{"id":1015701,"date":"2026-10-01T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1015701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:37:10","slug":"texas-am-posts-blank-end-zone-teaser-on-social-media-internet-trolls-understand-their-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1015701\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M posts blank end zone teaser on social media, internet trolls understand their assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Posting on social media for a big corporation is a tightrope act these days.<\/p>\n

You want to create an engaging post, but you don’t want something low hanging<\/a> that will cause internet trolls to come out of the woods and take pot shots at.<\/p>\n

It’s even crazier for a high-level college football<\/a> team, because fans of every other team are just looking for a reason to roast you into oblivion.<\/p>\n

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As a former social media manager, I don’t envy the position these people are in.<\/p>\n

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\"Texas <\/p>\n

A view of the midfield logo before the game between the Texas A&M Aggies and the LSU Tigers at Kyle Field on Oct. 26, 2024 in College Station, Texas. (Tim Warner\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

With all that said, the social media team for Texas A&M’s football program<\/a> posted what is perhaps the greatest opportunity for any internet troll with access to Photoshop that has existed in quite some time.<\/p>\n

To the uninitiated, this may just look like a team hyping up their new end zones for Saturday, but to “students of the game,” this is basically a blank canvas for trolling opportunities.<\/p>\n

Don’t believe me? Observe.<\/p>\n

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You know, if the Aggies were 4-0 right now, this probably wouldn’t be going as poorly in the comments section.<\/p>\n

But the fact that A&M is 2-2 and reeling after back to back losses to Kentucky and LSU<\/a> made this almost too easy to see coming.<\/p>\n

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\"Mike <\/p>\n

Texas A&M Aggies head coach Mike Elko reacts against the Southern California Trojans in the first half at Allegiant Stadium on December 27, 2024. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

You just don’t get opportunities like this anymore as digital graffiti artists, mainly because social media managers have been around the block a few times before, so I have no idea how anyone on the Aggies’ social media team let this one slip through the cracks.<\/p>\n

They even left the generic blank Photoshop fill on the end zones, almost as if they wanted this to happen.<\/p>\n

Was this a false flag operation by Texas A&M to generate engagement?<\/p>\n

I doubt it.<\/p>\n

Like I said, this was a top-ten preseason team with College Football Playoff aspirations that is now sitting at 2-2 and on the brink of missing the big dance entirely.<\/p>\n

I’m sure their posts are being engaged with plenty, though most of that engagement is coming from angry Aggie fans demanding to know why Marcel Reed is still allowed to touch a football.<\/p>\n

\"Marcel <\/p>\n

Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Marcel Reed (10) keeps the ball for yards during the first half against the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Nov. 28, 20225. (Scott Wachter\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

I think this was just a rookie mistake committed by whoever is in charge of the phones in College Station.<\/p>\n

Let this be a lesson to anyone hiring a social media manager for a big-time sports team or Fortune 500 company.<\/p>\n

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Be careful who you give access to the “nuclear codes.”<\/p>\n

Austin Perry is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posting on social media for a big corporation is a tightrope act these days. You want to create…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":997422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1107,7,49,51074,48,118034,7212,811,131770],"class_list":["post-1015701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-betting","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-fb","tag-ncaa-football","tag-outkick-sports","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-twitter","tag-v-outkick-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117365692937073412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}