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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 1175893, member: 338"] Couple more thoughts from the event. First, I must echo the kudos to the organizers. The constant stream of food was legendary. There is a gas station on the outskirts of town called "El Cheapo." You can see it if you're coming in on the main approach from I-85N. The bats put on a good show after dark, and had cleaned out most of the swarm of bugs around the light cluster above us by game's end. I went over to one of the Clemson tailgates in the same lot as ours for a bit, and was shocked to find two Rutgers fans in the group. They were visiting a friend who had broken through the wall around NJ to attend Clemson. Was corralled by a Clemson tailgate group on the way to the stadium. Shafer's tender words in the Dome last year seem to be burned into the Clemson collective consciousness. Overheard on the way back after the game, from a pair of younger Clemson fans walking behind me: Girl: "But you're drunk all the time!" Guy: "I can sober up real quick whenever I want to!" Admittedly we were very high up and on the end of the stadium, but it is not nearly as loud as the Dome can be. Don't get me wrong, it's loud, and we were certainly not going to inspire the loudest cheers from our opponents' fans, but there is a qualitative difference to the sound in the Dome. It seems to surround you and attack you from all sides. I may be out of touch with the state of the art in tailgating, but it was crazy to see so many satellite dishes and TV's set up on sheets of plywood. It was weird not to be able to move between upper and lower decks inside the stadium. They're not connected - you have to leave and re-enter through separate gates to move from one to the other. Great place to see a game. I hope we can do this every other year. Here is a photo from the approach ramp into the stadium, overlooking the plum IPTAY lot: [ATTACH=full]29240[/ATTACH] This is one lot - this kind of thing was repeated in lot after lot. [/QUOTE]

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