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Tailgating DOs and DONT’s

by nixforsix on August 26, 2010

in links,rules of tailgating,tailgating guide

Staying on the topic of our 10 Time Tested Tailgating Tips, Kegs ‘n Eggs has a list of Tailgating DO’s and DON’Ts. A sample:

DO: Bring a football. If you didn’t know that, “DO” punch yourself in the groin.

DON’T: Making food “the” priority versus a good stomach base is a classic mistake. 1) Don’t buy some vintage/expensive meat that you make at family gatherings. And 2) Eating too much can take out a good chunk of the day due to heartburn.

DO: Dress Code Ethics: I am open when it comes to apparel. Old school helmets, obscene outfits, etc – but make sure you’re built to sustain the weather. Too much clothing can be deadly early on in the football season so be wary.

DON’T: Please God don’t go shirtless. We get it, you have a 6-pack. Now, kindly go fail miserably hitting on freshmen talent and fade away into the tailgating oblivion. There’s no room for this kind of DON’T.

DO: Know your fight songs, people. Holding up one arm and mumbling might seem like your fitting in, but I’ll target you from a mile away.

DON’T: Puking isn’t a topic people like, but we’re not afraid. There’s nothing wrong with sneaking off somewhere and taking care of business if you have to. If you do take this route, DON’T act like you’re God afterwards and don’t go into lame mode.

DO: On that note, gum is a always a good idea.

(HT: tailgatingideas.com)

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10 Time-Tested Tailgating Tips

by nixforsix on August 24, 2010

in drinking,tailgating guide

1. How Much Beer to Bring

Try to figure out the most beer you could possibly drink. Then add six. You never know who you’re going to run into over the course of a day. And those people are usually walking between tailgates and don’t have coolers with them. So make sure that you have extras to hand out.

2. Remember to Bring Your Tickets

Come up with a system so that you never leave your tickets at home. I personally leave my season tickets in the car that we always use for tailgating. I put them in an envelope and then lock them in the glove compartment.

3. Be Prepared for Actual Football

Make sure you have a roster, a schedule of televised games, and smart phone apps to keep up with scores.

4. Keep Your Keg Cold

We don’t all have keg koozies or an extra trash can. So a cheap and easy solution is to take a large trash bag and put it around your keg. This will hold the ice and water in place for several hours.

5. Protect Your Tailgating Gear

In some situations, it’s too hard to get all of your tailgating gear back to a car before the start of the game. Drag all of your coolers and tables to the center of your tent. Use bicycle locks to lock everything together. Lower your tent so that it’s only 2-3 feet above the ground and use a lock to connect your gear to one of tent’s top braces. Log lock combinations in your phone or get multiple keys so that each person in your party has access if they get back from the game first.

6. Permanent Tailgating Supplies Box

Get a plastic tub that is dedicated to tailgating supplies. You can never have enough paper towels, trash bags, plastic silverware, plates, cups, and headache medicine. Also make sure to keep a good knife in the box for carving meat.

7. Bring a Tool Box

You can leave it in your car but you need to have access to a tool box. I’ve needed tools to fix satellite tripods, broken tents, hammer in stakes, and a variety of minor emergencies.

8. Warm Weather Tailgating

Though it’s great to have games again, a 90° September Saturday can become grueling. Bring extra clothes so you can shed sweaty shirts throughout the day. Make sure you have sunglasses and sunscreen. In addition to beer, bring more water or sports drinks than you could imagine drinking. You can also plug a small fan into a generator to help cool off and keep bugs away.

9. Rainy Weather Conditions

Bring ziplock bags to place phones, ipods, and wallets in. Grocery bags for wet clothes, purses, and other smaller gear. If you have two tents, it’s common for water to drip in between them. Bring a tarp to bridge the gap over the two roofs. Bring extra clothes for the ride home.

10. Cold Weather Tailgating

Make sure you bring several layers, gloves, a hat, and blankets. Use a grill as a fire or plug a heater into a generator. Keep hot drinks in a thermos or heat up some cider on a grill and mix it with bourbon.

Please leave any tailgating tips you have in the comments.

Tagged as: beer, keg, weather

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Check out Team Rosters on Your Phone

by nixforsix on August 19, 2010

in College Football,tailgating guide

We’ve added a new page that has Numerical & Alphabetical Rosters for every team in the SEC. I went through each school’s media guide and trimmed it down to just the roster. They are in the .pdf format and can either be downloaded and printed, or loaded on your phone for when you’re tailgating or inside the stadium. The link for the rosters will stay in the right hand column of every page on the site. If this is something people like, we’ll do it for the other conferences as well.

Tagged as: alabama, arkansas, Auburn, florida, georgia, kentucky, lsu, mississippi state, ole miss, south carolina, tennessee, vanderbilt

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Create a Tailgating Map of Your Campus

by nixforsix on August 17, 2010

in campus guides,tailgating guide

Bulldogs Barks & Bytes is a pretty active message board dedicated to Louisiana Tech Football. This Tailgating Areas thread features a lot of tips for tailgaing in Ruston. Why do you care? Because they used Community Walk to create an editable map of campus. Roughly 30 different posters have gone in and marked where they tailgate and have included photos of their setup and crew. This is a great resource for La Tech supporters, but it also gives visiting fans an idea of what parts of campus are open for tailgating. Of course, this idea works for any school and is a really useful way to keep up with all of your friend’s tailgating spots.

Tagged as: louisiana tech, tailgating technology

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Using FourSquare at Your Tailgate

by nixforsix on August 9, 2010

in tailgating guide

If you’re not familiar with FourSquare yet, it’s a social app that allows people to “check in” to locations like restaurants, bars, and other businesses. You can let people know where you checked in on Facebook, Twitter, or from the iPhone app itself. Whoever visits a location the most has the opportunity to become the “mayor” of that location and gains bragging rights and possibly special offers from the business.

To me this is all lame. I don’t need to know that you stopped by Starbucks on your way to work. But can it make your tailgating easier? Using this guide you can add your tailgating spot to FourSquare in just a couple of minutes. The benefit is that each person can check in to the tailgate as they arrive. So someone still on the road can log in and see who is already there. Or you can see where your friends are tailgating around campus. You can always just text or call someone to figure out where the hell they are, but FourSquare allows you to see where a lot of people are quickly. Just something to think about.

Tagged as: iphone, tailgating technology

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