re: Couple of Aussies heading to your town!

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One other thing, are there places around campus for us to buy drinks if we need to or we have to bring them with us?

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Yes, at the north gates there is:

The Chimes
Slinky's
Barcadia
Mahoney's

You can get drinks there and there's a convenience store right there where you can buy your own to carry. They relax open container laws on gameday as well so walking around with drinks is fine

Literally anywhere but City Bar.

Thanks heaps man, got some reading to do!

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Are you referring to Brad Wing and Jaimie Keehn?

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LSU has another Aussie punter now, Josh Growden, from Sydney.

It is not offensive to use the word "mate". Some of these guys are just being homophobic. In the US, mate can mean your partner or spouse. I wouldn't want you to think all southern Americans are ignorant hicks.

Sounds good, thanks very much for the suggestions, we're gonna hang on campus for most of the day it seems!

Mate, you need to understand that some of these jerks here think that they are being funny & are giving you dumb advice. The campus is totally safe & tailgating starts as early as 7 in the morning in some areas. DO get your hotel reservations IMMEDIATELY as most sell out way in advance & most require a 2 night stay on LSU game days. I'd suggest not wearing any purple & gold LSU gear as there will be 100,000 LSU fans doing that. Wear something that will make clear you are from Australia. You will have no need to buy any booze or food wearing Aussie shirts. No glass containers are allowed, so make sure you use the plastic cups the tailgaters will give you. Take your time, as tailgating lasts all day long & a lot of areas have post game tailgating as well. Going downtown post game will take a while, a good hour or so, so stop & grab a drink or 4 while waiting. Reggie's is a college crowd bar if you are comfortable with that. When with a tailgating crew, ask them where is the best place to go post game. Do not mess with Baton Rouge Police if shite starts, but most will be helpful if you are sober & just asking for information. On a typical game day there will be over 100,000 on campus: to get an idea of what kind of tailgating you will see, google LSU TIGER FOOTBALL tailgating and you should get a good idea. If Baton Rouge hotels are full already, you might consider staying in New Orleans & driving in game day. It's about an hour plus drive on game day & it's easy to get to TIger Stadium off the interstate. October can be hot, so keep an eye on the weather forecasts & dress appropriately. Many wear shorts & t shirts, some wear jeans, some wear slacks. I'd suggest dress comfortable for potentially being in the sun for 6-7-9 hrs. Keep writing here & as the game approaches I am sure some here will give you specific directions as to where to meet them for their tailgating.

If you want to bring cool gifts from down under Roo sacks would be awesome!

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Absolutely hang on campus all day. Honestly, 4 hours is not enough. My favorite part of the day is to be set up by 6:00 AM and to sit and watch campus wake up. Stop by the Indian mounds, and if you see a table with 10-12 LSU helmets stop in for food and drink. I would say don't buy any drinks, it is a pain to carry them. You will be fed and liquored all day. Just take it all in.

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Yeah I get the feeling we need to get there as early as possible on game day and just take it all in!

Sounds like everyone is very generous with food and drinks, wanna try as much of the local product as possible