Quote #207880
In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.
Bob Wells
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Interpretation
The remark uses Texas college-sports identities—“Longhorns” (University of Texas) and “Aggies” (Texas A&M)—as shorthand for family loyalties and friendly rivalry. By framing differing allegiances among parents and children as “family fun on Thanksgiving Day,” the speaker emphasizes how sports affiliation can function as a benign, even bonding, form of intra-family difference. The hope that the youngest becomes a Longhorn adds a playful note of parental partisanship, while the holiday setting evokes a common American scene where relatives gather and good-natured teasing peaks around big games and long-standing rivalries.



