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Now UT and OU will join those air-tight rankings somewhere.  I visited the OU campus once, but not on a gameday.  Could only take pictures of the field through a locked gate of an empty stadium.  

Texas is a pretty good gameday experience though.  Different crowd than the SEC venues I've visited, but it's a good time.  Just fyi, if you get hungry and think the stadium food is overpriced, they always have this cow around that looks like he'd be good dinner, but don't try getting to him or making him into steak.  Turns out they get real pissed about that, and they all have guns.  

Now UT and OU will join those air-tight rankings somewhere.  I visited the OU campus once, but not on a gameday.  Could only take pictures of the field through a locked gate of an empty stadium. 

Texas is a pretty good gameday experience though.  Different crowd than the SEC venues I've visited, but it's a good time.  Just fyi, if you get hungry and think the stadium food is overpriced, they always have this cow around that looks like he'd be good dinner, but don't try getting to him or making him into steak.  Turns out they get real pissed about that, and they all have guns. 

I’ve seen pictures somewhere where the Aggies and Longhorns barbecued Bevo and had a feast together. Like 1910ish so at lest 100 years ago. 

Now UT and OU will join those air-tight rankings somewhere.  I visited the OU campus once, but not on a gameday.  Could only take pictures of the field through a locked gate of an empty stadium. 

Texas is a pretty good gameday experience though.  Different crowd than the SEC venues I've visited, but it's a good time.  Just fyi, if you get hungry and think the stadium food is overpriced, they always have this cow around that looks like he'd be good dinner, but don't try getting to him or making him into steak.  Turns out they get real pissed about that, and they all have guns. 

Overall we have a "nice" gameday environment.  It rarely gets really loud or rowdy, we're often accused of being a wine and cheese crowd and it's not entirely undeserved.

Personally I'd rather watch and enjoy a game, than give myself a headache yelling my lungs out like I did when I was 20.  So I'm certainly part of the "problem" if indeed that is a problem.  I'm okay with it though and will go on living my life.

Like anything, PETA used to be an organization with reasonable goals. "Ethical treatment" meant not doing stuff like shoving nail polish into the eyelids of rabbits. We kind of guessed that it would cause damage. No one really learned anything from those experiments. They were just weird.
Nowadays, of course, they insist the Easter Bunny be paid a fair wage and only deliver tofu.

Bevo, being a steer, is governed by the USDA as livestock rather than an exotic animal. When he's not being driven down the highway in a custom trailer or standing on the sideline, he's standing in a pasture. He leads the normal life of a Texas steer all year except for 8-10 times a year for around 10 hours apiece.

Last weekend we had to go to a wedding in the hill country and stayed in an Airbnb outside of Burnet on a ranch.  The owners had a lot of land and utilize herding dogs and welcomed guests to bring dogs if they have them, so we brought our two Aussies to let them roam around.  They were both fascinated with the burnt-orange and white Bevo-like steers/bulls and cows that gathered near our cottage in the early mornings.  The girl barked at them and took them for enemies--like everything and everyone in life--until she got used to them and decided they were not threats.  The boy immediately made friends, like he does with all people and animals.  Neither of them showed any Aussie instinct to herd them, but I kinda give our boy a pass because he's really old.  The Bevo-collective was pretty funny to watch, though.  When the girl ran up to them barking, they started stare-shaming her, my wife called it.  They all stopped eating, became motionless and stared directly at her with faces that said (and I realize I'm anthropomorphizing here) "You are ridiculous.  We look down on you, as an individual and as a species."  

My great-grandmother told the story of getting hooked by a bull in the back while trying to escape through a barbed wire fence when she was a kid, but she wasn't quite fast enough.  Didn't do nearly as much damage as it may have done, but it gashed her pretty good.  She always got on to me when she found out I had walked home from school via a shortcut of cutting through a cow field. 

Because when I was a kid, there were still cow fields in the middle of town, in the greater Baton Rouge area.  Geez, that makes me sound older than I really am.  

We had some kind of demonstration outside here a month or so back that I THINK we something about animal rights.  About 30 folks blocked the street and yelled stuff and chanted.  I didn't go down to check it out, they were noisy for 10 minutes or so and then left.  There is a bar down there that serves the usual, maybe they wanted it to go vegan (they didn't).  

I saw two "BLM" marches back when that was popular, they were noisy and marched by and left.  They both were 70% white folks.