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Monday, Nov. 21, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3B
A&M fans
with tailgate parties
By Sharon Maberry
Staff Writer
Texas A&M football fans of
ten must withstand derision
from non-Aggies for peculiar
behavior during games. Aggies
are ridiculed for acts of lunacy
such as standing for entire foot
ball games and placing their
hands on their knees while chan
ting in unison with 70,000 other
Aggies.
These non-Aggies often won
der what possesses Aggies to be
have in such a fashion. Many
would respond that the spirit of
Aggieland is the reason for their
vocal support of the football
team.
“We usually have at least 100
people each game. The bigger
the game, the bigger the crowd
is. We come back out here again
for at least an hour after the
game. Sometimes the coaches
will come out after the game, but
not if we don’t win.”
Don Moskal, Aggie Diehard
member said this tailgate party
began as a small affair.
“We started out (with just a
small group) eating together be
fore games. Then we needed a
place in case it rained. That’s
when we bought the bus.”
Moskal’s son, Don E. Moskal,
is in charge of organizing these
parties.
Alcohol is a part of many tail-
the Aggie Club said.
Tents were set up around the
pool and the food services de
partment provided hot dogs and
hamburgers for Aggie Club
members, Whiteside said. The
approximately 700 guests were
entertained by a Dixieland band
and a demonstration by the
A&M swim team.
“This was our first effort (at a
tailgate party),” he said. “Our in
tent is to continue to sponsor
events like this with the eventual
goal of having some sort of event
before every home game. If the
events are fun and visible, we
hope that they will generate in
terest among non-members to
join (the Aggie Club).”
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However, others might say
that a certain amount of merry
making before the game, in the
form of tailgate parties, is a de-
finate must to boost one’s spirit
level.
Tailgate parties, consisting of
anything from a foursome eat
ing tuna fish sandwiches from
the back of a station wagon to
large groups of people grilling
hamburgers outside a motor
home, may be found all over
campus on game day.
One tailgate party that can al
ways be found outside Kyle Field
before home games is thrown by
the Aggie Diehards, Inc., made
up of a group of Aggie alumni.
This party is easy to find if
one looks for an old bus with
“First Baptist Church, Crandell,
Texas” painted on the side.
“The church made an error in
not painting the name off the
side of it when we bought it,”
Dean Carlton, Aggie Diehards
chairman said. “We’re a group
of Aggies who’ve been coming to
games together for a long time. I
got out (of A&M) in ’49, and I’ve
been coming to games ever
since.
“Occasionally we have a band.
We had a quartet today, a very
cheap quartet,” Carlton said of
the tailgate party before the
A&M-Texas Tech game Oct. 1.
gate parties despite a state law
and a University regulation pro
hibiting the consumption of al
cohol on the A&M campus.
Bob Wiatt, director of security
for the University Police Depart
ment, said there are not enough
officers to enforce the regula
tion.
“There’s such a great amount
of alcohol at these parties,” Wiatt
said. “It’s sort of like bonfire.
Unless there is a person disrupt
ing others, with all the other ac
tivities (going on at a football
game), I don’t have the man
power to enforce it. Unless
there’s a problem or a com
plaint, there’s no opportunity
for us to respond. All my offi
cers are committed to traffic
control after football games.”
Wiatt also said that many peo
ple who come to A&M games are
not aware of the alcohol policy.
“People come from far away
and other institutions do permit
it. A lot of people may not be
aware of rules prevailing here.”
The Aggie Club sponsored its
first tailgate party before the
A&M-Texas Tech game. The
Aggie Club, which provides all
240 A&M athletic scholarships
through membership donations,
held its tailgate party around
Wofford Cain Pool, Clajjk,
Whiteside, associate director of
Some tailgate parties begin
only after the football game.
One such party, in the visitors’
parking lot by Rudder Tower, is
given by Lee and Betty Adams
of Sugarland.
Adams graduated from A&M
in 1963 and the couple’s two
daughters are Aggies.
“When the girls were little,
we’d come here and bring our
lunch,” Betty said.
Those family lunches became
tailgate parties in 1983 when
their oldest daughter started
bringing her friends by, Betty
said. Since then, the party has
grown considerably and regular
guests include Parsons’ Mounted
Cavalry, complete with cannon.
“There are two things that at
tract college students: food and
money,” Betty said. “We can’t af
ford to pay them money, so we
bring food.”
And food abounds at these
parties with fried chicken, sand
wiches and chips, among other
things. The attendance has
grown so much that the Adams
have combined their parties with
another couple.
It’s no wonder that students
gobble up the food when Betty
walks around saying, “If your
mother were here, she’d want
you to eat.”
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