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Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:06 pm to everytrueson
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I have some friends that live in north Georgia.
Where in North Georgia? I went to school in North Georgia.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:07 pm to gatorhata9
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I was thinking the exact same thing
That was the strangest comment I've seen. And this is the Rant!
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:09 pm to DawgsLife
So all Mizzou fans live in Mizzou? None in Atl, Nashville, Bham, Charleston, Charlotte, Raleigh, Tampa, and on and on? All places that are easy to travel from. I don't live in Athens but I can still go to away games. 
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:09 pm to Beantownbulldog
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Truly hospitable place too.
In Boston?!?! I'm .....speechless!
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:09 pm to Beantownbulldog
What can we say, winning in Athens has already gotten boring. 
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:11 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
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What can we say, winning in Athens has already gotten boring.
Only because winning in Columbia is still a new experience.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:11 pm to DawgsLife
They love us there.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:12 pm to bofadeez_dawg
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So all Mizzou fans live in Mizzou? None in Atl, Nashville, Bham, Charleston, Charlotte, Raleigh, Tampa, and on and on? All places that are easy to travel from. I don't live in Athens but I can still go to away games
Mizzou's attendance in Nashville and in Oxford has been very, very good.
I think Atlanta is too far away from our major alumni concentrations to have a huge number. That's been the case both times in the SEC title game (I was there both times FYI). Sure we have alums in the cities you mention, but not nearly as many as most SEC East teams do. The highest concentrations of Mizzou alumni in cities outside our state are Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago.
Ask Vandy or Ole Miss fans though about how well Mizzou traveled to their stadiums.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:12 pm to Beantownbulldog
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They love us there.
Obviously! Just joking. Went to Boston one time and found the people nice enough. I gotta say though...I did not see one good looking girl the entire time I was there. Hopefully I was at all the wrong places....
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:13 pm to DawgsLife
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Where in North Georgia? I went to school in North Georgia.
Blairsville area. Really beautiful up there.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:14 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
Just a guess....but I think they are just yanking your chain.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:14 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
My point is - you're missing a great game day experience if you don't come to Athens. College football at it's finest.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:15 pm to everytrueson
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It is just how many times can you have the 3 day weekend? That's why we do 2/3 road trips a year. Every SEC trip from KCMO except Arky is a flight, hotel, and rental car.
Not sure anybody reasonably expects you (individual MU fan) to attend every road game but more like it blends overs the season. If MU has a 12,000 seat allotment it is not the same 12,000 going to each game. While you may have some overlap, most are folks picking 1game a season to travel to.
2 things that make the SEC great for lowering costs
#1 Family near where you travel, as this means no hotel. I can travel to all 14 SEC schools and have friends or family to stay with. If I get extra tickets and trade them for family food and lodging it can cut the costs way down. In addition I get the benefit of spending time with family. My last 2 sports events in STL went this very way. Same for my last visit to KC for sports.
#2 The long weekend and the RV / camper caravan. Fun way to travel and makes the long trips pass better while getting group time during the travel. Wal Mart and Campus lots usually start filling on thursdays and go till sunday or monday. I know many UK fans who schedule their yearly holidays to travel the NCAA tourney.
I am not bitch out the Mizzou folks for not traveling, just trying to separate the trolls from the ones who may want to do it but can not figure out how.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:16 pm to everytrueson
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Blairsville area. Really beautiful up there.
Yeah. I go up there almost every fall. It really is beautiful up there. I'm considering retiring up in that area, if I can find a lot with a nice view of the mountains. I was over towards Dalton, Rome and that area. Small town called Summerville, although I lived in Rome for a couple of years, too.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:17 pm to KCM0Tiger
It aint cheap getting to athens and staying there. I have already spent $390 on flights, $130 on hotel, still have to pay to rent a car.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:18 pm to DawgsLife
Plenty of young coeds at many colleges up here. Not Southern Girl pretty but there are plenty of them. Of course in winter they're wrapped up and you can't tell.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:19 pm to Beantownbulldog
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My point is - you're missing a great game day experience if you don't come to Athens. College football at it's finest.
I'd like to go at some point. For me, as my handle indicates, I'm an out of state Mizzou fan living down in Austin, Texas. So that creates a situation where even the Mizzou home games count as plane trips for me, so although I do make it to several games a year, I have to ration them.
I do think that as time goes on Mizzou's travel to the farthest east stadiums (and knock on wood, Atlanta) will keep improving. Returned tickets or no, I certainly thought Mizzou's crowd section showings at Florida and South Carolina and Tennessee looked nice and sizeable on TV last year, and I thought the crowd at Athens two years ago looked solid as well.
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Posted on 9/8/15 at 1:20 pm to DawgsLife
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When we go on vacation I always rent a car. That's the only time I DO rent a car.
It is time like this that the young screwed up the ways of the old. In the old days you put your car on the train, had food and sleeping on trip, had your car when you got to your destination.
Last auto train I remember was the 70's and it ran from like Detroit to Miami. One of the most sensible ways to travel ever.
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