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Best road trip in a while. First off, let me say how AWESOME the Auburn fans were. When the team buses left all of the AU tailgaters and fans in the street waived and applauded our team on the way out for 2 miles. WOW!
OK, back to the trip. 15 of us rented a "Rock star coach" with a driver included for our 3 day trip. Complete with bar, flat screen TV's, satellite dish, etc. etc.
Here we go:
Thursday
2:00 to 2:30PM- Arrive and load up bus in Ruston.
2:31- Pop the first top.
3:00- Bus rolls out.
7:00- Planned meal in Meridian is cancelled. Unanimous decision for liquid diet that evening. Had snack food and sandwiches on bus so no objections.
10:30- 5 miles from Montgomery, tire blowout!!!
11:00- Hotel vans arrive to pick us up.
11:20- 8 cases of beer and 4 handles of whiskey later we finally arrive at team hotel.
11:45- After checking in we decide to go to the Alley Bar 2 blocks away. Cool place with an "ice bar room" inside. (Freezing room with shots served in ice glasses. Fur coats provided)
12:30AM- Our party is asked to leave. (For the first time)
12:40- We smooth talk our way back in and promise to behave. Still not sure why we had to leave 10 minutes ago.
1:00- Having a great time. Some of us decide to go to the "ice bar". The girl inside sets us up a round. She has a shot herself and throws her ice glass against the wall shattering it. She instructs us to do the same. We follow her lead... all but one of us. He turns around, winds up, and throws it at the other wall. Unfortunately, this wall is a window and not concrete. She is NOT impressed at all and calls the manager. Somehow we stay.
1:30- Two of us are DONE!! Someone volunteers to get them back to the hotel.
1:45- I notice two more of us wearing fur coats from the ice bar in the regular bar. One is zebra striped and the other leopard. This gets a big laughter from the entire bar.
1:50- The same girl from the ice bar comes and demands the coats back. She is NOT happy by now.
2:15- I am told that we have been asked to leave again. We are ready to leave this time.
2:30- On the walk home one of us decides to get a piggy-back ride from another. And he is not prepared nor sees it coming. Both go crashing to the pavement and one hits his head on a concrete lamp post. After we make sure everyone is OK and stop laughing we continue on.
3:00AM- In bed asleep.
Friday
10:00AM- Wake up. Swear to myself that I will never do that again.
10:30- Meet downstairs. Discover that a few of us had the "ralphs" last night and puked everywhere. The rest of us get a big laugh. The guy that hit his head wants to know who whipped his arse. We tell him the story and we all laugh again..except him.
10:45- We leave to play golf at Capitol Hills Golf Club(Robert Trent Jones course)
11:15- Arrive at the golf course and it starts raining. Will not make our 12:00 tee time. Eat lunch there while entertaining and drawing some looks from the other golfers.
1:45PM- We finally tee off. Hung over and stupid we decide to play the "Judge" course from the tips (7800 yards long). We have 3 groups of 4 playing. After watching all of us tee off the golf marshall advises us to finish the round from the front teeboxes. Pride does not allow us to take his advice and several do not even finish their round.
2:30- The hot cart girl comes by serving drinks. After speaking with all 3 of our groups we do not see her for the rest of the day.
4:00- We arrive at a 250 yard par-3 over water. One guy "tin cups" it and hits all of his balls in the water while swearing that he can clear the water. We don't let him borrow any of our golf balls.
6:00- We finally finish our round. Outstanding course by the way. Very beautiful.
6:45- Arrive back at hotel. Shower and get dressed.
7:30- Eat dinner at the Brew House.
9:30- Have a nightcap.
12 Midnight- In bed asleep.
GAME DAY
8:00AM- Wake up, shower, etc.
9-11:00- Eat breakfast, mingle with other Tech fans, players, and coaches.
12:00PM- Eat lunch at Dreamland BBQ. Terrible compared to Hot Rod's ribs.
2:00- Load up on bus and start "tailgating".
2:50- Leave hotel with the team and get police escort to Jordan-Hare. Pretty cool!
3:45- Arrive at JHS and park under stadium. Walked out onto field for a little while.
4-5:30- Tailgated some at Alumni tent and the bus watchin football in the AC.
5:30- Go into stadium from the tunnel.
6-9:00- Saw what everyone else saw. Halftime spent on bus.
10:00- Left with the team and escorts. Very classy Auburn fans on the way out.
11:00- Split with the team in Montgomery. Stopped at a truck stop to refuel and grab a bite to eat.
11:15- Headed home but continuing the "tailgate".
12 Midnight- Someone breaks a man law in the bathroom.
12:02AM- The bus is filled with a mixture of gagging and laughter. We spray Febreeze but it doesn't help.
12:05- The poor hired bus driver pleads to stop and empty the tank at the next truck stop. He has no objections.
2-3AM- Most have fallen asleep by now.
6:45AM- We arrive back in Ruston.
All in all a great trip though. Many more laughs and details will have to be left out. Needless to say, we had a good time.
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Had a great dinner Friday night at a place called "Vintage Year" in the "old Cloverdale area". Highly recommend it.
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PTDAWG
Best road trip in a while. First off, let me say how AWESOME the Auburn fans were. When the team buses left all of the AU tailgaters and fans in the street waived and applauded our team on the way out for 2 miles. WOW!
OK, back to the trip. 15 of us rented a "Rock star coach" with a driver included for our 3 day trip. Complete with bar, flat screen TV's, satellite dish, etc. etc.
Here we go:
Thursday
2:00 to 2:30PM- Arrive and load up bus in Ruston.
2:31- Pop the first top.
3:00- Bus rolls out.
7:00- Planned meal in Meridian is cancelled. Unanimous decision for liquid diet that evening. Had snack food and sandwiches on bus so no objections.
10:30- 5 miles from Montgomery, tire blowout!!!
11:00- Hotel vans arrive to pick us up.
11:20- 8 cases of beer and 4 handles of whiskey later we finally arrive at team hotel.
11:45- After checking in we decide to go to the Alley Bar 2 blocks away. Cool place with an "ice bar room" inside. (Freezing room with shots served in ice glasses. Fur coats provided)
12:30AM- Our party is asked to leave. (For the first time)
12:40- We smooth talk our way back in and promise to behave. Still not sure why we had to leave 10 minutes ago.
1:00- Having a great time. Some of us decide to go to the "ice bar". The girl inside sets us up a round. She has a shot herself and throws her ice glass against the wall shattering it. She instructs us to do the same. We follow her lead... all but one of us. He turns around, winds up, and throws it at the other wall. Unfortunately, this wall is a window and not concrete. She is NOT impressed at all and calls the manager. Somehow we stay.
1:30- Two of us are DONE!! Someone volunteers to get them back to the hotel.
1:45- I notice two more of us wearing fur coats from the ice bar in the regular bar. One is zebra striped and the other leopard. This gets a big laughter from the entire bar.
1:50- The same girl from the ice bar comes and demands the coats back. She is NOT happy by now.
2:15- I am told that we have been asked to leave again. We are ready to leave this time.
2:30- On the walk home one of us decides to get a piggy-back ride from another. And he is not prepared nor sees it coming. Both go crashing to the pavement and one hits his head on a concrete lamp post. After we make sure everyone is OK and stop laughing we continue on.
3:00AM- In bed asleep.
Friday
10:00AM- Wake up. Swear to myself that I will never do that again.
10:30- Meet downstairs. Discover that a few of us had the "ralphs" last night and puked everywhere. The rest of us get a big laugh. The guy that hit his head wants to know who whipped his arse. We tell him the story and we all laugh again..except him.
10:45- We leave to play golf at Capitol Hills Golf Club(Robert Trent Jones course)
11:15- Arrive at the golf course and it starts raining. Will not make our 12:00 tee time. Eat lunch there while entertaining and drawing some looks from the other golfers.
1:45PM- We finally tee off. Hung over and stupid we decide to play the "Judge" course from the tips (7800 yards long). We have 3 groups of 4 playing. After watching all of us tee off the golf marshall advises us to finish the round from the front teeboxes. Pride does not allow us to take his advice and several do not even finish their round.
2:30- The hot cart girl comes by serving drinks. After speaking with all 3 of our groups we do not see her for the rest of the day.
4:00- We arrive at a 250 yard par-3 over water. One guy "tin cups" it and hits all of his balls in the water while swearing that he can clear the water. We don't let him borrow any of our golf balls.
6:00- We finally finish our round. Outstanding course by the way. Very beautiful.
6:45- Arrive back at hotel. Shower and get dressed.
7:30- Eat dinner at the Brew House.
9:30- Have a nightcap.
12 Midnight- In bed asleep.
GAME DAY
8:00AM- Wake up, shower, etc.
9-11:00- Eat breakfast, mingle with other Tech fans, players, and coaches.
12:00PM- Eat lunch at Dreamland BBQ. Terrible compared to Hot Rod's ribs.
2:00- Load up on bus and start "tailgating".
2:50- Leave hotel with the team and get police escort to Jordan-Hare. Pretty cool!
3:45- Arrive at JHS and park under stadium. Walked out onto field for a little while.
4-5:30- Tailgated some at Alumni tent and the bus watchin football in the AC.
5:30- Go into stadium from the tunnel.
6-9:00- Saw what everyone else saw. Halftime spent on bus.
10:00- Left with the team and escorts. Very classy Auburn fans on the way out.
11:00- Split with the team in Montgomery. Stopped at a truck stop to refuel and grab a bite to eat.
11:15- Headed home but continuing the "tailgate".
12 Midnight- Someone breaks a man law in the bathroom.
12:02AM- The bus is filled with a mixture of gagging and laughter. We spray Febreeze but it doesn't help.
12:05- The poor hired bus driver pleads to stop and empty the tank at the next truck stop. He has no objections.
2-3AM- Most have fallen asleep by now.
6:45AM- We arrive back in Ruston.
All in all a great trip though. Many more laughs and details will have to be left out. Needless to say, we had a good time.
Way to represent!!! And we bitch about LSU fans.:D
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saw the blowout yall had... Apparently the Vols supporter was sitting on that side
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tired as hell. at j-h from 10:30 AM to midnight saturday. classiest opposing fans i have ever seen. thoughts on game on the site later.
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Really happy you guys had a great time. 99% of our fans are great but that 1% sucks. We have "those" fans, like everyone else.
On a completely random note, I sat with some friends in the endzone next you guys. I was on row 60 so I had a good birds eye of you. Anyway, during the Phil Collins "in the air" song, I watched your section to see how well you did with the air drums... not too bad.... one lady really got into it...
Random? Yes, but hey I always look for the air drummers during that song.
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All good until... Second half. Got a speeding ticket in Selma. I thought I saw a kangaroo hopping around in the woods somewhere around Meridian. Got home at 6AM. But, I did make it to Sunday school and church. Now, I'm feeling better... haha
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Friday
4:30 pm - pop the cork on one my favorite Belgium ales with a member of BBB
6:00 pm - go to Brick Store in Decatur for more beers and food
11:00 pm - pick up another member of BBB from airport
12:30 pm - more beers and food prep for tailgating
3:00 am - bedtime
Saturday
7:00 am - get up and get ready
8:00 am - drive from Atlanta to Auburn
9:00 am (now in CST) - raise Tech flag pole at tailgate site, open first beer
11:30 am - after several beers, fire up grill
4:00 pm - after half a dozen more beers, exchange pleasantries with Porter and Smith families
5:00 pm - split bottle of bourbon into 4 cups, add a little coke, and start walk to stadium
5:30 pm - get a "Welcome to Auburn" from TV personality (non-leading guy on West Wing and other shows) waiting in line to go into stadium
6:00 - 9:30 pm - experience the range of emotions you get from watching Tech play football
11:00 pm - down a bottle of water and can of Red Bull, drive back to Altanta
2:00 am (Eastern time) - sleep
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Got in late Friday to Embassy Suites in Montgomery...walked over to Dreamland Barbecue, which was very good, and had a bunch of TV's on for FB...good place...got up Sat, visited with lots of Tech folks, then went on my morning jog all around town. I'll say this....I had not been to Montgomery in 30 years, they have really done a nice job cleaning up downtown, it was very pleasant, and the people just went out of there way to make you feel welcome. Left for Auburn about noon, by accident we found the "handicapped" parking for mother-in-law, which was, of course, very close to stadium. People tailgating there got up and came over to ask us if we needed anything--most gracious-then on to Tech alumni tailgating, which was very nice. Did get into a conversation with some Auburn students/workers at the media entrance. They were funny and freindly, and one guy just flat out said he felt Auburn was going to surprise some folks this year...a precursor for things to come--and they certainly looked like that Sat night. Once in the game, it was great..especially the War Eagle "flying"...awesome. They even let me leave the stadium--a no-no in places like that--to get our raingear, as we were told it was about to gullywash(which it didn't of course). After the game--at it's always easy to be nice and humble when you thrash the other guy--I had several people thank us for coming and comment that they thought we had a good squad...yeah, guess that's easy for them to say! Hey, it's a beautiful place, fantastic college town and atmosphere, and certainly could understand someone wanting to go there! Just an overall great place to visit..back to Montgomery by 11:30, to bed...quiet Sun morning, saw a few Tech folks that morning proudly wearing Tech gear, then off on the road..Hwy 80 is good, almost all 4-laned, it's an easy trip, just a long way...glad I went, and for someone who grew up in BR 50 years ago, I can tell you that these smaller town atmospheres with big time FB is way better deal...and they are much more attractive area than BR--Oxford, Auburn, Athens, even Alabama...wow, cool places really...Ruston could be a small version of that if the you know who bandwagonners in Ruston would get behind the Dawgs...That's another story...It was a fantastic experience except for the L...
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louisiana_dog
Our group came from Ruston, ATL, and New Orleans and we had a great time even though we lost. We met up with the aviation organization in AU and their president showed us around. We headed out for pizza for dinner and it was awesome. We went to the 17&16 bar (or 16&17, can't remember) and the Auburn students/fans were very friendly and came up to talk to us regularly. We ended the night a someone's apartment, not sure who...We got back into the hotel room at 3:30am.
Game day, after 4 hours of sleep I was ready to go, I wasn't bad off from Friday night. We headed out and found the La Tech Alumni Association tent. Who ever set that up and who ever cooked, it was a great spot and a great time with great food. We met back up with the Auburn aviation guys at their tailgate. Some of my group was stopped and asked if they wanted to play the bean bag toss game along the way. Some of their fans would ask about our thoughts on the game and start nice conversations. By the time it came to head into the stadium, I was ready for football. My voice was gone by the end of the first quarter, but still tried to make some noise. After the game we stopped by some sandwich shop which was excellent. We encountered our only bad Auburn fan there. We were all pretty wiped after the game. We met back up with an old Auburn grad who was near the Alumni tent who had a widescreen setup. Then we headed over to the post-game show and got some questions in. Thanks for letting us do that by the way guys, it was fun. I can't say enough about the experience we had with their fans, it was great.
Besides the game, it was a great time and recommend going if we play them again. I'm not too worried about the season, our guys are tough enough to move past this game and get ready for Navy. I have already moved on, and can't wait till next Saturday!
How did your weekend go?
I was here.
It was a lot less tame than this post indicates.
Friday night was ludicrous.
Saturday included beer funnels, corn whiskey, etc.
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Hey guys, good luck on the rest of the season. I have a feeling that y'all will be able to beat Navy, eventhough they should've beaten Ohio State....Dang, that sounds weird, Navy should've beaten OSU, who would've thought that, lol. If y'all can get past Navy, which I think ya can, I wouldn't be surprised to see only one or two more losses on the schedule (Boise State, eventhough they didn't impress me...at all and LSU, eventhough they have Ole Miss the following week...so, y'all could catch them lookin').
Also, to the '99 Bulldog Kicker, Mr. Wierick I believe, if you post here, I'll bring my Red Man dip next time so you can bum off of me....and some Woodford Reserve that I'll share with ya, lol.
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I thought the trip a real disappointment. The fans were rude, loud and far too much drinking inside the stadium.
I've have heard about Auburn fans from LSU fans and everything they said, sadly is true.
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BulldogBill
I thought the trip a real disappointment. The fans were rude, loud and far too much drinking inside the stadium.
Really?
They were the most respectful and classy fanbase I've ever encountered. Every 20 yards I got, "welcome to Auburn!" and "You guys need a cold beer?"
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BulldogBill
I thought the trip a real disappointment. The fans were rude, loud and far too much drinking inside the stadium.
I've have heard about Auburn fans from LSU fans and everything they said, sadly is true.
Were you sitting in the AU student section?
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Guisslapp
Were you sitting in the AU student section?
Even the students treated us great!
