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re: Where do you stay in Dallas for the Red River Shootout?
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:15 am to bigDgator
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:15 am to bigDgator
Serious follow up question... Do you have to pay admission to the Texas State Fair AND buy a ticket for the game, or does your game ticket include admission to the fair?
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Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:27 am to RamJam1
quote:I went back in 2016 (?) when A&M was off that weekend and tickets were cheap (Texas was having a bad year under Charlie Strong, but pulled a huge upset).
Piggybacking off this…if you wanted to attend one of these in the future, how would you suggest going about it as a neutral? I know that is vague but just curious. Always wanted to go one year.
Back in the ancient past, I went to many games at the Cotton Bowl (not this one) where I parked at lot just outside the entrance to Fair Park between 1st and 2nd streets. Great location for getting out. But, back then, the Cotton Bowl had 20,000 fewer seats, and none of these games were during the State Fair. So, for the 2016 game, I opted to use DART from the park and ride stop in North Carrolton. They had special train service that day, so more trains than normal. It worked great and I would highly reccommend that.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:27 am to LOTOTiger
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Serious follow up question... Do you have to pay admission to the Texas State Fair AND buy a ticket for the game, or does your game ticket include admission to the fair?
Your game ticket gets you into the fair for free.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:28 am to LOTOTiger
If I recall correctly, the game ticket gets you in.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:32 am to Dallaswho
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DFW is a complete shithole when it comes to restaurants but I recommend Muchacho in Southlake or Preston Hallow if you want extraordinary Tex Mex.
If you find yourself in the stockyards, try lonesome dove bistro or have some king crab queso at Paloma suerte.
I think the problem is with you, not the DFW restaurant scene.
And sending someone 30 miles away to Southlake or 40 miles over to the Stockyards is not the best plan.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:33 am to LOTOTiger
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Serious follow up question... Do you have to pay admission to the Texas State Fair AND buy a ticket for the game, or does your game ticket include admission to the fair?
Your game ticket gets you onto the Fairgrounds. Parking is extra.
I have stayed in Plano, Rowlett, Garland, McKinney at the nicer chain hotels.
I try to get to Fairgrounds to see the bands march to the stadium. Best years is when the OU Pride is first in line and as they pass by, the OU fans move onto the street right behind the Pride, chanting Boomer Sooner Texas Sucks and follow our band to the stadium which forces the Whorn Band to stop and wait.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:35 am to bigDgator
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Sorry it's US Route 75, my bad. Everyone just calls it 75.
...or Central Expressway...
Give me a break, every road in Texas has to have 2 or 3 names.
As I-75 runs through Gainesville, FL, one would think a Gator fan would be familiar.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:36 am to bigDgator
I went to Happiest Hour last year and it was packed. It's a fun environment for sure and I like the "neutral" site rivalry games
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:40 am to twk
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I opted to use DART from the park and ride stop in North Carrolton. They had special train service that day, so more trains than normal. It worked great and I would highly reccommend that.
Absolutely this if possible. It is the first Saturday of the state fair and then you add an extra 100k people in the mix... parking is sketchy.
Guys who started drinking at 9:00 for a 11:00 kickoff taking a leak on the side of the I-45 / I-30 junction overpass in stalled traffic was a rite of passage there for awhile
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:45 am to bigDgator
Went once, stayed in Grapevine at the Gaylord. Great area with good restaurants and retail.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:59 am to Naked Bootleg
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It is the first Saturday of the state fair
The fair opened two weeks ago.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:03 am to Windy City
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I think the problem is with you, not the DFW restaurant scene. And sending someone 30 miles away to Southlake or 40 miles over to the Stockyards is not the best plan.
Problem not me. The first place has a Dallas location which I mentioned. Then I said if you end up in stockyards because that place is always packed with decked out visiting fans. “IF”
DFW has a notoriously bad food scene. This is well-documented and beyond obvious to anyone who travels. Often cited as worst in nation.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:04 am to bigDgator
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Living in the North Dallas burbs, today always feels like an Oklahoma invasion with everyone coming down I-35 and I-75.
It is kind of funny because Dallas TV and radio media talk about this "invasion" on the Friday before the game every year.
It is like Oklahoma fans should apologize to Texans for coming to their own game.
The other thing is that after the game... because you have Oklahoma plates...If you lose you are marked for the rest of the weekend and you catch a lot of Hook 'ems if you hang around Dallas. When Texas loses they justt can kind of blend back into Dallas.
The other thing most people don't know is that the media is for Texas and will also give Oklahoma grief if they lose.
And finally... when OU loses... there are always Texas fans on I-35... by the road or on the overpasses north of Dallas rubbing it in as Oklahoma fans drive home. That is another thing that doesn't happen to Texas fans when they drive back to Austin.
Moral to the story is that the stadium is 50/50 and their are a lot of OU fans in the DFW area... but you are constantly reminded that you are in Texas all weekend long.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:17 am to Dallaswho
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DFW has a notoriously bad food scene. This is well-documented and beyond obvious to anyone who travels. Often cited as worst in nation.
Cite it then.
I have heard the opposite.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:23 am to Gunga Din
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Moral to the story is that the stadium is 50/50 and their are a lot of OU fans in the DFW area... but you are constantly reminded that you are in Texas all weekend long.
I didn't mean that negatively, but I see where you are coming from. You could do like Georgia does for the Cocktail party and stay just across the state line until Gameday.
I for one, am happy to have the Sooners in town along with the Longhorns. It certainly makes the place more festive!
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:25 am to bigDgator
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Cool, is that also where the team stays?
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bigDgator
This dude is planning something.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 11:34 am to thatthang
Why so suspicious? That is where the Gators stayed once or maybe twice when they were in town to play.
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:01 pm to bigDgator
Oh. My bad
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:10 pm to Naked Bootleg
any oldtimers here who used to go downtown dallas and pick fights? i remember the stories back then (60's) about how rough it got. sooners on one side of the street and horns on the other. people throwing stuff out hotel windows. i guess the cops cracked down on it so much it stopped. pretty tame now.
This post was edited on 10/10/25 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 10/10/25 at 12:47 pm to texas tortilla
You must have missed the other thread that discussed this.
First of all, when the Commerce Street stuff was going on the only thing picking a fight got you was arrested.
The police were all over the place and the only two things that were not allowed were fighting and stopping.
The fighting thing is self-explanatory. As for stopping, once you were out on the sidewalk on either side of Commerce Street, you were expected to keep moving.
You were allowed to be intoxicated, rude, obnoxious, loud or any other way so long as you weren't fighting and you kept moving.
And there were no "sides" of the street, everyone was mixed together.
First of all, when the Commerce Street stuff was going on the only thing picking a fight got you was arrested.
The police were all over the place and the only two things that were not allowed were fighting and stopping.
The fighting thing is self-explanatory. As for stopping, once you were out on the sidewalk on either side of Commerce Street, you were expected to keep moving.
You were allowed to be intoxicated, rude, obnoxious, loud or any other way so long as you weren't fighting and you kept moving.
And there were no "sides" of the street, everyone was mixed together.
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