Unsolicited CSB time:
I was at the UF/aTm game a few years ago... Manziel's first season, and, more importantly, the Aggies' first game in the SEC. They were remarkably, uncomfortably nice, all the way around. Everyone says they're nice as a fan base (albeit, yes, a little weird), but I like to think we got some extra special friendliness, as they were just so damn happy to be done with the Big XII and into the SEC.
The CSB, though, had more to do with my wife. Her father, despite being a Jewish kid from NYC, actually went to school at A&M, and was in the corps. Well, he passed away a couple of years before she and I started dating, and this game was less than a year into our relationship, so it was still relatively recent. At some point during the pre-game tailgating, she was wandering around and found a group of corps alumni from right before her father's graduation year. She introduced herself, told them about her dad, and chatted for a bit. None of the guys present knew him, but a couple of months later she received a letter from one of the tailgaters. He'd looked up some guys he knew from her dad's graduation class and compiled a bunch of information about her dad's time at A&M. He included an A&M-related memento of some kind, and encouraged us to come back some time so they could show us around campus and fill in some of the corps history for her, as it related to her father, generally considering us honorary kin. It was a very kind, very sweet gesture, and obviously quite moving for her. We don't play A&M in College Station any time soon, but 100% guarantee we'll be making that trip when it happens, if not before (even keeping an eye on basketball and baseball schedules).
