My daughter goes to school there. It's only natural that I spent much of the experience comparing it to Michigan. It was a bit of an apples and oranges because I've never been to a night game at the Big House.
A few brief observations:
It's loud. My ears hurt.
We sat in the lower bowl in Row 60. I thought that'd be a good choice when buying on StubHub, but Row 60 there is much, much farther from the field than at the Big House. The upper deck seats there must be worthless.
It was much more commercialized. Advertising everywhere. Lots of kind of hokey stuff to get the fan base excited. That said, they were excited.
However, most of them left mid-3Q. I guess you have that prerogative if you're a Bama fan. They are studs.
Tuscaloosa parties like nothing I've ever seen in A2. The whole city was wasted. Beer ain't cheap in T-town, but they consume a lot of it. Bars were jammed. (A craft brew at the bar is cheap - $4 or so, though they jack prices up for everything on game day)
The situation of Bryant-Denny is awesome. Right next to the Quad, so there were hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of tents with tailgaters getting trashed. All within a few hundred yards of the stadium.
We are known for our arrogance. They top it, and probably deserve it. But, they're an extremely rabid fan base. At lunch on Sunday, 80% of the clientele wore Bama gear. They love their team.
They dress differently, much so. The girls wear dresses and many young students had ties on. You dress up for the game. And if you're a decent looking young lady, you show it off. Very short skirts. Very much cleavage.
Overall, I came away thinking we are a better experience. I'm biased, but ... I wish we could be as ravenous in the stands when things don't go well. It was Arkansas, so thing always went well, but they are fired up.
Go Blue!!! Hope we get to see these guys in the next couple years.
A few brief observations:
It's loud. My ears hurt.
We sat in the lower bowl in Row 60. I thought that'd be a good choice when buying on StubHub, but Row 60 there is much, much farther from the field than at the Big House. The upper deck seats there must be worthless.
It was much more commercialized. Advertising everywhere. Lots of kind of hokey stuff to get the fan base excited. That said, they were excited.
However, most of them left mid-3Q. I guess you have that prerogative if you're a Bama fan. They are studs.
Tuscaloosa parties like nothing I've ever seen in A2. The whole city was wasted. Beer ain't cheap in T-town, but they consume a lot of it. Bars were jammed. (A craft brew at the bar is cheap - $4 or so, though they jack prices up for everything on game day)
The situation of Bryant-Denny is awesome. Right next to the Quad, so there were hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of tents with tailgaters getting trashed. All within a few hundred yards of the stadium.
We are known for our arrogance. They top it, and probably deserve it. But, they're an extremely rabid fan base. At lunch on Sunday, 80% of the clientele wore Bama gear. They love their team.
They dress differently, much so. The girls wear dresses and many young students had ties on. You dress up for the game. And if you're a decent looking young lady, you show it off. Very short skirts. Very much cleavage.
Overall, I came away thinking we are a better experience. I'm biased, but ... I wish we could be as ravenous in the stands when things don't go well. It was Arkansas, so thing always went well, but they are fired up.
Go Blue!!! Hope we get to see these guys in the next couple years.
