Bear Bryant, John McKay & The Wishbone Big Parts Of Series History Two of the most storied programs in college football meet again, with Alabama and USC playing in Cowboys Stadium – Jerry's World – to kick off the 2016 season. It's a renewal of a brief, but eventful rivalry that has history and once featured two of the game's all-time greatest coaches. Most of the talk … [Read more...]
Best College Football Game Traditions From Tailgating To Cheerleaders
Top Tailgate, Party Towns & Pre- And Post-Game Celebrations The AP, ESPN and the College Playoff Committee have their rankings. And PubClub.com has our rankings. And it's not just our Top Party Schools. It's this other all-important element of the college game, the atmosphere around the game. This is what you can only get by being at the game, not at home … [Read more...]
USC Football Transportation: South Bay To Coliseum On LA Metro
How To Use The Beach Cities Transit, Green Line Train & Silver Line Bus Here's how to get from the South Bay Beach Cities to USC games at the Coliseum using the LA Metro system. • Take the Beach Cities Transit, or the "white bus" from the Beach Cities to the Metro station. There are two buses, the 102, which goes to the Metro Station at Marine Street, and the 109, … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Sports Bars College Football Alumni Game-Watching Places
Where L.A. Transplants Watch Arizona State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Wisconsin & More Schools In Los Angeles, a huge number of transplants from the rest of the USA means there are fans and alumni of schools who gather to watch games together and of course, that's in a bar. Here's a rundown of bars in Hermosa Beach where groups – sometimes 50+ strong – gather to watch … [Read more...]
USC-UCLA Game A Different Experience For Transplanted SEC Fan
The Tailgate Party And Singles Scene At This Cross-Town Rivalry I'll never forget attending my first USC-UCLA game. The rivalry is something I had watched on TV from afar, one vivid memory being of the camera following a very attractive blonde as she walked up the steps at the L.A. Coliseum, dressed in a full-length coat on a warm, sunny day in November and, upon … [Read more...]
Alabama-Tennessee Rivalry Special For UA Alumni & Knoxville Native
Rocky Top is home, sweet home to me. After all, I'm a native of Knoxville, and in high school, sold Cokes at UT games in Neyland Stadium. But make no mistake, when the Vols take the field against their most hated rival, I don't do the Tennessee Waltz. I roll with the Tide. When Alabama wins, I do as the players and coaches do in the locker room, I smoke a cigar. There … [Read more...]
USC Football Says No On-Campus Tailgating For Arizona Game
Fans Also Not Excited About Thursday Night Pac-12 Encounter There's not been much for USC fans to be excited about this season – other than the firing of Coach Lane Kiffin – and they are not at all excited about having to play a game on a Thursday night. First, there's LA traffic, it's at night and, well, it's on a Thursday instead of a Saturday. And now, USC has sent … [Read more...]
With Lane Kiffin Fired, I Can Finally Root For USC Football Again
Long-Time Trojans Fan Can Again Cheer 'Fight On' Even before moving to Los Angeles, I liked USC football. It had Heisman Trophy winners, a legendary coach whose wise-cracking comments kept reporters laughing and who drank "see throughs" at booster cocktail parties, games played in sunshine in November and, of course, fielded the Song Girls with their pleated skirts and … [Read more...]
Back On Campus: The Alabama Football Game Day Experience
The Party Blogger Returns To His Alma Mater For Tailgate Parties, The Bars & The Game Awesome! Were I to describe the experience of an Alabama football game in a single word, that would be it. Awesome. In a "back to school" experience for me, I spent the weekend of the Alabama-Ole Miss game in Tuscaloosa, AL. It was a return to the place where I went to college, … [Read more...]
It’s A Roll Tide Weekend For The Nightlife Party Blogger
It's Back To School For cDllege Football Tailgating And Tuscaloosa Bars For Alabama-Ole Miss Game It's Roll Tide and, yes, even a Hottie Toddie or two as I spend the last weekend of September in Tuscaloosa for the Al-a-BAM-a and Ole Miss college football game. It's back to school for me, for I am a Bama graduate – and putting that degree in journalism to good use with … [Read more...]
Johnny Manziel Headed To Cabo San Lucas For Spring Break
Cheers To Johnny Football For Tweeting His Trip If you didn't like him before, here's a great reason to like him now. Johnny Manziel, the slippery and elusive Heisman Trophy winner from Texas A&M, is going to Cabo San Lucas for Spring Break. While there's nothing unusual for a football player to be doing something fun, it is highly unusual in this day and age for a … [Read more...]
USC-Notre Dame Game Will Still Be A Good Tailgate Party
Despite Trojans Disappointing Record Southern California Irish Fans Will Help Rock The Coliseum If you think for one moment that the USC-Notre Dame game at the LA Coliseum on Thanksgiving Day weekend won't be a party because the Trojans are 7-4 and are coming off a loss to cross-town rival UCLA, then think again. It WILL be a party! It will be a party because USC games … [Read more...]
After Drinking the Lane Kiffin Kool-Aid USC Fans Need Tequila Shots
Win Or Lose We Booze Really To Test Trojans' Top Party School Ranking With Cal Tailgate Party They set themselves up like an open bar at a wedding. Cast aside any doubt like a sailor on shore leave. And now they are as deflated as a beach ball after Labor Day. Well, that's what happens when you believe the hype, ignore your coach's past– let alone his character flaws – … [Read more...]
UCLA Nebraska Party Bus Hermosa Beach to Rose Bowl
College Tailgate Party Rolls With Transportation From the South Bay College football season is here and that means tailgate parties! One of the season's first big games is in the historic Rose Bowl as Nebraska visits UCLA. But as anyone not from Pasadena will tell you, it's a long way to the Rose Bowl from other parts of L.A. And that's why the South Bay Beach Cities … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Makes It Impossible For Bama Fans to Relax During Season
Yet Another Championship-Caliber Team Keeps Tide Fans On The Edge of Their Seats For 2012 After winning National Championships in 2009 and again in 2011, Alabama football is back where it belongs. Tide alumni like myself enjoy winning. With 14 national titles, we're used to it and at the very least expect to be competing for it most every year. And with Nick Saban, that's … [Read more...]
Time For College Football Season I’m Ready to Party
The Mizzou Fan's Survival Guide To The SEC Puts The Ball in Play For College Football I'm an elephant ready to stomp. A Bengal Tiger ready to roar out of the cage. A white horse ready to run through the end zone. A big steer ready to charge onto the field, a Sooner ready to boomer, a dignitary ready to dot the 'i." I thought I could hold out for a while. It barely … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach College Football Teams Sports Watching Bars
Where to Watch USC, UCLA, U-Dub, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, South Carolina, Notre Dame and Nebraska Games in the South Bay The spirit and passion of college football soars in the South Bay Beach Cities each fall like kickoffs in the air. Alumni from throughout the West Coast and especially the Midwest descend on the bars on and around the Hermosa Beach Pier … [Read more...]