FF's:-Pittsburgh has the 3rd largest St Pattys parade/celebration in the U.S. (Behind Chicago and Boston)
-Three main parts of the city to kick it. South Side (Like bourbon st), Market Square, and the Strip District.
-Primantis is A must eat attraction. Has been featured on the food network several times. Sandwiches are like $6-7 bucks. Has meat, veggies, coleslaw, and fries all topped on top of one another.
-If you want a pennsylvania beer, you have to go with Yuengling. America's oldest brewery.
-Pittsburgh bars would rather play a hockey game over basketball any day of the week. A local walked in and said: "Is this the NIT tournaments or that NCAA thing?"
-Strip District was like a mix of City Market and Westport mixed together. Great little shops, everything was cheap, and some really cool bars along the way.
-All cab drivers listen to NPR Radio. I have no effing clue why?
-JO's mom is a true delight. She use to work for CBS. I asked her about JO's recruiting. She said: "It was between you guys and Rhode Island. I graduated from Marquette, but they didn't sniff him at all. I basically made the choice for him. He wanted RI cause his friends went there, I chose Kstate for him because it has the better education.
Thursday: Got to the arena two minutes before tip off. Did the whole Ch. 41 news thing and than picked up my tickets from Cassidy at will call. Met up with Felix (Who is a cool dude) for a ticket exchange and left off for my seats. The Consol arena is only two years old. Many of the locals didn't want it cause the other arena had been there since 1961. The locals were great. Definitely a midwest feel. My power was out at my hotel thursday night, so I went to a local bar to watch hoops and passed out while texting emawgeddon inappropriate things.
Friday: Hung out at the Strip District all day. Had my sandwich there and talked with many locals at the Beerhive. Some drunk vet started crying and telling me his story from WWII, it was really sad. Some Ohio State guys came up to me and asked me about frank. They bought me some beers and told me to come sit with them. I decided to hit the town with them. Went to some concert and met some nice fillys.
I headed home around midnight so I could get ready for the game in the morning.
Saturday: Got downtown by 9am. Had to get up early because of the parade. The Kstate bar was up the street from the arena and this is where I spent most of my day. Met up with Zmoney and had some drinks. He was awesome. Brought the PR flag and the #fatty4ksu sign. We headed to the game and I heard the news.
Thanks to Cassidy my seats were in the Kstate section. It was then I saw a higher up who works for Kstate and who knows me. I asked him what the hell was going on? He said: "Jamar took money". I said: "wtf, from who?" He said: "He took it for food, I can't tell you anything else." So that's where I came up with "suits". my buddy was wearing a suit and we had no details yet on who gave it to him. After the game I met a nice Kstate filly who had flown in from Olathe (we exchanged numbers). Also, met a Penn Stater who ended up taking me to southside that night to party with some Jersey girls. Those fillys were effing crazy and I loved it. We went back to his condo that night w/ the girls and the rest is history.
PS- When I tweeted the info and posted on here, many of you were pissed. Just wanted to share what I heard. Thought my internet friends deserved to know. Overall, Pitt was a great time. Would do it again in a heartbeat.