I haven’t found the shirt pictured below for sale on the internet. However, you can get what I believe is a more accurately spelled Ted Bundy was a Husky Shirt from Fighting Duck Tees. If you’re not into referencing serial killers you could probably just go with the Pete Carroll likes fish sticks shirt.
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Woot is currently having a sale on Vortex Portable Mixers. These are basically an 18oz battery powered portable blender. For $14.99 you get two of them (the other two places I saw online sell one for $14.99). Seems like there would be a ton of uses for this tailgating. Either in the frozen drink realm or for mixing ingredients for on site cooking.
If you’re not familiar with Woot, they offer items on sale for only one day or until they sell out. After the day is up, you can’t get them from their site anymore. They also don’t take returns. It’s a quick transaction but they usually offer pretty big discounts. I’ve bought a few items and never had a problem.
For more information on the mixers themselves check out the Vortex site.
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At this point CollegeWeekends.com is a better concept than a service. The idea is that you can rent apartments or houses near college campuses for a single game weekend. Often times it would be cheaper than hotel rooms for bigger groups and usually more roomy. They have the service set up for 17 different schools but not a ton of listings yet. The first school to be listed was the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It seems like this rental setup will thrive at schools in small towns where there might only be a limited number of hotels within miles of campus. You can check out their FAQ for the particulars.
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I’m sure the average tailgatress struggles with picking out 6-8 different outfits to wear during fall Saturdays. And female fans of certain schools with awful colors have it worse than others (I’m looking at you Oregon). Beyond the properly worn jersey, girls are pretty much left with the task of finding a sundress featuring school colors or mixing and matching from JCrew. Having faced this task, LSU Grads Amy Chenevert and Gretchen Gilich started Tru Colors Apparel. Their line of tailgating dresses and tops pretty much covers every SEC school. They also have retailers located in the college football hotbeds of the South.
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“9 a.m. — Show up for tailgate. It’s a late game today, which means I can actually get a good night of sleep. On the walk to Melrose Court, several girls are seen walking home in bar clothes, less shoes. My friends and I aptly nickname them “the shame train.” Also seen: a man sitting in the grass smoking a cigarette, using two cases of Coors Light as arm rests.
10 a.m. — Two girls stand on a tree swing making out. Cheering ensues. I doubt the suffragists would be proud.
10:30 a.m. — A neighbor, notorious for taking pictures of public urination on her dividing fence and sending them to the cops, walks to the stereo system and turns off the music. Booing ensues. Girls make out again. More cheering.”
and from the decidedly less intense Richmond Game:
“Then, from my ultimate stalker window, I saw students rolling grills down the sidewalk. Ah yes, the first home football game. Bingo. Something foreign to too many students: not tailgating, but going to the game, going to the ENTIRE game.
It wasn’t easy. After one pinky swear with my companion and one promise of her favorite Chipotle burrito to stay the whole game, one quarter later I was already looking for an alternate ride home. As the buzz from the tailgate wore off, so did my friends’ enthusiasm.
But credit to them and the rest of the student section for watching a half at all. The question I’d posted to most people I’d talked to at the tailgate – “So, going to the game?” – had returned the typical reply. Albeit some variation: a laugh, a sneer, raised or knit eyebrows, I received the same core response, “Ah, I don’t think so.”
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