Both experiences were pretty miserable. The fans I experienced were less than hospitable. I had beer and numerous expletives thrown my way. Kids were giving our band the finger and cussing. The town is nothing to get excited about. It’s small, remote and full of people who are none too excited to see you if you don’t root for their cowboys. Getting there is a pain too. Coming from Austin, I would say fly into Denver, rent a car and drive to Laramie. It will take a couple hours. An even better suggestion might be to save your money and not waste it on a trip to Laramie. Needless to say I’m not a big fan of the place. MAybe someone else has had a better experience?

I don’t know if they will treat Texas fans the same way, but you should expect a lot of cursing and the possibility of having things thrown at you. There is sort of a running joke that Wyoming fans fill balloons with urine to lob them at opposing fans. Unfortunately, there is some truth to that joke.

As for lodging, Laramie is a town of 25,000 people. You’ll run out of hotel rooms quickly if you expect to send 20,000 longhorn fans to the game. Keep in mind, UW has one of the worst attendance rates in IA football, so you probably will have more UT fans than UW fans at the game. I would suggest you share with other Longhorn fans, because not only is Laramie largely without hotel accommodations, but there are no nearby cities. Your best bet is Cheyenne, and that’s an hour away. It’s probably your best bet to stay in Denver (2 hours) or Fort Collins (1.5 hours), if you can’t find a place in laramie. I agree with seaute that you should fly to Denver on Friday, stay the night there, and then get up early and drive to Laramie on Saturday.

I don’t know about the local restaurant, bar, tailgating scene. i can tell you that Wyoming is pretty lawless, so just about anything you can do in texas you can probably do in Wyoming (don’t take that as gospel, just a general statement about how Wyoming works).

I wouldn’t try to buy tickets at the site the day of the game, only because your fellow Longhorns will have likely snapped most of them up. You should be able to buy them by calling the Wyoming ticket office, http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/tickets/tickets-static-info/tickets-football.html

As for attractions, well . . . buy a lot of fireworks and porn. that’s about it. Most of the good stuff in wyoming is several hours to the west.

and thank you to those of you emailed me.

I think the suggestion of staying elsewhere and just driving in for the game is a sound one. Denver only being 2 hours away helps…I thought is was more like four or five.

Thanks again.

Laramie is like death, but without the benefits.

According to every Ute Player I spoke with.

I had a couple Utah football players work for me years ago and they said never let your mom or girlfriend attend a game in Laramie. They are childish, churlish, and drunk. They’re extremely poor sports, but then, we beat the hell out of them regularly so it may simply be us, they are hard on BYU as well. Perhaps they will show you guys some respect, don’t hold your breath though.

They are commonly obnoxiously drunk. The town is not much to speak of, the altitude can wear your players out if you’re not acclimated.

Terrible sports, small state with an attitude about being disrespected. Wyomiing boys are always looking for a brawl so travel with others, I’ve been into it with these drunks before and they gang piled on. Seriously, they couldn’t hurt me because they were all drunk, but they tried to hold me and kick me. I asked a passerby for help, he was one of them so he offered to help hold me while they tried to pummel me.

Nothing about the place recommends it. That would be nothing. The greatest thing about them is we beat them to death most always. The second thing about them I like is when we win at all, no matter how much the margin. I don’t hate them, they’re too pathetic, especially when drunk, but I have no respect for the Wyoming fans, none whatsoever.

If it were me, I’d definitely go see the Grand tetons, the Park (Yellowstone) and hike/fly fish in the Jackson Hole area, it’s gorgeous, wonderful country. Then I’d drive to teh game at the last minute and leave right the hell after.

The nicest thing in Laramie is likely going to drunken Cowboy’s fans in their vomit.

Maybe.

If they wear the famous “Banana” uniform which is all hot urine yellow with a smidge of poo brown?

Take care to keep all sharp objects out of your friends’ and loved ones’ hands as they may gouge out their eyeballs rather than watch the game. You can see one here:

http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/032609aaa.html

Cheers mate, sorry about the home and home too, you’ve a great coach and program and tradition there, good luck in 2009!

Mean Bob Mean

I will definitely figure out a way to advise UT fans of the drunken debauchery that most likely awaits…but honestly, I can’t throw too many stones. Our fan base can drink with the best of them and worse, we definitely have our fair share when it comes to the overly obnoxious. I don’t know how the Bama fans treated you guys down in New Orleans, but I imagine Longhorns fans are pretty similar.

The Sherrif in Laramie better call for back-up because the smart money says the pokey will be full by Sunday morning that weekend.

Best of luck next season.