ITT we discuss Tailgating for the upcoming football season.
Where will your crew be? How big do you tailgate?

What new things have you purchased or what are you planning to buy for this year?

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TX / Trinity lots For LIFE

About 20 deep most games

this:
http://www.budgetgadgets.com/-p-4564.html
Electric Shock Bottle Opener


WARNING:
Use at your own risk. Not recommended for children under 14 years old, adults over 50 years old, or persons with any medical conditions.

8/25/2009 4:36:32 PM

BIG

TAILGATE

FAN

8/25/2009 4:43:21 PM

when I got home I took pics to post in this thread,

I keep all my stuff sitting by the front door so I can get pumped up on the way out the door to work every morning.

Tailgate Chest:


Fully packed up for game 1 with dishes, utensils, sauces, cookware, napkins, snacks, etc


Diamond plate NCSU logo I made for my tailgate chest with my vinyl cutter:


New Collapsible grill that rolls. Ideal for packing in the truck. Hopefully it can accommodate a drunk chicken.


98 can cooler to ring in the new football/hockey season:


And of course, the LCD for viewing other games(will probably refrain on 9/3 as I do not think Everybody Loves Raymond will get me sufficiently PUMPED)


Everything was fully packed up about 2 weeks ago, I can't stand this wait. Going out to purchase red and black bud light tonight.

And oh yeah, 10-day forecast now encompasses gameday... looking good

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxdetail/27606?dayNum=9

8/25/2009 6:31:13 PM

TX lot

we ball on a budget. food and beer are the big ticket items. grilling is a sport. we spend less $ on canopies, pig cookers, custom t-shirts, and other accessories and shit than a lot of other tailgates.

SC game we'll be 20+ easy, most games though it'll be closer to 12-15

got a flagpole and flags for this season, working on a new audio setup

8/25/2009 6:34:52 PM

LetsTAILGATE!!!

8/25/2009 6:55:37 PM

^^^Whats red and black bud light?

8/25/2009 8:06:46 PM

apparently bud light is coming out with cans for every school... where do you get these? i want some...

http://www.tailgateapproved.com/tg/#/fan-can-voting

[Edited on August 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM. Reason : link]

8/25/2009 8:13:25 PM

Cases of it are stacked as high as the ceiling (not quite, but there is a shitload of it) at the Food Dog on Avent Ferry. I'm pumped, steviewonder and I will be in the Staff lot.

8/25/2009 8:33:37 PM

VET LOT WHAT WHAT

8/25/2009 11:38:53 PM

Quote :

"I keep all my stuff sitting by the front door so I can get pumped up on the way out the door to work every morning."

8/25/2009 11:58:20 PM

whats with you and the smileys recently?

8/26/2009 12:02:19 AM

WHAT THE HELL'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN

8/26/2009 12:03:57 AM

I don't even know. the past 2 posts of yours I've seen have had smileys in them

SOMETHING IS UP HERE

8/26/2009 12:04:39 AM

I think I just got CALLED THE FUCK OUT

8/26/2009 12:05:20 AM

I'm not gonna lie, I fully expected a smiley of some sort in one of those posts

8/26/2009 12:06:12 AM

And guess the fuck what

You just ruined this post

This thread is starting to piss me off

Less smiley talk, more getting PUMPED AS FUCK

8/26/2009 12:07:42 AM

IN BEFORE SLAVE COMES IN HERE AND CALLS US BY OUR FIRST NAMES

back to the topic at hand...

I have never been a fan of the diamond logo, but holy fuck this is awesome:

8/26/2009 12:09:01 AM

The diamond logo is cool because it was my high school logo

Except there was an E instead of an N

Let's talk about tailgating

TGL3, I'm coming down for one of the 1-AA games, hopefully others. I expect to drink beer and yell loudly in a parking lot with you and your crew of flunkies. Hopefully this can happen and I won't stand you up like you have stood me up. Twice now.

8/26/2009 12:11:55 AM

I intend on going to every home game this season. I'll at least tailgate for every game, but I am pretty sure I have a ticket person this year for them free tickets

and I will supply you with as much beer and/or yelling as you need

you just need to bring the pain/funny

8/26/2009 12:21:01 AM

Steviewonder,

What do you use to power your lcd? And where does your signal come from?

8/26/2009 8:34:23 AM

Stadium North
Anywhere from 8 to 100+ deep
Finally breaking out the old tent this year and got a new grill.
And I believe my beer for this season may be PBR. I need something light to drink in mass, however, I hate bud light and the like.... PBR is drinkable though. I'd take other suggestions as well...

8/26/2009 8:44:43 AM

^^

23 bucks at wal mart


Unpowered Philips antenna from target: 9 bucks. I only use the loop and can get like 20 HD channels and a load of SD.

Remember to start your vehicle up periodically though, every hour or so I give her a crank

8/26/2009 8:49:53 AM

who wants to welcome me to their tailgate this year!?!?!? My tailgating groups have disbanned over the past couple seasons.

8/26/2009 8:53:57 AM

still six hours before kickoff?

8/26/2009 8:54:14 AM

I'm under the impression that it's 5 hours. I'll be pleased to find out that it is 6.

8/26/2009 8:56:26 AM

TX LOT!

Pretty stoked to tailgate for the first time in my new truck. Now I not only can fit 2 sets of cornhole boards, beer die table and chairs, ladder golf, cooler, canopy, fire-and-ice grill, camping chairs, food and whatnot, but also 4 more people!! SuperCrew F-150 FTtailgatingW!!

holy shitballs I'm excited and impatient.

btw, tailgating limit is still 5 hours per the 2009 Carter-Finley Fan Guide (page 9):
http://www.gopack.com//pdf5/631636.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=9200



[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 9:32 AM. Reason : 5 hour limit]

8/26/2009 9:23:38 AM

TX LOT BITCHES.

and here's a random indian

8/26/2009 9:46:29 AM

wdprice, try some keystone.

best tailgating drinking game (and any other time drinking game) ever: Beerball.

anyone play?

8/26/2009 9:54:23 AM

no

explain it

I usually just shotgun Coors Light

8/26/2009 10:00:32 AM

^^yes. i believe that is the game that my friends invented 2 years or so ago where you throw an object at a can and you have to finish as much beer as possible before the person retrieves teh ball.

there's a lot of effort involved.

i like to just drink.

8/26/2009 10:03:22 AM

Beer Ball
1. Cut the top off and punch a hole in a plastic bat.
2. Fill the bat with beer (bong-esque)
3. Chug the beer in the bat.
4. Do spinnies with the bat on the ground and your head on the bat, running around the bat as fast as you can trying to keeping bat on ground. (# of times is for parties disgression)
5. Pitcher throws the empty beer can from step 2. Participant attempts to hit can.
6. Rotate positions.

8/26/2009 10:10:20 AM

what happened to just getting drunk?

8/26/2009 10:12:47 AM

^ I agree.

^^ That sounds stupid as fuck.

8/26/2009 10:13:29 AM

^^^^ you and your friends didnt invent that



[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM. Reason : ]

8/26/2009 10:14:11 AM

kev has the basic premise down but it's not all that much effort. it's competitive fun.

equipment: table, pong ball, 4 beers (one per person)
no. of teams: 2 (your teammate is on your end of the table)

You throw the ball at either opponent's can. If you hit, your partner begins chugging immediately until either opponent recovers the ball and puts it on the table. If you miss, nothing happens, and it's the opposing team's turn. They do the same, and when it's your team's turn again, your partner now throws and you do the chugging.

the winning team is that which runs out of beer first, and thereby moves on to take on the next challenger. survive and advance, baby.

ps: we'll be out there all day saturday tailgaiting for the panthers and playing this. we set up a tournament with brackets, etc. look for the app st tent (not mine) with the wfu tent (also not mine).

8/26/2009 10:18:26 AM

Quote :

"Beer Ball 1. Cut the top off and punch a hole in a plastic bat. 2. Fill the bat with beer (bong-esque) 3. Chug the beer in the bat. 4. Do spinnies with the bat on the ground and your head on the bat, running around the bat as fast as you can trying to keeping bat on ground. (# of times is for parties disgression) 5. Pitcher throws the empty beer can from step 2. Participant attempts to hit can. 6. Rotate positions."

motherfucker, that is called Dizzy Bat

Quote :

"equipment: table, pong ball, 4 beers (one per person) no. of teams: 2 (your teammate is on your end of the table) You throw the ball at either opponent's can. If you hit, your partner begins chugging immediately until either opponent recovers the ball and puts it on the table. If you miss, nothing happens, and it's the opposing team's turn. They do the same, and when it's your team's turn again, your partner now throws and you do the chugging. the winning team is that which runs out of beer first, and thereby moves on to take on the next challenger. survive and advance, baby."

and you and your friends did not invent this. I was playing that shit years ago. although we called it 4-Corners

[Edited on August 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM. Reason : add]

8/26/2009 10:25:17 AM

Binge drinking is stupid as fuck if you want to get technical, but we all do it.
Lighten up.

8/26/2009 10:25:33 AM

Oh yeah. Damn, my bad.

8/26/2009 10:26:13 AM

Yeah yeah, and its only fun for about 20 mins before people lose interest

I like to get two tallboys and double fist for starters

then play some kind of drinking game for the next hour or so

Then just sit there and drink some more till kickoff

8/26/2009 10:27:00 AM

Any of y'all tried beer baseball? It's like a combination of beer pong and flip cup. It's fun, easy, and a lot of ppl can play.

- 2 teams, any number of people per team (no max)
- 4 solo cups in a straight line on either end of the table, and two set on the side of the table in the middle, all cups filled with 1/2 or 1/4 beer (whatever you want) in each.
- The cup closest to the middle of the table is a single, then double, then triple, then homerun as you move further away (towards the end of the table).
- a throwing order is established on each team, "visitor" team throws first, if a "batter" misses a cup it's an out, 3 outs to an inning, as you'd expect.
- if batter gets on base, he or she goes to the side of the table, along with a defensive player from the other team (of their choice)
- once on base, you can do nothing and wait for your teammates to try and bat you in, or you can try to steal.
- to attempt a steal, the baserunner grabs his/her cup from the side of the table and chugs, then once empty sets it down like flip cup. The defender does the same and the first to successfully flip their cup wins: runner advances 1 base, or defender gets them out.
- you can't try to steal until the table is set. For example: i throw a double, i have to wait for that team to drink that cup, refill it, and set it back on the table. Once they've reset the board, I can try to steal, even if they've forgotten to send out a defensive player or that player is not paying attention.
-Only one actualy person "on base" at a time, however Ghostman rules apply (surely everybody played neighborhood baseball and knows what i'm talking about)

Hopefully I didn't make it sound complicated, b/c it's really easy to pick up and you can make it as intense or as laid back as you want.

8/26/2009 10:42:04 AM

well don't knock it til you try it

people generally don't lose interest when 3 tables are going at once. gets pretty hectic.

8/26/2009 10:42:55 AM

^^i've played that a handful of times this summer. It's one of the truely "new" drinking games i've had someone introduce to me. It's pretty fun for a few rounds.

8/26/2009 10:46:32 AM

Jeepin4x4 you're always welcome at our tailgate

8/26/2009 10:48:48 AM

1) i didnt say i invented that
2) i didnt say i enjoyed playing that game

the technician ran a story on my friends for "inventing the game", for whatever its worth.

3) i dont play games, i play drink the beer.
4) i play beer pong
5)^thats a game.

8/26/2009 10:51:36 AM

Got a couple cases of red and black can Bud Light yesterday. Can't frickin' wait, going crazy with anticipation and excitement. I swear the clock is not moving. Next Monday-Wednesday are going to be brutal.

8/28/2009 11:29:53 AM

double post

[Edited on August 28, 2009 at 12:31 PM. Reason : sry, don't have any idea how that happened]

8/28/2009 12:31:13 PM

Made these today. Full credit to Ernie for the original quote these derivations came from. My first crack at anything like this, so dont be too harsh.

Also if anyone has a design, I can try to give it a shot





[Edited on August 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM. Reason : just noticed the pamprin behind the monitor, thanks wife]

8/29/2009 4:17:02 PM

TX lot. ^I like those

8/29/2009 4:24:43 PM

I like the RW and number, but the rest wont make sense to 99% of the people and will just be really odd

8/29/2009 4:59:25 PM

yeah, thats why i changed it to 'drives for our wins' more PC and seems to work better

8/29/2009 5:06:55 PM