Have you been to Laramie? Playing a football game in gale-force winds where the weather will change at least 4 times in 4 quarters of football? Where the fans pull the Die Hards out of their rusty-assed pickups to throw at your team? Where if it weren’t for the wind, their fan section might combust due to all the alcohol and cigarettes? Home of the infamous catalytic heater incident?
Been there…done that…hard pass on ever doing it again.
I actually studied biochemistry from one of those 130 Nobel laureates! The ACC has a lot of top researchers at Syracuse (of course, since I got my PhD there), Duke, UNC, Virginia, Pitt, Miami.
The Wyo fans will always have a soft spot in my heart… mostly for the way they treat BYU fans, prompting amusing reactions, but also because they’re the closest thing we have to Neanderthals living today.
Urine bombs? Geez.
Decades ago there was a story in SI about Poke fans in Rock Springs who’d been taking the train across that miserable landscape for 25 years to Wyoming football games, getting lubed up along the way. A few of them had never actually made it to the stadium!
Some people think Albuquerque is sketchy (including the brilliant producers of Breaking Bad). Laramie wins that competition, in my book.
Been to several softball games there. They’re nuts. And that’s softball. Alabama has an amazing softball atmosphere too — hope you were able to catch a game at Rhoads. Worth your time.
LSU and UGA are hands down the best crowds as the away team if you like to party. For my money I prefer away games at Ole Miss. LSU is a special place for a game but I prefer UCLA because I am in love with Pasadena as my future retirement destination.
Bring your umbrella for when the urine balloons come raining down like hail
I’ve lived in South Pasadena before – nice place. A bit too hot for me during the summer.
I went to the last game that Utah played in Laramie. We had heard so many horror stories about how bad the fans were there so there was some trepidation. We found a cheap parking spot in a church parking lot across the street from the campus. We were greeted with free cookies from the church people doing the parking. We walked across the street to the tailgate area and we were greeted kindly by everyone. There were a bunch of different food booths and Wyoming fans on more than one occasion invited our little group to the front of the line. There was a country band playing (of course) to the one side of the grassy tailgate area and I had a few nice conversations with the fans there. When we got into the stadium my ticket wound up being right in the middle of all Wyoming fans but I only heard kind heckle from up behind where I was sitting. The guy next to me struck up a conversation and we had a nice chat throughout the game. After the game we had a nice dinner at a place across from the dorms and everyone was friendly there as well. We had opted to stay the night in Rock Springs for fear that the car might get vandalized due to having Utah plates but I’m guessing it would have been fine. I wouldn’t mind going back for another game there again.
I live in the Southern United States. It’s like the artic circle compared. Sweat through your shirt at 6:45am due to humidity.
I did go the Ute-LSU basketball game in Baton Rouge about 15 years ago or so. Parked near Mike and took pictures in front of the cage before walking over to the b-ball arena. That football stadium is huge! Big and empty in mid December.
Haha. Yup…having spent 20 years in TX and traveled all over the south, I get it.
It isn’t. This announcement was nothing more than an indication to both espn and the SEC that the other conferences won’t stand by while they dictate the future of the game.
This concept of alliance is being overstated.
Same here in Ea. NC. Go anywhere with 40% or less humidity and it’s almost heavenly dry. Vegas this time of year is surprisingly nice since it’s dry. We haven’t seen less than 60% humidity in over a month. Dew points in the 70s, avg humidity has been around 65%, but has high as 80% in last 2 weeks. So yeah, it’s easy to soak your clothing without even working out.
Just mowed this morning when it was 84 (at 7am) with 58% humidity. It was the coolest day.
Ok, now can we focus on the import stuff…
Tailgating and Football Games.
As a twist on a steal.
All the pigskin prognosticators have already written us off from winning the PAC 12 South, the PAC 12 Conference, and the CFP. Using their logic we may as well go out and phone in the season and get ready for some second tier bowl game. Let the squawkers keep talking like that. As of today, nobody has won or lost anything. All we need to do is go out an win - Game by game. If we do this right, at the end of the season we can sit back, enjoy the season results and watch the soothsayer’s eat a nice big 5#1+burger.
GO UTES!!!
BEAT HARRISON HIGH….eeeeerrrrrrrr…WEBER STATE!!!
Seems they have you battling SC for the South.
@BamaFanNKY, but they have U$C winning the South.
Winning turns the predictions into TP. Seeing Whitt’s excitement about this team is encouraging, but we needed a “Lou Brown Moment.” 
