AutisticBelle wrote:
Then again, as a result, I don't like any single team, but rather all of them. So if I were to actually go to a game, I would cheer for boths sides and therefore be murdered for my lack of loyalty.
There are some colleges where the students tend to be rather obnoxious. There are others where the opponents receive a much friendlier welcome.
I haven't been to a baseball game at Texas A&M in about eleven years now, but I doubt that it has changed all that much since the 1990s. I would suggest that if you ever get a chance, go to a baseball game at Texas A&M and sit in the general admission section with the students. Nobody will look down on you if you cheer for the other side or for both sides unless you become obnoxious.
For example, at one game against Oklahoma State a few years ago, the Oklahoma State team had some little kid maybe 5 years old who would run out and pick up the bats and take them back to the dugout. After he had run out a few times, the crowd of Texas Aggies started cheering for him whenever he came out of the dugout. I hadn't realized it when the game started, but it turned out that I was sitting next to his mother who was really thrilled at the reception he got at Texas A&M. After she told us his name, everyone cheered for him by name the rest of the game.
This is an interesting read by a Virginia Tech fan after visiting Texas A&M for a football game between the two schools --
http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/spring05/letters.html:
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I was very happy to read in the latest issue of Virginia Tech Magazine that good sportsmanship by our fans is being promoted. We had the happy occasion to go to the first game between Tech and Texas A&M here in Texas in 2002. We wore our Virginia Tech clothing, of course. We arrived early so we could attend the alumni pre-game activities. We were very surprised to be warmly greeted by the A&M fans and students. More than once, we were asked to join one of their groups for a bit of pre-game refreshment. Some of the A&M folks sitting near us during the game gave us the history of their songs, cheers, and other school traditions. One lady bought several of us Tech fans bottles of cold water during halftime. It was a hot day and we were up in the nosebleed section, very far from the refreshment stands, so her kind gesture was greatly appreciated. Even after we had won, the fans were nice to us, and retiring U.S. Senator Phil Graham said something nice to us on the way to our car. The only sour part was a very obnoxious, loudmouth fan who made things a bit unpleasant for the people sitting near him in the stands. Unfortunately, he was a younger alumnus from Virginia Tech.