SEC Football Is Intense!

Just got back today from our trip to Auburn over the weekend for the KSU/Auburn football game. I really enjoy weekends where you are more tired when you go back to work on Monday than when you left work on Friday. Luckily tomorrow is an additional day off to let me recuperate! I was originally scheduled to work, but there were luckily too few people needing PT in the hospital!

We left on Friday afternoon and headed to an Alumni get together at the ESPN Zone in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. Neat little spot with a lot of small boutiques and a lot of yuppies. I won't hold the yuppies against them though! There were around 75 purple folks there having a good time. I don't think that the servers were quite ready for how many drinks it takes for the Wildcats to have a good time! Some Oklahoma State fans that were in town for the GA/OSU game came to our party instead of their own Alum group as ours was more fun.

Auburn was an absolutely amazing experience. Everyone there was freakishly nice. Like nice enough that you thought they weren't being nice, but they WERE actually being nice. The atmosphere is better than anything I have seen in the Big 12. The huge stadium is right on campus, all the tailgating happens on the lawns of all of the campus buildings, and the bar area is about 10 steps down the block. Their downtown has a bunch of bars, but also has a footlocker, a gap,and a bunch of hometown businesses. I really don't think the whole thing is owned by some bar slumlord named "Rusty" like Aggieville is! The South is very funny. Anything goes as far as class goes. There were a ton of girls dressed up in sun dresses, some boys in blazers, and then a bunch of randoms with their faces painted that were totally hammered. Our seats at the game were super and we were surrounded by a bunch of really great KSU fans. I am confident that we make more noise at our 50,000 seat stadium in Manhattan than they can make with 80,000. The first 3.5 quarters of football were amazing and the last .5 of a quarter was amazingly bad. Oh well. Could have been a much worse showing for sure.

Sunday we drove back from Atlanta through Athens, GA where the University of Georgia is located. Their campus is GIGANTIC and they again have a very large football stadium right on campus that is about 10 steps from downtown/bar district. Auburn definitely was a prettier campus, but the downtown in Athens was really pretty and had some really swanky stuff that adults could enjoy along with the bars for the drunken masses. I did manage to find my favorite beer on tap for the first time in a tri-state area since moving, and can safely say that they put more bulldogs on things than we paste with Powercats....that is scary.