RaleighPittFan said:

I’m curious; how did you become a Pitt fan?

I assume from your posts that you are from the Greenville area.

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When I was a little kid, born in 1976 I was a steelers fan. I grew up in Central New Jersey. Then one day Pitt was playing Notre Dame on TV in the 80s and my family was all ND fans. I saw the awesome helmets and the greatest uniforms in college football and I think Pitt won that day so I just always remembering loving Pitt from that day forward. I went to ECU in the mid 90s and I have season tickets to all their games and love my alma mater too. But I managed to make my son a Pitt and Steelers fan as well as ECU. This is going to be a memorable weekend for us both, dont know how many more we have since he is a freshman in college now.
I have attended a whole lot of Pitt games from going back to Seton Hall Pitt basketball when I was in high school, and since they joined the ACC I have seen them play Duke at Duke in bball, UNC and NCSU in football, NCSU in bball since its about 90 minutes away. All with my son. But like I said its our first time to Pittsburgh. Its going to be expensive but you cant put a price on these memories. 3 games in 3 days now. If anyone has 2 tickets in the lower level (I dont do heights well) to any of the games please let me know. Otherwise its only seatgeek and I am waiting to see if they go down a bit. Steelers are really expensive, the pitt football game has decent seats for 120-150 each but I really want to be behind the Pitt bench. I really dont know if that is normal or not.
One cool story I will share was when we saw Pitt beat UNC in football and after the game AJ Davis gave his Pitt gloves to my son. It made his year.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I did end up in Point Breeze North because the place was amazing and it was $98 per night with great reviews.
If anyone has room at their tailgate I would be more than willing to pay you for my son and I to attend. I tailgate every ECU game and love the experience.

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Sean Miller Fan said:

Go to Pitt/WVU bball on Friday night

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Didnt even realize that, we are coming in Thursday night, going to check out campus in the day and now going to basketball at night. My trip is getting more expensive by the day. LOL

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pittmeister said:

Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died

The quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” Teri Garr has died.

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Hate to hear that. Loved her in Mr. Mom.

He had something in his eye. Might be something a little more than that.

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Vader_Storm said:

From someone that claims the scrimmages are meaningless, you certainly provided a lot of details about both of Virginia's scrimmages above. That's kind of ironic that you cared enough to know all that information.

November 4th is almost here anyway. Some of these teams, including some ranked ones, are going to get exposed quite soon. Other teams that are getting slept on will start their rise up the rankings.

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It's possible to both know some details about the scrimmage & at the same time acknowledge that the results of the
scrimmage are meaningless.

I can also tell you the Steelers scored a TD on damn near every drive Kenny Pickett started in preseason 2023. Make of it whatever you like.

Pitt_Boss said:

I know people that always use carryon because they fear lost bags.

In my case and many others I travel with, we use carryon because it’s free on the big airlines while you have to pay for checked. If they let me check it for free like Southwest, I would check it most every time.

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Do you gate check those? That alone would resolve so many problems with boarding and exiting if the airlines forced it.

Finally back home after 38 hours and four flights. The final leg was on a Bombardier Q300 tiny little prop plane. With high winds and thick clouds. Landed in a strong crosswind. Good way to end it!

HailtoPitt said:

They all suck. Need to go back to federally set pricing and ideally a federal mandate on leg room. Then let the airlines compete with those mandates.

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I like a federal requirement on leg room, but honestly shoulder room bothers me the most. I am a tall guy too at 6-3, but damn my shoulders are about 6 inches wider than the 17 inches or whatever it is for shoulder width in the seats.

I understand there isn't much to be done for shoulder width for the existing fleet, but a wider width for future plane designs needs to happen now.

Conemaugh said:

Cheaper airline flights also helped create the airline vacation traveler boom, which is a curse for us business travelers. It never ceases to amaze me how long it now takes to board and exit a plane, and how many people just refuse to check luggage. These miscreants belong on a Greyhound bus.

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I know people that always use carryon because they fear lost bags.

In my case and many others I travel with, we use carryon because it’s free on the big airlines while you have to pay for checked. If they let me check it for free like Southwest, I would check it most every time.

Parkview57 said:

By chance , do you know of a hotel with a station nearby in the SHs?

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Spring Hill suites 611 Washington rd my Lebanon pa

The mt Lebanon t stop is directly across an alley from the hotel. No more than 3 minutes walking. 30 minute t ride to acrisure.

There’s also a couple hotels in station square and south hills village. But south hills village is almost an hour away from the stadium.

gilligan 3 said:

Deregulation made travel cheaper but unbearable. There is zero doubt that banking, electric utility service and travel was better pre deregulation. I loved Ronald R. and supported these policies. You live and learn; well some of us do.

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Cheaper airline flights also helped create the airline vacation traveler boom, which is a curse for us business travelers. It never ceases to amaze me how long it now takes to board and exit a plane, and how many people just refuse to check luggage. These miscreants belong on a Greyhound bus.

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Sean Miller Fan said:

How?

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Well it starts with birds and bees and then…