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The french toast, cinnamon toast crunch, ice cream looks like a winner.  

I'm dubious about anything with crab meat at a fair...

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9 minutes ago, Mittens said:

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It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. We used to go down for the game every year and usually make another trip or two before it closed. Add in some kids who want to do rides and it's insane how much you'd spend in one night. Now I drink wax cup beers, eat a corny dog or two and that's basically it. The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

We went a couple of years ago and basically said never again because of how expensive it had gotten. 

20 minutes ago, C-Man said:

It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. We used to go down for the game every year and usually make another trip or two before it closed. Add in some kids who want to do rides and it's insane how much you'd spend in one night. Now I drink wax cup beers, eat a corny dog or two and that's basically it. The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

Death spiral happening. Unfortunate.

6 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

We went a couple of years ago and basically said never again because of how expensive it had gotten. 

This was us. Not only is it wildly expensive for what it is, it's gross. Maybe I've just aged out of it, but the fried foods, the socioeconomic demographics, the venues and shopping and rides and games -- all scream grimey and gross in a way that I never considered when I was much younger and it was much cheaper. I also live like an hour away going from the toll road.

TX/OU game or not at all for me.

We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

A couple years ago on game day I spent $300 on just myself. Not on beers inside the stadium, on food and drink out on the midway. We stayed from 8am until probably 6 that night, but even then it was still ridiculous.

The 59 dollars to park and get in the door is where they are killing themselves. 

5 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The 59 dollars to park and get in the door is where they are killing themselves. 

I'm sure there are options to take $10 off on Tuesday evening if you bring a can of green beans from Minyards or a 20 oz Dr. Pepper bottle on Thursday morning.  Having said that, It does seem like they would benefit from having some sort of surge pricing model.  Weekends can be full fare for entry (maybe still have some reduced entry with the Dr. Pepper bottle) and parking, but during the week make entry $5-$10 with parking in that same range.  I'd bet their attendance would increase significantly. The coupon cost increase was a scam.  Other than the vendors themselves realizing they are hurting sales by not reducing the number of tickets needed for a fried oreo I'm not sure much can be done about that.

We used to go on opening day every year and for TX/OU as frequently as possible.  It's been 2 or 3 years since the opening day trip and pre-Covid for the game for a variety of reasons.

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43 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

This was our first year that I can recall where we didn’t go on opening day.
It’s obscenely expensive at this point and just not worth the return.

Same, first year I didn't go opening day in a long time, and not sure I missed it. I miss going with our group of friends, but definitely not the money spent 

My daughter loves to go to the OU game and the State Fair, and she begs me every year to go.  It has just gotten so expensive, and I have developed a pretty good hatred for 99.9% of mankind, so I just can't do it anymore.  Fuck paying an obscene amount of money to be crushed to death by hordes of Walmart people

2 hours ago, C-Man said:

The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

Ching ching. 

32 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Fuck paying an obscene amount of money to be crushed to death by hordes of Walmart Dollar General people

Fixed

3 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Are there even hordes of Dollar General people?

There are MONGOL HORDES of Dollar General people

I hope it keeps up like this for OU weekend. Last year was a complete fuck show with the game at 2:30. I am driving up Saturday morning this year instead of Friday. Goal is to get into the fair and go straight to the game instead of spending a few hours drinking at the fair before. Not only because of price, but because of the hordes of humanity. 

Idk where you’ve been but I’ve been for the last 11 years in a row and 14 total and it’s never not been a shit show of people of game day. If you wanna talk about a shit show, how about when they wouldn’t sell alcohol inside, and handed out little red tickets on your way out of the stadium at halftime so that you could re-enter the game. That was a goddamned shit show.

2 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Idk where you’ve been but I’ve been for the last 11 years in a row and 14 total and it’s never not been a shit show of people of game day. If you wanna talk about a shit show, how about when they wouldn’t sell alcohol inside, and handed out little red tickets on your way out of the stadium at halftime so that you could re-enter the game. That was a goddamned shit show.

It was always a shit show around game time, but if you got there 8-9am it was relatively chill and you could grab some beers and walk around. Game at 2:30 means the hordes show up around 11 and the next 3 hours are awful. 

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6 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Idk where you’ve been but I’ve been for the last 11 years in a row and 14 total and it’s never not been a shit show of people of game day. If you wanna talk about a shit show, how about when they wouldn’t sell alcohol inside, and handed out little red tickets on your way out of the stadium at halftime so that you could re-enter the game. That was a goddamned shit show.

Yea that was insane

It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. We used to go down for the game every year and usually make another trip or two before it closed. Add in some kids who want to do rides and it's insane how much you'd spend in one night. Now I drink wax cup beers, eat a corny dog or two and that's basically it. The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

When they bumped up the price of tickets, didn’t they make a big deal out of how prices would then be cut in half? I’m one of those “only goes on Texas OU and spends the vast majority of the time sipping on the cheap beer and people watching” variety. I don’t think I spend any more money than I used to but that’s on just a few beers, a corn dog, and a pirate ride.

20 tickets ($20) for two strawberry lemonades is crazy work. Especially when you can see the Sam's sized cannister of Country Time and Domino granular sugar bag in plain sight.

3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

I wonder the same about baseball games, and well, shit, just about any form of live entertainment these days.

We spent around $600 for 2 adults and 2 teens, and I said I am not doing this shit again.

Plus now we're divorced, and she's in a relationship with her divorce attorney.  So that has somewhat affected the dynamic.

3 minutes ago, SameSame said:

We spent around $600 for 2 adults and 2 teens, and I said I am not doing this shit again.

Plus now we're divorced, and she's in a relationship with her divorce attorney.  So that has somewhat affected the dynamic.

Well, yeah....now THAT fuckstick can pick up the tab for your kids at the State Fair.

On 10/13/2024 at 2:32 PM, immamac said:

My mom harny been to the state fair in 30+ years. She was stoker and it was her first TX ou game.

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I had to re-evaluate one year after getting smash hammered and walking out of there with 3 Super Mops and a whole new cookware set.

4 hours ago, Mittens said:

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I don't trust a word that social media freak/alleged home wrecker has to say. He'll do anything for attention. 

Having said that, I was there this weekend and noticed it was a bit light. I think the complaints about high prices are just that: complaints rather than objections. Last year the fair had its highest attendance of all time and prices were steady as far as I could tell. We'll get a better picture of fair attendance during the shootout and final weekend of the fair as they're the busiest. 

9 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

I don't trust a word that social media freak/alleged home wrecker has to say. He'll do anything for attention. 

Having said that, I was there this weekend and noticed it was a bit light. I think the complaints about high prices are just that: complaints rather than objections. Last year the fair had its highest attendance of all time and prices were steady as far as I could tell. We'll get a better picture of fair attendance during the shootout and final weekend of the fair as they're the busiest. 

Looks like it peaked in 2022:

Here are the reported attendance numbers for the State Fair of Texas in recent years: 
 
  • 2024: Nearly 2.4 million
  • 2023: More than 2.3 million
  • 2022: Over 2.5 million
  • 2021: Over 2.2 million
  • 2017: 2.2 million

Being hot as shit through October can’t help much either. 

16 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Looks like it peaked in 2022:

Here are the reported attendance numbers for the State Fair of Texas in recent years: 
 
  • 2024: Nearly 2.4 million
  • 2023: More than 2.3 million
  • 2022: Over 2.5 million
  • 2021: Over 2.2 million
  • 2017: 2.2 million

WTF

Now I have to wonder why all these articles last year mentioned "record breaking attendance". 

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Biff the Quitter is one of the Walmart people, 2:30 was too difficult for him. 

On 9/23/2025 at 3:55 PM, Biff Tannen said:

Ah. Well I didn’t see the game last year. So that makes sense then. 

On 9/23/2025 at 4:53 PM, Biff Tannen said:

To be fair, it was due to alcohol. Have to adjust to the 2:30 games now. I was in Dallas, made it into the fair and the stadium, but didn’t make it through the first quarter. 

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6 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

WTF

Now I have to wonder why all these articles last year mentioned "record breaking attendance". 

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I think they use that pretty loosely and if the had a record day or weekend they run with attendance

1 hour ago, SameSame said:

We spent around $600 for 2 adults and 2 teens, and I said I am not doing this shit again.

Plus now we're divorced, and she's in a relationship with her divorce attorney.  So that has somewhat affected the dynamic.

I find that hard to believe. Attorneys are such kind and honest people.

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1 hour ago, SameSame said:

We spent around $600 for 2 adults and 2 teens, and I said I am not doing this shit again.

Plus now we're divorced, and she's in a relationship with her divorce attorney.  So that has somewhat affected the dynamic.

What’s his username?

3 hours ago, DigDug said:

I had to re-evaluate one year after getting smash hammered and walking out of there with 3 Super Mops and a whole new cookware set.

Promo girls must have had some nice tits.

8 hours ago, Mittens said:

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$17 for a milkshake? They don’t put  bourbon in it or nothin?

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Promo girls must have had some nice tits.

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