🏈 Breach! Bama flag flying at A&M stadium

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Alabama is seemingly everywhere these days -- and not just on the recruiting trail.

Look what was found recently at the construction site of Texas A&M's Kyle Field, which is undergoing a massive expansion and renovation project.



The picture was taken over the weekend and we're told the Alabama flag has since been taken down. But will the passionate Aggies fan base stand for this grievous breach of home territory? At least one fan on Twitter playfully vowed revenge on the Crimson Tide.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Lol people are so butthurt over this, calling it "distasteful" and "unclassy" .. Come on people, have a sense of humor ..

 

[jdpas29]

watch out for ambush cow patty placements in the near future

 

[sean]

i remember back in '10 when someone put an auburn jersey on the Coach Bryant statue outside the stadium.

and of course the distasteful act of retaliation that followed.


hopefully this gets nipped before it goes too far.

 

[FOX Sports Digital]

A construction worker assigned to Texas A&M's Kyle Stadium renovations allegedly fired for hanging Alabama flag.

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[planomateo]

Supposedly a crane operator.

 

[PhillyGirl]

A construction worker assigned to Texas A&M's Kyle Stadium renovations allegedly fired for hanging Alabama flag.

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Is that a fire-able offense .. ?

 

[Bamabww]

Funny. Let the games begin.

 

[sean]

Is that a fire-able offense .. ?

that depends. in some states you can be fired for.....whatever. the supervisor doesn't like the color of your shoes? they can fire you for that. it's sad, but it's true.

and if he was indeed fired for that, then i say bad on the person/company who fired him for that. it may be frowned upon and even give the boss a reason to terminate him/her (as the boss may be an a&m fan), but that doesn't mean they should. seems a little petty if it is indeed true.

 

[planomateo]

Construction, people get fired for stuff like that all the time.

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Just in case you'd forgotten that things are just kind of different in the SEC, this story should serve as a nice reminder.

Earlier this week I wrote a post about a construction worker that was fired after he hung an Alabama flag while working on the renovations at Texas A&M's Kyle Field. Well, according to the Facebook posts of that fired employee, he did a lot more than just hang a flag.

"This stadium will never be ready for this season," wrote Bobby Livingston on Feb. 28. "I'm putting iron in backwards and wrong holing everything!!"

Livingston also warned fans about the northeast end zone in April.

"If you ever attend a Texas A&M football game, don't sit at the Northeast End Zone," said Livingston. "It was raining today and I made 2 very "questionable" welds!!"

Now, the odds are that Livingston is joking about all of this, because you'd have to be incredibly stupid to purposely endanger the lives of thousands of people and post about it on Facebook.

Then again, Harvey Updyke.

But don't worry, the engineering company in charge of inspecting Kyle Field says everything is just fine.

"All steel fabrication has been observed and critical welds tested/verified at the plants by the third party firm, Raba Kistner Engineering," said Raba Kistner's Paul Hawryluk. "Once delivered to the site, field welds, moment connections, and bolt torquing are tested/verified in accordance to building code and engineering specification by the third party inspectors. Structural engineers of record review the inspection reports as well as conduct site observation/review of the in place steel."

See, this stuff just isn't necessary in the Pac-12.

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[TerryP]

A serious question.

"If you ever attend a Texas A&M football game, don't sit at the Northeast End Zone," said Livingston. "It was raining today and I made 2 very "questionable" welds!!"

Has anyone ever heard of a crane operator making structural welds?

Considering this is in Texas I doubt there's a large union contingent found with the work force. If there were, I'd know this was bullshit.

Even in a non-union environment—and please excuse my ignorance here—this seems odd to me. It reads like a roofer getting down on a rainy day to work on plumbing.

 

[planomateo]

He's an iron worker. "Crane operator" was flat out laziness of the part of the original reporter.

He could be finding out that his posts on Facebook could end him in some legal trouble. If he did bad welds intentionally, then he's a damn idiot and should be in some legal trouble. If you remember back in December, they had a contractor fall a few stories and die while working on renovations to Kyle Field.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The atm construction worker is simply an idiot. Similar in some ways, but a little different than the story a few years ago of the Red Sox jersey poured in the concrete at new Yankee Stadium.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/sports/baseball/14jersey.html?_r=0