re: I went to the A&M game Saturday: The in-game experience is night and day vs. Death Valley

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Went to the game in college Station in 2022 and thought it felt very corporate and NFL like. The music is the thing that stuck out the most actually for me.

Their fans are insufferable to be around.

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Long-time lurker here, never posted, felt that I had to.

Big LSU fan my whole life and live in Houston at the moment. Got invited to the suite at the A&M game this weekend through work. Figured I'd go and check it out, it was free after all. It was an 11am game and I got there 2 hours before so couldn't really speak to the tailgating situation, will just focus in the stadium.

Before you say anything, I know that they are undefeated and are having a good year, but this place was PACKED to the fricking gills at kickoff at 11AM against a horrific 3-6 South Carolina team. A&M were massive favorites, and it's not like the weather was great either: 82 degrees and sun pelting down at kickoff, only getting hotter throughout the game, with your typical east Texas / Louisiana humidity. It was not comfortable at all (I had AC in the suite but not for everyone else). They're down 30-3 at half, almost a guaranteed loss, and probably only 5% of the fans left?

The entire game, the fanbase is engaged, not just the student section. You know how at LSU games, they have the individual chants that the band plays on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th downs and turnovers? A&M has something similar, and every fricking person in that stadium is doing the chant, every single time - even when they were down fricking 20 in the 3rd quarter. Like, I'll admit it, my arse would have been so gone if this was Tiger Stadium and LSU in the same situation, and I sure as hell wouldn't be doing chants with my team down 20. Holy hell. I went to the LSU-South Carolina game about a month ago. Decent weather that night, close game with our entire season to play for and the place is like 70% full mid 3rd quarter.

Also, big difference: the piped in music. 1st, the speaker is not nearly as loud as LSU's. 2nd, the piped in music, while similar to the generic party rap bullshite that is played at the LSU games, the music at Kyle Field seems to be purely reserved for *some* long timeouts/commercial breaks and quarter changes and any other dead moments, nothing else. It's also never drowning out the crowd or band, and unless you are an LSU fan that has PTSD like me from Tiger Stadium, you probably wouldn't even realize the music is there at all. The focus seems to be on: the field and players and the band and the crowd's engagement between the two.

Anyways, as you know they come back. Early 4th quarter, they have a short 3rd down to stop them and get the ball back down one possession. Place is louder than I have probably heard Tiger Stadium get since Bama 2018, and remember this is fricking 1pm with the Texas sun pelting down in 85 degree weather. The concessions aren't bad either. I ventured out to the main area concourse and they have draft beer and frozen cocktails like margaritas and stuff - not those nasty arse daquiris like at LSU. And they also had street tacos and gourmet nachos (not the shitty arse melted cheese ones at LSU).

It seems like I'm piling on and maybe I am, but that has radicalized the shite out of me. LSU's in-game experience has to catch up.


TLDR: Was dragged to an A&M game and the in-game experience is 100x better than LSU's.

EDIT: and for those wondering, yes, I am gay and voted for Kamala. #chooselove

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