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Any Dawgs & Tide fans actually going to the SECCG in Atlanta?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:07 pm
My wife and I were offered tix yesterday by a friend of ours in the UGAA Dept., but we're unable to go. Will stay here in Los Angeles.
But, I've only been once to a game in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. It's a beautiful and enormous place. If you can make it, go.
If you fly into Atlanta, you can take the terminal trains from your arriving gate/concourse to the trains from the terminal into downtown Atlanta! Or, take the Skytrain from the Terminals to your Airport area hotels and/or rental car station.
We stayed at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown and it was easy as pie. Zip-zip, train to train and voila! there we were in the hotel lobby just like that.
Within easy walking distance from the Benz and other downtown hotels are the..... College Football Hall of Fame, Centennial Olympic Park celebrating the 1996 Olympics when they were there, The World of Coca-Cola Museum, Hard Rock Cafe, the Georgia Aquarium (world's largest), and easy access to trains that'll take you into Buckhead for the finest shopping this side of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Atlanta's famous for its great restaurants, too. Downtown also has great shopping and eating places.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit there; of course, every big city like Atlanta has crime problems (nothing compared to what's going on here in Los Angeles, though), and you should be on your guard when walking around, but it's relatively safe. We felt at ease for the most part.
KO at 4pm weather in Atlanta: Rain & 60 degrees, but the game's indoors. If you go, enjoy! Wish we could make it.
Atlanta Hartsfield Int'l Airport trains that take you from terminals to concourses and back
Atlanta Airport Skytrain that takes you to Airport Hotels and Rental Car Stations
Atlanta Subway trains that take you from Airport Terminal to Downtown Atlanta and elsewhere
Notice how the Benz dwarfs the Georgia Dome Stadium next to it.
Centennial Olympic Park
College Football Hall of Fame
Georgia Aquarium
The World of Coca-Cola Museum
Hard Rock Cafe, downtown Atlanta
GO DAWGS!!! SIC'EM!!! BEAT BAMA!!!
But, I've only been once to a game in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. It's a beautiful and enormous place. If you can make it, go.
If you fly into Atlanta, you can take the terminal trains from your arriving gate/concourse to the trains from the terminal into downtown Atlanta! Or, take the Skytrain from the Terminals to your Airport area hotels and/or rental car station.
We stayed at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in downtown and it was easy as pie. Zip-zip, train to train and voila! there we were in the hotel lobby just like that.
Within easy walking distance from the Benz and other downtown hotels are the..... College Football Hall of Fame, Centennial Olympic Park celebrating the 1996 Olympics when they were there, The World of Coca-Cola Museum, Hard Rock Cafe, the Georgia Aquarium (world's largest), and easy access to trains that'll take you into Buckhead for the finest shopping this side of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Atlanta's famous for its great restaurants, too. Downtown also has great shopping and eating places.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit there; of course, every big city like Atlanta has crime problems (nothing compared to what's going on here in Los Angeles, though), and you should be on your guard when walking around, but it's relatively safe. We felt at ease for the most part.
KO at 4pm weather in Atlanta: Rain & 60 degrees, but the game's indoors. If you go, enjoy! Wish we could make it.
Atlanta Hartsfield Int'l Airport trains that take you from terminals to concourses and back
Atlanta Airport Skytrain that takes you to Airport Hotels and Rental Car Stations
Atlanta Subway trains that take you from Airport Terminal to Downtown Atlanta and elsewhere
Notice how the Benz dwarfs the Georgia Dome Stadium next to it.
Centennial Olympic Park
College Football Hall of Fame
Georgia Aquarium
The World of Coca-Cola Museum
Hard Rock Cafe, downtown Atlanta
GO DAWGS!!! SIC'EM!!! BEAT BAMA!!!
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 12:20 pm
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Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:11 pm to JetDawg
Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:13 pm to JetDawg
Why are you explaining Atlanta to a board of southerners like it's Stuttgart? Especially Georgia and Alabama fans?
97% of them have been to Atlanta. Hell half of them live here.
97% of them have been to Atlanta. Hell half of them live here.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:14 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
Here they come, saddled with their irrational fears and sweating over the idea of leaving whatever rural area they hail from and going anywhere near the mean streets of Atlanta, Georgia on the day of a HUGE event LOL. Bless their hearts...
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:15 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Here they come, saddled with their irrational fears and sweating over the idea of leaving whatever rural area they hail from and going anywhere near the mean streets of Atlanta, Georgia on the day of a HUGE event LOL. Bless their hearts...
To be fair, that sentiment applies to about half the Georgia fanbase as well. A chunk of the biggest Atlanta haters on this board are Georgia people.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:17 pm to JetDawg
Heading over Friday. One of my favorite games and I hope we don't lose the SECC due to the playoff expansion.
We always stay at the Marriott Marquis Downtown. It is the Alabama team hotel on odd years and the East hotel on even years. It is less than a mile to the stadium.
Had a banker offer to upgrade my seats to club level. Took him up on the offer because in years past those are the only sections where you can get alcohol. Can anyone confirm if that is still the case?
We always stay at the Marriott Marquis Downtown. It is the Alabama team hotel on odd years and the East hotel on even years. It is less than a mile to the stadium.
Had a banker offer to upgrade my seats to club level. Took him up on the offer because in years past those are the only sections where you can get alcohol. Can anyone confirm if that is still the case?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:17 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
Uh, Atlanta is a dangerous shithole. I wasn't aware there was even a debate about this.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:17 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Uh Atlanta is a shite hole. WTF are you talking about?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:18 pm to JetDawg
I will have my tailgate setup in the Home Depot back yard for a party. It will be a bunch of clients and spouses. Probably 2/1 ratio of UGA/Bama fans.
We have a big block of seats in sec 110.
We have a big block of seats in sec 110.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:19 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous
You mean the people that play there more than anyone else? Those people?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:20 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
This isn't even a remotely intelligent comment. If you actually had two brain cells to rub together, you'd know that the Braves have been the favored MLB team in Alabama since they came to Atlanta. Every MLB baseball fan in Alabama has probably been to Atlanta multiple times.
Hank Aaron was from Alabama. Tim Hudson played at Auburn. I'm gonna go waaaayyyyy out on a limb and say that you've probably heard of them.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:21 pm to BamaAlum02
Lower level between the 40s has access to concessions and bars under the stands. You can also stand on field level in that area.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:21 pm to BamaGradinTn
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Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
Truist isn't exactly located in the mean streets of Atlanta
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:23 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
Uhhh Atlanta IS a shite hole and Atlanta IS dangerous. Especially compared to rural areas.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:23 pm to Croot
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Queue the people who have never left the state of Alabama, except to go to Disney World that one time, who think that Atlanta is a shite hole and Atlanta is dangerous.
Truist isn't exactly located in the mean streets of Atlanta
And that's the only stadium the Braves have played in?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:25 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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Queue the people
Cue the moron who is wrong in both his statement and the use of the word queue.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:26 pm to JetDawg
In my life I have missed one. Bama vs Florida in 2016 I believe it was. I went to the first two in Birmingham and back then they wanted you to get on auto renewal so we did and we just get tickets every year automatically charged to us and if Bama isn’t playing we sell them.
I liked the old Ga done much better but hey. I think this will be my 14th or so trip. Can’t remember exactly. Been so many??
I liked the old Ga done much better but hey. I think this will be my 14th or so trip. Can’t remember exactly. Been so many??
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:28 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Here they come, saddled with their irrational fears and sweating over the idea of leaving whatever rural area they hail from and going anywhere near the mean streets of Atlanta, Georgia on the day of a HUGE event LOL. Bless their hearts...
Truth be told, Alabamians have always been jealous of Atlanta and hated it ever since Atlanta left Birmingham in the dust back in the 1940s. Today, Birmingham would be a suburb of Atlanta (well, for all practical purposes, it already is since so many folks from Birmingham and elsewhere in Alabama travel to the ATL for life, leisure and relief from their hum-drum Alabama lives!).
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 12:31 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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Uh, Atlanta is a dangerous shithole. I wasn't aware there was even a debate about this.
I don't think it's as dangerous as Tuscaloosa or Birmingham.
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