I also live in the Columbia area. There are a number of things that you learn having lived here a while. Big red dots on certain stores = booze sold here, avoid parts of Two Notch road at night, and any day you see lots of cars with black and red flags or Game Cock wind socks stuck in the windows, you should avoid the stadium like the plague.
In the context of this thread, does that really matter? :dubious:
Heh. Game Cock socks.
When I was a wee bairn, the insult of the day was “Yo mama works on Two Notch.”
Always. I travel around the world and the only problem I ever have is with my own countrymen when I return home. I always feel like I’ve committed some crime for going out of the country. The only country where my bags have ever been hand searched as regularly is in Yemen and they search every bag coming in by default, but at least they are nice about it. It’s comforting to know that Canada and Yemen have so much in common.
Columbia? Sorry, it was a shitheel cow town when I was there in '88 and I don’t expect that it’s changed much since then.
100k people, 40k people go to the football game (back then, at least). You do the math. If 1.2 million people (proportionally speaking) attended a Vikings game, I’d expect the entire Twin Cities area to be royally fucked over for the day.
Burn the heretic! Go Cocks! 
The funny part is, as someone points out in a thread over there {not going to link to it; don’t wanna fuel a board war} is that none of the dumb buggers posting over there seem to have figured out that the internet is open to the public.
They pull that kind of shit here, too. Rose Hulman is the training camp for the Indianapolis Colts, and they go so far as to block off the fucking highways so the Colts can get from airport to Terre Haute ‘within their scheduled time-frame’, so the fucking parade they have to welcome them goes off without a hitch.
If you happen to go into a restaurant in Terre Haute when the team is there, you will not get waited on properly…the Colts get waited on first (I imagine, because the city…if you can call it that…wants to keep the team coming back year after year), with all their needs catered to, and everyone else in the restaurant will be taken care of after the team is taken care of.
It’s a circus around here when that time of year rolls around.
It is a pain in the ass, honestly. Some of the major Colts fans love it, some fans hate it, the non-fans detest it, but for everyone involved, it’s nothing but a huge hassle, fan or not.
Redhead, though, huh? How you doin’? 