Omaha Tips?

[stalkingpoon]

Driving up for at least Saturday maybe Monday. Gonna stop somewhere around KC Friday night. Any tips once we get to Omaha? Went ahead and bought reserved seats instead of GA. When do the gates typically open? Are there things to do around the park before hand that doesn?t involve drinking at a bar?

[Harrydawg]

Well Stalkingpoon, I would think drinking at bar would not be a major delimma.


Sorry, I could not resist......reminds me of the 2 dogs 17ing joke.

[Rawdawg]

Driving up for at least Saturday maybe Monday. Gonna stop somewhere around KC Friday night. Any tips once we get to Omaha? Went ahead and bought reserved seats instead of GA. When do the gates typically open? Are there things to do around the park before hand that doesn?t involve drinking at a bar?

The stadium is downtown with a big fanfare and merchandise area set up near TD Ameritrade. Fanfare has beer. Lots of bars, go to the Old Mattress Factory close to TDA, lotta state fans congregated there and got flat out hammered. It?s a fantastic experience.

[Big4Dawg]

Eat at Q39 in KC

[MaroonFlounder]

Go across town to the Omaha zoo. It’s one of the best zoos in the country. Right across the parking lot from the zoo is old Rosenblatt stadium. They kept the infield intact, and a few rows of the old seats. That part of town looks a bit run down, but not too bad.

[I seen it dawg]

Shitbirds just click an ad on this one. You have no knowledge.

[Coldsleeve Jr.]

Sunglasses. There will be tons of strange.

Will help the brightness too

[Maroons]

The Drover is an iconic steakhouse in town. I had the whiskey filet.

[Rawdawg]

We went there too, whiskey marinade is amazing

[thedawg]

Ok I went in 2013 and stayed all 13 days .. we pulled an RV and stayed in an RV Park in the Horsehoe Casino Parking in Council Bluffs .. I’m glad that RV can’t talk .. here’s a few things I learned that will help u:

In 2013 individual general admission tickets from the box office cost $12 and u could buy a book for $70 of ten tickets .. lots of locals have a hustle where they buy a book for $70 and sell them can for $10 a piece to make $3 a ticket while saving u $2 a ticket ..this is how we got in game one .. google tells me prices have gone up to $15 and $90 if u use the box office but I assume the guys are on the corner with same hustle .. general admission is a fine seat .. only issue general admission is on a day game it’s uncovered and it is possible u can just bake .. for game three we got general admission tickets and it was hot as hell .. had some friends that had paid more than $100 for reserved shaded seats on the third base line.. they text us the whole row behind them was empty.. I don’t remember ever having an usher check me and from second inning on I sat in the shade in $100 seats with general admission tickets .. also they say they only sell 5500 and make u all scared ur not gonna get in .. so in 2013 all of starkville came to Omaha for the finals .. it was absolutely wild.. so me and my boys stood in that two hours plus like all the rest of the state fans ..we were in the middle of that line and I was virtually sure everyone wasn’t getting in .. long story short that massive outfield bleacher swallowed that line with room to spare.. we wasted a lot of time waiting in that line .. game two of the finals we walked up to GA ten minutes before first pitch walked in and got decent seats in right field .. this was with record crowds .. long story short don’t over pay for tickets
We actually were given more tickets than we could use and give away to our friends by fans that had been eliminated early and bought full books the moment they got to Omaha ...

Other useful info:
We saw plain clothes cops writing lots of citations for underage kids walking around downtown drinking on the street .. it feels like an sec football tailgate experience where no ones checking cups .. they will and bust u .. so beware

With 13 days there we stopped in at Blatts and Goodnights pizza both right across from the stadium and both are solid choices .. cold beer and good not great food .. We drank a lot of beer at the mattress depot right by the stadium too .. it is a bar and became starkville west after our games

We ate one fine meal and it was Drovers.. absolutely fine steak and meal .. u can tell it’s an Omaha institution.. I would recommend highly ..

There is a downtown area with tons of walkable bars .. we went one night and found an awesome Irish pub.. it felt like a younger crowd (possibly creighton kids) but it was fun .. had a good time that night

I heard there is a fantastic gentlemen’s club in the corn fields of Council Bluff.. I can neither confirm nor deny

Lastly if u can just go .. the atmosphere is so awesome .. eight fan bases are there and thrilled to be there.. in 2013 we met tons of awesome LSU fans.. when they went two and a bar b que they gave us tickets and coolers of food .. the stories will last a life time .. this year will be different .. I am heading up Friday with the wife and our 9 and 11 year old but i guarantee we make just as many memories .. we found a two bedroom house 14 miles from the stadium on air bnb for $100 a night and are headed up Friday ... HAIL STATE

[MaroonFlounder]

The locals there told us to go to Piccolo Pete’s for dinner. And I can tell you that it was fantastic.


ETA: damn. I just googled Piccolo Pete’s in Omaha and they closed in 2016. Oh well.

[Bama_Dawg]

Its not downtown, but I try to hit this place every time in Omaha (and yeah the Drover is amazing too):
https://mahoganyprimesteakhouse.com/locations/mahogany-omaha/