Texas A&M stole "12th man" from The "U"

[Unregistered User]

Wall Street Journal article.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Most Seattle fans think and act like they invented it.

 

[Buck_Buchanan]

Wall Street Journal article.

Unregistered User

Thank you for posting the article. I thought it was an interesting read.

Buck

 

[Buck_Buchanan]

Most Seattle fans think and act like they invented it.

+1
Couldn't agree more!

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Too bad we didn't embrace it and make it our own slogan. More power to A&M for doing so.

Gig 'em and Go Gophers!

 

[GoldenRodents]

I think the "13th Man" is available.

 

[RodentRampage]

I didn't realize that Texas A&M had trademarked "The 12th Man". With trademark, you have to enforce it or lose it, and if Seattle was using it for over 20 years TAMU's trademark claim looks pretty weak. It's a pretty weak trademark claim anyway, while TAMU embraces, it, it's a widely used phrase that they didn't invent. Xerox continuously ends out letters reminding people that "Xerox" is not a generic term for photocopying, because if they don't, they lose the trademark. Trademarking traditions is rather weak, especially when it isn't even your invention, it's language theft.

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

We should go back to calling passionate fans "rooters" again.

 

[RodentRampage]

We should go back to calling passionate fans "rooters" again.

And then we should trademark it.

 

[The 12th Man]

Bottom line: they all stole it from me.

 

[STPGopher]

Bottom line: they all stole it from me.

Ha!

 

[xoxoemilyanne]

Seahawks pay TAMU to use 12th man. 100k initially and 5k a year.

 

[t-docious]

wowza we should get in on that action! if what were syaing is true!

 

[WorkingMyTailOff]

What about The 23rd Leg?

Thank you for sharing Unregistered.