Really Early Question About Next Year's Game In Southbend

Chicago hotels, you're fine. South Bend hotels are going really fast.

South Bend has little to offer. Book now if you want to be close. Google south Bend to see if there's anything that interests you. Be sure not to miss the Studebaker Museum.
Chicago hotels will wait till May or June.
We're renting a house in Duneland Beach. 4 couples and a few grandchildren.

Never been to a game in South Bend but I worked in South Bend for 3 months during the fall in the lat 80's and it is a beautiful college town which is much more blue collar than most....as far as bars not a lot of bars like Athens....most of the locals do their drinking in neighborhood pubs like they do in all of the mid-west....these places are always very welcoming to new faces but they aren't the kind of places where you get loud and obnoxious....more like a place for steel mill hands to go and drink after work, eat a simple (but often fantastic) meal and watch the game so they don't have to go home.

I don't remember there being a lot of problems with rooms in South Bend on football Saturdays....I lived in a hotel (I don't remember it as I have done so so many times they all seem the same) and I don't remember getting tossed on football weekends or paying a lot more for the room (Anyone who has ever worked at BoWater Paper in Cleveland Tennessee when that freak church in town has their convention will understand how I would recall this). Other than the University South Bend is a lot like the rest of the mid-west....very blue collar though compared to most college towns in my experience.

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Really? people really do that? Does it attract women, or something?

I was told by a guy who's very familiar with games in South Bend that tailgating is not allowed on campus.

I've tailgated personally at ND games before. I tailgated at the ND-Michigan game a few years ago. Now, tailgating takes on a different meaning there so I'm not sure what is/is not allowed (grills, tents...) but I know for a fact that me and a group of people have drank alcohol in the parking lot.

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Really? people really do that? Does it attract women, or something?

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at the bball games in KC last week, these frickers in front of us asked "so yall gonna bark at us or anything?" so somebody must be doing it

My wife's family is from the Indiana suburbs of Chicago and she reminded me last night of one of the best steaks I have ever eaten anywhere...this was more than 20 years ago so I can't say it is still so but the Heston Supper Club in LaPorte Indiana was as good a steak as you would ever want to eat. Their website looks like they have kind of upscaled a bit since I was there in the late 80's or early 90's (it was kind of like a 1960's upscale BBQ Joint when I was there).

One thing is for certain...folks in that part of the world know how to eat...every little mom and pop place you go in is better than the last...and I am talking about working folks food....some of the best fried fish you'll will ever eat outside of the south in every bar in the region on Fridays....and the Greek and Italian places in every small town will beat anything New York or LA can offer....there are Greek Diners in North Indiana whose menus are 30 pages long....you couldn't ask for a grilled roast of babboon arse without them merely asking you how you would like it cooked...and it would be a meal you would talk about for the rest of your lives. Folks in that part of the world know how to eat....those 11 month and 2 week long winters require that you do a lot of shite indoors and one of the things they do is cook and eat....