The Superbowl XLVI is just a few days away.
New England Patriots will play the New York Giants.
February 5 at 6:30 ET on NBC
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NCAA College Football Bowl season is over for 2011-2012. The Alabama Crimson Tide has won the National Championship, defeating LSO 21-0.
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Fans across the country are excited and planning A Tailgate in preparation to support their teams. Bowl games almost always involve travel, so they must get bowl tickets, reserve hotels and make travel arrangements A Tailgate becomes a challenge because of the distance travelled. Therefore, many fans just make plans to attend sponsored events by their school or by the bowl committee.
To check out information on some of the up-coming NCAA College Footbal Bowl Games, go to our events page
A Tailgate inspires you to go outdoors and cook, enjoy activities with family and friends. A tailgate party is organized for people with similar interests to hang out and have fun before and after the event they’re attending. A tailgate is a social get-together held in parking lots before and many times after an event. The event might be a concert, football game, baseball game, or other attraction. The name evolved to tailgating because people would open vehicle tailgates for impromptu seating and access to ice chests, food, chairs, and other tailgaters necessities. For events such as professional or college football games with an established history of tailgating, tailgaters might arrive hours before start of the event. Tailgaters might bring coolers full of food and drink, grills for barbecuing, and canopies that sport their favorite team colors. Some tailgaters even prefer to bring a recreational vehicle (RV) for access to comfy chairs, refrigerator, kitchen and a convenient bathroom.
In some cases, traditions develop into a tailgate party that rivals the event itself.
It's called “The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" in Jacksonville, Florida. The University of Florida and University of Georgia square off annually for their football game. Florida Times-Union sports columnist Bill Kastelz was the first to call the Georgia-Florida game, “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.” In the 1950s, soon after Kastelz, while covering the game, spotted a drunken tailgater offer a drink to a policeman.
In the music world, Jimmy Buffett fans congregate on parking lots before his concerts and host Parrothead tailgates. So too was the case with the longest touring band in history, The Grateful Dead. For years, dedicated fans or Deadheads followed the band around the U.S. and set up their tailgates.
On May 16, 2011, what many are calling the world’s largest tailgate, people lined the roads around Cape Canaveral to watch the final space shuttle launch as Space Shuttle Endeavour left the Earth for it’s final flight.
Our site will provide you with information on sporting events, concerts and other activities around the country. Whether you are looking for an NCAA or other college sporting event, for NFL football games, or Major League Baseball (MLB), we hope to provide you with the best information that we can find. If you are planning to attend a NASCAR auto race, a music or comedy concert and want to party before going inside, we hope to help you out. We provide information on how to get there, where to stay and where to park. We will add your university or college to our site. Of course, food and drink are in integral part of any good tailgate and we will seek out some of the best tailgate food to buy and great recipes to post on this site. Here you can find the gear to wear, merchandise to decorate your den or car, truck or tailgate bus. Many teams and performers are represented. If you do not see your pro team (football, baseball, hockey, soccor, etc) or performer and the information you want, please contact us at contact@atailgate.com . We will try to get the information for you and add new pages as demand dictates.
It's amazing how you can enjoy tailgating and suddenly you have new friends that you met at A Tailgate
