The Number One Question facing College Football for next year.

The big question facing college football next year isn’t whether or not the BCS will be destroyed and replaced with an actual playoff system. It won’t, sadly.

The big question for college football next year is this…..

Will Texas A&M change their fight song, now that it makes absolutely no sense?

If you aren’t familiar with the Aggie Fight Song (aka Aggie War Hymn) Below are the lyrics:

Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck

Hullabaloo, Caneck, Caneck

All hail to dear old Texas A&M

Rally around Maroon and White

Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies

They are the boys who show the real old fight

That good old Aggie Spirit thrills us

And makes us yell and yell and yell

So let's fight for dear old Texas A&M

We're gonna beat you all to Chigaroogarem

Chigaroogarem

Rough, Tough, real stuff Texas A&M

Good bye to texas university

So long to the orange and the white

Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies

They are the boys who show the real old fight

'the eyes of Texas are upon you'

That is the song they sing so well

Sounds Like Hell

So good bye to texas university

We're gonna beat you all to Chigaroogarem

Chigaroogarem

Rough, Tough, Real stuff, Texas A&M

Saw varsity's horns off

Saw varsity's horns off

Saw varsity's horns off

Short! A!

Varsity's horns are sawed off

Varsity's horns are sawed off

Varsity's horns are sawed off

Short! A!

The lyrics are weird, but it was written a long time ago, and some of the stuff that seems like nonsense now, actually made sense back then. If you’re interested in what it all means click here.

Basically, most of the song talks about beating the University of Texas (full disclosure, I have a degree from said University of Texas). Now this was moderately weird before, because even when the Aggies were playing other teams besides UT, they would sing about beating Texas. But at least then, they knew they would actually be playing Texas at some point during the season (usually the last game) so you could kind of play it off.

Now, however, Texas A&M and the University of Texas will not be playing against one another in any sport, period.  Barring both teams making it to the National Championship game of any given sport (ha!)  there is no chance they will play one another in anything until 2018. It is beyond ridiculous to be singing about a school you hate that you won't even play in the forseeable future.

The Aggies chose to move to the SEC, which may turn out to be a great move for them. Personally, I think they will end up regretting this move, but I could easily be wrong on this one. With that choice they more or less abandonded the relationship they had with Texas, so it's probably time to start developing some new traditions.  This is the knock though. If you've ever been around Aggies, or gone to College Station, then you know that tradition is a huge part of their modus operandi (I think that's Latin, or maybe Chinese).  Once you buy into the importance of tradition so thoroughly it is very difficult to start new traditions that do away with the old.

So, will the Aggies change their fight song?

I think they should. What do you Aggies think?

Comments

[john putman]

Good bye to texas university... so long to the orange and the white. Good luck to dear old Texas Aggies.... they are the boys who show the real old fight.

Some could argue that these lyrics have never been more apropos! Goodbye to you... and we will need lots of luck in our new venture into the SEC!

Oh... and we will still try to 'beat' you guys... even if it means hoping to be better in the standings at the end of the year. Why? Well, just because we are not playing you for now... every Aggie still has lots of Longhorn friends and every Longhorn has lots of Aggie friends. The rivalry remains regardless. It is a fun one generally (not like the hateful one you have with OU and that Tech seems to want to have with us these days) and it is... drumroll... tradition!

So the answer is... YES, we will be singing it the same way... even though there is another verse to the song that we could switch to if we really wanted to. We don't want to change it... we have fun with it just as it is. And like other things, we are ok if you don't 'get it'... we can just chalk it up as another 'Aggie Thing'.

I guess the question is... why do so many Longhorns even care if we sing it? It is funny... that is the question I get asked most when I talk to longhorns about the move... "well, are you going to keep singing that song?". I find it funny that it is even on the minds of anyone that doesn't bleed maroon. :)

By the way... I am assuming that the official Longhorn fight song (that is played after scoring events in all sports) will need to officially have its' lyrics changed as well:

Texas Fight! Texas Fight!
And it's goodbye to A&M.

Oh wait... those lyrics would now also be applicable... I guess we can just keep our songs the way they are.

gig 'em :)