Inside Tailgating
NFL Championship week is here, and just four teams remain in the hunt to become Super Bowl champions. The San Francisco 49ers played in the most thrilling game this past weekend, beating the New Orleans Saints on a touchdown with nine seconds left in regulation. The 49ers now host the New York Giants on Sunday …
The NFL playoff season is in full swing with just eight teams remaining. One of the four games on this weekend’s schedule features Sunday’s matchup of the Houston Texans visiting the Baltimore Ravens, who had a 12-4 record this year. When you think of Baltimore cuisine, you think of seafood, mainly crab cakes. But the …
LSU and Alabama will meet in New Orleans on Monday for the BCS National Championship. But a champion has already been crowned. When these SEC foes met earlier this year on Nov. 5 in Tuscaloosa, a 9-6 overtime win for LSU, a Tailgate Cook-off competition was held outside of Bryant-Denny Stadium. Thousands of fans applied …
The biggest game in the final week of the NFL season pits the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants on New Year’s Day night. The winner of this game wins the NFC East division and moves onto the playoffs. The loser goes home and hears all about what a bunch of chokers they are. No …
Some tailgaters really go all out with food preparation for hours on end the night before a big sporting event. If that’s what you enjoy doing with your time, then power to you. But for those folks that are too busy (and much too lazy) to spend all this time on gameday eve, we give …
The “Bedlam” series between Oklahoma University Sooners and Oklahoma State University Cowboys is certainly the biggest rivalry in the state, but it has also become one of the better college football match-ups in the Big 12 recently with OSU’s football program on the rise. This Saturday, Dec. 3, the two foes will play in their …
Not many men have embodied football quite like Mike Ditka. He played in the NFL for 12 years and was selected to five straight Pro Bowls. He has three Super Bowl rings (one as a player, one as an assistant coach, and one as a head coach) and was the first tight end elected to …
The University of Georgia and the University of Florida will once again get together to play a football game during what is referred to as “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.” The schools don’t have a lot of love for one another, but that doesn’t prevent their annual meeting from being the premiere tailgating event …
The pesky armadillo has been destroying lawns in the South for more than 150 years. These hard-shelled, strong-clawed champion diggers first appeared in Texas and eventually found their way to Alabama. This was likely due to accidental releases from Florida zoos and the creatures hitching rides east from unsuspecting Texans. Although the armadillo is a …
You have to pity the men and women who are surviving on this planet with a significant cheese allergy or serious lactose intolerance. A life without pizza, cheeseburgers, lasagna and nacho dip is a life that many of us simply cannot imagine. For those of us lucky enough to be able to digest large quantities …
In her book Way Out in West Virginia, Jeanne Mozier calls pepperoni rolls the “state food” and describes them as “a primary food group for struggling artists and students, and the only food I found worthy of a quest.” Anybody who has been fortunate enough to spend a day tailgating in the famed Blue Lot …
