we would all prefer that there are as many buff fans as possible in the seats on december 30th. with that in mind, here is some preliminary info from the dfw buffs alumni:
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if anybody is interested, let me know and i will pass on your contact info. chippy, let me know if you and friends need a place to stay in dfw. dallas area buffs - would you also consider opening your home as a crash site to help get allbuffers to the game? shreveport is insanely expensive and timely to fly to.
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email said:First of all we apologize in advance that we will be sending out more messages between now & Independence Bowl game to keep our interested people apprised of all plans. For bowl related messages, from this pt forward, we will include something in the subj line to so indicate.
A big thank you to local Buff alum, Brett Lamb, for doing the leg work on this. Things are still in flux as we await the site visit from the athletic dept & alumni assoc this week.
But there will definitely be a pregame party. Brett priced a bus, non-smoking of course, from reputable Lone Star Coaches. http://www.lonestarcoaches.com/
The cost if we leave day of game will be under $30 per person, possibly as low as $21 for a full 56 people. It's an easy 3 hr drive, slightly less than the trips to Norman which we've done in the past. We plan to get information out to alumni from other places who might be interested in joining us in busing from Dallas. It will reduce their trip costs (apparently flying into Shreveport is very expensive) and may be the factor that enables them to attend the game. We encourage you to let your fellow Buff fans around the country know about this. We can get as many buses as we need. They have VHS & DVD players on board & perhaps someone will have tapes of the OK or NE games for us to watch. If not, I can probably locate some.
Beverages? Alcoholic beverages will be allowed if we put up a $300 deposit & leave the bus clean and in the same good condition we found it. Our chapter can foot that, as I expect it to be just that, a deposit.
Time of departure There are various possibilities here. If we leave day of game, Sunday the 30th, we can leave in the morning 10 or so & get there in time for people to go to casinos, and do whatever the bowl may have set up or just hang out til the pregame party. We can also depart 1/2 hr or longer after game for the 3 hr trip back.
If we depart from DFW before 1pm or from Shreveport more than 1/2 hr after game, we pay cost ($70 or less) of a hotel rm for the driver during our stay to meet the on duty requirements. Personally I would prefer the driver be rested and to get there a bit earlier.
The very preliminary plans for the night before include a bowl sponsored pep rally and a CU fan reception. There are a couple of hotels CU is hooking up with, and will put those out to you after their Thurs site trip. If we consider sending a bus on the 29th, the hotel part will be yours to arrange & the bus charge of course will be more.
Game tickets are as stated earlier $40 for sections 114-116 & 214-216. and $35 for goal line to the 20 yd line. There is a handling fee of about $5. If we can get that reduced for our group thru the AA, we will. Can't promise though.
Soooooooooo, could you please let us know ASAP of your interest. It's very important & will help us make plans. I know it's a busy time of yr and some of you will be away, but PLEASE, I encourage you all to support our Buffs by traveling to Shreveport, the closest Big12 bowl affiliation to our alumni club. (don't think the Ft Worth Armed Serv Bowl is connected to Big 12) Attendance at this bowl likely will affect future bowl invitations.
Just a brief message from you with how many will ride the bus & your preference for departure time (not making any promises so pls be flexible here ) will do.
Thanks so much to the BEST CU ALUMNI anywhere!
Also if a few of you would like to volunteer to help out in shifts at the pregame, we'll need tatoos & entry people.
GO BUFFS!!
if anybody is interested, let me know and i will pass on your contact info. chippy, let me know if you and friends need a place to stay in dfw. dallas area buffs - would you also consider opening your home as a crash site to help get allbuffers to the game? shreveport is insanely expensive and timely to fly to.