re: Best SEC Football Roadtrip

[quote]Settingthestandard
Best SEC Football Roadtrip


Best-UT
We always get a chalet in the smokies and enjoy going into town Fri night and socializing with other Bama and UT fans. Great setting and a beautiful part of the world.

Worst-LSU
Extremely rude fans, dont like the food on a hot afternoon, No good socializing between fans, just tiger baits for 3 hours until you hear it in your sleep and hostile people. Took my wife in 02 and she promised me to never take her back there. I went up until Saban came and I stopped going. havent been since 2006 and dont plan to. Totally miserable experience there. Love the atmosphere in the stadium but the whole experience is awful. Cant even go to a restaurant( Bob Brunet's was my favorite. Hate that it closed) without being harrassed. Call me old but I like better sportsmanship and socializing. People can do what they want, I just choose not to subject myself to what goes on there. I didnt even go to the LSU game in ttown 2 years ago. Just dont want to be a part of that.
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I would bet a million dollars that you felt fans were rude to you because of how you reacted to "tiger bait" or other good-natured ribbing.

How do you think we feel when we went to Tuscaloosa in 06 and had to hear vulgar, disgusting Katrina jokes, and "corndog" jokes - which seems to be missed on you people - as this "moniker" was stolen by an AUBURN fan (supposedly your arch-enemies) from a NEBRASKA/IOWA/KANSAS message board discussion.

When you were on LSU's campus, did you not SEE AND HEAR all the Red, Gold, White and Purple co-tailgating under thousands of tents and canopies all over campus ????

Also, why in heaven's name do you put on a pedestal JUST the ones were were 'tiger-baiting' you or were somehow 'rude' ???????
What about the tens of thousands of OTHER LSU people who didn't even give you a second thought, ignored you, or just were not in your eye or ear shot because they were too busy tailgating, eating, watching games, etc - with themselves AND Alabama fans ?????????

And noooooooooooooooooooo, I don't want to hear your next crybaby complaint, becaues I knooowww it's coming "well it wasn't a few, it was MOST of them."
Really !!!!!!!!!!! MOST of 150,000 people tigerbaited you and were 'rude' to you.

Here's what I think. I think you either
A. were rude and unfriendly YOURSELF, OR
B. LET the 'tigerbaiters' KNOW that you didn't like it, instead of just laughing it off, or at least SMILING at them.
Had you done the latter, you would have probably gotten a whole different reaction.

Since I've attended Alabama-LSU games on LSU's campus since the 80's, I have ALWAYS felt that the two fanbases get along very well during gameday, and I have even invited Tide fans that I meet on campus to the Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) Pregame party in the Maravich Assembly Center.

Sounds like you are one of the few Tide fans that realizes that an SEC Road Trip is not a trip to the opera, and should take cheers, jeers, 'tiger-bating', etc in stride instead of letting them know it upsets you.

Do I let it upset me when I go to the LSU-Bama games at Tuscaloosa and see grown-arse men inside makeshift cages pulling a hotdog around on a string and assuming that LSU fans would be insulted ??????????
No. Actually, I felt it was quite funny, as it showed their true character and their simpleton intelligence and sense of humor.

But do I indict AAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL Alabama fans I see on campus because of a few corndog-toting idiots ????

No.