Page 14 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1979
Good sportsmanship: there’s no place like ho
We take it.
That’s right, we the students at
Texas A&M University, informally
known as Aggies, take it.
We are like the honey guy in the
Charles Atlas advertisement who
always gets sand kicked in his face
by the bully of the beach.
The bully, in this case, is just
about every team in the Southwest
Conference. Everywhere the Ag
gies go, the fans, cheerleaders and
bands of opposing teams seem to get
the biggest laugh out of the Aggies.
It seems that all of the schools make
the most fun of Texas A&M.
My question is, what is it fhat
brings out the worst in fans around
the conference when the Aggies x
come to town?
Is it because the Aggies take
themselves too seriously? Or is it
because everyone likes to pick on
the person who gets the maddest
when he is made fun of? Or are we
like the boney guy on the beach:
everyone knows they can kick sand
in our face and we won’t kick back?
Why don’t Aggies yell and jump
up and down when an opposing
team is taking a free-throw shot at a
basketball game in G. Rollie White
Coliseum? Or boo when the referee
makes an obviously bad call? Or boo
when an opposing team just steps
onto the court?
It seems weird that your whole
life you booed at sporting events
and even cussed the refs at the top
of your lungs at times, and then you
came to A&M, you had to change.
No more booing, no more scream
ing while a player from Texas or Ar
kansas or Baylor was trying to sink
the game-winning basket at the free
throw line. No more signs making
fun of the other team. No more
obscene gestures or language?
What could be the answer to this
question? Easy, it’s a matter of class.
Most schools in the conference don’t
show as much class at either basket
ball or football games as the fans at
Texas A&M.
For example, most schools have
their own version of the Aggie War
Hymn. Needless to say, the words
just aren’t the same. In fact, mem
bers of the Texas Longhorn band
have made up several songs about
the Aggies.
The Aggies have not played a con
ference game on the road before a
civilized crowd, with the exception
of the SMU game. The Mustang
fans are to be applauded.
A trip around the conference will
give us a better picture of our
“friendly” foes.
In Houston, Cougar fans were so
frustrated by their team’s five-point
second half that they started to give
the middle finger salute to the Aggie
basketball team. Cougar fans didn’t
appreciate Aggie David Britton giv
ing them a taste of their own hot-
dogging medicine and threw cups to
show their displeasure. They are
getting better though, at least they
didn’t chant “33-0” throughout the
game.
At Texas, the Longhorn band
sang their songs about A&M while
the male cheerleaders stood in front
of 16,000 people mocking the Aggie
yell leaders. The crowd got a good
laugh from the spectacle. And when
the game was out of the Aggies re
ach, the Horn fans started the usual
“Poor Aggies” chant.
Things got worse when the team
travelled to Rice’s Autry Court. The
viewpoint
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
so-called intellectual, private school
Owls, showed the extent of their vo
cabulary by exuding four letter
words and playing songs taken
straight from the Bugs Bunny Car
toon Hour. The Rice band would
strike up the Looney Tunes theme
when the Aggie yell leaders would
do a yell.
But when the Aggies went to
Baylor’s Heart O’ Texas Coliseum,
they hit rock bottom. The Bear fans’
conduct was the worst of the confer
ence to this point.
The Bears greeted the Aggies
with a round of boos, told Metcalf to
leave numerous times, threw ice,
trash and little gold basketball s on
the court throughout the game. And
before the game even started, one
group pranced around in green
fatigues, helmets and pants tucked
into cowboy boots mocking the
senior members of the Corps and
the Aggie band. One Bear fan took
his frustrations out on a referee by
clouting him with a cup. The scene
continued to get out of hand. Fi
nally, the public address announcer
had to ask the wonderful fans to stay
off the court.
Needless to say, the Aggies are
not well liked around the confer
ence.
But I must wonder if that is the
fans’ conduct for everyone in the
conference or are they in this rare
form just for the Aggies?
It must really surprise other
teams when they come to play at G.
Rollie White Coliseum and the fans
don’t boo them when they are being
introduced. Or when the referees
make a bad call and all that is heard
is a horse laugh, Or not,
ice, cups or other debrison
during the game. Tb
shocked when no
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fans are still there. jo Pages
Most coaches have-
enjoyed playing at G. R 0 ||
of the fans and the i
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most rabid basketball fan,
conference but they are byt,
of the best behaved and/
most class
In short the Aggie fa nS:
class by themselves. Com
turns.
Brandt
reports
denied
United Press International
NEW YORK — Tim Mara, vice
president and treasurer of the New
York Giants, denied published re
ports Tuesday that Gil Brandt, the
highly regarded personnel director
of the Dallas Cowboys, was no
longer a candidate for the Giants’ di
rector of operations post.
Brandt, the Cowboys’ vice presi
dent for personnel development
since their birth in 1960, is consid
ered a leading candidate for the
Giants’ job along with Don Klos-
terman, the Los Angeles Rams’
general manager.
However, Cowboys’ President
Tex Schramm has told Tim Mara
and his uncle, Wellington, the
Giants’ president, that Brandt
would not be released until after the
NFL’s college player draft May 1-2.
The complication spurred reports
that Brandt had been eliminated
from consideration as the successor
to Andy Robustelli.
Wellington Mara, scheduled to
return to New York Tuesday from
the Pro Bowl in Los Angeles, admit
ted in the reports that Brandt’s situ
ation was “a real serious considera
tion” for the Giants.
But Tim Mara, who is known to
be differing with his uncle over the
choice for a director of operations,
said from his office at Giants
Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.,
“I don’t feel Gil Brandt is eliminated
yet. We re working on the draft
right now ourselves. We’ve asked all
the candidates for their opinions on
head coaches and if we could agree
on who the coach should be and hire
him, I think we could carry on for
another two months without a D.O.
What’s another month or two in the
long run?”
Wellington Mara was en route
from the West Coast Tuesday and
unavailable for comment.
Tim Mara would not reveal if he
had settled on a choice for D.O.,
but said he would meet with his
uncle Wednesday to discuss the
candidates interviewed during the
past six weeks. Mara said the Giants
had talked to “between five and 10”
candidates and hoped to reach a de
cision by the end of the week.
Brandt and Klosterman were inter
viewed last weekend when the
Maras were in Los Angeles.
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