re: Wearing LSU gear outside the state of Louisiana

I'll say for the most part wearing LSU gear outside of Louisiana has gotten me some pretty good perks.

We went to Fenway for a 3 game series in July vs. Seattle. I was wearing a LSU shirt and hat to game two of the series. After the game we were taking pictures behind home plate. A security guy came up and started talking about LSU with us. Long story short he has family in La. and loves LSU. He gave us some foul balls and got us into the game the next day for free. Not only that he took us on the field for BP and we got to hang out in the dugout before the game. Even got to talk to Perdoria for a few minutes. He let us up on the Monstar and we ended up just watching the game up there. The whole day was awesome and it was all because of my LSU shirt and hat.

The second time was on the way home from Seattle. We had a 4 hour hour layover in Dallas so we decided to go check out the 1.7 billion dollar Cowboy stadium. So, we get to the stadium and i have a booksack on and we are rolling around 2 pieces of luggage that my buddy checked on the plane looking like some typical tourist. We walk right into the stadium like we owned it and started walking around taking pictures. All of a sudden some guys come off of an elevator and its 4 construction guys. 3 working hands and a supervisor looking type. The supervisor looks at us and says. "Only LSU fans would walk into a brand new stadium and walk around like they own it!" We had a laugh and come to find out this guy was the boss over all of the electrical work in the stadium and was from Baton Rouge. So, we talk with him for a bit and he offers to show us around the stadium. We don't get on any tour that was going on, he locked out bags in a room and brought us to the locker rooms, the cheerleader locker room, told us a lot about the stadium and got a pretty good VIP tour of the stadium all because of our LSU gear. This guy was getting off of work and didn't have to be there but for some Tiger fans he didn't mind one bit.

So, anytime I'm out of state, I am always wearing my purple and gold because you never know who your going to run into and what kind of conversation your gonna get into, and I just like to wear LSU gear all the time. A lot of people love the Tigers and they will come up and tell you and conversations are started.