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Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:47 am to pankReb
I'll be comparing this trip to my Starkville trips. I always have a blast at State, (yeah, i know, starkville sucks), but the State fans have always been really welcoming to me. Hoping the "school up north" is equally inviting.
Questions:
1. Places to eat?
2. Bars to hit after the game?
Questions:
1. Places to eat?
2. Bars to hit after the game?
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:47 am to pankReb
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Good choice. Unlike our impoverishment Arky friend.
really?!?!
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:50 am to RolTydRol
1) Ajax for culture, Boure, Roosters, or Irie for sit down casual dining, and City Grocery for fine dining.
If breakfast, go to Big Bad Breakfast on Lamar
2) The Library. They have a ton of TVs and a massive projector showing all the games on Gameday.
If breakfast, go to Big Bad Breakfast on Lamar
2) The Library. They have a ton of TVs and a massive projector showing all the games on Gameday.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:52 am to RolTydRol
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Visitor's Sections at Vaught Hemmingway
Everywhere. Just walk in any gate, give them your ticket, and choose any of the open seats.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:53 am to RolTydRol
Oxford & The Grove are easily the most overrated experiences in college football.
Do you like loud music? Food cooked utilizing fire? Bars that don't close early?
Then look elsewhere. Now that the Black Bears have gotten rid of all their traditions that don't suck, there is very little reason to go back.
Unless it is to laugh at their high school stadium, fake national championship banner, "Walk of Champions" (champions of what?), or always entertaining "2003 SEC West Co-Divisional Champions" banner.
Do you like loud music? Food cooked utilizing fire? Bars that don't close early?
Then look elsewhere. Now that the Black Bears have gotten rid of all their traditions that don't suck, there is very little reason to go back.
Unless it is to laugh at their high school stadium, fake national championship banner, "Walk of Champions" (champions of what?), or always entertaining "2003 SEC West Co-Divisional Champions" banner.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:55 am to PRK
PRK mad no sororitutes talked to him.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:56 am to PRK
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Do you like loud music? Food cooked utilizing fire?
Yes and yes. Please elaborate on why these will be absent? Also, what is the alcohol policy on The Grove?
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:56 am to BenHOGan
1. I live exactly 4 miles from campus, I can get on campus on gameday at any time in 5 min. (coliseum drive is your friend)
2. Restaurants: boure, ajax, proud larrys etc. everywhere on the square is good but rib cage.
3. Bars: library, burgundy room, Frank and marlees. If you are over the age of 22 stay away from taylors pub and the levee.
2. Restaurants: boure, ajax, proud larrys etc. everywhere on the square is good but rib cage.
3. Bars: library, burgundy room, Frank and marlees. If you are over the age of 22 stay away from taylors pub and the levee.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:57 am to PRK
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Now that the Black Bears have gotten rid of all their traditions that don't suck
It dawned on me this weekend that they still have ONE tradition that doesn't suck. Chucky Mullins #38. IMO, that is one of the top traditions in all of sports, anywhere.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:59 am to BenHOGan
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Oxford's Finest have still not figured out how to get cars from the highway outside of town, to the parking lots near campus on gameday in any kind of orderly or timely fashion
I have never had a bad parking spot at an SEC game. Just because cars are parking on the side of the road doesn't mean you should stop and park. Just cruise around campus close to the stadium and look for that creative parking spot that no one has spotted or attempted yet. I go to Ole Miss games every year and have never had a bad park. Sure I have had to take the two wheel drive acura off-road but I've never had to walk very far.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 9:59 am to PRK
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Oxford & The Grove are easily the most overrated experiences in college football.
Then don't come? I could not care less if there were less lsu fans here every year.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 10:02 am to Tds & Beer
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I have never had a bad parking spot at an SEC game. Just because cars are parking on the side of the road doesn't mean you should stop and park. Just cruise around campus close to the stadium and look for that creative parking spot that no one has spotted or attempted yet. I go to Ole Miss games every year and have never had a bad park. Sure I have had to take the two wheel drive acura off-road but I've never had to walk very far.
Parking was no issue. Sitting on the highway southwest of town for 90 minutes surely was. Once we finally got within walking distance of campus, there was a dilapidated mall parking lot that we parked in and hiked to the one open gate on that end of the stadium.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 10:04 am to pankReb
quote:You mean the one where the Ole Miss receiver went out of bounds and was ruled the first to touch the ball? That one?
fair warning....we're still generally bitter about the whole 2007 deal. Don't try and tell anyone that it was a correct call either. Just an FYI.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 10:13 am to BenHOGan
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Sitting on the highway southwest of town for 90 minutes surely was.
Probably sitting on Highway 6 after you got off 55? May have been better to go into Memphis and cut down 78 to Holly Springs and come into town on Hwy 7. The problem Oxford has is that there just are not a lot of roads leading into town. So when you add 10k+ extra cars near the same time, traffic will build up.
Most Bammers will be coming from the other direction though, so it shouldn't be as bad.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 10:20 am to Duke
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Probably sitting on Highway 6 after you got off 55?
Yep. Hit a convenience store right about the city limits for an 18 pack and pit-stop, thinking we'd get to the stadium in about 15 or 20 minutes and pop a few cold ones. Then we got back out onto the highway and sat. And sat.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 10:20 am to Duke
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Most Bammers will be coming from the other direction though, so it shouldn't be as bad.
My advice is to get off at coliseum dr on 6 and then make a right towards campus and park around the law school.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 11:22 am to BenHOGan
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Fortunately for me, I don't ever have to go there again. And I won't
frickin A. Small favors.
Posted on 10/10/11 at 11:27 am to Diamondawg
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You mean the one where the Ole Miss receiver was CLEARLY pushed out of bounds and was ruled the first to touch the ball which is completely legal? That one?
FIFY
Posted on 10/10/11 at 11:33 am to BenHOGan
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Sitting on the highway southwest of town for 90 minutes surely was. Once we finally got within walking distance of campus, there was a dilapidated mall parking lot that we parked in and hiked to the one open gate on that end of the stadium.
Here's the thing, professor. Most people who are going to a major sporting event in a small town investigate routes to and from the event to have a few options to choose from. Because no matter how fantastic the Po-Po is at directing traffic on gameday, one fender bender can frick up traffic for hours. So, the moral of the story is... "When traveling to a large sporting event, the day OF said event, have at least two (3 is better) separate routes planned in order to arrive at said event. Just. In. Case."
We'll be holding additional "Common sense isn't just for the common man" seminars as the need arises. Keep those eyes open and those brains warm!!!!
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