{"id":26423,"date":"2017-11-23T18:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26423"},"modified":"2017-11-23T22:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:55:11","slug":"whats-missing-oh-wait-longhorns-vs-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26423","title":{"rendered":"What’s missing? Oh, wait! Longhorns vs. Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was 34 years of age when my family and I moved to Texas. That was in 1984.<\/p>\n

At the time I was a fairly avid collegiate football fan. I grew quickly to appreciate one of the country’s more intense gridiron rivalries not long after arriving in the Golden Triangle.<\/p>\n

I refer to the University of Texas-Texas A&M rivalry. They used to play that game on Thanksgiving Day. My wife and I became friends in Beaumont with diehard Aggie alumni. They were four brothers, all of whom graduated from A&M; their children went there, too; and so did their grandchildren. They bled Aggie Maroon. I was schooled immediately — and often — about how much Aggie football meant to Texas Aggie families.<\/p>\n

I even learned to refer to the University of Texas as “texas university.”<\/p>\n

Then the Aggies decided they wanted to bolt to the Southeastern Conference. They wanted to play tackle football against Arkansas, Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee … and some other schools.<\/p>\n

Then the rivalry was dissolved.<\/p>\n

I am still somewhat saddened that we can’t see the Longhorns play the Aggies on Turkey Day.<\/p>\n

I have no particular allegiance to either school. I didn’t attend either of them; neither did our sons. I wrote a year ago about missing a Thanksgiving tradition. I still miss it.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2016\/11\/missing-a-thanksgiving-tradition\/<\/p>\n

Can’t there be a way for the athletic directors at these schools to work out a non-conference game that pits these football teams against each other … on Thanksgiving Day?<\/p>\n

C’mon! You can do this!<\/p>\n\n

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I was 34 years of age when my family and I moved to Texas. That was in 1984. At the time I was a fairly avid collegiate football fan. I grew quickly to appreciate one of the country’s more intense gridiron rivalries not long after arriving in the Golden Triangle. I refer to the University … Continue reading What’s missing? Oh, wait! Longhorns vs. Aggies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[175,7429,4579,7430,5026],"class_list":["post-26423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","category-state-news","tag-aggies","tag-longhorns","tag-texas-am-university","tag-thanksgiving-football","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26426,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions\/26426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}