Gig 'em and animal cruelty Options

[jonathan83]

One of my friends was writing a note on facebook which got me to thinking.

The media is all up in arms about the Vick 'Em shirts because it's about animal cruelty.

Why don't they report on the original meaning of "Gig 'em?"

http://aggietraditions.tamu.edu/gigem.shtml

At a yell practice before the 1930 TCU game, A&M board of regent Pinky Downs '06 shouted, "What are we going to do to those Horned Frogs?" His muse did not fail him as he improvised, borrowing a term from frog hunting. "Gig 'em, Aggies!" he said as he made a fist with his thumb extended straight up.

So in fact, it comes from killing frogs. Not any frogs, but the horned frogs, which are in fact, a threatened species.

Not to mention their "Saw 'em off" stickers they put on cars, which implies sawing off the horns of a longhorn. Isn't that also animal cruelty?

This post has been edited by jonathan83: Oct 11 2007, 12:04 AM