A&M v The Citadel

Last weekend (yes we are behind here) we spent Saturday night in College Station and watched the Fightin' Ags take on The Citadel - PastaNoodle's first Aggie game.




Barbara demonstrates a symbol from the Aggie Senior right of passage -The whoop














The Aggies, as expected beat the heck out of The Citadel 35-3. The Aggies also showed off their new end zone high-def 12th Man TV video screen - the 2nd largest in collegiate sports. It weighs in at 3,954 square feet and 110 feet tall. The new video ribbon board also debuted - 1,130 feet long along the perimeter of the first deck, the longest in college sports and the 2nd longest in the U.S.








I, of course, would be remiss if I did not also mention that the largest video screen in college sports and the largest high-def screen in the Western Hemisphere also debuted that Saturday at UT. Godzillatron is 7,370 square feet, about 86% larger than the 2nd biggest collegiate screen. Its electronics are kept cool by 40 5-ton a/c units.





The largest HDTV video screen in the world is at a horse track in Japan. It measures in at 8,000 square feet.









Ok, back to the weekend. In what is apparently an Aggie tradition, we took PastaNoodle's first annual picture in front of the statue of Sul Ross at the age of minus 4-months. Sul Ross, former Texas Governor and President of A&M.











Dave made his first, and Barb her 2nd, visit to the Bonfire Memorial. The memorial is dedicated to the 12 students who died when the 1999 bonfire collapsed while under construction. The portals, shown in the photo, each represent a student and face in the direction of that student's home town. The 1999 tragedy brought on increased camaraderie between UT and A&M and maybe even softened Barbara up enough to eventually marry a T-Sip. Dave attended the last bonfire in 1998.






We then visited the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library. It was rather interesting and we only made it through the 1st half before having to hit the road. The most interesting thing to me was that Bush never held down a job for longer than he was Vice President or longer than I have been at ISP. From oil field salesman, executive, Harris County GOP head, UN ambassador, ambassador to China, GOP head, CIA leader to president he never had a job for longer than 8 years!