Reverence and Rivalry: Remembering the “Bonfire Game” Texas-A&M; 1999
Most college football games are played for petty consequence. Rivalry games are played for spite. But on November 26, 1999, the football teams of arch rivals Texas A&M; and the University of Texas, played a game that buoyed a disoriented university in the wake of tragedy. The “Bonfire Game,” as it has become known, serves ...