Game Day experience!

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hornfan81

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I am taking wife and son to their first ever Longhorn game this weekend! I for various reasons have not had a chance to make a game in a few years and I know so many things have changed since last time I was down there! I am so excited to take the fam and I want this to be a great experience for them!

Any tips? Best place to park, tailgates, What time to go to bevo blvd…kinda sucks it is 11 am kick but would love to show them atmosphere as much as able!

appreciate any advice or suggestions! Hookem
 
Welcome back in advance. Much depends on age of the kids. First of all, there are two ziplines. One across Bevo Blvd near corner of 23rd & San Jacinto, the other on Southeast corner on Dedman Drive.

Area on 23rd, aka Deloss Dodds Way has multiple carnival games and food trucks line street and circle.

My advice is to look on TexasSports.com and there is a gameday map of where things are, as well as a list of events and time of each - Bevo arrival, team arrival, concert, etc.

If you have children under 12, call the school and sign them up for the "Hook em Heard". They get taken to the South endzone, given a Hook em Heard t-shirt, and on the signal run as fast as they can down the middle of the field to the north endzone.

If the kids are teenagers, give em their tickets and cash, and tell them to be in the seats at 1045. Many of the things on the Midway are free.

I had four 12 year old boys there for the USL game. No way I could keep up.
 
I usually go find a parking garage on San Jac south of campus and walk to the game. I park up on a high level, because if you're on a lower level, you'll be sitting in your car trying to back out due to the backup of other folks trying to leave. Cost used to be $5 when you pull in. Bevo Boulevard is new and I've never been. We would hang out at the Texas Exes building across from the stadium. They have beer, wine, eats, and it's cool inside and other games are on the big screen. Then it's a walk across the street to the stadium near game time. Enjoy the game!
 
Don't know if you or your family would be interested in this, but about 90 minutes before kickoff the Texas Drums assemble outside of the Butler School of Music to perform Percussion on the Green. (Anyone who has a kid in high school band who's thinking of being in the LHB might like this.)
 
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I echo everything Sabre said. The scene on Bevo Blvd is fun for kids. Took my 13 yo daughter this weekend and she still loves the midway games even though a little old for them. Food trucks below East Mall fountain looked good. We checked out Exes center for some a/c but it was the same scene as always and beers were $2 more than just outside on Bevo Blvd. The guy on stilts that GJ mentioned was crazy. Concert this weekend was Salt N Pepa which my daughter isn't into. Not sure who is playing this weekend. Have fun, it's a great family scene. When you get into the stadium check out the Hall of Honor in the north EZ.
 
hornfan81 said:
I am taking wife and son to their first ever Longhorn game this weekend!

appreciate any advice or suggestions! Hookem
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I'd love to meet you and the fam! You can usually find me on the NW corner of San Jacinto and 21st under the 3rd tree. You'll hear my harmonica and see my hat on the ground. Maybe you can take me to eat after the game.
 
LHABSOB, I met my GenZ daughter (age 23, who's now in grad school) for a late lunch at El Patio this past weekend and then we spent a few hours soaking up the pre-game atmosphere around DKR ("They've added a few things since you last came over for a game, Dad"). Then she asked me what the game day experience was like when I was at UT (early 1980s). My response was as follows:
"Well, the Exes center would open up and there would be a few people there ... they'd open up the stadium and people would go in ... they'd watch the game ... and then they'd leave the stadium and head for Sixth Street, The County Line, Matt's El Rancho, Fonda San Miguel, etc. And that was it."

If memory serves correct, it wasn't until the Mack Brown era ("Come early, stay late, be loud") that we started to have something resembling the present-day pre-game festivities at DKR.
 
I'm not understanding the post game silent disco at the LBJ fountain. Apparently everyone gathers with headphones and blasts music (I assume everyone is listening to the same music) and to the outside viewers they are dancing around in silence. Has anyone participated? It seems kind of odd to me.
 
Vol Horn 4 Life said:
I'm not understanding the post game silent disco at the LBJ fountain. Apparently everyone gathers with headphones and blasts music (I assume everyone is listening to the same music) and to the outside viewers they are dancing around in silence. Has anyone participated? It seems kind of odd to me.
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You got it. We did it on a cruise a couple of years ago. Not as much fun sober.
 
Vol Horn 4 Life said:
I'm not understanding the post game silent disco at the LBJ fountain. Apparently everyone gathers with headphones and blasts music (I assume everyone is listening to the same music) and to the outside viewers they are dancing around in silence. Has anyone participated? It seems kind of odd to me.
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they're playing music. you're just too old to hear it in the high pitch
 
The game day experience (November 1998)
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DKR awaits the crowds
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The crowds arrive
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And they hang out with this guy out in front of the Exes center
 
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