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(10-20-2021 10:06 AM)Ramblin Wreck Wrote:  When I lived in Texas, we went to a couple of Texas A&M games every year. You end up not only having to stand the entire game, you have to stand on the bench if on the same side of the field as the students. Here in Baton Rouge, fans start leaving LSU games in the third quarter and a lot just show up to get drunk outside the stadium. It’s a bit different everywhere.

My brother and I went to the game the year we beat them there. We got cussed all the way into the stadium and then all the way back to our car. Even little kids were throwing F-bombs at us. It was bizarre and actually amusing. I was wondering if we were gonna get some bottles or bricks thrown at us walking out that night. We had a great time.

I had the complete opposite experience.
On the at in, I had dozens of people invite me over to their tailgates
On the way out, I got a bunch of “well, you whipped our arse, huh?”

Not us and we didn't say a word, just had UAB gear on. A security guard outside the stadium heard it and as we passed by he said, "every time they go overboard with that **** we get our ass beat". LOL.

When Chris Brown made The interception, the guy sitting behind me with a toddler in his lap starting cussing and calling us Bama's *****. As Gallego's kick sailed through I just turned around and smiled. He just kept on sitting there holding his kid cussing as we celebrated. Never had that experience at any other school, except one time in Coleman Coliseum.

My wife and I were walking thru the tailgating spots and got some taunts of Tiger Meat and such, but nothing too rowdy or rude - it still flew all over my wife, but I told her to expect the worst... and I was just sorta jazzed to see folks getting riled up about playing UAB!
We hung out before the stadium opened and spoke with a few sets of folks who were all pretty cool, and the inside the stadium experience was nothing bad in general... they were even cool afterwards, and I even yelled back - Y'all go whup Tennessee next week! (back when UT was worth whuppin'...) ...and they did.

...now, the WORST game experience we had was at ULALA (or SWLA as it was then)... we entered the stadium early, nobody was there, so we just took a seat on the back row to 'regroup' after a decent trek to the place... and some sorority 'rep' ran over and said 'y'all can't sit there, those are reserved seats!' and I think she even had some usher or something involved... um... ok - just passing thru (we were on the other side). I remember the concessions were goofy on the visitor side, anyway, and the fans were not too cordial. Good thing we stomped them like a yard DAWG 42-7 (the days of the 'Flex-Bone' deal...) ...and Memphis was a less than stellar experience as well...

We stayed too long at the casinos and walked in not too long before kickoff. It was packed outside and we had Tiger Bait! chanted at us too but also flipped off with accompanying dialogue.

One of the worst things I've personally seen is when Ann Reynolds was hit with an orange up at Missouri, and not one of the tiny ones. You talk about pissed off. There were UAB fans ready to wade into their student section. Security swooped in but it almost got ugly.