As is the tradition now, college football opens on the Thursday before Labor Day Weekend. It started as a television showcase for a few teams several years back and has evolved into a bit of an unexplained phenomenon. By my count, 13 games were played last night despite not getting national television coverage. Somehow, Middle Tennessee State once again convinced a major team (Minnesota) to travel to Murfreesboro, but they couldn’t even get the stadium more than about half full. Either way, some fans still made it out to the array of college games and tailgated on a school night and we salute them.
I actually need to return this. I was trying to get an extra large chair.
For the first game in the school's history, Georgia State had a very impressive turnout of tailgaters
If Dr. Peter Venkman went to Iowa State, this would be his tailgating car.
I admire the hustle by these Ohio State fans, but setting up a TV for a Thursday game seems like overkill. Just talk about football. There's no real need to catch the 6pm Sportscenter
I’m gonna go ahead and tell you that this post isn’t especially safe for work. But, alas, these are Oregon State fans tailgating with some colorful shirts.
eff the ducks
No! My Team is #1
Real Men Lick Beaver, They Don't Suck Duck
Not Now Chief, I'm in the Fucking Zone
If you didn’t catch the last reference. It’s from a Youtube video in 2007 that was on the front end on the New Jersey Guido craze.
We’re a little behind on seeing this story, but apparently the scarcity of gameday parking in Athens is raising tempers before the season even starts. With the ban of real tailgating on North Campus, fans are left to look for new areas to set up their tents, grills, and tvs. One option would seemingly be for fraternity alumni to park at their old house. The Alpha Epsilon Pi House sits relatively close to Sanford Stadium on River Rd. To deal with the new demand for parking the current brothers sent an announcement out to alumni notifying them that the house “will be charging $20 for individual games and $105.00 for the entire season parking pass. It will be first come first serve by who gets their money back to me first”. A certain alum took issue with this.
Would you explain what gives you the right to charge the alumni money to park at the frat house that was ours before it was yours? Are you trying to blatantly fuck us over? Or do you sincerely think we are stupid enough say, “Hey! That’s a swell deal you got there!”
And really that was probably the tamest part of the letter. So you have the outraged Alum who drops some disturbing references vs. the ungrateful current brothers who also leaked the story to Deadspin (you should read the whole thing). You could probably throw blame either way, but I think we all realize that Michael Adams is the real enemy.
Unlike your average BCS school, Duke doesn’t really care about football. They have a team, and they tailgate, but apparently the two don’t really intertwine. As a result of no one attending the game, they aren’t bound by normal codes of conduct such as wearing sundresses or shirts with the team name or logo on them. They of course, just wear costumes. You can read about it more in depth from their campus paper or you can just take a gander at the photos below.
