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An Ode to Aggieland

DATE POSTED:November 21, 2024
 An Ode To AggielandThe Texas–Texas A&M football game is back this week, after a thirteen-year hiatus. Texas Monthly, which has long covered the rivalry, rejoices in its return with a full collection of stories about the game’s history, off-the-field antics, major players, and more. Read everything here. Growing up in College Station meant a life governed by the tides. Waves of students would roll into town each August and then recede again the following May. As the adolescent sons of members of the Texas A&M faculty, in those pre-internet days, my friends and I would eagerly await the annual spring exodus so that we could comb the dumpsters of the emptying apartment complexes for discarded girlie magazines. We’d stash them in our clubhouse, which we’d built from construction scrap salvaged…

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