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Seems I touched a nerve. Twas only taking the piss. My maternal half of the family is from Louisiana so many a family reunion happens down there. It does makes me chuckle that an Englishman went to 'Frenchest' state in the union.
Got a question - So you went to a huge SEC school so I know you went to a tailgater or two. I was trying to explain the experience to someone on this board but I think I pretty much failed to convey the enormity of it all. How was your experience and does anything in the 'motherland' compare?
No worries mate I was going to reply about how we're ranked higher but then realised the very real possibility of that backfiring on me within less than a month. Ole Miss, @ Florida, Georgia, Miss St and then 'Bama is a horrendous run of games to have.
Only went to LSU because it would be different to the unis along the eastern seaboard. If I had known it would take 23 hours via Chicago and then a 2 and half hour Greyhound to get to there I probably would have chosen differently.
Nothing in the UK compares to a tailgate. Beer, cajun/creole food and football is there anything finer in life? At LSU the tailgate is a mini city (it would be the sixth largest city by population in the state) that pops up on a Friday night and begins partying at about 8 in the following morning so you tend to be well fed and tipsy by the time the game kicks off in the evening but the thing that stood out for me was how hospitable everyone is. In the UK football matches tend to have a heavy and visible police presence where opposition fans are kept separate so seeing no police while strangers and even opposition fans happily intermingle and share beer and food was an odd sight. You just wander up to someone and ask what they're cooking and 9 times out of 10 they'll make sure you get a plate of food.
If I were asked to recommend anything from my life that people should experience then it would be a tailgate at a big college football school in the South as not even the Super Bowl can compete with it. I know the SEC has a reputation for being arrogant but it's true when they say in the SEC it just means more
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