Anyone Going To The Alabama Game?

pvilleguru · September 16, 2009

just wanting to see if anyone was making the trip to tuscaloosa. if you have any questions, i'll try to answer them.

Harry · September 16, 2009

Not able to make the trip but we sure appreciate you coming on here and offering to help those that are. Classy post.

mad dog · September 16, 2009

Welcome to the board. We are all excited about Saturday!

meangreanmick · September 16, 2009

I will be there, recommendations for tailgating areas to wander thru?

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

I will be there, recommendations for tailgating areas to wander thru?

people tailgate all over campus, but the main area is the Quad. it's where Denny Chimes (clock tower like thing) and Gorgas Library are. it's about a block down from the stadium. if you stop by some of the tents, i'm sure people will offer you food and drink. i'd suggest just walking around the campus. there's a few historical sites. such as Foster auditorium, where the govenor wallace stood in the school house door in 1963. also check out "the strip". it's on the other side of the stadium as the quad. bunch of bars, shops, restaurants. if you're 21, go to the Houndstooth bar on the strip. constantly rated as one of the best sports bars in the nation. also, check out the Bryant Museum. it's across the street from the baseball complex.

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

if anyone is a history buff, you can try to find the few buildings that were not burned down when sherman came through during the civil war.

amr · September 17, 2009

I'm sure the choices will be obvious once we're there but where are the best places to park? Also, will we experience any hostility at the strip of bars since we'll obviously be showing our school colors? Thanks for the information!

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

I'm sure the choices will be obvious once we're there but where are the best places to park? Also, will we experience any hostility at the strip of bars since we'll obviously be showing our school colors? Thanks for the information!

a good place to park might be the rec center. it costs about $10 and you can get a free shuttle down the road to the quad. you shouldn't run into any hostility on the strip. however, there's no telling what a drunk person may do. we're a football town with a drinking problem (or vice versa), if you know what i mean. just don't start cheering for auburn or tennessee to win their game and you should be fine, haha. i think i saw maybe 4 FIU fans before the football game this past week, and frankly, i was just glad some made it. very rarely do our out of conference fans have anything bad to say after their trip. be nice to us, we'll be nice to you.

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

a little warning for the fans in the stadium: if we win, we have this cheer/song we sing called "rammer jammer". it goes "hey (other team), hey (other team), hey (other team), we just beat the hell out of you. rammer jammer, yellow hammer, give'em hell, alabama". link:

we don't mean anything bad about it, it's just something we've done for a long time. we used to do it before the game as well, but stopped it for some reason in the late 90's. we do it after any win, no matter by how much.

meanrob · September 17, 2009

Been to the two previous bama-unt games and here's a couple of things i remember.

Partied on the strip the night before. Except for some good natured ribbing, everyone was cool. At one bar the band asked us if we still had a kick ass music school. That was funny.

Do walk around campus, it's worth it. In one area that have bricks in the ground with the names of famous athletes and other Bama alumni (i think). Their frat/sorority row is ridiculous. The campus just kind of reeks of history.

Check out the alumni cheer squad or dance squad. Extremely bizarre.

The gameday experience is ok, not sure if the head cheerleader still uses a microphone to get cheers started. Really annoying.

Worst hot dog ever was at Bama.

Honestly, i liked hanging out the night before and the pregame much better than the gameday experience. Not real loud (granted 3/4 of the fans there will have never heard of North Texas) and it's one of those places where it's just the thing to do. I'm glad i checked the box but i wouldn't go back there.

my two cents.

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

Been to the two previous bama-unt games and here's a couple of things i remember.
Partied on the strip the night before. Except for some good natured ribbing, everyone was cool. At one bar the band asked us if we still had a kick ass music school. That was funny.
Do walk around campus, it's worth it. In one area that have bricks in the ground with the names of famous athletes and other Bama alumni (i think). Their frat/sorority row is ridiculous. The campus just kind of reeks of history.
Check out the alumni cheer squad or dance squad. Extremely bizarre.
The gameday experience is ok, not sure if the head cheerleader still uses a microphone to get cheers started. Really annoying.
Worst hot dog ever was at Bama.
Honestly, i liked hanging out the night before and the pregame much better than the gameday experience. Not real loud (granted 3/4 of the fans there will have never heard of North Texas) and it's one of those places where it's just the thing to do. I'm glad i checked the box but i wouldn't go back there.
my two cents.

the place with the "bricks" is around denny chimes. there are cement slabs of the hand and footprint of every bama football captain dating back to around the 40s. the head cheerleader just uses the microphone before the game. don't worry, we don't like it either. i've never had a hotdog in the stadium, can't comment on that. the stadium probably won't be that loud this weekend. no disrespect, but north texas just isn't that big of a game for us. that and it will be at 11:20, most of the students will probably be hungover or still drunk. if it was a big game like auburn or tennessee, it would probably be the loudest stadium in the country.

meanrob · September 17, 2009

Unfortunately we never get the home fans best effort.

Partly because we're north texas, but mostly because we have rarely given the big teams a good game.

Would love to see that change this weekend.

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

well, if i HAD to make a bet on this game, i would not bet on bama with the 38 or so point spread. if you want to stay in the game, pass the ball. put a few WRs on the field and throw it towards marquis johnson.

TheTastyGreek · September 17, 2009

If you have a hotel recommendation or anti-recommendation, that would be very helpful. Particularly, any places we should make it a point to avoid.

Edited September 17, 2009 by TheTastyGreek

Censored by Laurie · September 17, 2009

people tailgate all over campus, but the main area is the Quad. it's where Denny Chimes (clock tower like thing) and Gorgas Library are. it's about a block down from the stadium. if you stop by some of the tents, i'm sure people will offer you food and drink. i'd suggest just walking around the campus. there's a few historical sites. such as Foster auditorium, where the govenor wallace stood in the school house door in 1963. also check out "the strip". it's on the other side of the stadium as the quad. bunch of bars, shops, restaurants. if you're 21, go to the Houndstooth bar on the strip. constantly rated as one of the best sports bars in the nation. also, check out the Bryant Museum. it's across the street from the baseball complex.

Hmmm...guess I was wrong...

mad dog · September 17, 2009

Don't know if there's any truth to this, but I've heard there is a pretty stark dichotomy in the SEC between redneck and genteel southern fandom. Schools like Alabama, Auburn, and Ole Miss observe more genteel traditions, and others like Miss. State, LSU, and Tennessee have a much higher overalls-and-straw-hat quotient.

And then there are always Yankee carpetbaggers like Urban Meyer...

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

Don't know if there's any truth to this, but I've heard there is a pretty stark dichotomy in the SEC between redneck and genteel southern fandom. Schools like Alabama, Auburn, and Ole Miss observe more genteel traditions, and others like Miss. State, LSU, and Tennessee have a much higher overalls-and-straw-hat quotient.
And then there are always Yankee carpetbaggers like Urban Meyer...

you will definately see both rednecks and genteel southerners at UA. i'm not one of the rednecks, but i also don't dress up for the games. however, auburn is what we like to call a "cow college", take from that what you will. one of auburn's greatest traditions is throwing toilet paper in trees. mississippi state is the same. tennessee is pure hillbilly. lsu is completely different. they are in the bayou. real strange blend of people.

Censored by Laurie · September 17, 2009

Don't know if there's any truth to this, but I've heard there is a pretty stark dichotomy in the SEC between redneck and genteel southern fandom. Schools like Alabama, Auburn, and Ole Miss observe more genteel traditions, and others like Miss. State, LSU, and Tennessee have a much higher overalls-and-straw-hat quotient.
And then there are always Yankee carpetbaggers like Urban Meyer...

I doubt that Bama, Auburn and Ole Miss are lacking in redneck support...but I am a big fan of the students in the white collared shirt and team colored pants and tie next to the southern beauty in a sun-dress in the front row of the students section that these schools always seem to have.

pvilleguru · September 17, 2009

I doubt that Bama, Auburn and Ole Miss are lacking in redneck support...but I am a big fan of the students in the white collared shirt and team colored pants and tie next to the southern beauty in a sun-dress in the front row of the students section that these schools always seem to have.

most of the UA students that wear the white button up and tie are frat guys. at UA, most of them are pricks.

mad dog · September 17, 2009

most of the UA students that wear the white button up and tie are frat guys. at UA, most of them are pricks.

Jerks or no, ties at games > muddy overalls.

FireFightnJoey · September 17, 2009

people tailgate all over campus, but the main area is the Quad.

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UNT Mean Green · September 17, 2009

I will be there +3. First time to Bryant-Denny, but looking forward to it. I have captured a few Iron Bowl games at Auburn, and that's really a treat. Excited about going to Tuscaloosa and Dreamland BBQ on Friday night.