Longtime friends Shannon Thigpen and Lee Price couldn’t make it to California to cheer their Clemson Tigers in the national championship game.
So the two Charleston natives and Clemson grads did the next best thing. The two made the trek to the Upstate and had their purple and orange chairs planted a short distance from one of the two large screen TVs set up on College Avenue in downtown Clemson.
“This the best atmosphere in the state right now, I tell you,” said Price, a Clemson season ticket holder who lives now in Shelby, N.C. “Every 15 or 20 minutes, there are just waves of people.