College Game Day Flag

[UNA Lion]

Okay, so I'm seriously considering traveling south an hour to Oxford to fly a 3' by 5' UNA flag on Game Day, and I found this instruction piece for WSU fans who fly their flags each Game Day.

One thing I can't figure out is how tall their flag poles are, or of what they're constructed (PVC pipe, perhaps?).

Looks like those WSU fans arrive around two hours early to set up (they mail the same flags to different fans across the nation from week to week). Issue is that we have a sedan, so that will limit the length of the pole on which we'd fly the flag.

I'm open to suggestions on how best to proceed, and yes - blowing off the idea entirely is an option.

 

[occupant]

 

[UNA Lion]

Yeah, figured we'd see something like that pretty quick.

 

[occupant]

I try not to disappoint...if nothing else, I'm consistent.

 

[Wild Turkey]

Okay, so I'm seriously considering traveling south an hour to Oxford to fly a 3' by 5' UNA flag on Game Day, and I found this instruction piece for WSU fans who fly their flags each Game Day.

One thing I can't figure out is how tall their flag poles are, or of what they're constructed (PVC pipe, perhaps?).

Looks like those WSU fans arrive around two hours early to set up (they mail the same flags to different fans across the nation from week to week). Issue is that we have a sedan, so that will limit the length of the pole on which we'd fly the flag.

I'm open to suggestions on how best to proceed, and yes - blowing off the idea entirely is an option.

1. Definitely use PVC because it is light, sturdy and relatively cheap.
2. If you use PVC then you can cut the pole in half and just bring a connector that will allow you to put them together.
3. I admire that you want to do this for your team but I honestly would sit comfortably at home and watch football on TV then go to all this trouble.

 

[UNA Lion]

1. Definitely use PVC because it is light, sturdy and relatively cheap.
2. If you use PVC then you can cut the pole in half and just bring a connector that will allow you to put them together.
3. I admire that you want to do this for your team but I honestly would sit comfortably at home and watch football on TV then go to all this trouble.

Leaning toward #3, but my wife's excited to go see Game Day in person, and we did buy the flag.

 

[WhiteMamba]

But it's Gameday at the grove WT. With Bama there.

Lots of people to gander at to be sure.

UNA, go if you have t been to a GD. It's worth it. Key is, be there early. Very early.

If you have been to a GD. WT is right and you probably know this, it is a long long morning and the show is better on tv. Much better actually. But everyone should experience it once.

 

[Wild Turkey]

But it's Gameday at the grove WT. With Bama there.

Lots of people to gander at to be sure.

UNA, go if you have t been to a GD. It's worth it. Key is, be there early. Very early.

If you have been to a GD. WT is right and you probably know this, it is a long long morning and the show is better on tv. Much better actually. But everyone should experience it once.

Game Day live at the event is miserable I would much rather be at my tailgate getting my drunk on.

Now in the old days before they had so much security and nets going after the game for the post game stuff in Baton Rouge was worth doing just to see the LSU fans toss whiskey bottles at the set.

 

[Wild Turkey]

Leaning toward #3, but my wife's excited to go see Game Day in person, and we did buy the flag.

Take the gas money and buy her something.

 

[UNA Lion]

May end up being a "check the block" thing, if we go and do this. Have never seen anything from UNA on GD, so wanted to be the first to do something like that ... and Oxford is relatively close.

I don't like crowds as it is, so can't imagine doing it again.

 

[TigerBait1971]

Game Day live at the event is miserable I would much rather be at my tailgate getting my drunk on.

Now in the old days before they had so much security and nets going after the game for the post game stuff in Baton Rouge was worth doing just to see the LSU fans toss whiskey bottles at the set.

Corso can't stand LSU fans....we tormented his ass....

 

[tech_iceman]

What about the SportsHoopla flag?

 

[lilchi721]

PVC will work

 

[lilchi721]

What about the SportsHoopla flag?

We have a SportsHoopla flag

 

[tech_iceman]

We have a SportsHoopla flag

why is it not flown at every
gameday?

 

[H2S]

minor bucket list item

May end up being a "check the block" thing, if we go and do this. Have never seen anything from UNA on GD, so wanted to be the first to do something like that ... and Oxford is relatively close.

I don't like crowds as it is, so can't imagine doing it again.

go.
if you really want to get on teevee, go real early (wait in line overnight with thousands of gameday geeks and groupies.)
if I were you, though, sure...go on down for the experience...get there sometime before the show...stand way way back...have wifey pose for pics with the flag with the gameday pavilion in the background. mission accomplished.
you can be home laid out in front of your teevee well before the first kickoffs of the day.

 

[H2S]

I don't like crowds as it is,.

I developed, manufactured and marketed (on-the-cheap) a licensed collegiate product several years back. Was a little plastic flag (similar to those you see scattered around construction, landscaping and utility work sites) that cost about 5¢ to make; sold wholesale @ 50¢/retail @ $1. My marketing efforts entailed travelling throughout the region I had licenses for (Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, etc) handing out samples and poking my flags anywhere that lots of people would see them...mostly major events like GameDay, NCAA cbb tourney, etc...had a ball for three years then sold the company.

 

[H2S]

flags in high traffic areas...

sorry UNA...not blowing my own horn here, just reminiscing good times and opportunities taken (s'why I think you should get down to Memphis.)

LOL. gawd, what fun. one of my "on-the-cheap" promotion strategies was to poke state welcome signs...Iowa, Indiana and Michigan. When I copped my scUM license, I hit Interstate-94 at both the Indiana and Canada borders. This one is nb I-75 at the Ohio border...40,000 vehicles/day...the flags were still up two MONTHS later (bwahaha, maintenance guys mowed around them.) btw, scUM product outsold everybody else (8 other licensed properties) combined.

 

[nddulac]

If you search around, you can buy telescoping poles for exactly this purpose. They are made of either aluminum or pvc. (That is what the WSU people use.)

I have been to gameday once in my life, and was glad I went. It was stupid early in the morning (at USC, before the Notre Dame game in 2012.) the crowd was sparse, but grew as the show got later. That's what a 6:0 am start will do to you. I made sure to get a picture with the WSU flag. Call me weird, but that is one of the best traditions in college football since they began flying it at all of the Game Days.

Anyhow, I put it in the category of one of those things you should do at least once as a fan of the game. But I also put it in the category that once is probably plenty.

 

[bocomo007]

Corso can't stand LSU fans....we tormented his ass....

that C in Corso is for C battery, my friend

those were the days...