Gameday!

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Kyle Field, Home of the Fightin' Texas Aggies

Today, I will be in Dallas, and then driving down to College Station to watch the Fightin' Texas Aggies beat the hell out of Nebraska (I hope!). It's a college reunion, but I'm not doing any of the reunion stuff, instead, we're going to walk around the campus and see what's changed and eat some decent BBQ and hopefully I can find a sumptous Chicken Fried Steak, and then, on Saturday, at 7:00, it's gametime!

I was born and raised in Texas, and as such, football is part of the Holy Trinity. I know people out of state snicker at Texas, but I think football is so much fun. It's a family thing, hunkered around the TV, watching, and yelling, and crying, and yelling, and eating, and yelling. There are families who bond over board games and camping, but for the O'Reilly's, it was bonding over football.

When I grew up, it was the Cowboys and the Aggies. The Aggies weren't any good until the 80s, so I considered it part of my character development to root for them and hope, dream, and believe that some day, we'd have a great team. The Cowboys (at least until this year) had always had a solid team. However, my favorite Cowboy years were the Landry years. They were a classy team, worthy of being America's Team, because not only were they America's Team, they were God's team. And oh, yes, I think North Dallas Forty was a work was fiction, because, you know, no way those players did anything wrong. (I will put my fingers in my ears and say la-la-la very loudly). After that, some of the rose scales fell from my eyes, but never again did a pro team take the place in my heart that Robert Staubach, Bob Lilly, Golden Richards, and Drew Pearson held.

But the Aggies. Oh, yes, the Aggies. If any of you have ever experienced a football game in Kyle Field, you know. When I was a kid, we went to one Aggie game and year, and I was gobsmacked. All the yelling, the tradition, and whole family atmosphere of the campus. I love me my Texas football. There's no place in the world like Aggieland. For me, it's like coming home.

I know that many of my whine sisters are partial to that 'other' school in Texas, but uh, for Saturday, can we root for A&M?

So, any football fans out there, will you be watching football on Turkey Day? Who's your team, who's your sport?