State Rep. Larson files bill to revive Texas A&M-Texas football rivalry

[TexasTowelie]

For four decades, one of college football's premier rivalries -- Alabama and Auburn -- refused to meet on the football field because of disputes in game contracts.

Lyle Larson, a Texas state representative and Aggie, is doing his part to make sure that a similar headline doesn't describe the football rivalry between Texas A&M and the University of Texas.

Tuesday, the Republican representative from San Antonio and a member of A&M's class of 1981 filed House Bill 412 for the 86th Legislature, which requires the two universities to schedule an annual nonconference football game on the fourth Thursday, Friday or Saturday of November.

"That rivalry is embedded into Texas football folklore for a century, and I think the people ... there's a lot of Aggies and Longhorns that don't want to play the game, but they are depriving generations of folks that are going to school now of something that they experienced when they were in school," Larson said.

Read more: https://www.theeagle.com/news/local/state-rep-larson-files-bill-to-revive-texas-a-m/article_496aad1f-c4c6-5571-90fe-5b484284535f.html

[HopeAgain]

1. Such focus on the unimportant...

[BaileyBill]

2. Or Rep. Larson could move to Oklahoma and

raise the average IQ in both states.

[tanyev]

3. Ha! Knew it had to be an Aggie.

Considering the lyrics of their fight song are 100% about defeating UT but they sing it no matter who they are playing, not playing UT has got to leave them with a bit of an identity crisis. It's honestly a little over the edge creepy.

[rownesheck]

4. Aggies

are a bunch of crybabies. They have always resented playing second fiddle to UT. They knew that even if they were to go undefeated while UT went winless, they still wouldn't be loved the way UT is. I suspect that's why they took their ugly maroon behinds to the SEC. Also, college station is a poop dump compared to Austin. Hell, i even root for Alabama when they play the aggies and i LOATHE Alabama.

[Paladin]

5. Care to deal with the state's health care situation or its education system, Rep. Larson?

Of course not---you're a fucking Aggie.