Weirdest away game I’ve experienced. The fans had some really cool rituals and stuff but I had a couple real weirdos sitting around me. The guy directly in front of me kept looking back and asking “have you ever seen anything like this?!” I was polite at first and would give the polite “this is a great atmosphere, lots of neat chants and cheers” and such. But that wasn’t enough. He and a another guy kept peppering me with “have you ever heard anything this loud, and nobody else in the SEC does this, etc.”. At some point, after about the 6th reference to how loud and incredible the environment was and trying to get to me agree it was the loudest place I ever heard, I said “look man, this is cool, but I’ve been to Knoxville at night where 100,000+ hate your guts and you can’t hear the guy next to you, I’ve been at crazed Auburn games in Jordan-Hare, I’ve had 100k Bama fans sing Dixieland Delight at me while they were kicking the crap out of us, I’ve been to Jacksonville where a mixture of UGA and UF fans fight for dominance on who can be the loudest and most obnoxious, and I’ve been to well over a hundred monster games in the Swamp where national titles are on the line and permanent hearing loss is a real thing.”
They sorta looked at me with sad and confused eyes after this and pretty much stopped bothering me. Nothing I’ve seen since then has showed me they aren’t still weird.
