If you’ve been around long enough you’ve seen someone break a chair. Tailgating chairs aren’t exactly built for their durability. They are made to be easy to carry and only slightly uncomfortable. If you or someone you know has avoided tailgating chairs because of weight issues, fear no more. The King Kong chair by Alps Mountaineering should alleviate those issues. This heavy duty chair says screw it to being cheap and breakable. Featuring “sturdy powder coated steel frame with 600D polyester fabric” the King Kong chair claims to support up to 800 pounds of weight. So I’m guessing that if you weight around 400 lbs you should be ok. At around $57 this is not a chair you want to lose or have stolen. Check the specs here and you can buy here.
There are two vastly different types of tailgating. Tailgating with a car and without. Due to parking or airplane travel you are sometimes left with just the bare necessities (beer and tickets) and your car nowhere in sight. It seems like the new Scorpion by Etón could be a huge help when you have to scale things down. This handheld device is powered by either it’s solar panels or the integrated hand crank. The digital tuning AM/FM radio, NOAA Weather Band, Flashlight, audio input to use as ipod speaker, bottle opener, and cell phone charger are all features that can be helpful tailgating before the game. And being able to pick up the radio broadcast or recharge your phone inside the game would also be clutch. The Scorpion should cost around $50. A little bulky for the average pocket at 5.25” x 2.5” x 1.75 but this nifty product comes with a carabiner clip and only weighs 8.5 oz.
Let’s say you needed a semi-disposable grill. Much like the $80 tailgating canopy, you might be looking for a tailgating grill in the same price range that you halfway expect to get broken or stolen. So you go to Home Depot and drop $100 on the Brinkman – 2 Burner Gas Grill. And after a couple of uses you realize that the two stock wheels aren’t getting the job done. And where the hell are you supposed to put your beer and cigar when you’ve got plates and tools sitting on the small built-in tables? Well the answer is to pimp your grill like ELYK Innovations. They added two more wheels and a beer and cigar holder that doubles as another place to hang tools. Check their site for details. Before and After:
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In theory the Portopong table makes sense. It’s easy to transport and could open the game up for playing in a pool. But personally I have a problem with any beer pong table that has fitted cup holders. It simply makes the game too easy. Heavy cups or slotted positions make the sides of the playing cups too rigid and thus simple to make a shot. So I’m giving it a no dice for tailgating purposes. If you were playing in a pool or lake this advantage would cancel out the movement of the table due to waves. Though we haven’t personally tried out this product we’re mentioning them here because if you purchase one of their pink tables they will donate $5 to the Keep A Breast Foundation. The tables are $50.
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We’ve talked about disposable flasks before, and I think they are a great way to sneak alcohol into games. They can be concealed better than most flasks and they will easily pass through a metal detector. But what am I to make of the fact that Restoration Hardware now sells their own line of sneak-it-in disposable flasks? They cost twice as much as the original, but is that really a concern when your already dropping $260 for a model car or $60 for fake Chuck Taylor low tops. I guess we should expect Home Depot to start selling pre-made beer funnels and iTunes to start listing Power Hour mixes.
(HT: uncrate)
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