I finally did it, I got to see a game at LSU something that I had wanted to do since I first saw a game on tv there. Besides the 17 hour drive it was a great experience. Pulling into the lot we thought we were going to find some of our WVU buddies, but with 92,000 people tailgating it was pretty hard to find them. So we started walking around the stadium, we received a little heckling by chants of "Tiger bait, Tiger bait," but it was all good. We passed bye a lot, near the track stadium, and they had a tv up that had the Arkansas Bama game on. We watched in the back for a little bit, then some of the LSU fans noticed us and actually said hey guys come over have some food and beer. So we had grab a beer and some food and though that would be it for the night, but surprisingly they told us have as much beer and food as you want to. So obviously I dug in, had a variety of different beers, cold cuts, hot stuffed peppers wrapped in bacon sausage and cream cheese. Some of the best food I had in a while, the only problem was we didn't come past any gumbo or jambalaya. Despite not having purple with the going with the gold, almost all of the fans were extremely friendly; we talked to the LSU fans about there history and what not, and they told us "if you want to take our 2007 national championship banner back to Morgantown with you, you are more than welcome to." They hate Rich Rod as much as we do up here, the LSU fans basically told us that Rich Rod blew that Pitt game for us.
After eating some good and some good drinking, we found our way to the seats and settled in to watch the game. We sat in row 4 of the upper deck and the seats weren't bad at all. Then there was one drunk LSU fan sitting about 4 seats down from us that was chanting "We are Marshall" at us which of course made no sense, but that was the only heckling we received throughout the night. Honestly I thought the crowd would be louder than it was Saturday night, but then again it wasn't an SEC game so that might of been a factor. The crowd was about NFL stadium loud. On our way to Baton Rouge the road took us through Tuscaloosa, AL, the home of the national champion Crimson Tide. So of course we stopped by to see the stadium. As soon as we hit the actual campus we saw a frat house bigger than some of the academic buildings at WVU, don't know if that's bad about WVU's academics or good for Alabama's partying. After the frat house we drove over the hill an lo and behold a giant ass space ship pops up. Bryant Denny Stadium all 105,000 seats this was definitely the biggest stadium I've saw. The gates were closed so we were only able to take pics outside the stadium.
Overall it was a great experience, I finally got see what my favorite sport is really all about by going to a game at a SEC stadium. From the tailgating to the passion of the fans it was great, and if I did live in the south I would most likely go to LSU or 'Bama.
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