Jackson Jambalaya

Nice try on the Press Release but they didn't really "choose" Pearl.. no rooms left in Jackson as they preferred Westin/Hilton, they sent a Request to Visit Jackson who helped them find blocks of rooms elsewhere

Isn’t it ironic that they come to the Capitol city, and don’t get rooms in the Capitol city. I can assure you they have made arrangements for bottled water. Maybe they can equip their vehicles with “tracks” like military vehicles use to travel on impassable roads. Enjoy it while you can Jackson, after this, it will be a long time until the next visit. On a positive note, this would never have happened without the leadership Coach Prime has exhibited.

Plenty of fine establishments along I-55 frontage they could have stayed.

Wonder why they aren't spending the night in Jackson-

Gotta love it: "Gameday" coming for Jackson State but staying in Pearl. I guess the rest of us can go back to using our water, right?...

OK, City of Jackson. This is great publicity for JSU, the city, and the state. Let's try real hard not to screw it up. Gameday dropping anchor in Pearl instead of closer to the stadium, is a good first step.

When you have toddlers in charge of water, sewer, garbage, crime, etc., this is what happens even when something good happens. Do something about it people of Jackson.

Simple explanation, 12:21, etc. - no large block of room availability and not enough space to maneuver rigs. This game packed a crowd before GameDay even thought of coming...

And like that, suddenly 100,000 white suburbanites have been JSU fans the entire time!

I went to hotel.com and found many available rooms in the city of Jackson for Friday and Saturday nights.

Kingfish, go ahead and call around about booking a block of rooms for a hundred people through Sunday to see availability in Jackson. You’ll need it to counter the mayor’s inevitable lies about how all the hotels were already booked or they would’ve stayed in Jackson, and not for the real reason(s), mainly the requirement of not being a third world shit hole (water pressure and clean water).

/signed recall toddler emperor

Listen up Jackson Haters,

There is a huge shortage of hotel space right now as nearly 1 million visitors are in town to see JSU shine and Coach Prime (aka Neon Deion) glow!

You ingrates wouldn’t even have this event without Jackson! Nobody ever comes to town to see Millsaps or Belhaven so… Suck on that!

1:39 pm
1 million people?
Lol

1 million visitors in town?!?! What kind of dope have you been smoking, @1:39??

@1:39pm - 1 millions visitors to a city of 150k. I want some of what you’re smoking.

@1:39pm - I don’t think there are really that many “Jackson” haters, just “moron mayor and his administration” haters, and rightfully so.

1:39, I'm no Jackson hater and wish both the City and JSU the best. But your claim of there being 1 MILLION visitors in town for the game is ridiculous. There is no room in the entire Metro area for 1 MILLION visitors and certainly not in Veterans Memorial stadium, which holds around 50,000. I understand your frustration with the Jackson haters on here, but don't let your frustration cause you to make stupid comments.
Good luck to JSU this weekend !!!

There is a huge shortage of hotel space right now as nearly 1 million visitors are in town to see JSU shine and Coach Prime (aka Neon Deion) glow!

One million? ROFLMAO You are out of your mind.

If Prime can draw them, so be it.

The judge shut down all of the good hotels along I-55.

Happy for JSU and Jackson!

Somebody earlier posted that we should build Coach Prime a new stadium. You better hurry up, with the kind of job he has performed, some school with “unlimited patron funds” will scoop him up very soon. He certainly has been a breath of fresh air for Jackson, and Jackson State.

They did choose Pearl. There are plenty Hilton hotel rooms available in Jackson for the weekend. Plenty.
And they aren't even staying at Hilton hotel in Pearl. They are staying at Courtyard Marriott.
Good try.

y'all fell for that one?

Can't these "1,000,000" visitors we house in the 500+ abandoned homes around town?

Will Mayor Chowke be making a speech at half-time about how the state won't fund his water system?

@KF
They always fall for my masterful artistry. I’m the true King around here!

Any lack of hotel rooms isn't a result of occupancy. It's a result of SO many of the existing Jackson hotels closing!

Just think about the number of decent hotels Jackson had 20 years ago. Now, think about how many of them are still open. Shocking, isn't it? Can't imagine what caused that to happen......

I am currently in downtown Jackson as I type and I can assure you there are not 1 million people within the city limits. Average day.

If a million are coming, be sure to have those preachers pass the plate. Should be able to get a new water plant out of it!

So is Tate Reeves going to be celebrity picker or Chockwe? Maybe they could go on togther?

If Chokey (Tater) fixes it, they will come.

@Kingfish - Of course, there's a bunch of boomers on here that couldn't spot a troll if it hit them in the face.

Pearl and the Riverwind area is the only place that could accommodate all of the buses and rigs.

NICE!! 2022, when the economy is crashing, we can’t afford food or gas, and inflation is robbing us and our childrens childrens children of their wealth and future

We should definitely give 1/5th of a fuck about sportsball!

Go team!

Tater will be the coin flipper and Chowke will be the bird flipper.

Dude is right nobody comes to see Belhaven or Millsaps. Why would they they are division 3 football. As an alumnus of Belhaven we have a pretty awesome coach and really good football team who could make the D3 playoffs this year. Probably won't get covered but it should. Plus our homecoming was last weekend. I am sure all of the out of town guests stayed in Pearl also.

Only the ESPN staff that assembles and breaks down the stage will spend the night in Pearl.

Rest assured, Desmond Howard, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and the rest will be long
gone from Jackson, Mississippi within 45 minutes of the conclusion of Game Day.

BTW, I'm still hoping Stokes will be the celebrity picker.

1:10 is mad that people are now fans of JSU?
No doubt the same that laments the Jackson haters.
You really seek misery, don’t you?

Yes, please put Stokes on national television.

In 1984 I, and several of my friends, attended the Alcorn - MVSU "game of the century" in Memorial Stadium. Obviously there were many more Black people in attendance than Whites, however EVERYONE was there to enjoy the game - and what a game it was - without any regard to the color of the people sitting near or around them. There was communal sharing of "liquid courage" and all had a jolly good time. Admittedly, Jackson was a different place in 1984 than it is today, but let's hope and pray that all in attendance can enjoy this game as we did in 1984, and hope that ESPN can keep politics out of Game Day. This is supposed to be a fun time - please Jackson, do not fuck this up.

Chowke has no doubt been begging the ESPN producers to be interviewed and asked about the water, and it will happen.

A national audience is gold for that charlatan.

You read it here first.

No one goes to Ole Miss or Jackson State for an education, either.

Are you telling me that 18 wheelers can't turn around in that massive parking area surrounding the coliseum...when a state fair just left here? And there's hotels next door and across High Str.....wait....a jurdge done closed down that one. But there's hotels and motels on 80...wait...But there's accommodations by the hour on West Northside Drive and along the frontage on Shoot-Em-Up 55.

Yaw stop wid the complains.

Well said 5:28. This is a wonderful moment for JSU, Jackson, and the state of Mississippi. It would be great if all the people of Mississippi could join the effort and present the best face forward that Mississippi has to offer during this weekend to a national audience.

We can go back to arguing/debating about how to fix Jackson's problems and local/state/national politics next week.

Wonderful for JSU, City of Jackson & entire metro area! I hope all that attend and our out of town/state visitors enjoy themselves- eat lots of great food offered by restaurants & spend lots of money😂😂👍👍!!

Hey 1:10- “ And like that, suddenly 100,000 white suburbanites have been JSU fans the entire time!” If you are going to play the race card - learn to do it better. I sold drinks at memorial stadium in the 80’s. There were lots of fans of all skin tones and backgrounds. JSU fans were my favorite crowd. The band was so good no one left there seats at half time which meant more sales for me. I think the will the satellite totten/ Jerry the world rice vs the gunslinger is the second largest crowd in state history after the Billy Graham revival which had people fill the field. Be a better informed bigot.

JSU will not be honoring any 3rd party sales of tickets. And still no reserved seating.

Old capital was
There original plan but they were booked

Isn’t it ironic that spectrum in pearl where the baseball stadium and these hotels are is owned by a guy and girl that live in the city of Jackson and they own a business on Jackson street in ridgeland. Who really cares about where they’re staying. Plenty of money in the city of Jackson and outside the city both have nice areas to offer. Never lived in a place like this burbs vs city.

There was the sounds of gunfire all night in Jackson, including several bursts of automatic gunfire near the Stadium. It’s best that they stayed in Pearl.

@8:10, you’re 100% correct. You know what they say about divided houses, right?

Part of the problem are blogs like this one that make money off of cheap clickbait that riles that city v. suburbs shit up. Thanks for being part of the problem, Kingfish.

Friday morning. Just went to Hotels.com and found all sorts of rooms available for Saturday night or a combination of Friday and Saturday night. And it includes Hilton Garden Inn in Jackson and many others like Red Roof Inn by the Fairgrounds. So a lot of folks posting on this site are full of crap about all the visitors and about why the Game Day crew is staying well out of the crime, violence and shit of Jackson.

Let's see if the city tries to cover up all of the inevitable crimes that will take place because of the game. Go JSU!

Who gives a damn where they stay!? Its money and positive attention going to the metro area!?

Only the people here do not want to host major events!?

While there is a shitload of other locales that would kill for this kind of attention, to attract tourist dollars.

Mississippi residents are their own worse enemies.

I hope Jerry Rice shows up and Toten also. Jerry bring your dancing shoes. If you can’t say something nice today; Don’t say anything at all, as our mama’s told us. Please call 911 if you see or hear something & let LEO’s do their jobs! Go JSU! We have your back!

Moron at 7:28, you need a block of rooms, not a couple of rooms here or there.

If you’re gonna be mean, you might as well be smart while you’re at it. You can’t be stupid and mean at the same time. You have to pick one.

Thank goodness we changed the flag!

bitch u never posted about JSU in her life, u man-looking ass bitch u

Is that a Harvard education on display at 7:39?

all of the negative comments on this thread are by the eternal
sophomores , beautiful people of the SEC.
They are about to piss in their calvin klien underwear because gameday has come to jackson rather than their little utopias of starkeville and oxford.
its called jealousy and there is a lot of it out there.

all of the negative comments on this thread are by the eternal
sophomores , beautiful people of the SEC.
They are about to piss in their calvin klien underwear because gameday has come to jackson rather than their little utopias of starkeville and oxford.
its called jealousy and there is a lot of it out there.

There sure are a lot of haters on this blog. However, a wonderful time was had by all who attended. Thank you, Coach Prime, ESPN, and my man Stephen A. Smith.

Southern team staff had the Westin booked first you dumb idiots.