EDSBS RADIO! ROAD TRIP EDITION.

1. Athens, GA – hot women, nice bars

2. Berkeley, CA – will happen in 4 weeks

3. Laptop – Anyone who loves CFB needs one in the hotel room

4. Through Savannah, GA without being shot, stabbed, or robbed

1) baton rouge-i’m from the area and always have a good time

2) notre dame?? i say this with apprehension b/c i hate the domers, but it is kind of the yankee stadium of cfb

3) whiskey? port o potty??

4) going to a game in baton rouge roughly once a year as an albama fan….and it’s about to get a whole lot more interesting

fyi-i plan to be in b.r. for florida weekend

1) Boulder, CO was fun last year. That altitude shit is the truth, I was tanked early and often.

2) The National Championship game would be nice, but I’d still like to make it to Baton Rouge since that stupit Katrina bitch cancelled my plans two years ago.

3) A copy of Phil Steele and some dried meat.

4) Taking a keg to Tucson and FIVE of us finished it before kickoff.

1) Cotton Bowl for the Red River SHOOTOUT.- split hate, 50/50. Great atmosphere, plenty of hot girls. P.S. Dallas is fun at night.

2) The BIg House. Alot of weird, sweatervest hating blue balled fanatics

3) cell phone. For texting and coordinating tail-gate hopping. How am I going to drink everyone’s stuff if I can’t find their tent on the QUAD?
Football: Who doesnt’ like to toss the pig skin around the parking lots?

4) I survived passage through LUBBOCK. It smells like burnt hair and cow shit. And, there are land pirates there.

1. Game: Auburn, 2004. First game of the year, Cox got Jacked UP.
Overall destination: Tally: Heartbreaker game when we lost 13-14, and Tally kinda is dumpy, but all in all fun times had by all.

2. Ole Miss. It will happen in 2009 or thereabouts.

3. Chair. You gotta bring your own chair or risk not sitting at the tailgate at all.

4. Surviving a week in Paris with my mom and sister. My mom constantly questioned my subway routes, all we did was go look at museums and churches, and the whole thing was fraught with bickering of all kinds. Plus a man can only eat crepes so many times before its enough already.

1) rose bowl. got to see bama take on ucla in 2001. it was awsome through the first 20 seconds or so then not so much. of course i was living in the IE at the time, but that’s still a fucking road trip.

2) brazil playing a world cup qualifier at home. bunda. natch.

3) camera. for proof.

4) i’ve done all-night bus rides in peru that make the truck from raiders look like a limousine. i’ve ridden across 1,000 kilometers of dirt packed road from 5,000 meters above sea level to the heart of the amazonian jungle in the back of a pickup truck. i regularly use mass transit in lima. i sing the body electric.

That was 2005 that Cox threw 14 interceptions against GT.

True. And I cherished every one of them.

1) Probably Georgia. I’ll also admit — grudgingly — that Chapel Hill is a great place to spend a football Saturday. The crowd isn’t all that wild, but the setting is spectacular.

2) The Big House the next time Miami plays Michigan there.

3) For road-trips generally, I’m a goner without my BlackBerry. (What a geek!)

4) Defining “road performance” loosely, probably making it home from the corner of 18th and Pennyslvania, NW, in just over an hour on the morning of 9/11/01. Going with a more conventional definition, probably covering approximately 19,000 miles by rail throughout Europe during 1986-87.

Those questions make me tingly.

1) Rose Bowl. The last 1:35 was absolutely excruciating (as Big Jon can attest…Joe Germaine and David Boston can burn in hell forever) but what an experience just to be there, much less get to witness in what is generally recognized as one of the 10 best games of the last 20 years or so.

2) LSU at night, or UW during the day (whenever they get back to being good again.)

3) My gameday road trips are probably gonna be few and far between for the forseeable future, but I would have to go with a good GPS. I can get lost ANYWHERE and the ability to find my way back would be nice.

4) Parking in tu-scum next to fraternity row, with the car festooned with anti ua rhetoric on the windows, and making it out alive and unscathed after putting a beatdown on the rats.

1. Athens, GA, when Spurrier hung half a hundred on them. Fun town, and even more fun when you win.
2. Having just returned from visiting my wife’s grandmother in a small Nebraska town of 1100 people, I’d like to go to a Nebraska game in Lincoln when they play OU. Those people are hard core.
3. Sunglasses
4. Travelling through Birmingham, England on a train to a Manchester United game with a bunch of Aston Villa fans (which is from Birmingham) without getting my ass kicked by the thugs.

1. West Point. It wasn’t really so much of a “road” destination when my cousin played there, but I did see TCU play there last year. The Hudson Valley in October is stunning. Add in some history and present context, and it’s a downright emotional experience. (Plus, your team is probably going to win…)

2. Quite possibly the Big House at Michigan. The Southern choice would probably be Baton Rouge. I’ve also always wanted to watch a Washington game from a boat in Puget Sound.

3. My freshman year (fall of 1992) TCU hat. Not undefeated, but definitely unwashed.

4. Barcelona, rugby trip, 2004. I’m lucky to be alive.

1. From a pure football standpoint, I’d have to say Michigan last year. The sound of 109,000 gagging as the Cards marched inside the Wolverine ten-yard-line for the potential-game-tying score with three minutes left, in a game where my beloved came in as 35-point underdogs, was something to behold. The fans were very friendly, too, before AND after the game. UM fans bought several rounds of drinks that night for our Ball State-clad table.

From a pure atmosphere standpoint, I’d say Auburn. You can tailgate on the freakin’ lawns of the academic buildings, people. (Nice fans there, too. I’d have had my airfare paid if I got a buck for everytime someone greeted us with a smile and a “Welcome to Aw-buhn.”)
Wisconsin gets an honorable mention here.

2. (tie) Georgia — been to Athens a couple of times, but never on a game day.
Alabama — To try to soothe the exploding heads produced by my last question, and because Warren St. John painted such an engaging portrait of Tuscaloosa in his book.
Ole Miss — Been there, but again, not on a football weekend.

I’d also like to get to the Rose Bowl sometime, either for a UCLA game or the Grandaddy of Them All.

3. Bottle opener. I’m a microbrew snob, and there’s nothing worse than getting parked at your tailgate and realizing you’ve got to use your teeth all day to get to your beer. I actually keep a spare in my glove box year-round to avoid this sad scenario.

4. A road trip to Toledo back in college. Seven guys, a van, and several cases of Drummond Brothers. A four-hour drive. One bathroom break.

1. Georgia vs. Bammer circa 2002. Woke up that Saturday morning in D.C. still under the influence. Bought SW flights to Bham. Car Service to Tuscaloosa dropped off at the stadium. Got to the game in time for the fourth quarter, got smuggled into a sky box in time to watch UGA kick a field goal to crush the psyche of the assinine bammer fanbase (to which my wingman belonged).

2. Bammer vs. LSU in Baton Rouge 2008 when Nikki Saban makes his first visit back to Death Valley.

3. Backpack chair. Enough space for booze and a few essentials. You become a mobile tailgate party.

4. Frazier Island, Queensland, Australia. Three Mississippi boys, two Swedish girls, two English girls, a Dutch girl, one Land Cruiser, Tons of booze and other enjoyables, two nights, three days…..Ecstasy.

1. Camp Randall is a lot more fun than the Big House.
2. Tennessee
3. Tie – my Treo and a Monster Thickburger from the Hardee’s on the Indiana tollroad
4. To East Lansing in the back of a 1973 Ford pickup. Saw Tim Brown run back a kick for a touchdown.

1) Technically, it was a neutral site, but going to the Orange Bowl for the 2002 season was fun for about 25 game minutes, and Miami is, well, fucking awesome.

2) I’d love to go to the World’s Largest Outdoor Responsible Beverage Party. Past that, DKR-Texas Memorial is an incredible sight in person even in June—seeing an actual game there must be a shitload of fun.

3) Uh, a car?

4) A road trip to Charlotte. Neither my co-driver nor I slept during either leg of the trip. There is nothing more exhilarating than hallucinating weird spots on the pavement while you’re driving through the highlands of Kentucky and Tennessee.

1. Berkeley- obviously the game crowd left something to be desired, but the talent in that hippie town did not.

2. Happy Valley at night- love to see them against Michigan.

3. 4 packs of Marlboro Lights- I don’t even smoke, unless I’m in a car for 3+ hours. Then I’m a chimney.

4. My navigator unfolded a street map on the dash of a Volvo wagon while we were lost in the Brooklyn. Somehow we made it out with car, limbs and finances intact.

1. Madison, WI (2002 penn state won)
2. Red River Rivalry or OSU/Michigan
3. meat. lots and lots of meat.
4. During aforementioned road trip to Wisconsin, I passed out on the hood of my rental car at 10pm. We had parked at the official Penn State tailgate 14 hours earlier, and Graham Spanier and Sue Paterno parked next to us. Lo and behold, when I woke up their car was gone. At least I didn’t shit myself that night.

1) Michigan Stadium, UM vs. OSU in 2003. It was the 100th game of the series, Ohio State needed a win to secure a spot in the national championship game for the second straight year, and Michigan was looking to win the Big 10 outright for the first time in ages. Easily Michigan’s best big-game performance since 1997.

2) I would love to head down to the Swamp for a game.

3) Lucky boxers. Michigan has won every game I’ve worn them to.

4) I watched the 2002 UM-OSU game at a bar in Columbus with a friend, and I honestly thought I might die.

1. Oxford baby! The women are hotter than doughnut grease, you can gamble in Tunica and hit the ’vous in memphrica.
2. Notre Dame. I want to see the Jesus.
3. Not sure if its a gadget, buy I never leave home without my favorite football. Runner up: folding recliner.
4. Backpacking for a month in Costa Rica with only one bout of turboshits, no serious injury, and no major diseases contracted.

1. Bama vs. Ucla at the Rose Bowl. Partied in Marina del rey for 4 days. Experimented with some, um, ecstasy Friday night and made out with an Asian chick while dancing on top of a sushi bar.

2. Nothing tops the SEC but i guess a Mich/OSU game in Ann Arbor. Been to Ann Arbor on business and i like the shit out of that place. Hon mention: U-dub game in Seattle.

3. fifth of makers mark

4. surviving knoxville, tn without getting my ass beat. (i would have deserved it.)

1) Piscataway, New Jersey. The sheer sight of all of the IROCs and Firebirds is simply incredible. Plus you get to be in the same place as James Gandolfini.

2) Camp Randall just so that I can claim the distinction of being the skinniest person in the stadium.

3) Laptop and Camera

4) Going to a Floriduh/Tennessee game in Knoxville and not getting piss thrown at me by some Gator fan.

1) Auburn.

2) Tailgating in a boat on the river in Tennessee. Lot of locales on that list, but I’ve got access to the boat and the tickets to make the UT trip happen.

3) Airplane bottles (bourbon).

4) Spelling out FU AU in the middle of 90,000 tailgating Auburn fans. Then jumping naked into a pond across the street in the middle of everybody. And having the foresight when the time came to pass out at halftime to due it on the lap of one very buxom lady.

Gene Woj…Woj…Wojugonnadoaboutit pisses in your Haterade:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2950420&sportCat=ncf

#24, do not due. That’s enough to make one want to commit grammatical seppuku.

1. Knoxville. Getting booed in a Cracker Barrel for wearing Gator gear? Game on.

2. UCLA at the Rose Bowl. It looks very comfortable there.

3. The fold-up rain slicker in neon orange or blue is a must; drenched clothing can take the fun out of any road win.

4. 31-0 at Knoxville, with Fulmer pulling Peyton Manning off the field as time ran out to attempt a Field Goal . . . and missing. I suspect a baby-faced Clay Travis remained in the fetal position for an entire week after that one.

Here’s mine:

1) Madison for Halloween. It’s like Mardi Gras with football.

2) Trips I haven’t made: Big House, hands down. Trips I want to make again: Louisville and Pasadena.

3) Not a gadget, but some ideas of where to find a friendly lawyer are good to have when traveling. Essential gadget = the laptop. I can always haul out the GPS dongle if I need it, can’t see the sun, or am south or east of the Ohio River. (Midwestern road grids rock.)

4) Not a football road trip, but totally WTF… Meeting a Michigan girl in LA, then getting funky under some very interesting circumstances. “Finish your drink and let’s go to my place,” indeed. I’ve never been so happy to wake up in someone’s closet.

Respect for Mountain Time. Hell. Yes.

I have to post this here because SMQ requires one to have some sort of an account to leave comments…and I assume that will require effort. His latest offering concerning Ingmar Bergman is beyond reproach. Simply put the reading public does not deserve his greatness (no offense Orson, you are still my favorite.)

1. Citrus Bowl (okay – I think they call it the Capital One Bowl) – drove down from PA -
2. Camp Randall – good fans, good band –
3. iPod/car tunes – every good road trip deserves a soundtrack
4. Flew into Gatwick from Rome at 6pm with no hotel reservations – took the train across town to Heathrow and left luggage at “left luggage” – trained back into town and walked around – sat at a leicester Square cafe, watching the pick-pockets, until 4am, walked around (look kids) Big Ben/Parlement, watched the sun come up while sitting in Trafalgar Square – walked down the Pall Mall to Buckingham Palace – rented a lawn chair at Green Park to “rest” and, finally, went to Victoria Station Visitor’s Center and got a hotel room.

1) Dallas for UT-OU
2) UM-tOSU at the Big House
3) cash
4) buying 7 bactrian camels and crossing the Taklimakan Desert.

1. Whatever Duke’s football stadium is called, Durham NC. There’s nothing like being the only “supporter” of the home team at a Division 1-A football game.

2. Iron Bowl. The ’rents live in western GA and this game sounds like a refreshing exercise in civility for a Texas fan who has had to deal with OU, A&M and Arkansas pukes.

3. A towel, of course. So many different uses…

4. A couple of day trips in and out of Gaza City in a fully-armored Suburban. Being a WASP in the wrong part of NYC is one thing, being a WASP on the wrong side of the Erez Crossing is entirely another…

Hey everyone! Fresh off the bar exam, and boy are my (???) tired….anyway:

1. Big House.

2. This year = @ Penn State. Also, I’d like to take a trip to Tennessee/Florida/Georgia to experience what you guys are always spoutin’ off about.

3. Celly-cell

4. dunno

Orson,
If you need help getting to the game in Baton Rouge, I can try to line you up with fellow fans who would never, ever, ever:
1) aruge with you about USC’s disputed national championship.
2) fail to find the humor in a corn dog reference.
3) tip over a port-a-potty while you’re inside.
4) pass out in a ditch five hours before game time, while waxing poetic about “Pre-Game” only to revive minutes before kickoff, march zombie-like to their seats, gropping a few people on the way, then throwing up on a stranger while on the way to get some nachos.

Oh, who am I kidding. I don’t know anyone like that. Good luck in Baton Rouge.

Please come to Morgantown Orson! Louisville is a night game! A Thursday night game, but it’s probably your best chance to see fire and blood and all that good stuff before it gets too cold.

1. Notre Dame. The beers rained down like manna from heaven. Oh, and taking over the stadium was niiiiice.

2. Alabama or South Carolina, if only to have an excuse to play a week’s worth of golf wrapped around 24 hours of tailgating. Upcoming trips to Wake Forest, Virginia School of VCR and Gun Repair, and Neckessee simply lack a sufficiently high coefficient of golf.

3. Does a scarlet and cream RV count as an RV? Never underestimate the ability to turbodump in private. Tailgating in an RV means you’re never too drunk to drive, you’re only so drunk they can try to tow you.

4. I think the best Nebraska road performance — and personal one — has to be 62-24 in Tempe; having 90+ yard touchdown drives against Tennessee a few years later while staying at Volunteer HQ was a close second, if only because there’s nothing sillier than a clinically depressed hillbilly wearing peach. That ain’t orange, y’all; that’s peach.

1. State College. Best Tailgating. period.
2. Kyle Field. always wanted to ‘hump it’
3. DISH TV
4. 2 weeks in Zambia. Everybody should spend time in a country patroled by shirtless teenagers with automatic weapons

I’m fucking sick and tired of this mutherfukin nowlive muthfukin chatroom that won’t fucking work when I log in. Intermal muthafucking server error my ASS.

So I can see all the entertainment flying but not partake. So I gave the show a call but you muthafuckas don’t let me on. Fuck yall.

Not that Kanu and Kleph were not damn entertaining, but this is frustrating.

SO BUMMED I missed Clay, but then again that’s what Podcasts are for damnit.

1. Sadly, didn’t make it to many road games during my time under the Dome. Soldier Field vs. Northwestern, 1994, has to be my vote. Though I’ve certainly done enough traveling to be able to watch games on TV, here in Asia. Saw a game in the Swamp once, but that was pre-Spurrier, so I’m not counting it.

2. Iron Bowl—would love to feel the hate in the air, and see some Southern rivalry. Also, would love to catch a game anywhere else in the SEC. A game in Hawaii would be pretty sweet too.

3. Vital for games? My Armed Forces Network satellite, a waffle iron, and coffee. Getting up at 2 AM to catch the game requires, nay—DEMANDS caffeine. My roommate and I used to get up at 1 AM, fix pancakes and drink bloody marys while watching CFB until noon, but those days are over.

4. I just moved to Kumamoto (think Japan’s Iowa) from the Tokyo area—getting here required a 24 ride on a ferry and then driving through mountain roads in a typhoon. Seriously, they closed the expressway because of fog, and diverted us to a 2-lane (read: 1.5 lane in US size) road through mountains worse than West Virgina—and this makes sense how??

The SEC comes to Morgantown in 2008, courtesy of Auburn. Just thought you should know.

1.) Gainesville – It’s an orgy of HATE.

2.) Hawaii / UNLV – Not sure I could survive tailgating in Vegas, but I’d damn well try.

3.) Ipod and a prepaid bail bond.

4.) I karaoked Rocky Top at “The Cats Meow” in New Orleans during Mardi Gras..and only suffered minor bruising from a tossed bottle.

1. Definately Notre Dame. The fans treat you well whether your team kicks their ass or their’s kicks your’n. I also now understand why people hold that place in such regard….even a hater can tell that it’s a special place.

2) Oxford for the view.

3) Car keys. I’ve lost them too many times to count. Each time I was royally fucked.

4) Spring baseball trip in college. I got some “Southern Hospitality” on the short grass in front of the pitcher’s mound in the Red Sox stadium in Winter Haven before the Grounds Keep turned on the sprinkler’s at 4 am., and I also was treated to the same hospitality in Dothan Alabama by the equivilant of Gator Getters, and the same happened at Chipola College in the pan handle.

1. Tennessee, sadly.
2. Rose Bowl
3. Always wanted me one of dem UPig hats.
4. Not drinking as a visitor at a LSD night game with my oldest daughter when she was 12.

1. Tempe, AZ, besides from the game. ASU is stacked full of suntanned hot chicks, kickass bars, and its warm.

2. To Penn State, unless OSU would play in Baton rouge. My college roomates went to state college in 05, and despite the loss, said it was great. They went with no hotel, slept in their car in november, and all had puked in the car throughout the night.

3. Since I lost my vintage OSU Swim-Team t-shirt, I will have to say cases of natty/busch light.

4. Going to UM in 05. Chugging a bottle of Captain, pushing my passed-out friends face into his own puke, doing a 40 second keg stand, accidentally shitting on the lid of the toilet in the womens room, since the mens room was out of service, and getting lost in ann arbor.

1a) Single Game: Tuscaloosa for OU/Bama 2003. Good game, nice tailgating, decent fans (for the most part)

1b) Overall: Cotton Bowl for the RRS… Always… forever…

2) Oooh, tough one. If Syracuse ever gets good again and can pack the house, I’d like to see a game in the Carrier Dome.

3) Tickets!!

4) (warning… band dork moment) Deciding to go on the pep-band trip Boulder for OU/Colorado in 2003. The only problem I wasn’t on the list of those taking the trip. I did not have a seat on the bus, was not on the room reservation list, and did not have per diem set aside for me… and yet somehow I wound up with all three. No one ever found out.

1. unfortunately, you’d be watching a UW game from Lake Washington not Puget Sound, though this isn’t bad either. Great tailgating by boat right by the stadium!

Nate #41 – that NU-ND series really ought to be renewed, even if Soldier Field has been turned into a flying saucer.

For some reason, your folks lost interest in it, once we put our program on a sound footing. Or is it really that much more fun to compete for the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy?

I’ve also always wanted to watch a Washington game from a boat in Puget Sound.

It’s better watching from the boat on Lake Washington than it is inside, believe me. As someone who has been to games at both the Swamp and Husky Stadium, there is absolutely no comparison. The atmosphere, intensity, fans and the stadium itself is far superior down in Hogtown. Husky fans love to tout how great it is there, and that must be because they’ve never experienced games at places like Florida, Auburn, LSU, PSU, OSU, Mich, etc.

My list:

1. LSU, at night. Loud, loud, loud. And a heckuva lot of fun.

2. Camp Randall for a rivalry game

3. A health supply of Tums. Gadget? Probably GPS and a radar detector, especially if you’re driving the back country roads to Auburn. P.S. Don’t speed through Enigma (that’s not a typo).

4. Driving to Philly for Spring Fling at Penn. Those Ivy Leaguers sure can drink, and it’s definitely necessary to overcome the lack of female talent. I’ve never seen so many decent looking college guys with 2 am last call looking women. But oh, the philly steaks.

1. What’s the best road trip destination you’ve been to in college football?
Probably Pittsburgh in 2002 – Not exactly a distance, but more tickets were sold for that game than were sold for the AFC Championship game the previous year – all Mountaineer fans… it was glorious.

2. What’s the road trip destination you want to take most?
Based on our schedule – Auburn in 2009. But just because I can, I want to go to a game at Ole’ Miss. I’ve heard good things.

We want Morgantown at night. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fire booze WOOOOOO!!!
Indeed, sir…. indeed. I would love to meet TCOAN.

3. What’s your essential road gadget?
My iPod

4. What’s your most impressive road performance?
Somewhere in Utah in June.

PJ @ #49: Last I checked, it wasn’t really a “series”, just an every-20 year or so thing. Not sure when the last time we played you guys before that was, but sure, I’d be for it. There’s a bit of history there—after all, we poached Ara from you guys in the ’60’s. I thought there was going to be a repeat with Barnett after Holtz left—I think I’m happy we didn’t do that, but it’s hard to say that the next two were a good decision. But hell yeah—Soldier Field was awesome. And the whole “Commander in Chief’s Trophy” is a little old, don’t you think? Navy’s a better program (at the moment) than Northwestern, and last year was the first time we’d played all three of the Academies in over a decade. Trust me, I’d be happy to drop Air Force and Army and pick up NU.

A Swing Out Sister reference. Awesome.

Oh, and for the record, UIUC. They can throw down in Champaign. Any town whose name sounds like a variety of booze is all right with me.

1) Tennessee. The whole fraking state is in the stadium, and I was given 2nd-row seats to the game by a random guy in Orange. Probably because he appreciated the ingenuity of my ad-hoc “Irish Elvis” duds, and couldn’t smell all the bourbon on my breath.
I expected Michigan to be awesome, but it was not rowdy at all by even ND standards. I imagine an SEC fan would fall asleep in Ann Arbor.
2) Between the hedges. If only because Keith Jackson made that phrase immortal.
3) Capilene underwear. No shock worse than when your ass-crack first hits the seat during halftime of a late November game in northern Indiana. The hollwed and ancient wood bleachers are petrified into stone, so it’s like a punch in the balls if you’re not wearing layers.
4) Said visit to Tennessee in 1999. I was an annihilated asshole stumbling around town, literally lost for hours in a bourbon haze. Couldn’t find our tailgater or any tickets after about 2 pm. I litterally stumble into free 2nd-row seats, get shit thrown at me all game by Tennessee fans, somehow avoid ejection, then weep as the Irish fold in the 4th quarter. Went to random bar after game, woke up in random outdoorsy place. And yet somehow I found my ride back to Chicago on Sunday.