The Ar-Kansas experience

Just getting back in from Little Rock. This was my first ever LSU away game, so I don't have much to compare it to.

Overall, the experience wasn't all that great. It's to be expected that every fan base will have its share of idiotic fans, but Arkansas had a TON!!

The Bad: The stadium is HORRIBLE!!! There are high school stadiums in Louisiana that are nicer. If ULL and McNeese closed in its endzone with bleachers they would have much better stadiums. The tailgaiting was nothing special. We walked to go to the bathroom we turned around and there were two Arkansas fans approaching us looking like they wanted to fight. The guy proceeded to talk to shite about everything under the sun, including the beer we were drinking. As he ran his mouth a few more of his buddies approached looking for nothing more than a fight. It had nothing to do with football, just talking shite. After going to the bathroom, we walked back down the little kart path/road and there were hundreds of Arkansas fans lined up. Those fans were pretty much ruthless. The stuff most of them were talking about had zero to do with football. It was more talking shite about the state and other stupid crap. He just laughed and kept walking. We stopped a ways down and were talking with an Arkansas fan. We asked what all those people were doing, because I thought maybe the band, football team, or something passed there because their fans were lined up like it was a parade. The guy just laughed and said, "No, nothing passes. They are just waiting for LSU fans." I have no problem with this and was well prepared to take some good natured shite talking from Arkansas fans. These people were pretty classless about it. We do it in Baton Rouge every single week, but it's more good-natured. We tigerbait people..if they smile and laugh we high-five and tell them good luck. The ones that get all pissed about it, we have a little more fun. But everything is in good fun. We had a blast with some Alabama people, and a few other opposing fans in Baton Rouge.

In the game there were plenty more shitty fans. We sat a section away from the Arkansas band so we were not around any other LSU people. Their fans cheered when Arkansas did good and we sat, mostly hanging out head at the idiotic plays we were making. Whenever we stood up and cheered there were a few of their fans acting like we were committing murder. I went all the way to Little Rock..I was not going to sit on my hands and not cheer for LSU just because they didn't like it. They had plenty of remarks every time we opened our mouth the cheer, even though those opportunities did not come often.

The Good: We did meet some decent Arkansas fans. We tailgated with some. They cooked a gumbo and gave us some. Played washer boards and drank with them most of the afternoon. They were really down to earth. There were some nice Arkansas fans, but they seemed to be in the minority. There was a group of 4 or 5 sitting behind us in the game that talked a lot about the SEC and BCS bowls, etc. They were nice to be around the whole game. They cheered on Arkansas and we cheered on LSU and that was that.

I was also very impressed with the way their entire fan base got into the game. For a smaller stadium that place got LOUD at every key point in the game. As annoying as the "pig sooie" crap is..they had nearly 100% participation everytime they did it..and it was pretty cool to see that.

All that being said...I don't think I'll ever make that trip again. Overall it wasn't what I was expecting it to be. And we lost, so that didn't make anything any better. Even with a win, I would be saying I'd rather go to other places before I go back there.