I was recently accosted on facebook by a t-shirt Aggie "fan," a transplant from Illinois who moved to College Station. He'd taken his young son to a game and was saying how much he loved the atmosphere and the "patriotisms" and what a great school/team they were, and how God had given them a great place to call home. I jokingly told him there was still time for him to repent, utterly failing to remember this guy in all probability is not an actual CFB fan. And also he's a hard-line Trump supporter and I'll just leave it at that.
He responded "Did LSU recite the Preamble to the Constitution before their game? No, I didn't think so." That should have been the only flag I needed to drop it and remember that this young guy is not an actual cfb fan. But because facebook makes me dumber--and I don't think I'm alone in that--I instead responded "No, they were busy beating another top ten team." To which he immediately fired back "I'll take the team whose school is based on character and service to others. That's the Aggie way." By that time I had come to my senses and respond no further.
But there it was, his "fandom" is based on reciting the Preamble to the Constitution? Somehow the school I root for is apparently unpatriotic for only playing the national anthem before games? Of course he can't fathom that my fandom is rooted in where I come from....it's a school that represents my hometown and home state and most of the kids who play their are locally grown, and it's where my dad took me to games when I was a kid. But I'm supposed to throw that out the window and go with another school because they're more patriotic?
Well of course he doesn't understand. Like I said, t-shirt fan.
But I kinda lolz at the notion that this is the type of person A&M attracts, and while this guy is actually a great young man in real life, it does nothing to dispel my notion that A&M is a friggin' cult.
.....but if I were really out to burst his bubble, I'd let him know all about that "character" and ask him if reciting the Preamble gets them off the hook for cheating more than Auburn and Alabama combined.