Stewart Mandel - Fox Sports - Tiger Stadium Tops List

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Dear Mr. Mandel: Huge fan. Thank you for writing. I've been reading your work for a long time. As it happens, I finally graduated law school this year and will have some time this fall to hopefully catch some games in person. I am thinking about going and seeing two to three games in SEC locales this fall. If someone has never been to an SEC game, what stadium do you recommend they start with?

-- David, Buffalo, N.Y.


I feel like I always need to answer this question with a disclaimer -- you can't go wrong at any number of places in that conference. There's no overwhelmingly obvious answer. But as I've written before, my favorite place in the country to attend a game is Death Valley at LSU. You'll get quite the indoctrination, from the uniquely Louisiana food to the live tiger that lives down the street from the stadium to the unique outfits of the Golden Girls. But I'd say much the same of a trip to Bryant-Denny (especially when "Thunderstruck" comes on), Jordan-Hare (when the eagle makes his flight) or Neyland (when the Vols run through the "T.")
I got chills watching all of those videos, by the way. Get thee to a stadium as soon as possible.

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