Posted on 08/28/2015 10:11:52 AM PDT by C19fan
Some Texas A&M officials felt 92,000 was enough. Not for Chancellor John Sharp. This Aggie knew that he needed to unify Kyle Field by making it symmetrical. And doing that bumped capacity to 102,512, the largest football stadium in the SEC and fourth largest in the nation.
“When this thing started it was the most nervous time in my life,” Sharp tells SI.com. “Folks didn’t think we could fill up a 102,000-seat stadium. We sold all 102,000 tickets in 18 minutes.”
And those 102,000 folks will filter into the completely overhauled Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, for the first time on Saturday, Sept. 12, when the Aggies host Ball State.
(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...
Texas “S and M” = “SEC” YAWN!!!!
Who is Kyle?
Auburn put in a new large screen display. Someone did a overlay and it dwarfed the Statue of Liberty (width and height).
Aggie Computer Jargin: Some terms ya need to be familiar with to do bidness in Aggie country:
LOG ON Making a wood stove hotter
LOG OFF Don’t add no mo’ wood
MONITOR Keeping an eye on the woodstove
DOWNLOAD Gettin the farwood ofn the truk
MEGA HERTZ When yer not keerful gettin the farwood
FLOPPY DISK Whacha git from tryin to carry too much
farwood
RAM That thar thing whut splits the farwood
HARD DRIVE Gettin home in the winter time
PROMPT Whut the mail ain’t in the winter time
WINDOWS Whut to shut when it’s cold outside
SCREEN Whut to shut when it’s blak fly season
BYTE Whut them dang flys do
CHIP Munchies fer the TV
MICRO CHIP Whut’s left in the munchie bag
MODEM Whacha did to the hay fields
DOT MATRIX Old Dan Matrix’s wife
LAP TOP Whar the kitty sleeps
KEYBOARD Whar ya hang the dang keys
SOFTWARE Them dang plastic forks and knifs
MOUSE What eats the grain in the barn
MAIN FRAME Holds up the barn ruf
PORT Fancy Flatlander wine
ENTER Northerner talk fer, C’mon in y’all
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY When ya cain’t ‘member whut ya paid
fer yer rifle when yore wife asks
MOUSE PAD That hippie talk fer the rat hole
"Young lady, are you aware of the penalties for perjury?" roared the Aggie lawyer at the witness. "You have just testified that you have two brothers. But, in previous testimony, your brother stated that he has but one brother. I want the truth!"
Why can't Aggie farmers raise chickens? They plant the eggs too deep.
There was an aggie that saw a sign that said "Wet Cement". So he did.
How do you get an Aggie graduate off your porch? Pay him for the pizza.
All in good fun.
Edwin Jackson Kyle who built the first itteration of the stadium with $650 of his own money.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Field
That list is a hoot, composed I’d expect in some funny-smelling-smoke filled basement in Austin. In the same way that Polish jokes in America, Irish jokes in Australia, and Newfie jokes in Canada are all virtually identical, you could apply this list to country folks from sea to shining sea.
Did they put the green side up?
I had a cousin who was on the Aggie Joke Book committee. The A&M Alumni published them. They made gobs of money that went into a scholarship fund. He loved Aggie jokes - they paid for a lot of diplomas. Not sure if they are still being published; our paperless world may have done them in.
Ah, the cult’s new temple...
Makes my Aggie friends NUTS when I call it that!
BTW, we Longhorns and Aggies joust a lot, but the first group that arrived in College Station after the bonfire tragedy was UT’s student leaders. And military types outside the US, even (maybe especially) Longhorns, respect and appreciate Aggie Muster.
Class of ‘75
I like his fiscal efficiency. Did they honor him in that when building the new stadium?
The detective told the coroner: “The first body is a wealthy T-Sip who died of heart failure while with his mistress. Hence the smile. The second body is a Red Raider who won $10,000 on the Lottery, spent it all on whiskey and died of alcohol poisoning. Hence the smile”.
The coroner asked “What about the third body?”
“Ah” says the detective “This is an Aggie who was struck by lightning.”
“Why is he smiling?” asked the coroner.
“He thought he was having his picture taken”.
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