They’re lining up in Lawrence, Kansas
Posted on April 7th, 2008 – 12:30 PMBy Michael Rand
Hey, we can kind of understand camping outside for concert tickets or playoff tickets (not for a Wii, mind you), but what we don’t quite get is getting in line outside a bar (a chain, no less!) to ensure entry the next day. Then again, we’ve never been to Lawrence, Kansas. From the Lawrence Journal-World (and thanks to Ron H., a dedicated Kansas backer, for the link):
The wait has begun.
A crowd of about 25 — seemingly growing by the minute — was lined up outside Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar at 9 a.m. today in preparation for tonight’s 8:21 tipoff of the National Championship game.
“Hopefully I’ll get my favorite table,” said Eric Swanson, a 28-year old Lawrence mutual fund representative.
If not, he’ll be kicking himself. He only got in line at 1 a.m.
“I think I have a pretty good chance,” Swanson said. “I was the second one here.”
You can’t just get chicken wings anywhere, we suppose.
40 Responses to "They’re lining up in Lawrence, Kansas"
Those must be some damn good Buffalo Chips. How much would you spend at a BWW if you had been waiting in line for 10 hours? If I wanted to get in that badly I’m pretty sure I would just give them my credit cards and tell them to keep em. They better have PBR on tap too.
The Onion and reality have merged…
The apocalypse has a location, and it is B-Dubs in Lawrence, Kansas.
Dude - they could drive from Lawrence to San Antonio in less time. What a waste of a day off. You probably can’t drink beer sitting out on the sidewalk.
Dave - I thought for sure you’d jump in to defend video game camper-outers everywhere.
If you haven’t been to Lawrence Kansas, what can I say. It’s Kansas, man. Remember Dorothy was from Kansas…
If people in Minneapolis had any idea of what REAL college basketball is like, then I bet half the people reading this blog would be lining up right along with all those KU fans. If hockey is life in MN, then you can certainly bet that College Hoops - Jayhawk Hoops to be exact - is life down in Kansas, especially Lawrence. Hello, how about all those Wild fans lining up at the Xcel Center the DAY BEFORE play-off tickets went on-sale?? Did anyone mock them??? No. Exactly my point..
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK…… KU
Blaire: I think the mockery is directed at the choice of venue, not the game or the team. It’s a college town, so there has to be a better place to tip a few and watch a ballgame, right?
As for REAL college basketball, it’s played on a raised floor by guys who don’t do their own homework and have their postseason record wiped and championship banners removed, thank you very much.
I agree with what Stu said. We’d mock Wild fans equally if they lined up in front of, say, Champps, at 1am before the game. Whereas if they were lined up in front of a local establishment, that’d be different.
Not surprising given that it’s Lawrence, KS. Homecoming this year and last year down there were no different. We tailgated the day AFTER homecoming. Why? Because the particular bar that the group I was with wanted to go to didn’t open for another hour. We were in the parking lot drinking with the owner and talking to the cops. Trust me when I tell you that there isn’t one sober person in line at B-Dubs right now. Lawrence is a drinking town with a basketball problem.
Let’s see waiting in line to see an NHL Playoff Game LIVE or Spending the night leaning up against a B-Dub’s to have your “favorite table” to watch the game ON T.V. like the rest of us? That seems like an apples to apples comparison.
jama - I’ll speak for Lawrence, Kansas, residents and ask “what’s an apple? Isn’t that a flavor of Pucker?”
Dave - I thought for sure you’d jump in to defend video game camper-outers everywhere.
Sorry, never done it, not even for a Wii. I might play the games, but I buy them a year or more after they come out. Why pay $50 for NCAA football when I can pay $5 in two years? It’s not like the rosters are that relevant after the first season. Same goes for other sports games. Hell, I’m still playing NCAA 2005 on PS2…
The only thing I’ve “camped out” for was a Joe Mauer bobblehead in October 2004. Got outside the Dome at 4:30 a.m.
It is currently collecting dust, as God intended.
Blaire-
The last time the Jayhawks won a national championship you and the delightfully candy-coated Tootie were pulling wacky shennanigans on Mrs. Garrett.
Those Caribbean jerk wings are legit.
Dave, you are thinking of Appletini’s. There Rand’s favorite new drink of choice.
LQ- Give the Parmessan Garlic a chance too.
There= They’re, all this Lawrence talk lowered my IQ by at least 50 points.
You can really taste the apples
/ Rand/J.D.
Speaking of drinking, have any of you ever heard of New Beer’s Eve?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/07/new.beers.eve/index.html
How good would that first sip taste?
Parmesan are pretty good too. I think I like all varieties. There is a shop about 2 blocks from my house, so that’s the default watering hole.
I wonder if Cole Aldrich has done the Fire Wing Challenge.
How good would that first sip taste?
I don’t know, would you have to re-learn to like beer? Or would you start all over, drinking Captain and Coke until you eventually got sick of how sweet it tasted and grew a taste for whiskey/bourbon, then starting to like dark beer and red wine? Or is that just me?
the Fire Wing Challenge.
I believe the preferred nomenclature is “Blazin’ Challenge”
I’d defend myself (and gamers everywhere) from your attacks, but I’m waiting outside Game Stop for Mark Kart Wii, and it’s hard to type comments on my cell phone. So instead: Jerk. GOOD DAY!
So instead: Jerk. GOOD DAY!
This has been “Cellular Eloquence with The Hootie”
LOL. BTW…F U.
Someone get Rand on that Subway diet with a personal trainer…we don’t need anything like this to happen…
Thanks, Dave. I knew it wasn’t right but I couldn’t think of it and I’m too lazy to go to their website.
5…$5…..$5 Footlong. That commercial drives me nuts.
From Dave’s link to the “Blogging is bad for your Health” story. This is the lone comment. A perfect description of our Proprietor…..
Go outside and play!
All the bloogers mentioned are GEEKs — techno-heads. I suspect this particular new ocupational health hazard is an extension of their basement/cave dwelling play video games all day and all night lifestyle –these “risks” to health have more to do with lifestyle choices than attempting to make a living via writing, 24/7 internet or otherwise. Drop the mouse and step slowing away. Go outside into the light of day, breath some unfiltered air and talk to some humans face to face
As a Minnesota girl recently transplanted to Lawrence, I think I can fairly say that basketball is to Lawrence what hockey is to MN. It’s all superstition, team spirit and good, old fashioned fun. Plus, BWs is one of few places to allow people to wait all day for the game…and it’s spring here, who doesn’t want to be outside?
Wait, I can get 40-cent wings on Tuesdays WITHOUT having to camp out the night before? Damnit!
Southpark episode explaining what jama said. Make sure you look what the kids turned into at the end of the video.
Rand in 10 years:
http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/images/1008/1008_jenkins.jpg
New To Lawrence - who are the poor saps booked to play the Bottleneck tonite?
Ugh, Memphis. Ugh.
By the way, jerk chicken wings at Liquor Lyle’s… excellent…
Isn’t Liquor Lyle’s the Unofficial RandBall HQ?
Oh, and to second Dave: ugh, Memphis.
I thought that Liquor Lyle’s had been renamed to the “Randcave”
Ramon - I don’t know that the Bottleneck had a show last night…can’t seem to find a listing; regardless, I don’t know that any of the 40,000 on Mass St last night cared much about a band… Rock Chalk.
