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The game day experience begins long before fans take their seats inside The Rock. Located outside the stadium, Spirit Park will feature tailgating areas for fans, food trucks, live music and a videoboard to catch key college football action
The game day experience begins long before fans take their seats inside The Rock. Located outside the stadium, Spirit Park will feature tailgating areas for fans, food trucks, live music and a videoboard to catch key college football action
Up to eight Hattiesburg area food trucks will be featured in Spirit Park. So come out early, grab some food, and enjoy!
Located in Spirit Park, the outdoor pavilion will feature live music beginning three hours prior to kick off. Live music on Sept. 2 includes Chapel Hart
The Eagle Walk on game days will remain the same as in year’s past. The team will continue down Eagle Walk and then make a left onto the sidewalk (in front of the Duff) with the Pride of Mississippi marching and playing behind them. Once the football team reaches the entrance of the Duff Athletic Center on the west side of the stadium, they’ll then enter the locker room on the west side. The band will then peel off onto to Ray Guy Way and play toward fans in Spirit Park
Junior Eagle Funland remains in the grassy area next to the roundabout in Spirit Park and close to Southern Station. Entry and all activities remain free for Seymour’s Sidekicks members. Kids can play on the inflatables and enjoy the game day festivities leading up to kick off
The officially licensed Gold Rush craft beer from Southern Prohibition will provide a local craft beverage to fans, as well as other various beer and light wine offerings that include Yuengling, Miller Lite, Coors Lite, New Belgium Juicy Haze, Truly Strawberry Lemonade and Twisted Tea. Boiled Peanuts and Pretzels will also be available at many beer stations.
Additionally, the lower east portable stand will also feature chicken tenders and fries by the student section and the lower southeast stand will have BBQ menu options. The upper east and west will have a portable beer stand that will offer Churros, walking Tacos, and Candy Apples (if supply issues allow). Holy Smoke BBQ will be on lower west and Chick-Fil-A will be available in the south endzone. Nelly’s food truck will be on the lower west side of the stadium and more BBQ options in the upper east and lower south will offer the famous To The Top Nachos
Fans 21 and older, with a valid government-issued ID, will be able to purchase beer and light wine at ten different locations within the stadium. Sales of beer and light wine will be available until the end of the third quarter of each home game
As fan experience efforts expand, even the action in the stadium will look and sound louder this season with the addition of traditional, thunder sticks
Pyrotechnics will continue to be part of the in-game experience at The Rock