My interaction with Clemson fans:
Two Clemson fan straight out of Central casting sat behind us. They were beyond country. Their accents were so think I could barely understand them. They sat dispirited throughout the game and left with a quarter left in the game. Nothimg really to report.
The ones in front of us were a different breed. They were normal-looking types, yet hyper-crazy fans. They were very polite to us, and very vocal and generated an incredible amount of noise whenever Texas was on offense. My ears are still ringing. They actually apologized for yelling and my wife and me told them, hey, this is a football game, yell away! They stood up the entire game, so we did as well, but we didn't mind. We quite liked them and had a lot of of fun with them. Apparently, they did have some interaction w a Texas fan two rows in front of them, cause they trash-talked him after a Clemson score. They also did that stupid, interlocking-arm celebration whenever something good happened for their team. I even congratulated them on various plays but they never reciprocated when Texas did well.
Late in the game, the super-loud one (pictured above) made a comment about how our stadium couldn't match their entertainment level. As luck would have it, he said that just as the drone show started, haha. I tapped him on the shoulder and pointed for him to turn around and look up, and his jaw dropped. It was perfection!
I liked how they would constantly get their hopes up, only to see them crushed, especially after the goal line stand. It was fun watching their body language during Blue's long TD run. They watched in horror as the play seemed to take forever, and you could tell that they knew they were cooked. Their shoulders dropped in sorrow as they finally accepted their fate. It was beautiful.
My younger daughter did snap this picture of an amazing-looking Texas fan.
Not so much of a story here, but it was the perfect ending to an amazing day.
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