re: What to expect in tuscaloosa

I went for the "interception-gate" game when we lost at the end. They are very standoffish before the game and during the game they were assholes. Their band is pretty shitty but I like the stadium and the setup with regards to their campus.

After the game they were the worst group of people I have ever been around. Cursing, spitting, and overall very confrontational. It was not "just those people" it was everyone I came across and I said I would never go back. However this game is just going to be to good to pass up so I will be back for round 2.

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Last time I went they poured cokes in our seats (creating puddles we couldn't sit in), hit us with ice, threw popcorn, and yelled at us anytime we cheered. We couldn't have been more non-confrontational but the 30 and older crowd there are the scum of the earth.

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That is so fricked up. I will never understand this behavior. I haven't seen anything like this in Tiger Stadium. I usually see people being very helpful to the visiting fans, and usually thanking them for making the trip. Maybe it's just where I sit, but I have never seen anything so embarrassing. Tiger fans are loud and proud but we aren't going to frick with people like that.

the words to sweet home alabama will be forever be messed up.

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I won a silent bid yesterday for two LSU/Bama tickets What should i expect for my first trip to BAMA?

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A FUN Time. Park anywhere on the strip a mile or two from the stadium and the two mile or so walk in is lined with bars, tailgaters, and all kinds of fun stuff.... T-Town is FUN.

Two years ago I went and after we lost I was walking to my car when some frat douche (probably a pledge as he had a tie on) randomly approached me and started yelling nonstop to me about corndogs . I was just like damn dude you must really like corndogs. IF we lose just act like it doesn't bother you, that will annoy them the most. If we win I wouldnt say much either

Toothless, inbred losers

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What should i expect for my first trip to BAMA?

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Pom Poms....lots of pom poms...

I was present in 2009.

My thumbnail impressions:

Women: Beautiful, though somewhat inaccesible to outsiders, like most Southern belles. Generally, though, they were affable and talkative.

The Strip: Entertaining. I wasn't harrassed.

The Bear Trap: Disturbing. A bar featuring giant murals of Saban couchant. Feels as if you have walked into Prominentwon's Kafka-esque nightmare. Made even more disturbing when a certain good friend decides to "borrow" the drinks of female patrons. Run.

The Houndstooth (bar): Epicenter of Bama's obsession with the Bear. Lot of Skynyrd. Every thirty minutes or so: more Skynyrd. Skynyrd that will echoe in the recesses of your mind five months later. Beautiful bartenders who ring a bell when you tip them big. I was treated very well here by staff and Bama fans alike. Did I mention the Skynyrd?

Houndstooth (fabric): Everywhere, even where it shouldn't be, e.g. on the thong of a portly woman who needed to show me her dedication to Bama. I believed her. There was no need for the public demonstration. I am traumatized. Thankfully, the houndstooth thong was offset by the multitude of houndstooth hats jauntily perched on the platinum heads of young beauties. Bonus: Houndstooth mini-skirts.

The Stadium: Imposing, but lacks the frenetic, barely repressed acoustic violence of Tiger Stadium and the Swamp. I sat in the LSU section and wasn's harrassed at any point before, during, or after the game.

Taxi Service: Horrendous. You will not be able to find a cab back to your hotel late Friday night or after the game. You will end up bribing a pizza deliver man to take you home. YOU WILL.

Post-Game: I stayed on the Strip and was typically greeted with sympathy or innocuous trash-talking by the Bama faithful. The LSU fans were drowing in a sea of melancholy, myself included.

Bama fans: Haughty, scornful, disainful, arrogant...but generally congenial otherwise. I found that they would spend the first five minutes of any conversation regaling you with their superiority, then slowly reveal themselves to be regular people with decent hearts. A few morons. Only the very young seemed interested in fisticuffs of any sort. Then again, I was with some angry looking friends, one of whom boxes.

Overall: Enjoyable. I am returning this year. I hope the Alabama fans don't prove that 2009 was just an anomoly.

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When I went last time they lined the streets and threw things and taunted us as we walked to our car... Hope for a win cause they get nasty when they win.

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I've been to a lot of Alabama games and I've never witnessed anything close to what you're describing.