G5 fan here from MTSU(if that matters). Coming into town Nov 15th weekend and going to the SDSU game. been following UNLV all season bc of this and it has been fun see the success y'all have had. My question is what's there to do pregame by the stadium, any tailgating areas etc. looks like WSKY is the only bar/restaurant by stadium. bringing a friend from New Zealand and its his first college football game. Any info/help would be appreciated. Always down to talk some football. thanks
Out of town fan here.....
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Well it just so happens directly across from WSKY is J-LOT parking where my group tailgates. Feel free to stop by. Can't help you with any parking but there will be plenty of food and beverages. When game gets closer I'll give you better details of where we tailgate exactly.
MTSU...
Interesting. Was discussing them a bit in another thread when all this realignment with the PAC blew up.
I floated the idea that MWC should look at adding WKU and possibly MTSU or La Tech to entice Liberty by giving them travel partners.
MWC currently looking at NIU and or Toledo.
Shoot me a direct message on here a few days before game to remind me.
Assuming there’s only one MTSU, met a girl from there many years back when we played in the NCAAT in Nashville. Those southern girls …. They’re just different. In a really, really good way.
I usually tailgate at the Crazy Horse 3. It's a short walk. I recommend the wings and Destiny.
Definitely hit Bull's tailgate. If for nothing but the Guinness beer. So cool that a fan of MTSU is coming to a UNLV game.
I'm not some heathen! I pair my beers and food! It will be a Greek beer when I do schwarma next.
We need hundreds of thousands of new out of town fans so that UNLV football gets the type of following that will make them desirable for big network games.
Can’t go wrong with Bull’s tailgate. Great food, even better people. They don’t believe in hot dogs, hamburgers, or communism.
You gotta love bacon wrapped hotdogs. That’s as American as apple pie
Im excited boys, thanks for the invite and will definitely reach out. Alysha Clark is a big sports alum, women's basketball is by far our best and most loved sport. The amount of country artists who have ties to MTSU is too long to list, our recording program is one of the tops in nation. As far as crazy horse goes, big girls need love too. I'll make sure to bring some nice Tennessee whisky.....
Delicious but The only place I’ve ever eaten bacon wrapped hotdogs is from food carts in Tijuana.
Same with me.
And every time I’ve been in TJ, it’s been a night of epic drunkenness.
So that’s what we were told they were - but it could have been anything.
Never! When in Mexico on Spring break my brother ate a bacon wrapped hotdog. He asked if I wanted one, and I said no way in hell. That night he was sick as a Mexican dog after it had been kicked around for a little while!
Yeah I will never touch those Mexican food carts. A friend of mine got shrimp taco from one once and he had contractions like he was in labor afterwards.
I've eaten from food carts all over the world. Never a problem. If it looks good - make sure it's hot off the grill then eat it. Never a problem. Life's too short to avoid new food.
That’s the key, have enough alcohol in you to fend off anything that our gringo GI tracts can’t fend off without. I’ve never gotten sick from a TJ hotdog.
I haven’t been sick either.
And we’ve sworn they were the best hot dogs we’ve ever had in our lives. And even the tortas with only God knows what meat, it’s gourmet food after a nigh on Revolution Road.
Sooner, we’d warn each other about eating ANYTHING during the cab ride up, everyone get each others backs.
Drunk, didn’t matter what was on the menu.
Nearly all of us stopped short of the hookers, now that would be Russian Roulette.
I’m going back to youth when this happened, 16-20 or so.
Yeah Tijuana was great before I turned 21, once I turned 21 I didn’t need the ability to go to bars and clubs that I couldn’t in the US at least legally. I think I was 16 the first time I got kicked out of a bar. First bar fight was in Tijuana with some Navy dude running his mouth. Donkey show.. actually that part isn’t true but I met some guy that swears he went to one.
Now I go to Tijuana to soccer games which are great, they play in the top Mexican league so it’s like going to a major college football game atmosphere wise. There are also a ton of great restaurants, bars ( not those on Revolution) and a good craft beer scene. A completely different experience than when I was a kid.
TJ. In the 90’s my wife and I crossed at the border and got a cab. The cabbie took us about half way when two cop cars rammed him off the road. They forced him out of the car and proceded to beat the crap out of him and haul him away. All the time we are in the back seat watching.
Quite a ride. Viet Nam was safer.
Quite a ride. Viet Nam was safer.
I was only there once and never went to one but this guy tried to get us into a bar that he said was a donkey show. Didn’t want to find out if he was telling the truth.
Donkey show, Spanish fly … folklore of TJ that I think we all heard about but never experienced.
That movie Losin’ It from the 80’s (Tom cruise, Shelly long, Jacky earl Haley, aka Kelly leak) encapsulated TJ I’m the 80’s pretty well.
Yeah TJ lost it's shine once I turned 21. The 50% chance of getting kidnapped or arrested for ransom by the Federalis was a risk I was willing to take at 17 or 18.
There are nice parts of the town. I hooked up with some girl from Menlo Park and we ended up back in her hotel which was like 5 stars in a super nice neighborhood. I'd like to go to a Club TJ game someday, those MX league games are nuts.
I didn't see that part of town it was as nasty of a city that I have ever seen. On par with the worst part of Cairo.
You were probably around Revolucion Ave. which is where all the toursits go. You gotta watch your step in that part or you may wind up in a mass grave in Matamoros.
Lol it probably was, it was the main tourist area where all the bars, shops and restaurants were on one long street.
Tijuana has a population of about 2 million people. It’s definitely a city or haves and have nots. Very wealthy and very poor. Come to San Diego to the Fashion Valley Mall on any day and see the wealth that comes across the border spending tens of thousands of dollars at a time. Come to my building and see the $200k cars parked in my parking garage with Baja license plates that come to their $2 million San Diego house once every few months and then to your point go to the tourist area or the slums and see the extreme poverty.
I feel safe in Tijuana, like I mentioned I go for soccer games and to eat and drink in the real neighborhoods ( Zona Rio). I think not doing illegal things or crossing the cartel makes your chances of being a victim pretty low and i ask my wife not to bring here Chanel purses when we go and leave her ring at home as well. Committing crimes against Americans with not ties to any of that is a bad look and would put unnecessary heat on the crime groups responsible for most of the crime most of which is against their rivals drug gangs or someone who got in their way.
We stay in the Tijuana Marriott and walk to the stadium and back and at that Marriott are treated as well as any hotel I’ve stayed. A few months ago I left a Moncler jacket at the hotel bar,when I realized it the next morning I assumed that I’d never see it, but it was turned in and I got it back.
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I haven't been there in 30 years so imagine it has changed quite a bit. Didn't realize it was so big though with 2MM.
Mexico in general has always been dangerous if you stray from the tourist spots. We stopped sending people there on business trips in 2018 because of all the kidnappings (mostly by cartels). I know they still have an astronomical crime rate. A family friend was transferred to Cabo to manage a large golf course there and Cabo itself is actually very low crime with few bad areas, but the drive down someone tried to run them off the road, hit their car twice, and they thought it was a hijacking attempt but they took off after about 5 minutes for some reason thankfully. Definitely a place you need to know where you are going.
Seabiscuit? I dont have any idea how you wear more than one layer of clothing in TJ but OK.
