re: Tuscaloosca experience

Alabama's worst fans tend to have almost always never attended the University, and virtually none of them step foot on campus for premier games.

With the student body having been 50% or more out-of-state for almost a decade now, you're getting a newer set of alumni who - love the team, but, it isn't their life. A lot different than schools where the students all grew up in-state, live and breathe the school fight song, go to school there, and spend their last nickel to go to games until death do they part.

The one thing you'll notice now is (especially if it's been 4+ years since you've gone back), the talent on campus is out-of-this world. You've got girls from Dallas, Houston, LA, NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, etc... looking to become insta-famous like the bachlorette chick. If you're single for the weekend, you'll have a good time even if Burrow's leg exploded.

Bars to go to Friday night:
- Gallette's (remodeled, and wayyy more spacious)
- Innisfree (Great outdoor patio)
- The Booth (If you like drugs)
- Rounders (If you're trying to rage with out-of-state girls)
- Red Shed (more laid back, good beer drinking bar)

Food Spots:
- Archibald's
- Original Dreamland on Old Jug Factory Rd (not the commercial wannabe in Northport)
- Sweet home Food Bar (one of my favorites, often overlooked)
- Avenue Pub
- Chuck's
- Rama Jama's (not on gameday - it's a build your own burger type deal)
- Waysider for your Sunday hangover

Saturday, if you don't go to a tailgate:
- Go get some food in your belly at the big-bad-wolf pop-up, and park at Rounders, Gallettes, or Bear Trap. All within the shadow of Bryant-Denny on the strip. Fun atmosphere at all places. I've gotten so wrapped up in the moment in the back room of Gallettes, that I've scrambled to make kick-off multiple times. Do NOT go to Houndstooth. For whatever reason, that place is where the small sliver of townies and gumps hang out, and they just like to sit there and chat tin-foil message board rumors with their fat bellies and houndstooth hats. They don't like visitors. You wouldn't want to go anyways; it's like Bear Bryant's ghost knocked up Buffalo Wild Wings.

Echoing what most say here - as long as you're there to have fun and party, you're going to have an incredible time. The only school I've ever seen anyone be hostile to is Auburn and Georgia (moreso because that's the biggest douche hat fanbase in the SEC. Would be #1 if Ohio St. didn't exist).

If you win, the town will be absolutely dead an hour after the game, so, pick any bar and make it your own. If you lose, pick any bar you want. I'm telling you - the winning has kinda made us nonchalant, so I'd bet dollars to cents you'd get a beer bought for you.

Enjoy the visit, and RTR.