LSU trip

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ChiTownVol said:
I’m planning a trip to Baton Rouge for the LSU game. I’d be grateful for any advice on the best way to get good tickets. Are scalpers there similar to at Neyland? I’d hate to throw my money away to stubhub. Thanks, and Go Vols!
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I've been 4 or 5 times but really can't speak to scalpers as I always had tickets from Tennessee when I went. Haven't been since 90s.

I would suggest trying to get tickets from a season ticket holder. Find someone who has access via that method but not going and get them to order for you in March when they place their ticket order. Visitors sections are upper deck and lower end zone corner, unless it has changed since I was there. I've sat in both. Upper is up there but you get a good view of things opening up and closing on plays. In lower, you are far away from the other end zone so difficult to see, depending on how low you might be. If you want to go I wouldn't be concerned with where you sit, just go and enjoy the venue.

Get there before the team arrives and find where they go into the stadium. Mike the Tiger will be there in a cage. LSU kids rattle his cage so he growls at the players walking in. pretty neat to see.

Find a friendly Cajun, there are plenty, and hit a tailgate with them. My best times on road trips was always joining rivals tailgate and socializing with the rivals. Have done it on every venue.

If its day game, expect extreme heat. Night game better but not by much. I don't recall when game is scheduled but it will likely be hot.

Have fund. Most important part of going on the road.
 
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ChiTownVol said:
I’m planning a trip to Baton Rouge for the LSU game. I’d be grateful for any advice on the best way to get good tickets. Are scalpers there similar to at Neyland? I’d hate to throw my money away to stubhub. Thanks, and Go Vols!
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Wear a hard hat
 
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Take time to make it down to the French quarter. There should be plenty of tickets by then. We will be on the move and they will be in the dumps. I expect it would be a great trip.

Go early stay late. There’s a lot to do around there.

Do they still have cruise ships leaving from there?
 
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LWSVOL said:
I've been 4 or 5 times but really can't speak to scalpers as I always had tickets from Tennessee when I went. Haven't been since 90s.

I would suggest trying to get tickets from a season ticket holder. Find someone who has access via that method but not going and get them to order for you in March when they place their ticket order. Visitors sections are upper deck and lower end zone corner, unless it has changed since I was there. I've sat in both. Upper is up there but you get a good view of things opening up and closing on plays. In lower, you are far away from the other end zone so difficult to see, depending on how low you might be. If you want to go I wouldn't be concerned with where you sit, just go and enjoy the venue.

Get there before the team arrives and find where they go into the stadium. Mike the Tiger will be there in a cage. LSU kids rattle his cage so he growls at the players walking in. pretty neat to see.

Find a friendly Cajun, there are plenty, and hit a tailgate with them. My best times on road trips was always joining rivals tailgate and socializing with the rivals. Have done it on every venue.

If its day game, expect extreme heat. Night game better but not by much. I don't recall when game is scheduled but it will likely be hot.

Have fund. Most important part of going on the road.
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Awesome, thanks, LWS!
If you or any other season ticket holder can get 2 tickets, I’d be happy to pay nicely for them!
 
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McDad said:
Tentative plan to attend. My wife is from Louisiana and an LSU fan. We have friends and family in Lafayette. Went to a game years ago when they played Arky. Great atmosphere, fans, etc. It will be hotter than the devil's home in early Oct.
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You tell your wife to sit down, keep her mouth shut, and take the beating when you get there. If she doesn't like that, just tag me, and I'll give you some more advice!
 
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I live in Baton Rouge. 99% of LSU fans are great. Best tailgating in SEC !!! I do not recommend staying in NOLA ( everybody gets to drunk in NOLA & its 1 1/2 hour drive to Baton Rouge from French Quarter ) you will hate yourself on saturday morning... plenty of parking west of Alex Box stadium.. local bar - Ivars & best restaurants- Ruffino's & Parrains & Drago's .. try boudin & chargrilled oysters !!! great gameday bar - Walkon's next to Tiger Stadium ( hot chicks & local bands playing in tents )
 
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ChiTownVol said:
Awesome, thanks, LWS!
If you or any other season ticket holder can get 2 tickets, I’d be happy to pay nicely for them!
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1982 was my first trip to Baton Rouge..

There were 6 of us that went in my blue customized van. Left out Friday morning and drove all the way down having a few drinks on the way. Stay in a Holiday Inn which was also where the team was staying. 2 floors. We had a corner room and all 6 of us stay in the one room, it was a suite sized room. The team was already there when we arrived.

After settling in, we went outside where many players were just hanging around and just talked with them. There were buses sitting there to take the team over to a practice field for the Friday evening walk-through. Me and a buddy was talking to Faud Reviez but my buddy didn't recognize him. He thought he was one of the bus drivers and asked him what time he was taking the team to the practice field. I said Billy, this is Faud Reveiz. He was flabbergasted.

In a few minutes the team started down to the buses. I ran up to the room and told everyone to get in the van we were headed to the practice field. I think we were all pretty drunk by this time since we had been drinking off and on all day. We loaded up and fell in behind the last bus and followed them to practice field, led by police escort. Doing about 70 through the streets of Baton Rouge with a drunk driving, ME.

The next morning, around 10 Reggie White led about 15 players up to the corner room just opposite our room for a bible reading. They were in there a good hour. It was a night game so they and we had the day to kill. I spent 30 minutes sitting on the stairs with Bill Bates just chewing the fat.

Game ended up a 24-24- tie and we sat in those upper deck seats mentioned earlier. Willie Gault returned a kick-off for a touchdown and it was a beauty to watch from up as he raced his way through those Bengal Tigers. Was a beautiful night for football in Death Valley.

Oh, My friends were not happy with me the next morning as I had already told them we had to get on the road early. Promised my wife I would be back in time for us to go Kenny Rogers concert in Murfreesboro. I told them I would handle driving the entire way and I did as we pulled out at 5:00 AM.

Fun trip. Thought some might enjoy the tale.

Go Vols
 
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Do not miss the tailgating. And however early you think is too early, it’s not. Those fans start early and go all day. I lived in Louisiana for three years, and the football experience in Baton Rouge is just phenomenal.
 
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Majors said:
Great trip, went in 2000 as a student. It is a bucket list game for any Tennessee fans to see a game under the lights. Saban had lost to UAB the previous week and we roll AJ Suggs out.... I was heckled by a little girl on her dads shoulders leaving the game. My advice, pay the money... you'll get it back.
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We went to that game, too. Great trip, though the Vols were upset. LSU fans were lots of fun.
 
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joevol33 said:
You tell your wife to sit down, keep her mouth shut, and take the beating when you get there. If she doesn't like that, just tag me, and I'll give you some more advice!
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I knew you would get cocky after your Dawgs won the national championship.
 
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I'm heading to LSU for the first time this season with a big group of friends from college. We are staying in NO and taking a party bus to and from the game. I'll have to "pace myself" accordingly
 
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Stay in New Orleans. Not Metarie, not Slidell, and not Gretna. NEW ORLEANS.

Eat at Marjie’s Grill Friday. Plan on a late night Saturday after you arrive early in BR & make nice with the Tigah tailgaters. Bring Tennessee whiskey as tribute, and you’ll have all the jambalaya and boudin you can hold.

Recover with a Lucy’s burrito and Bloody Mary on Sunday. Catch the Saints if you can. Fly out Monday.

Finding physical tickets to buy will be a crap shoot, depending on kickoff time and relative records of the teams involved.

I’d wait and buy out of the UT allotment if you can.
 
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golfer89 said:
I live in Baton Rouge. 99% of LSU fans are great. Best tailgating in SEC !!! I do not recommend staying in NOLA ( everybody gets to drunk in NOLA & its 1 1/2 hour drive to Baton Rouge from French Quarter ) you will hate yourself on saturday morning... plenty of parking west of Alex Box stadium.. local bar - Ivars & best restaurants- Ruffino's & Parrains & Drago's .. try boudin & chargrilled oysters !!! great gameday bar - Walkon's next to Tiger Stadium ( hot chicks & local bands playing in tents )
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Can’t hate on this plan, though our opinions diverge! These joints are legit.
 
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NOLA restaurants - Drago's ( hilton ) & Superior Grill -- best local bars - Cooter Brown's & Snake and Jake;s ( best local dive bar, 1am to sunrise best time to stop by !!!
 
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Several years back I attended the LSU vs. Auburn game with a friend who is an Auburn graduate . . . I wore my orange while Brandon, no not that Brandon, wore his Auburn garb and we had a blast! The LSU fans invited us to eat and drink at every turn! Yes, there was some good-natured ribbing throughout the course of the day and during the game, but the ribbing went both ways of course.

Auburn got hammered that game, Fournette busted the game open on the first play of the first possession scampering about 70 yards for a touchdown.

If it is an afternoon game, you do want to sit as high up in the stadium as possible as the lower seats get little to no breeze and is stifling HOT! We watched many fans passing out due to the heat and alcohol . . . paramedics are stationed all over the stadium.

Good food, good drinks, good atmosphere and good people, of course there are a few knuckleheads as with any crowd, but they were far and few between.

GBO
 
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golfer89 said:
NOLA restaurants - Drago's ( hilton ) & Superior Grill -- best local bars - Cooter Brown's & Snake and Jake;s ( best local dive bar, 1am to sunrise best time to stop by !!!
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Gawd, I love Snake n Jakes. Last time I was at Cooter Brown’s was January 2020. I’m starting to itch like Tyrone Biggums.

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Peyton used to be in there every time he was home.
 
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