Is anyone going to the Oregon game?

[Sooner24]

My son and I are the only ones I know of right now.

[BASSooner]

not that i know of. take pictures for me;)

[sendbaht]

My wife and I plan to go. On the 8th we fly to Okc from home here in California, go the the Washington game, drive to Tulsa, visit Ma and Pa. Then fly to Seattle, rent a car, drive around and look at the beauty, end up at the Oregon game on the 16th. Then drive and take our time back to LA.... I can't wait!

[Sooner24]

not that i know of. take pictures for me;)


I quit taking my camera after the Notre Dame game. It's a bad luck thing. :(

[IronSooner]

Me, SoonerBBall and another friend of ours, maybe two, are going. I think we're gonna stay in Portland and then head over to Eugene for the game and to see campus for the day. I'm pumped.

[yermom]

i think we are probably do something similar... i need to find flight info...

[sooneron]

Someone will need to pick up some pinot noir for me.

[sooner518]

i will be flying most likely. havent worked out the details yet.

[yermom]

Someone will need to pick up some pinot noir for me.

you'll drink Merlot and like it!

[sooner518]

you'll drink Merlot and like it!
http://www.bravotv.com/Independent_Spirit_Awards/images/blog_pic_Giamatti.jpg
"We are not drinking ****ing Merlot!!!!"

[Sooner24]

i think we are probably do something similar... i need to find flight info...


Better hurry up.

I waited and it ended up costing me an extra $100.00 from a month ago.

[Jimminy Crimson]

I'm in. Staying in Portland.

[Sooner24]

We are staying in Eugene.

[suncoastsooner7]

In.

[Sooner24]

We are staying here.

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=K1XFWJHL22M2MCSGBIYMVCQKIYF CXUUC?ctyhocn=EUGEHHF

[sooneron]

you'll drink Merlot and like it!
pfft ! bush leaguer!:texan:

[soonerguild]

flying into portland and driving to eugene, I think were gonna stay in eugene tho, what sucks is me and my bro can't make flight plans until I make sure I don't have a test that fri, that would throw my flight plans out the window, so I have to wait for it to get expensive. but Autzen should be fun, get ready for the most green and yellow ever.

[BillyBall]

We are staying here.

http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=K1XFWJHL22M2MCSGBIYMVCQKIYF CXUUC?ctyhocn=EUGEHHF

I stayed at this hotel in 2001, great place and Eugene is a cool town. Eugene is the kind of place that puts you in the mood for some hippie music.

[PDXsooner]

i was in autzen on saturday for their spring game, about 100 feet from where OU fans will be in sep. the atmosphere will be UNREAL!!!

i would HIGHLY suggest parking on campus and walking over to the stadium (about a 20 min. walk) - you walk over the willamette river, through some hiking trails, and then you come up on the stadium. it might be the prettiest pre-football game walk in the nation...

[Sooner24]

Do you know if the hotel I am staying at is within walking distance?

[Collier11]

Me and three of my buddies are going friday morning through sunday night, flying out early friday, my good friend is from portland and his brother and sister go to Oregon so we will likely stay in the frat house or one of his buddies houses since its free. Cant wait

[Sooner24]

We leave Dallas Friday around noon and get to Portland at 1:35. Coming back we leave Portland at 12 something and get back to DFW at 6:15.

[PDXsooner]

Do you know if the hotel I am staying at is within walking distance?

yeah, not a bad walk at all. right down franklin next to campus and then across the foot bridge...

[GDC]

I may go. I was born in Cottage Grove and have never been back.

[PDXsooner]

gdc, you can change the "i may go" to "i'm going" and quit all the BS. you will be here.

[PDXsooner]

by the way, at the end of "animal house" there's a scene with the band walking though a little town -- cottage grove.

[GDC]

I've noticed that about Animal House. My parents came back to Oklahoma when I was six months old, so I don't remember anything about Oregon. I would love to come up for the game though.

[MojoRisen]

My son and I are the only ones I know of right now.


I am there- Pops- scored tickets and going to hit the Deschutes River as well for a chance at a Steel head.

BOOOOOOOOOMER

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Got the trip booked (first class reward seats) and hotels in Eugene are filled, but I have a room at a B&B near the campus. Now all I need are game tix...

Spending the week there on vacation...

[Boarder]

Mrs SB and I will be attending. Staying in Portland. Be there Thursday to Sunday.

[Boarder]

Round trip Thursday to Sunday will run about $350 ish per person for the flight.

And, that flight stops in Vegas. For $99 more, plus a hotel room, I can stay over Sunday night in Vegas. Hmmmmmmm.

[Collier11]

We got our tix for $240 ea round trip on united out of dallas

[soonerhubs]

I wish we could go :(

[boomersooner82]

I hear they call it the Autzen Zoo because it smells like an elephant turd. Any truth to that?

Either way, I'm there. I'm just pumped to visit the places they shot Animal House. It's been a lifelong dream.


i will be flying most likely. havent worked out the details yet.

You should work on that.

[PDXsooner]

no smell of elephant turds, but there are a lot of seagulls for some reason.

[Quack 10]

no smell of elephant turds, but there are a lot of seagulls for some reason.

Yes there are, as there are at Husky Stadium, Seahawks, and at Reser too. It's due to the fact that gulls (aka skyrats) typically go wherever people drop stuff.

[BetterSoonerThanLater]

count me in...my fiance and I are flying from here in So.Cal to portland and driving over to u-gene

[soonersam]

I will be there in all my glory.... Glory can also be replaced with drunkeness!!

[Sooner24]

So is anyone else going? And if you are where are you staying?

[Octavian]

In.

From the 14th-17th...staying in Portland.

[Octavian]

i need to find flight info...

no cross-country road trip?

:dolemite:

[MamaMia]

I need two more tickets. :)

[Harry Beanbag]

We've been planning on going for over a year, but it's not going to happen now. Two job changes and no vacation time has made it an impossibility. :(

I'm sure y'all are heartbroken at this news, but you'll make it through without Mrs. Beanbag and me. On the bright side, we won't need corrective eye surgery from seeing the Ducks' uniforms live and in person for 3 hours.

[dolemitesooner]

no cross-country road trip?

:dolemite:
Hell we have been to 30 somthing games straight I know we are no phil but we aint breaking the ****ing streak.Yes we are going together but we are flying we need to all meet up and party like rock stars

[MiccoMacey]

I've got a place to stay (brother lives in Portland), but it'd be hard to swing money for the plane/road trip.

On a side note, if you've never been to God's country, the Great NorthWest is some the most beautiful scenery you'll ever see. That alone makes me want to go up for the game.

[XingTheRubicon]

Staying here www.excelsiorinn.com

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/6791/602599096qo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

This place used to be a sorority house back in the '40s.

[yermom]

I need two more tickets. :)

yeah, me too... the ticket office denied us for the only away tickets we asked for :mad:

i didn't really want to pay $100 for lOSUr tickets anyway

[Octavian]

Hell we have been to 30 somthing games straight I know we are no phil but we aint breaking the ****ing streak.Yes we are going together but we are flying we need to all meet up and party like rock stars

We will :D

It's gonna be a sweet trip, I here the Northwest is cool and I've never been up that way.

Their stadium is as weird as their uni's.

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2685/autzen6zs.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Octavian]

my bad...that didn't resize the way I wanted it too...

[lovesOU]

We are going.

[Lucky4]

no cross-country road trip?

:dolemite:

Yep, three friends and I are taking the long way to Mountain Home, Idaho to pick up my cousin (a Sooner transplanted by way of the Air Force) and his son and an RV to take the rest of the way to U-gene. I have never seen the western part of the country ('cept by plane), so I wanted to make this a road trip. Besides, my buds love the fact that they can escape their wives for a week.

[Quack 10]

Their stadium is as weird as their uni's.

Ha! There's some truth to that! It's definitely asymmetrical with the new south side addition, but it can conceiveably be "balanced out" again with the as yet unplanned north side expansion.

Incidentally, in the upper right corner of that photo is the Moshofsky Center, the indoor practice facility and gameday tailgating central, and below it is the Casanova Center, basically the fieldhouse.

This photo shows the pre-expansion (and pre-Moshofsky Ctr.) stadium.
http://football.ballparks.com/NCAA/Pac10/Oregon/aerial.jpg

[yermom]

it runs East-West?

how Aggie of you :P

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Does anyone know where the visitors (OU section) will be. Needing 2 tix and want to purchase in or near the visitor section.

[Octavian]

Casanova Center?

Left Coasters... ;)

[Quack 10]

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7332/lencasanova0ve.jpg

Len Casanova, head football coach from '51 to '67, when the Ducks went an incredible 82-73-8! It's a monument to mediocrity.

And yeah, the field more or less runs east west, though i don't think it was laid out with any significance.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Doubt in that area, geographical aspects make any difference. they don't get the blowing wind Oklahoma does and most of the time the area is in a fog or cloudy, so the sun doesn't matter either. ;)

Quack 10, can you answer the question on the visiotr's seating? Thanks.

[PrideAlum]

We just decided to go this week but we can't find a room in Eugene. We're looking at Salem which is about halfway from Portland to Eugene.

[colleyvillesooner]

Do you know if the hotel I am staying at is within walking distance?

You be the judge:

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2382/map0kg.jpg

[Octavian]

git yer walkin shoes on...

[Quack 10]

Don't quote me on this, but I believe Autzen visitor's seating is in sections 38 and 39. that's the lower left corner in the below-linked seating chart, which has clickable view links in it.

http://www.goducks.com/clickableSeatingChartAutzen.dbml?ATCLID=31929&SPSID=3790&SPID=252&DB_OEM_ID=500&SPSID=3790&SPID=252&DB_OEM_ID=500&SPSID=3790&SPID=252&DB_OEM_ID=500

[Octavian]

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7332/lencasanova0ve.jpg

Len Casanova, head football coach from '51 to '67, when the Ducks went an incredible 82-73-8! It's a monument to mediocrity.

And yeah, the field more or less runs east west, though i don't think it was laid out with any significance.

Your field may run the east-west but that 16 year run would warrant campus statues at Oklahoma St.

For example, the last 16 years of aggyball has produced a record of 81-110-3(.425)

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Don't quote me on this, but I believe Autzen visitor's seating is in sections 38 and 39.

Mucho Thanks!

[SoonerJLB]

We may go up to Eugene to see the game. Not sure yet.

[Sooner24]

git yer walkin shoes on...


It might be quicker if I swim. ;)

[Vegas Sooner]

yep cant wait!

[tru2ou]

I just booked my tickets this morning. Kansas City to Portland for $209.00 round trip on American. The only problem is I have to leave Wichita at 5:00 AM to get to the KC airport in time. I guess its the sacrifice I have to make to see the Sooners play in Eugene.

Hopefuly Phil can pull together a tailgate for us.

- TRU

[yermom]

hmm... KC isn't THAT far away :P

[dolemitesooner]

hmm... KC isn't THAT far away :P
209 is cheap

[chbrew09]

my dad is a duck so we've been waiting for this game for quite some time...we're going for sure

[Collier11]

This is going to be an amazing trip, I went out to UCLA last year but I wasnt all that impressed with L.A., I am very excited about Oregon though

[Sooner24]

I have heard the Ducks halftime show will have an X-Men 3 theme. :D

[Sooner24]

I was looking at those $209 flight out of KC and the only problem is the return flight is an overnighter.

[Primo]

My plane, hotel, and car reservations are made.

I will be there.

[tru2ou]

I was looking at those $209 flight out of KC and the only problem is the return flight is an overnighter.


Not mine. It leaves at 7:00 AM out of Portland and gets back to KC around 3:30 or so.

- TRU

[MiccoMacey]

Not mine. It leaves at 7:00 AM on that Saturday out of Portland and gets back to KC around 3:30 or so just as the game ends.

:eek: :eek:

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Seems like tix will be difficult to get. Season tix holders being denied away tix, I tried getting UO season tix, they only seat about 54K and have large General Admission sections that are completely sold out.

[Sooner24]

Remainder of Season Tickets On Sale Today
06/19/2006 - GoDucks.com




EUGENE – A limited number of reserved season tickets for the 2006 University of Oregon football season will go on sale to the general public Monday, beginning at 9 a.m.


The Ducks already have established a record for season ticket sales for the ninth year in a row, with the 42,200 season tickets sold thus far already surpassing last year’s total of 40,973.


All remaining season tickets available cost $252 each for the six-game package, with a separate Duck Athletic Fund donation required for some of the seats depending on their location. Required DAF donations range between $75 per ticket to $1,600.


Reserved season tickets that do not require a donation will be available for purchase Monday via the athletic department’s official website at www.goducks.com, in person at the Athletic Ticket Office located in the Casanova Center or via telephone by calling 541-346-4461 or 1-800-WEBFOOT.


Season tickets requiring a donation are available via phone or in person at the Casanova Center ticket office only.


Oregon’s six-game home schedule begins with Stanford on Sept 2 and includes Oklahoma (September 16), UCLA (October 14), Portland State (October 28), Washington (November 4), and Arizona (November 18).

Any remaining single-game tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, July 21.

Oregon is coming off last season’s 10-2 record and second place in the Pacific-10 Conference, with the Ducks riding a string of 42 consecutive sellouts.

For more ticket information, call 541-346-4461 or 1-800-WEBFOOT.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Only singles were available when I checked...

[Sooner24]

You be the judge:

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2382/map0kg.jpg



Is that red X by the stadium where Dean is going to have the Soonerfan.com tailgate fifth wheel set up? :D

[soonersam]

I'll be there in full drunkeness

[Crimson Kid]

Larry will be there. :D

http://members.cox.net/guitardeth/ducks_sooners.jpg

[BoomerJack]

I'm not but I sure wish I could.

Anytime in Oregon from, say, May thru October, IMO, is a great time to visit there. I would spend time on the Pacific coast, eat salmon all the time, visit some sights in the Cascade Mountain Range and then watch the Sooners play the Ducks.

[Collier11]

Ive got 4 friends going with me, we are flying out on thursday...absolutely cant wait!!! My buddy is actually from portland and his brother and sister go to Oregon, friday night we are partying with his bro who is a sigma chi and likely crashing at the frat house, could get crazy guys. Will anyone offer to bail me out if I get arrested??? ;)

[soonerbred]

We're flying to Portland on the 13th and driving down the coast to Florence for two nights before going to Eugene. We are planning to try and park near the stadium in the handicapped parking area. Weren't able to get tickets from OU either. I saw a post on the Oregon message board that said the visitors seats were high in sections 35 & 36.

[BoomerSooner#28]

ill be there baby! Boomer!!

[LibertyValance]

Bandon Dunes on Friday. Eugene on Saturday. Should be a nice double header.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

We're flying to Portland on the 13th and driving down the coast to Florence for two nights before going to Eugene. We are planning to try and park near the stadium in the handicapped parking area. Weren't able to get tickets from OU either. I saw a post on the Oregon message board that said the visitors seats were high in sections 35 & 36.

That'll be great as I plunked down some bucks for tix in section 36!

[soonerbred]

Here are some food and drink suggestions from the Duck message board.

"hmmm for a nice place that serves a good steak or seafood, I would suggest Oregon Electric Station. I believe this is the spot they entertain recruits on their official visits. It isn't cheap, but it isn't terribly overpriced either:

for a good bar experience, I would suggest Rennie's. It is located right next to the UO campus (although school won't have started yet) and is an excellent place to grab a beer and watch a game, or sit outside on the patio. This still should be rather lively, even though it won't be nearly as lively as when the students are all in town.


for a good local beer I would suggest either Rogue (one of my favorites) or McMenamins. Both produce their own beers, and shouldn't be missed.

High Street Brewery (McMenamins)

As far as wines go, Oregon is famous for Pinot Noir. The climate in Oregon is similar to that in France, and thus we are able to rival any Pinot in the world. A couple I would give you as suggestions are either Hinman or King Estate.

Silvan Ridge/Hinman Vineyards

King Estate"


"Rennies is cheap and good, or if you haven't been to an Original Pancake House, I would very, very highly recommend you try it. The omelettes and dutch baby are really excellent and you can't go wrong with the banana pancakes (or any other of their many selections)."

"There are two places I would go as a student of which I still love and adore. These two places are staples of the U of O. First in terms of a bar, Rennie's is my favorite of all time (1214 Kincaid St, Eugene, OR 97401). It just may be nostalgia but I love this place. In terms of food, especially breakfast food and lunch food visit the Glenwood (1340 Alder St, Eugene, OR 97401). Great food and you will be awestruck at the prices (so affordable). My sister visited me when I was going to college back in 2002 and she raves about that place to this day 4 years later. Get the Tomato and Cheese soup if possible… mmmmm…"

[ColumbusSooner]

WooHoo! Section 12 and a parking pass. Can't wait!