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madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 12:57 PM Jul 2012

Texas A&M Fans Celebrate 1999 Alamo Bowl Victory Over Penn State

COLLEGE STATION, TX—Following the NCAA’s decision Monday to vacate all of Penn State’s wins from 1998 through 2011, thousands of Texas A&M students and fans poured onto campus in a frenzy of excitement to celebrate what has now been ruled as a victory for their team in the 1999 Alamo Bowl. “First thing we had to do was track down Coach [R.C.] Slocum—we found him at home mowing his lawn and immediately dumped Gatorade on him,” said 32-year-old former Aggie fullback Ja’Mar Toombs, standing in a streamer-strewn street below a banner reading “Congratulations, 1999 Alamo Bowl Champs.” “You spend your whole life dreaming about NCAA rulings like this, and when one finally comes, you almost can’t believe it. I’m just so happy to share it with those of my teammates who are still around.” When reporters asked about the appropriateness of celebrating a game that took place during a trip on which Jerry Sandusky allegedly molested a young boy he brought with him to Texas, their questions were inevitably drowned out by triumphant chants of “A and M!"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/texas-am-fans-celebrate-1999-alamo-bowl-victory-ov,28976/


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Texas A&M Fans Celebrate 1999 Alamo Bowl Victory Over Penn State (Original Post) madinmaryland Jul 2012 OP
Florida State should be celebrating some bowl victory also joeybee12 Jul 2012 #1
They're slipping -- they forgot to use the word "retroactively" rocktivity Jul 2012 #2
These guys want a parade! >> El Supremo Jul 2012 #3
Good one! Perry is still trying to figure out the three reasons as to why A&M madinmaryland Jul 2012 #4
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
1. Florida State should be celebrating some bowl victory also
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 01:10 PM
Jul 2012

Can't recall when but it was one of those games that got wiped out...and it was I think the Orange Bowl.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
4. Good one! Perry is still trying to figure out the three reasons as to why A&M
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:19 PM
Jul 2012

won the game!

He probably figures it had something to do with an illegal recruit from Upper Sandusky, Ohio.


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