Whoa, calm down sport. You certainly are getting worked up for not caring about A&M at all. And A&M isn't fighting to the death over this tradition. A&M comfortably owns it and is in no danger over losing it.
And A&M also comfortably had the key to cold fusion and alchemy not so long ago. How did that work out for you guys?
There is a huge difference between being able to successfully file a false trademark application and to demonstrate academic integrity or intellectual honesty. And if you see what the senior administrators of Texas A&M have done in filing the false trademark application as anything other than intentional dishonesty and deception, please let me know how you view the whole TAMU 12th Man trademark scam. i would love to understand how anyone can consider it anything other than embarrassing.
College athletics rightfully gets bashed for being a platform upon which the alumni of far too many institutions get caught up in objectives other than providing opportunities for the next generation to learn the lessons of competition and the value of amateur athletics.
The TAMU 12th Man trademark scam is a sad example of where a misguided university administration decided it was more important to lie to the alumni, lie to the general public and to intentionally submit a false federal filing to bring false glory to an institution that was without legitimate glory to compensate for the low self esteem of the alumni.
In the end, all this will do is to de-legitimize the value of the Texas A&M education.
If I had anything to say to the Texas A&M alumni, it would be "Grow the F@#k up." At this point, the only people who are still buying your 1922/E. King Gill version of the "tradition" are those who are ignorant rubes. To intentionally perpetuate ignorance because the university's alumni lack the self esteem or self confidence to deal with the reality of the university's past is an insult to the people of Texas whose resources the university is squandering in its pursuit of fraudulent history.
Grow the F@#k up and deal with the truth. The people of Texas deserve better than what Texas A&M currently stands for, which is the intentional perpetuation of ignorance.