PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[BamaCajun]

For the beer connoisseurs, try Crescent City Brew House on Decatur. Excellent beers and raw oysters as good as I've had anywhere. The rest of the menu is quite good also. Will be there Friday afternoon.

[RaisingCajun08]

I hope to be there. Friend supposed to be getting us tickets. Just waiting on his confirmation.

[EmDiggy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qva5_mTDjyw

Good morning Ragin Cajuns fans!! Good luck this week!

[MetryCajun]

Where is CajunWave with more doomsday scenario's. BTW, this game is getting out to the masses. I have had several friends ask me if we really sold 18K in tickets. I expect a great walkup crowd with the two lower levels near capacity!!!!

[Bandwagon King]

As of yesterday, the New Orleans Bowl had not given the green light to opening the upper deck of the Dome. If they don't then the attendance for this year's game could be artificially "sold out" at around 35,000. Apparently there are extra costs associated with opening the upper level (security, ushers, cleaning, etc.) that the Bowl has never had to face.

33-35k is a good attendance will give cajun backers something to shoot for in the future. While it's cool a good school like SDSU got the nod, the reality is they would have had to go to Guam to find a team from further away for this game. If they could have matched us up with a school like SMU they would have well in excess of forty thousand.

[Bandwagon King]

Most of us are heading up Friday a few are going saturday

Give us old folks some kind of itenerary. Yall heading anywhere in particular Friday night?

[IHateLaState]

Just picked up my 11 tickets yesterday.... The Ticket Office had a sign that said

"Please be patient with us.... We have waited 40+ years" or something like that

For a frequent critic of the Administration (PRIOR ADMIN) I do want to give them some slack... I think next year they will be better at handling things.. This was their first time so lets give them a bit of slack... I am in the endzone... Who cares... Its been 40 years and I am damn happy to be anywhere and see the Vermillion and White running out onto the floor of a bowl game...

[mr. cajun]

There have been some bad advice in this thread. Mothers ??? Deanies ??? Really ... You guys deserve better ... This is a list that I sent out via email to a few friends who are coming in today and tomorrow for the week:

French Quarter: Casual Places - Stanley (for breakfast/brunch) This is a MUST, Central Grocery for a muff, Johnny's Poboy, Gumbo Shop, Cafe Du Monde

French Quarter: Nicer Places - GW Fins, Bayona, Stella, K-Pauls, Irene's, Mr. B's, Pelican Club, Galatoire's (If you would like an AWESOME long Friday lunch experience - Get in line by 9:00am or pay someone to wait for you)

Warehouse District: Cochon (I know that there is one in lafayette), Emerils, Tommy's, A mona, La Boca

CBD: Herbsaint, Luke, Restaurant August, Drago's (charbroiled Oysters).

[seehard]

Not sure exactly where we'll be Friday night. Probably just following the red mass.

[MelRock]

Home Bank is having a free party @ the Marriott starting @ 3 on Friday.