Texas Football: Sam Ehlinger sparks Twitter feud involving Aggies

The off-the-field action between the Texas football program and Texas A&M Aggies hit headlines again thanks to Sam Ehlinger on spring break.

The annual off-season rivalry feuds between the Texas football program and the Texas A&M Aggies kicked into high gear again on March 22, this time directly involving rising junior quarterback Sam Ehlinger. After a spring break flight out of the Austin airport, Ehlinger turned to his phone to express his displeasure with the Texas A&M ads he found.

Battling off-the-field is the name of the game for these two football programs now since the Aggies departed the Big 12 roughly seven years ago. Texas football and Texas A&M would make for one of the best rejuvenated rivalries in the nation. The Lone Star Showdown is one of the biggest dormant rivalries that was left behind with the Big 12 breakup, along with Kansas-Missouri and Nebraska-Oklahoma.

The Twitter outbreak from Ehlinger in saying that the Aggies are the “little brother” compared to the Texas football program in this state got some mixed reactions. Clearly, the Texas football fans were mostly either entertained or satisfied with the post. But, some did express their displeasure with how Ehlinger represented the Texas football program in this occasion.

If nothing else, this was a very different off-the-field battle than the Texas Longhorns football program and Texas A&M than we usually get. Most comes with the actual on-the-field action that capped off seven years ago between these two big-time programs. The blame game is often held between whose fault it actually is that the rivalry is dormant.

Some of the shots back from Aggies fans on Twitter weren’t too convincing. Ehlinger even posted his response to the outcry from Texas A&M fans with a selection of pictures he took about the adverstisements from the university at the Austin-Bergstrom Airport.

Yet, this is an indication of how thin the arguments are getting between Texas and Texas A&M off the field at this point. This just seems like a rivalry that needs to get reignited on the field soon. There aren’t any signs that will be happening anytime soon, though.

It’s nice to see the spirit from the players still kicking into high-gear, but it doesn’t matter too much once the coming season arrives. Texas does get to face a division rival out of the SEC West of the Aggies this season, with the LSU Tigers, but that is the closest these two squads will come to facing each other directly.

Last year, the Horns capped off the 2018 campaign in proper fashion by beating another fellow conference foe of the Aggies out of the SEC. Texas knocked off the top-five ranked Georgia Bulldogs in the Allstate Sugar Bowl to build some hype entering the 2019 off-season.