[mainepatsfan]

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[Skooz]

Someone in Texas really needs to pull their panties out and relax.

[Drango]

If the Aggies want to try and push the issue, the 12th man trademark won't hold up in a court of law IMHO. I'm not a lawyer *shudder*, but I don't think you can trademark something that was being used by others.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The 12 th man is great at college station, when they march out singing "POOR AGGIES".

[AmishDude]

In other news, the American Mathematical Society has sued Texas A&M University for their use of the trademarked number "12" as well as their flagrant use of all digits zero to nine.

Rutgers University has also sued Texas A&M for the existence of their football team. Rutgers was, of course, the victor of the first intercollegiate football game.

[dfwgator]

The Seahawks are going to have about 12 fans in the stands in Ford Field, the rest will be Steeler fans.

[NavyCanDo]

When I watched Seattles 10:00 O'clock KONG News coverage of this Friday I could not believe the subliminal Message I heard. As they were reporting on the story, they were showing clips of Seahawk fans, in #12 jerseys and such, but while they were doing this you could hear very quickly and softly a girls voice say, "If you are from Texas you are a liar"……I turned to my wife and said, did you hear that? It seemed to be a subliminal slam against Bush to me.

[NCC-1701]

Has Texas A&M copyrighted "the 12th Man"? If not, seems like A&M has no case.

[38special]

The original 12th man E. King Gill

[EternalHope]

The university's last resort is to take the Seahawks to court, but Moore said A&M is not prepared to do that yet.

The reason is that they know Texas A&M would lose.

Seattle was using and publicizing the 12th man phrase at least a decade before A&M tried to legally claim the phrase. Even if they have a legally protectable phrase (which is doubtful), they can't stop someone who was already using the phrase long before they filed their claim.

Furthermore, Seattle continued to make liberal use of the phrase after A&M tried to protect it as well. So even if A&M has legal merit to their claim to a legally protected phrase, failure to enforce those rights in the past means they've lost those rights at least vis a vis Seattle.

The final kicker, of course, is that the owner of the Seahawks is the multi-gazillionaire Paul Allen. A&M won't scare him off just because he has to pay a few lawyers.

Sorry guys, A&M loses, Seattle wins. In fact, it's not even close.

Should be a fun game. I was predicting Seattle wins 34-10 (or 34-17, depending on how much coffee I just drank...). But when someone pointed out how strong both defenses are I had to change my tune.

So now I'm going with Seattle, 27-7. (I'm leaving room for the Steelers to get a garbage touchdown in the 4th quarter.)