Going to away games - a good experience?

jbusc
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:04:02 +0000

I haven’t been to a whole lot of away games, but even in terms of home games the “visiting” crowd can sometimes get really out of hand and obnoxious (usually involving very large amounts of alcohol). At least the school I go to (USC) has a “dry” stadium policy - no alcohol sold or allowed inside during the game. Still, there are two schools I remember that stood out as having particularly bad drunk fans while visiting USC (they will remain nameless, and no UCLA is not one of them )

On the other hand I have no trouble singling out the two that I remember most positively - Stanford’s and University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign’s fans were the models of class, even the time when Stanford pulled the 42-point upset against USC at home.

So I’d venture to guess it varies a lot depending on where the away game is - Lubbock, TX isn’t exactly the most accomodating football town in the US.