Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A & M - Hardcover

Stratton, W. K.

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ISBN 10: 0609610538 ISBN 13: 9780609610534

Verlag: Crown Pub, 2002

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An overview of the nearly one-hundred-year football rivalry between the University of Texas and Texas A&M explores this serious feud and what it means in terms of Texas politics, business, and culture.

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nce a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up business deals. It ruins relationships. And once it’s finished, all both sides want is for another year to pass by so they can do it again. It is the Texas/Texas A& M football game. And in the football-obsessed state that is Texas, no single game resonates more.

Every year during the Thanksgiving holidays, the two teams meet for something that has become much more than just a game. It’s a blood feud that represents a tremendous cultural divide in the state. It’s city against country, a rural agricultural school against an urban university. And yet both sides come from the same family, warring cousins who roll up their sleeves once a year in the backyard to settle the question of who’s number one―at least for the time being.

In Backyard Brawl, W. K. Stratton takes you through this rivalry and its history, covering the year

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0609610538
• ISBN 13: 9780609610534
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248