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I am very passionate about Aggie football. I love it. I love the whole game day experience in Kyle Field. I've loved being in the new Kyle Field—except for one thing: the booing. After reading this blog post about the increase in booing at the Mississippi State game, I felt the need to say something.

Come on, y'all. Booing is so unsportsmanlike. It's rude. It's disrespectful. And it is definitely something that Aggies do NOT do.

Growing up in an Aggie family, it was drilled into my head that I should never boo—even when not at Aggie games. You. Don't. Boo.

It's not like I'm saying that we shouldn't have a way to express our frustration at dumb calls (Ricky Seals-Jones' ejection for example). That's why we hiss. We "horse laugh." It's different. It's funny. And it doesn't make all 100,000 of us look like drunken fools.

Let's retain the class and dignity of A&M by choosing not to boo the refs, or anyone for that matter. When we stand as the 12th Man in Kyle Field, we are a pretty powerful group of people. We get loud and affect the momentum of the game. The way we treat others, even in competition settings, says a lot about us. And it should reflect what we see every day and know to be true.

Just because we're in the SEC doesn't mean we have to change ourselves fundamentally.

We're hosting Alabama this week, so let's show them the classy-and-dignified-but-passionate-as-heck side of Aggie football.

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