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I have to add to stories of Aggie weirdness. They buried their dead collie mascots outside the endzone of Kyle Field, facing the scoreboard. When they decided to renovate/expand the seating, they had to remove the remains and rebury them outside the stadium. Okay, fine, I can understand treating dead mascots with respect.
But trouble arose when they realized that the dead collies could no longer see the scoreboard. So, until they could build a new scoreboard outside the stadium so that the dead mascots could see it, they had a corp member stand outside, facing the graves of these dead dogs with a chalkboard scoreboard during games. I'm not making any of this up.
My other amusing Aggie story regards their chant, "Beat - the - Hell - out - of ____, Hey/A/Whoop, whatever"
A&M was in Waco, playing Baylor, a Baptist school, and winning pretty bad, suprise, suprise. The yell leaders led the A&M fans in several renditions of "Beat-the-Hell-out-of Baylor" It was late in the game, and few fans were paying attention. The Baylor scoreboard operator, in a rare fit of humor, put up on the jumbotron, "There is no Hell in Baylor."
Don't know if he got in trouble for it, but it gave me a chuckle.
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