Matt

A man once said of me: "He's more Texan than the ground we're standing on."

[Texas A&M Football @AggieFootball]

Thank you, as always, @12thMan 👍

[Texas A&M Women's Tennis @AggieWTEN]

Got to show Kyle Field our Natty Champs trophy 🏆

[Clemson Tom @ClemsonTom]

Until someone offers him more $ and he’ll leave. Or he’ll get fired

[Matt @matt_texan]

Are we ignoring the large amount of open seats?

[Texas Longhorns @TexasLonghorns]

so... about it being hot outside?

#HookEm

[Texas A&M Football @AggieFootball]

IT’S GAME DAY, AGS!

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

🎯

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Yeah I am actually emotional about the murder of three children. Why aren’t you?

[Chad Fisher DNP @ChadFisher]

It’s a miserable 78 degrees in LA right now. That’s why nobody’s at the USC game.

[Matt @matt_texan]

@grok @japan_nobunaga Where do the cultural observations originate?

[Matt @matt_texan]

@1997Aggies Well the past 36 hours has changed the "desert" status

[Matt @matt_texan]

@japan_nobunaga 1 American flag. 1 Texan flag. 1 Aggie flag.

[Matt @matt_texan]

@365Aggie A certain Texas grocery store had a store in Louisiana once but left very quickly due to government corruption

[Matt @matt_texan]

We're all foolish for expecting the people of Louisiana to have common sense #lsu

[Director Of Fun UMass Reindeer @UmassReindeer]

If UMass beats Rutgers tomorrow I will paint my entire body maroon. Every inch folks

[BeatinTheBookie.com®️ @BeatinTheBookie]

Embarrassing as hell to wear that to a courtroom. Have some pride in your image.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I drove forty miles across Texas and counted flags.

Sixty-one. I counted again on the way back and got sixty-three, because two had gone up while I was gone.

A car dealership had one the size of a house. A plumber's truck had one on each door. A porch. A bikini, at the lake. A mailbox. A coffin, being carried into a church, and then, at the gas station across the street, a hat.

In my country the flag belongs to the state. It flies on government buildings on holidays and is put away by a man with a key.

Here I could not find the man with the key.

The salesman at the dealership said the flag was theirs. The plumber said his was his. A woman on her porch said, "Honey, it's mine," in a tone that closed the subject.

Nobody had been issued one. Everybody had bought their own.

I bought one. A neighbor showed me the rules, which nobody had ever written down for him either. Up at dawn. Down at dusk, or lit. Never the ground. Folded thirteen times into a triangle. He did the folds with me four times until my hands knew them. He said, "There you go," and did not say why he knew.

I have folded it four hundred times since. There is a light I could buy. I have not bought the light.

In my country the flag belongs to the state.

In Texas it belongs to a plumber named Ray, and to the dealership, and to the woman on the porch, and to a bikini at the lake, and on holidays the state has to ask to borrow it.

They lend it gladly. They have sixty-three.

[Matt @matt_texan]

Peyton Manning. '98 Heisman

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

Name a player who got robbed of a major award.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas I went to a game where the entire student side of the stadium did not sit down for four hours.

I assumed the seats were broken. I checked the one next to me. It worked.

I asked a student named Tyler why nobody was sitting.

He said, "In case they need us."

That was the whole answer. In my land we have a saying, always on the battlefield. A samurai does not lounge in the presence of a lord who may call him. He stands, so that when the call comes there is no distance between the call and the man.

Here were thirty thousand of them. Standing. In case.

I asked Tyler how often they are needed.

He thought about it. "Once."

Once. In 1922. The team was running out of healthy men, and a student named Gill was called down out of the stands. He put on an injured player's uniform and stood on the sideline, ready, for the rest of the game. He never went in. They won without him.

That is the whole origin. A man who did not play. A hundred years of standing for a man who did not play.

So I stood. I am not a student. I was not going to be called under any reading of the rules. My knees began filing complaints in the third quarter and I ignored them, because Tyler was nineteen and had stood through every home game for three years and had never once been called, and was not bitter about it, and was in fact eating nachos.

Nobody was called. Nobody has been called since 1922. The knees of Texas do not care.

In my land we say be ready at every moment.
Texas built thirty thousand seats and refuses to use them.