After Tigerband practice in the Georgia Dome, we made our way to CNN to eat. The food court was a sea of LSU fans. Occasionaly someone started up a GEAUX TIGERS cheer and everyone joined in. The Georgia fans just sat quietly and ate their food. They never showed any school spirit. I guess they already knew that they were doomed. After lunch, we went to the SEC Fan Fare for a little while. Lots to do there, but the lines were too long. After drinking a few free Dr Peppers, we headed back to our buses. Five o'clock rolls around and we suit up. We fall into formation and march to the SEC Fan Fare Pep Rally. Tiger fans are everywhere and there is so much crowd noise that it feels like we are back in Tiger Stadium. Our song selection whipped the crowd into a frenzy. After the performace as we were marching out, a Georgia fan runs up to us and says, "I knew our band was bad, but I didn't know we were THAT bad". That's a strange compliment, but thanks. After marching out of the Fan Fare, we stop just before we enter the Dome and lo and behold, three buses pull up and out comes the Georgia football team. A few of us start chanting "TIGER BAIT" but our section leaders tell us to shut up. Pregame: The Redcoat Band's pregame is the most boring one I've ever watched. All they do is slowly march across the field and play that silly five note cheer. The dome is quiet and I think I hear crickets chirping. Had I not been standing at attention I would have laid down and taken a nap. Despite being boring as hell, we applaud their performace. Finally, our turn comes and we take the field. The LSU crowd goes wild and is ten times louder than the Georgia crowd. Whenever our colorguard gets down to the endzone on the Georgia side where their band is standing around, some of their band members shout and cuss at our girls and say their going to whip our a$$es. We applauded your performace and this is how you repay us? What a bunch of &%*$(# losers. Go to Hell Redcoat Band. Game time: the battle begins. Once again our offense starts off slow, but our defense kicks their butts time and time again. We learn that USC won their game. Thanks a lot Beavers. So much for that plan. The score of the Big XII championship game comes up occasionally. Oklahoma is LOSING???? After halftime as we are going back to our seats, Billy Bennit starts kicking balls at us. Hey butthead, you want a trumbone slide shoved up your backside?? Finally he misses one and I run up to the endzone and give the "Field Goal No Good" sign that the refs do. The next ball comes right at me, but he misses me and the field goal. I just laugh and walk away. The second half is even more intense than the first half. It looks like they may come back but then our defense shuts them down and our offense kicks into high gear and we score a total of 34 points on the #2 defense in the nation; they only manage to score 13. Big XII Championship final score: Oklahoma 7, Kansas State 35. Wow, that's going to throw a major monkey wrench into the BCS mechanics. But right now who cares. WE JUST WON THE SEC CHAMPIONSHIP!!!! During the fouth quarter we started up a little chant that went something like this: "L-S-U, U-S-C, Oklahoma is number three!!" Someone holds up a sign that says, "Hey Eli, thanks 4 the trip!!" After the game, during the long walk back to our buses, some of our members start playing the Mardi Gras song. The rest of us start dancing and carrying on like a pack of drunk cajuns in New Orleans. All we needed were beads around our necks and a hand grenade in each hand to complete the picture. I really like Atlanta. Every time we go there, we win.
A couple of other things When Bennet kicked one into the stands after the band was done, the LSU fans threw it up to the upper deck so he couldn't have it anymore. And can the tiger band please learn "Pour some sugar on me" by January 4?
We've been asking for an arrangment of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" for the last 2 weeks, but our band directors have said no every time. I don't know why, but they might change their minds as the game draws near.
"Pour Some Sugar On Me" would have been a great selection for the SECCG! Could you imagine if the band had cranked it up late in the 4th quarter?!!! The place would have gone crazy (crazier?!)!!!!!
Yeah, it would have been more appropriate in the SECCG than in the Sugar. Maybe if we take a commanding lead in the Sugar or after we win. Do you have an arrangement for "We Are The Champions"?
I guess I'll share my experiences in Atlanta. I flew in Saturday morning and walking through the airport was pretty fun. I ended up walking through the airport to the shuttle bus with another LSU fan talking about the game. Me and my dad then met up and went to the hotel, where we waited for my 4 cousins in the hotel sports bar. We decided that instead of standing in the cold for 4 hours we would just watch the ND-Syracuse game in the bar. That was cool. And the 2nd best thing of the day (besides winning the game of course) happened. My cousin was talking on the cell phone to someone for a while, then he hands me the cell phone and we start talking about the game and everything, finally I asked my cousin who I was talking to and he said it was Robert Royal!!! The connection then dropped, but I had talked to him for probably 10 minutes. Turns out my cousin somehow knows Robert and after the game was over he called him again. Then we went down towards the Georgia Dome, went into the CNN center, went to the sports bar, Jack and Jills. The place was packed, but at the very back in the patio, the place was absolutely PACKED with nothing but LSU fans. The place was crazy. Then, we went into the stadium at about 7. Me and my cousin walked around the staidum, went down to the front row, he said hello to one of the cheerleaders that he knew, then he started taking pictures of the LSU players warming up. He continued to sit in the first row (at the 50 yd line), but I had to take a piss so I went up to the bathroom, then went to my seat figuring he'd get kicked out in a few minutes. Turns out he sat there the entire game and there was an empty seat beside him the entire game. Oh well, I liked sitting in the middle of all the students fine. It was probably the coolest day of my life, I had a much better time than I had at the LSU-UT SECCG 2 years ago. Can't wait for New Orleans.
I loved watching the LSU fans and the two teams left alone in the Georgia Dome in the mid-4th quarter. I mean, I've never seen so many empty seats before--not even in Tiger Stadium during the Curley Hallman years! Oh, and by the way, I would've KILLED to have had a team as good as this one when I was at LSU. The current students are SO lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
