Year: 2010
(Egg Bowl)
Games: Mississippi
State 31 Ole Miss 23
Rating: 8 out of 10
Cost: Moderate
Tickets: Easy
Stadium: Pretty damn good. Also has the best name for a stadium if you are an English major: Vaught-Hemingway. Kind of rolls off the tongue.
Description: In 2010 we did
the Iron Bowl and Egg Bowl on the same weekend.
Now they change the schedule around every now and again so I’m not sure
this trip is available every other year (when Alabama and Ole Miss are at home)
but if it is it’s one of the best “killing two birds with one stone” trips out
there.
Ole Miss itself is pretty much as advertised. Alabama has some bullshit attempted rip off
of the Grove that they call the Quad but it’s not 1/10 the tailgate the Grove
is. We hung around there for a few hours
and had a “Hoddy Toddy” or two along the way.
The game itself was excellent, we bought a couple of prime seats for
maybe 20 bucks a piece. We ended up
sitting next to the user car king of Mississippi. At first he was a bit upset that his daughter
had essentially given away her tickets but when he found out where we were from
and what we were doing he ended up getting us tickets to the catered skybox in
the second half. That was actually a
pretty fun way to top off the weekend. People
generally warm up to you when you realize you have traveled a distance to see
their team.
This guy actually taught me a bit about Mississippi. The national impression of MS is a backwards
state that lags behind the rest of the country.
Obviously some of that reputation has been earned but when you hear
about Mississippi and it’s statistics you have to keep in mind that 90% of the
state is really pretty farmland. It’s
just the delta region is still impoverished and this regions drags the state
downward from a statistical perspective.
The night before we stayed in Tupelo, this was underwhelming and I would not bother with it.
Don’t Miss: The Grove, the square in Oxford
If you want to make it part of a larger trip: Memphis is only about an hour away, Starkville is a couple of hours, Tuscaloosa is three.
If you want to make it part of a larger trip: Memphis is only about an hour away, Starkville is a couple of hours, Tuscaloosa is three.
Avoid: Tupelo, the murderous drive home from
Oxford to Chicago in one day
Attendees: Bones, Polychronopolus, Dave
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