I was b!tching to Jared about all the fans leaving. I told him it didn't matter to me if we were down by 500, if I had tickets, my ass wouldn't leave the seat until it was over. He said "If LSU was down by 500, we would leave" and I proceeded to tell him that HE would leave, I would find a ride home. It's craziness to me to leave when your team is down. This is when they need you most. Not when they're up, but when they're down.
Well, I figured I get to be at the game for a while instead of not at all. I'll drive four and half hours for three quarters of Tiger football, when I will not even drive an hour for football at my alma mater (NSU grad). Plus, I brought a nephew for his first game at Death Valley. I told him we will have to leava a little early and he said "As long as I'm there, it doesn't matter. I want to be there."
The problem is not with people that drive in from over 60+ miles and leave, it's the blue bloods between the 40's. They are always the first to leave. I could not go myself this weekend and judging from the number of tumbleweeds rolling in the stands in the 4th quarter, I am glad I didn't. I would have been sick to my stomach.
Crip, it was 2002 game that bama took it to us. (Big to do deal with internet rumors dealing with Saban bad mouthing Fran) I stayed to the last ticks(i was in the East Upper). I was much happier this time because to me, they didn't quit like the did in the Florida game. I was very dissapointed with the majority of fans. I almost always stay because my view is that "the band has to stay, so I'm going to stay." I had to stay for 4 years, and luckily there was really only 3 games I wanted to leave but I wouldn't have. When it has been in my control, I have only left once early, and that was my senior year in HS when booty threw the pick in the UAB game that basically sealed it for UAB. But I was back the next week to watch the UT game. All my friends thought I was stupid to skip senior homecoming dance to go to that game... I got the last laugh if you ask me.
Exactly. If any team can come back from a big deficit, it's this one. Have the last few years not taught us that?
There are a few that have good reason. But most who got up Saturday had no other reason than to beat traffic or go get more drunk. IF there were a full crowd there after the second to last TD it would have motivated the team again. The fans left tried and it was obvious the team fed off them but when the UGA fans started getting louder than the home fans it was pitiful.
