Most interesting place you've run into a Penn State, or BigTen fan.

[STPGopherfan]

Where is the most interesting place you've run into either a Penn State fan or fan of another BigTen Institution?

For me, It was on a Volcano In Guatemala not to far from Lake Atitlan. I didn't have any Gopher gear on, but the Penn State fan did. Nice guy. Nice, brief conversation.

It was just a kind of small world thing.

Discuss.

 

[paulrandythomas]

Turkish prison

 

[PSU Mike]

Turkish prison

I guess that answers the question I was going to ask.

But do you like movies about gladiators?

 

[LionsandBear]

Bus Stop in Mexico. It was only my wife and I waiting there when another couple came up all decked out in PSU gear. Turns out they were from Harrisburg. Small world sometimes.

 

[MacNit07]

Where is the most interesting place you've run into either a Penn State fan or fan of another BigTen Institution?

For me, It was on a Volcano In Guatemala not to far from Lake Atitlan. I didn't have any Gopher gear on, but the Penn State fan did. Nice guy. Nice, brief conversation.

It was just a kind of small world thing.

Discuss.

Liverpool, UK - Main Train Station. On my way to Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.

 

[psuro]

Turkish prison

Was that you?

 

[BW Lion]

Does the "Garden of Eden" count?

 

[BW Lion]

Turkish prison

Do you like Taffy?

 

[STPGopherfan]

Does the "Garden of Eden" count?

Sure. You must be my age...

 

[We Are . . .]

At a conference in West-by-God-Virginia, I was on the agenda to give a talk and before it began a large individual sat next to me. We nodded politely to each other and when it was my turn at the podium, the moderator introduced me as a PSU grad, class of 72. When I went back to my seat, the big dude said he was also PSU '72. For the first time I looked at his name tag: Craig Lyle. For you kids on the board he was an offensive tackle on the '71 team who blocked for Lydell and Franco. I forget who the other tackle was (cough, cough, Fester) . We had a nice chat during the break. What we talked about is personal but it prompted me to make a life-changing decision about a surgical procedure that I had been putting off. That brief, one-time meeting was a blessing. Craig was a great guy and I shed a tear or two when I learned that he passed away a few years later. RIP, Craig Lyle, PSU '72.

 

[PearlandLion]

Berchtesgaden, Germany. Walking a trail to the Konigsee and spotted a PSU hat. They were from Carlisle and were thrilled to hear a “We Are” In English.

 

[slykens]

But do you like movies about gladiators?

I do, but that's not important right now!

 

[phillybillyreprise]

Great story! What a lasting memory!

In Spring 2002, my wife and I were in line to see the Neuschwanstein Castle above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany (The Real Cinderella Castle).

I was wearing my Penn State cap. The three visitors in front of us introduced themselves as Nittany Lion fans from Central Pennsylvania. We are from Philadelphia. The first game that Fall, they were in front of us in line as we entered Beaver Stadium.

 

[ILLINOISLION]

About 15 years ago a member of my golf club invited me to another club he belonged to, the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, IL.

He also invited two other friends of his to join us. One (and I forget his name) was the actual Nittany Lion mascot from back in the John Cappelletti era! We talked nonstop all day long!

 

[Grass]

Lake Ashi in Hakone, Japan and a rain forest in Puerto Rico. Both times Penn State fans.

 

[YogiMan71]

Cliffs of Moher

 

[PSUSignore]

Chennai, India.

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Hiking Savage River Alpine trail in Denali National park.
Walking across Matanuska Glacier (2 hrs outside Anchorage)
Top of the Parthenon in Athens.

All three times it was someone behind my back yelling We Are who I hadn't previously noticed. Folks on the glacier were from Lititz and it turned out we had some common acquaintances. Small world, but would have never happened had I not been wearing my PSU t-shirts.

 

[Ward Hog]

Red Square Moscow. They were from Erie. Had a beer in an outside cafe on a beautiful summer's night at about midnight. It was still light out.

 

[Ward Hog]

I have a better one. I was at Disney Orlando waiting in line when family in front of me says We Are. Get to talking and they now live in town where I grew up. Then we realize that they bought my parents house and were living in the house I grew up in. That was weird.

 

[Picnits]

My daughter and her college roommates (all PSU grads) went on a vodka tasting tour on the Neva River in Russia. After a few "tastes" one of them chanted "we are" and were answered with "Penn State" from the front of the boat. Later, they, and their new-found PSU friends, started the "Joepa...Terno " chant and the tour guides became very perturbed - apparently sounded like something else in Russian!

 

[Okauchee]

Does the "Garden of Eden" count?

Must have been sporting a Nittany Lion tattoo…

 

[PearlSUJam]

And y'all think they don't read the AKB?

 

[psuro]

I have a better one. I was at Disney Orlando waiting in line when family in front of me says We Are. Get to talking and they now live in town where I grew up. Then we realize that they bought my parents house and were living in the house I grew up in. That was weird.

Hope you remembered to get the porn mags out of the house before they bought it - unlike me who forgot.

 

[psuro]

Walking along the water's edge in Lowell, AK. They were from Philly area (Western 'burbs).

 

[troutrus]

On a trout stream in Patagonia.

 

[Midnighter2]

Haneda Airport, Tokyo.

 

[ouirpsu]

From the bedroom this morning. I kid you not.

Wife graduated year after me

 

[Parf]

A few years ago had s brief street encounter with the Prime Minister of Bhutan in Thimpu. He came over to me because I had a Penn State hat on. He is an alum. Nittany Lion to the core. Dont know if he still is PM. Great guy.

 

[horace19040]

Turkish prison

Founder of Silk Road?

 

[rudedude]

Where is the most interesting place you've run into either a Penn State fan or fan of another BigTen Institution?

For me, It was on a Volcano In Guatemala not to far from Lake Atitlan. I didn't have any Gopher gear on, but the Penn State fan did. Nice guy. Nice, brief conversation.

It was just a kind of small world thing.

Discuss.

Were any virgins tossed into the volcano? Just asking for a friend.

 

[BornALion]

Sevilla, Spain
Costa Rica
Nicaragua - actual citizen. Our tour guide was wearing a Penn St hate and said his daughter moved to the US and went there

 

[The Spin Meister]

And y'all think they don't read the AKB?

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Where are they gonna get ideas for tweets after Oct 31?

 

[MtNittany]

When you say "run into a B1G fan" do you mean w/ a car? Or just meeting up w/ them?

 

[sluggo72]

Sitting in the Grand Cayman airport, I ran into Troy Drayton. He was putting on a football clinic as part of the Miami Dolphins. Had a 5 minute chat and moved on

 

[bdgan]

Where are they gonna get ideas for tweets after Oct 31?

I'm more concerned about where to find RO's sig pics and who's the hottest polls.

 

[bdgan]

I went on a European cruise sponsored by the alumni association. All kinds of PSU & BiG people there.

 

[Richmond_Nittany]

Where is the most interesting place you've run into either a Penn State fan or fan of another BigTen Institution?

For me, It was on a Volcano In Guatemala not to far from Lake Atitlan. I didn't have any Gopher gear on, but the Penn State fan did. Nice guy. Nice, brief conversation.

It was just a kind of small world thing.

Discuss.

Mykonos, Greece

 

[wex18]

Around 2007, I stayed in a rainforest near the Rio Napo in Ecuador. All the guides there were local except for one -- a Penn State graduate who left the U.S. Forest Service, took a crash course in Spanish, and became a nature guide. We hiked into a village and were greeted by locals who greeted us by passing around a bowl of chicha (kind of a corn beer). The guide and I both agreed that the drink should be packaged in pony bottles and sold at The Skeller.

 

[fastlax16]

My first vacation with my now wife was at an all inclusive in the Caribbean. I think it was the second day of the trip that a woman walking by us at breakfast saw my hat and shouted “we are!” This was my wife’s first experience with it. The we are’s continued like 10x a day for a week and she was convinced we were a cult after that. She was on our shuttle to the airport and gave me a stack of BWI magazines for the flight home.