Roadtrip Woes

September 20, 2006 · Filed Under The Fan 

From the Parking Lot:

Tailgating is a tricky thing.  It’s a risk when you are a loyal fan.  You can really enjoy yourself, but you can also ride that roller coaster when the team doesn’t do exactly as you had planned. 

I haven’t written this column since before the Notre Dame game.  In it, I said I thought that PSU would lose that game.  And they did.  But dammit, that didn’t make it any easier.  The problem is the trip to South Bend was lots of fun.  We had a great time seeing the town, enjoying the people, and tailgating with a bunch of the NittanyNation. 

South Bend as a city didn’t really impress our group.  It defintely didn’t have the college town feel that we are used to from State College.  It didn’t compare to other places we’ve been like Lincoln, Madison, and Ann Arbor that have at thriving entertainment district.    In true PennStateTailgate.com fashion however we were able to locate a local watering hole to occupy us for 8 hours or so on Friday night.  Corby’s, which apparently is known as the bar from the movie “Rudy,” provided an atmosphere of fun including both PSU and ND fans.  And the beer was cheap.

The campus itself is definitely the reason to visit.  It was beautiful and you could touch and feel the history around that place and it was pretty impressive to see the crowd on Friday afternoon.  The bookstore, Touchdown Jesus, and the Golden Dome are really impressive in person, even if you have a particular dislike of the football team.

The tailgating was equally as fun.  We hung with the RV crowd and saw everything from a member of the 1986 National Championship team doing shots with us, to an equally interesting man wearing searsucker pants, a mesh Virginia Beach shirt, and old school Oakleys.  The field was considered by the locals as far from the stadium, but a walk not much longer than the one we have in HV got us to Notre Dame Stadium.  The best thing about traveling with PSU is you always hear the home team fans say “we’ve never seen it like this.”  A lot of domers uttered those words to the Lion Fans that dominated the parking lot, and I’ve heard it all over the country.

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From the Field:

What can be said about such a lopsided score.  We got are butts kicked and deserved to lose the game to the better team.  But it’s not all pessimism.  A couple of plays here and there and that game would have been a lot closer.  That can be said about a lot of games, I know, but a clipping call here, a caught interception, and a bad decision or two could have turned that game our way. 

We were expected to lose and we did.  Now it’s about what comes this week against an even BETTER team that happens to be ranked first in the country.

Until next time, S-T-A-T-E Go State!

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