Even though we don’t have to pretend to be rivals anymore, we’ll find some jokes
LSU’s biggest matchup of the 2024 season is here. Are you interested in learning about the Texas A&M Aggies? Well this is the Q&A for you! After Good Bull Hunting’s Robert Behrens answered some questions about the actual team, we asked him some REAL QUESTIONS!
1. Yet another year where Jimbo Fisher’s Aggies come out highly-ranked, only for the offense to face-plant in the first ga- wait a minute… y’all actually fired him? Really?……. huh, well…… I guess we need some new jokes. Uhhhhh what if I called him Mike Elmo? Sick burn right?
Based on how tickled A&M fans are with the team’s performance thus far, “Tickle Me Elko” might actually be pretty fitting. Or maybe he’s gone bring his “Elk O” because the A&M offense is going big game hunting (OK that one is a big stretch).
But to be honest, you can call him whatever you want as long as it means we don’t have Jimbo as the head coach of our team anymore. While he may have done some things well (like go undefeated against LSU at Kyle Field), there’s little doubt among the fanbase that not only was getting rid of Jimbo the right move, bringing in Elko appears to be as well. Much like LSU, this team appears to be getting better a the year wears on.
2. Damn and y’all are finally playing the Longhorns again! We don’t have to try to force this rivalry anymore. What the hell am I supposed to troll about? Midnight Yell is cringe? We’ve done all that before…
Look we still give plenty of ammunition for folks to poke fun at us if they so choose. We don’t exactly make it difficult on that front. But Aggies relish the fact that we’re different. So much of the pageantry in college football is just cut and paste from school to school, I appreciate that A&M does SO MUCH that is unique to us. In short: come at me bro.
Also I can’t help but lament the fact that the Texas game is coming back just when the rivalry between A&M and LSU is just starting to seemingly get some traction. It felt forced for a long time, which is what happens when one team wins six games in a row. But with the home team winning each of the last six games, with some absolutely wacky end-of-game calls deciding them (I see your 2018 and raise you 2021), I think we’re finally starting to see some animosity between the two groups. Is it on the level of A&M/Texas? Of course not, but I’d say it’s a budding rivalry that could really kick up a notch with so much on the line this Saturday.
3. Wait I got it, baseball! Can you tell us what it’s like to go up 1-0 in the College World Series Championship only to blow it to another SEC team? We are unfamiliar with that feeling!
I mean, at least we aren’t Arkansas? A&M losing in the baseball national championship hurt, but there have to be Razorback fans who will never get over the way they choked it away in 2018. Actually, the more I think about it, “at least we aren’t Arkansas?” is just a good mantra for life in general anytime you’re feeling now.
And look we’re definitely chasing y’all when it comes to baseball presitge, but darnit if A&M fans aren’t fired up about what this team could do this season and in the years to come, unlike some programs who finished with a losing conference record last season (not to name names).
4. Are Aggie fans jealous that Amazon Prime did a documentary about star athletes making a ton of money through NIL deals and chose to spotlight LSU instead of Texas A&M?
Not nearly as jealous as LSU fans are gonna be watching Baton Rouge’s own Le’Veon Moss tote the rock for A&M on Saturday night. Dude has turned into an absolute beast, and very much feels like the kind of running back you’d usually see in LSU’s backfield, so I’m relishing the fact that he’ll be wearing maroon and white (well, black this week) instead. Oh also, full disclosure, I went to the same high school (long ago) as Caden Durham, so I’ll be suffering from a tinge of jealousy as well on Saturday.
5. Kyle Field is going to be “blacked out” for the game Saturday night. Is this a tribute to Johnny Manziel?
Ah yes, I believe we’re referring to the fact that the first time A&M ever wore a black uniform was in 2012 when Johnny led the Aggies to a blowout win over Mississippi State. So yes, I guess you could say this is a tribute to Manziel and that 2012 team. Appreciate you knowing your Aggie history.
ALTERNATE RESPONSE: Is “Fat Tuesday” an annual celebration of JaMarcus Russell?