave to get away from us, our Longhorn Network and all of that, why on earth do they still want to play us anyway?
Please, never play them again in my lifetime. Clear the air.
Kim Mulkey said it best: “And I think I know a little bit about divorce. And my feeling is this–if a man wants to divorce me and says our relationship has no value to him, and then he asks me if he can sleep with me, the answer is, “NO”!!!!!!!! ‘Nuf’ said! Move on to the next subject, as that one has already been answered!!