College FB TR (LSU vs WVU)

jfulciniti · Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:21 pm

All in all a GREAT trip. Met up with several old friends and their spouses who are now scattered around the east from Boston to Atlanta.

As expected LSU beat WV but at least it was a competitive game if you like defense or in this case 2 lousy offenses, 2 good defenses and one team with good special teams (LSU).

The trip started with a flight into Gulfport, MS and a drive up the coast to New Orleans along the white sandy beaches of the gulf. We saw 2 things that were sad. First, the beaches were empty. The only life we saw was what we believe were clean up crews still on the beaches about every 1/2 mile or so. The other was the building foundations along the road. 5 years after Katrina and we saw TONS of old steps, concrete pads / pillars and land for sale signs every where and not much construction. Hopefully that will come as the economy heals.

Here's one (sorry about the index finger)

Things got A LOT better after that. We got into NO, checked in and headed to Bourbon St. Not much to say there. If you like drinking, seeing topless girls and having fun, this place is a BLAST. 3 for 1 beer specials are right up my alley. Great atmosphere and great food too.

Here are pics of some "g rated" pics of some of the peeps on Bourbon

My buddy and his wife

Gold painted dude

Live Band

Sadly, my pic of the girl riding the mechanical bull did not come out.

We managed to stay out of jail and got some sleep that night. We grabbed some alligator bites on Sat down on the Riverwalk and tooled around before the game. Never had gator - reminded me of sausage.

Creole Queen River Boat

Trolley by the river

We popped into Harrahs Casino and dropped a couple 20's into the slots while waiting to board the Alumni Buses to the game. We could not take a pic in there to prove it but my wife turned her 20 into a 10 and I made mine a fifty in about 2 mins. That paid for the drinks we took on the bus.

Everyone gathered up at the Lowes Hotel and boarded 9 charter buses to Baton Rouge. The bus trip was well worth the $$. Plenty of beverages were had.

450 Mounty Fans waiting to board

We arrived at Walk On's in Baton Rouge where a giant tent with a band, food and open bar from 2 - 6 PM were all set up. They also have an outdoor giant TV screen.

My buddy Scott, Me and Alex

After the party we headed to the game. Based on some feedback from a few forum users, I was expecting VERY BAD behavior. I was extremely surprised to find that 99% of the peeps were cool. We got the usual visitor ribbing like I expected but no one was yelling stuff like go home MFer or your mom's a ___.

I think the only 2 words they know are "tiger bait". That became annoying after hearing it 10,000 times.

The stadium was nice, I'd like to say I had 50 yd line seats (which I did) but they were 3 rows from the top. I wish there was a ski lift to get there. I think our seats were at a higher altitude than my condo at Snowshoe.

Here's Pregame warmups

And the Pride of West Virgina

Even though we lost, it was a great trip south. The south certainly did not disappoint us with the weather or hospitality.

I wish I had not booked an early flight home but I wanted to see my Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday and I don't think my liver could take a 3rd day of non stop partying.

KneeDeep · Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:37 pm

LSU fans rock. We played there in '97 in the NCAA Baseball tournament- I'll never forget our bus driving through the parking lot and their fans running up to the door to give us food and beer. Our coach wasn't too keen on beer before the game, but they're a super fun group of people. I always dreamed of playing baseball there.

jfulciniti · Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:46 pm

KD - They have some nice facilities there. They are building a new track and field facility adjacent to the stadium.

How come my "camera phone pics" aren't as crisp as the pics you post? LOL

Ski Bunny · Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:04 pm

Looks like you had a great time!

angel · Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:38 pm

I'll be following WV this year. My friend's son just transferred there from a smaller college in the area and made the cut. He is redshirted, though so no field time, but now I'm interested. Besides...UT and UGA haven't been any fun to watch this year so far....

jfulciniti · Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:58 am

@angel 220621 wrote:I'll be following WV this year. My friend's son just transferred there from a smaller college in the area and made the cut. He is redshirted, though so no field time, but now I'm interested. Besides...UT and UGA haven't been any fun to watch this year so far....

Hopefully, you'll be better luck than I am. They ALWAYS lose when I travel far distances.

We need all the support we can get.

jfulciniti · Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:07 am

@MBlacky1051 220642 wrote:I am heading down to Baton Rouge tomorrow for the UT-LSU game on Saturday. Looking forward to finally getting down to LSU. Will be stadium # 10 of 12 in the SEC to watch my Vols play.

As an SEC guy, I'm sure you are aware that you will be called "tiger bait" a million times. I found it very annoying. Especially when little 5'2" turds came up to me.

Give'm Hell Vols. My in laws live in Cookeville, TN and are UT fans so I'll pull for them too.

jfulciniti · Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:23 pm

@MBlacky1051 220642 wrote:I am heading down to Baton Rouge tomorrow for the UT-LSU game on Saturday. Looking forward to finally getting down to LSU. Will be stadium # 10 of 12 in the SEC to watch my Vols play.

Man ...... I feel for you. What a crappy way to lose.

SteepNdeep · Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:44 pm

Can't believe you guys have had good experiences with LSU fans.. Maybe because if your team is the losing team, they will treat you a lot better. But in 2005 when Tennessee beat them in OT to destroy their "Katrina sob story game" they pretty much destroyed the team buses. Heard stories of them throwing feces at our fans, etc.

Murphy · Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:57 pm

@SteepNdeep 221053 wrote:Can't believe you guys have had good experiences with LSU fans.. Maybe because if your team is the losing team, they will treat you a lot better. But in 2005 when Tennessee beat them in OT to destroy their "Katrina sob story game" they pretty much destroyed the team buses. Heard stories of them throwing feces at our fans, etc.

There's nothing an LSU fan loves more than showing a visiting fan that they like the time of their life...except possibly giving hell to a visiting fan that they don't like. They usually have good reason for classifying a fan into one group or the other but I'm sure there are some LSU fans that just like to be *******s.

College FB TR (LSU vs WVU)

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