Behind the Scenes: A Different Kind of National Championship Game

This post will primarily feature a photo gallery, but is about the general scene at Hard Rock Stadium and what it took to hold the National Championship Game between Alabama and Ohio State.

For a title game the scene is surreal and bizarre. No tailgating, an half-empty parking lot. Silence. No music.

It will be regularly updated throughout Monday night:

I stepped outside to try and get video of Alabama's team arrival. We were basically told we can't go anywhere so through bad luck I ended up on the wrong side.

The concourses are closed off to the locker rooms and we're very limited to what we can do.

Ohio State's motorcade, which was huge, came in on the side I was on, while Alabama pulled in from the other side.

The whole key to that was where the busses came in off the interstate, so don't read anything into that.

I did see a drone, through, as part of the security, and I think it was taking photos of me while I was doing the same at it. I won't bore you all with the video.

I've add photo of where I'm working tonight, and you'll notice that there's a can of water. That's totally new to me, and I've been joking in the press box that nothing says national championship like canned water.

Regardless of the outcome, we won't be on the field after the game, but we're already staking out some places to get celebration video should Alabama win.

It's going to be an interesting night.