Football Mania + Spiel the Beans Linkup

Welcome to the Spiel the Beans Linkup today where Katy and I are asking who are ya rootin’ for? We are sharing our favorite football team and would love for you to linkup yours!

So I am asked all the time if I am an Aggie. I never know quite how to answer as, you see, the Aggie Spirit is pretty fierce and they take things pretty seriously and I didn’t actually graduate from Texas A&M. While my degree is from Sam Houston State, I was a commuter student and never really had the student experience but I’ve worked for Texas A&M for almost 25 years and have celebrated the ups and downs cheering on the Aggies. If you have ever been to Kyle Field on a Saturday, you would know it’s really hard not to get sucked in! It has always been loud but after a $450M+ renovation it should seriously be on everyone’s bucket list if you love college football!

The Spirit of Aggieland is real and the story of the 12th Man gets me every single time! Not only does the student section stay the entire game, the students stand the entire game! You just cannot spend a day at Kyle Field and NOT feel the excitement.

Of course it all gets started with the overall Aggie gameday experience! The first year A&M played Alabama after moving to the SEC our little town was all a buzz. Holly and I could not wait to take the kids to campus and the night before to stir the excitement for gameday. They of course ended up swimming in Fish Pond and we ended up with this priceless photo op!

Pregame includes the Corps march in along with the Aggie Band!

Lots of games and activities for the kids!

And plenty of photo ops!

Another big reason to visit Kyle Field? The Aggies never, ever lose halftime! The Aggie band is incredible and it never gets old!

This was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever attended at Kyle Field maybe because we just sucked it up and went in the pouring rain or maybe because we beat tu (otherwise known as the University of Texas) 27-16 or it could have been because these girls were just so much fun!

My kids have grown up with Aggie Football and I love taking a look back at the pictures. I think they would all tell you they have such great memories at Kyle Field, even Riley who eventually chose TCU. So many great memories with all of my favorite people!

I can just see these four singing the war him together for years to come! Hey…a mom can dream!

The only thing bigger than the crowd at Kyle Field is the amount of tailgating. On Friday at noon a horn blows signaling all the tailgaters they can officially stake their claim on campus real estate. Some out of towners actually pay someone to do this for them!! Cracks me up but I am not going to complain as we have enjoyed many a tailgate over the years with yummy food and cold beer. And yes, one of our friends actually brought “Bevo” before one of the games for a photo op. I love catching up with friends old and new on football weekends!

I promise these cans were empty, but don’t think these pictures won’t resurface sometime when they head to college! These girls are messes.

Traveling with the Aggies has also been a highlight! These girls and I made a road trip to St. Louis in 1998. Oh my goodness this game was so freaking exciting as the Aggies won the Big XII Championship against Kansas State 36-33 in double overtime! We were super broke and really had no business going but the road trip was totally worth it.

The results weren’t as exciting but we still had fun traveling to California to the Holiday Bowl in 2006!

One more family road trip to San Antonio to see the Aggies in the Alamo Bowl in 2007. We have only traveled to one additional bowl game since and decided we were bad luck! Dillon now goes with my sister-in-law and the Aggies have performed much better…ha!

Speaking of Aunt Amy, she is the best when it comes to supporting the Aggies with goodie bags and special treats! My kids can always count on lots of Aggie goodies and the McBerty kids have adopted her as well.

I seriously could go on, and on and on! Lucky for you I still have most of my pictures on my old Mac! If you ever find yourself in College Station, even on a non-game weekend, you should definitely add a tour of Kyle Field to your travel plans. You can find more information on tours here.

Now it’s your turn to share your favorite team! Please link to your specific post URL and not to your blog home page.

Please place a link back to this link-up in either your post or on your party page so that others can link up too. It’s a party, try to visit at least 2 other posts and show them some love! This is the fun part! Be inspired, inspire someone else – don’t just link and run!

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