Football Gameday Attire

[CarolinaDG]

At USC, the fraternities (as well as wealthy families, I s'pose) set up tents. I think it's something like $300/lot at the place that most fraternities get a lot, though. So, yes, drinking's allowed (as long as you're twenty-one, of course), but we also don't drink right AT the stadium. The lots are about half a mile away. We also have this fun times thing in SC called SLED. It's like the police, but much MUCH MUCH worse. Their sole purpose in Columbia is to find college kids drinking when they're, like, 20 (for some reason they only care about the kids who are about to turn twenty one in a couple of weeks!) slap them with a $500 ticket, PTI, and take away all their scholarships. It's fun stuff. People still drink underage, of course, but I've known people to get as many as 3 or 4 tickets. Anyway, point is, they camp out around the area where all the fraternity tents are, so even though we're allowed to drink, underage kids are VERY careful.

[auakl]

Originally posted by madmax
Do most of your schools allow tailgating and alcohol at the games/parking lot?

I can't think of an SEC school that doesn't allow tailgating in the parking lots (Vanderbilt was the strictest campus I've tailgated), though alcohol in the stadium is a different story. At a lot of the SEC schools, tailgating begins on Thursday when the motor homes arrive. For big games like Auburn vs. Alabama, RVs will show up the Saturday before the game. Most if not all SEC stadiums prohibit bringing outside alcohol in, I don't know of any SEC stadiums that sell alcohol inside, but some may that I just can't remember off the top of my head. Auburn is "officially" a dry campus, but the police only really enforce the rule if someone gets really obnoxious or out of hand, pretty fair enforcement in my opinion, though I'm sure that some who have been caught will differ.

Actual Algebra I quiz bonus question in my class: Given the following dimensions of Jordan-Hare Stadium (height, length, width, slope of stands, etc...), what volume of beer can J-H contain? Answer: none, AU is a dry campus

[TigerGirl52]

Originally posted by SoCalGirl


I have a question for all you proper Southerners. One of the alumna in my chapter attended Louisana Tech. She said that while all the girls look so ladylike in their skirts and dresses they also have bottles of alcohol duct taped to their inner thigh! Is that just a Tech thing? Or is it pretty much universal?

I've actually seen girls take the water pockets out of those water bras and stuff ziploc bags full of alcohol in there. The ladies' bathroom before a game is usually hoppin with girls pulling alcohol from the most ungodly of places. LOL.

[TigerGirl52]

Originally posted by auakl


Allison--
I don't remember any of that! Seriously, I don't think we will have that problem next time we come down to Baton Rouge. The overwhelming majority of AU fans and alumni were livid at our team's actions before last year's game. Whatever criticism y'all might have had was multiplied by us several times over directed at our coaching staff and AD, such behavior is simply not expected or tolerated from our players. And regarding the marching band, please ask your fans not to try and knock ours unconscious with liquor bottles next time, we're getting tired of having to fish Jack Daniels bottles out of our tubas, thanks! In fact, what do you say we just have a nice, normal, non-controversial game this year... nahhhhh.... Best of luck and have a safe drive up Oct. 26th, heck, bring your favorite sun dress and I bet one of our actives would love to escort you to the game, you can just yell "GEAUX TIGERS" and nobody will know the difference!

Did you come up for the game last year? Funny thing is...with over 100,000 people tailgating on campus that day I happened to see the one guy I know from Auburn. I was floored that we would actually see each other with that many people around. I don't know if I'll be at the game this year. I actually heard it was already sold out. You know if that's true? If it's not I'm definitely gonna be scrounging for tickets. I've heard y'all have a nice stadium...for Auburn that is. LOL. As far as tame games...that will never happen. There must be some sort of rule in the SEC that the rivalries must always be heated. LOL. I don't mind y'all and your War Eagle so much...it's hearing "Rocky Top" 8000 times when we play UT that drives me absolutely insane.

[Thrillhouse]

The places that go wild for football obviously don't have much else to do

Seriously though, its very casual here.

[TigerGirl52]

And tell what there is to do in Grand Rapids again? LOL. J/J

[AGDLynn]

I only wish West Ga. had brought back the football team before I left college..doesn't seem to be a big deal with collegiates to go..at least the 3 games I went to, including Homecoming when they leave at half time. The players are there for the whole game!

[auakl]

Originally posted by TigerGirl52

I don't mind y'all and your War Eagle so much...it's hearing "Rocky Top" 8000 times when we play UT that drives me absolutely insane.

Allison--
ROTFLMAO!!!

To answer your questions, I watched last year's game on ESPN, I have never been to a game in Baton Rouge (been to LSU but not during football season). The LSU game sold out months ago, only a few tickets remain for the minor games. If you want tickets, your best bet is to search the internet (Ebay, etc) and if you don't have any luck, come on up and buy your tickets from a scalper, be prepared to pay. A word of caution, the closer to the stadium, the more expensive the ticket. Don't buy your ticket from the groups of young African-American men that hang out on the corners nearest the stadium, they charge the highest prices and have been known to sell counterfeit tickets in seasons past. We arrest and prosecute them, but a new batch will just show up next year. Jordan-Hare Stadium is wonderful, I love it. It would be a nice stadium anywhere...but it isn't just anywhere. It is in the middle of our beautiful campus, where football is played before thousands of screaming fans on crisp autumn (read November, that's about when the temps drop below 90) afternoons, just as God intended college football to be played. And if you can't get in, go to one of the bars on Magnolia Ave. or College Street and watch the game. Post-game go to the War Eagle Supper Club south of town (toward I-85) on College St. (Hwy 29), one of Playboy's Top 100 College bars. My personal favorite, been in Auburn forever, my father-in-law partied there when he was a student Take care!

[DeltaSigStan]

Well, no one GOES to San Diego State football games...........

[PSUSigKap]

omg! tailgating is a part of the whole penn state experiance. think of anything, and you can get a penn state logo on it and find it in the beaver stadium parking lot before a home game. people bring RV's and have their full grills and stuff. it's always great to party with drunk alums! haha and the traffic is INSANE!!! oh and the prices for this season's 8 home games $154. . .getting tickets is super competative. my freshman year i didn't get season tickets cuz they'd sold out before they got my forms! if you get the chance come see the nittany lions play. i saw on some usa today coaches poll that we're actually ranked 24th this year. . .we'll have to wait for the AP poll though. . .we might have hope for a decent season yet!!

[Dionysus]

IMO wearing badge attire is inappropiate for a football game or any other sport, especially an outside one. It can come off as being "elitist".

[Cluey]

At most of the SEC universities that I have visited, it's not just the greek students that dress nicely, so I don't think it's being elitist. I think it is just a "throw back" to old days. I saw a picture from when my mom went to college of her in a dress and her date in a suit. That's what everyone wore then *shrug*

True, it is hot during the early season games, so people usually do the sundress thing. The really nice attire comes out with night games in autumn. There is nothing like watching a really good football game in the crisp, autumn air. It's the beginning of sweater weather...

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by TigerGirl52

never happen. There must be some sort of rule in the SEC that the rivalries must always be heated. LOL. I don't mind y'all and your War Eagle so much...it's hearing "Rocky Top" 8000 times when we play UT that drives me absolutely insane.

Bless you, Tiger Girl! SEC rivalries are heated, whether it be football, basketball, baseball or even cheerleading!

I'm a Kentucky fan, although I wasn't able to attend school there. I bleed blue, win or lose, bad ex-coaches and their leftover sanctions or not. There just isn't much better than to be at Commonwealth Stadium in the fall, win or lose. Okay, sure, I'll be honest, Kentucky hasn't won too many football games lately, but if I never again heard "Rocky Top" it would be too soon We live in Ohio State country now and they take football *seriously* around here, but it's just not the same as the SEC.

Christin
(oh, as for what we wore to football games, we usually wore letters and jeans or khakis. When it got colder, we wore whatever was warmest, usually sweaters and jeans or cords with layers as needed. I can remember going down to UK for a game and it rained *and* snowed all in the same day, it was miserable. From then on we always brought changes of clothes with us for the drive home!)

[Swamp Thang]

Growing up and going to School in Birmingham, I'm very familiar with Alabama and Auburn football (and the traditions that go with both schools).

At my alma mater (UAB), our traditions are just getting started because our football program is so young (went D1 in 1996).

As of right now, our big thing is that all greeks sport OUR OWN colors/letters (with like a UAB hat or shorts) because we also have 'spirit contest' where the Greek org showing the most spirit gets $300.00..

I'm gearing up the RV right now to go to Gainesville on August 31st for our opener with the U of Florida in tha SWAMP...

GO BLAZERS..

[Thrillhouse]

Originally posted by TigerGirl52
And tell what there is to do in Grand Rapids again? LOL. J/J

Many different things to do unlike gearing up for one game a week, hahahah.