Tailgating at the LSU vs. Alabama Football Game

The biggest college football game this week was LSU vs. Alabama in Baton Rouge. ESPN Game Day was there along with a record number of people. Jerome, myself, Melanie, Lewis, Todd, and Kevin went to the tailgating party, although only Todd had tickets to the game. Regardless, we had a great time before the game.

Tailgating in Louisiana is much, much, much, different than any tailgating I have ever seen in Utah. The crowds are bigger, noisier, drunker, and funner (thought I'd continue with the 'ers.) There were RV's from people who had been camped out for up to four days before the game. People were cooking on large bbq pits, making gigantic steaks, pork loins, stews, jambalaya, you name it, it was pretty much there.

Signs all over the place showing huge funny and sometimes crude slogans and pictures. People brought out their satellite dishes and 40" inch screen televisions to watch the game outside, because they couldn't get into the sold out stadium. They packed their generators so they could power those tv's and keep their beer cold in the ice chests/refridgerators that were there.

There were people everywhere! It was like being at the state fair in Utah, only 5 fives bigger and EVERYONE had a beer in their hands.

Anyway, LSU lost in overtime to #1 ranked Alabama. We stood outside the stadium, watching the game on the flat screen plasma TV that someone hooked up to their satellite dish and ate chips, jambalaya, beans and sausauge. We left the house at 7:15am and got to the game by 8:30am after meeting everybody and stayed until after five o'clock. Then came home, watched the last part of the game on our own tv and then hit the sack. It was an awesome day.


Apparently, this is how you stop the "crimson tide".

Crowd around the ESPN Game Day set.

Jerome was actin' a fool as we were leavin' and so I pretended to slug him.