Captain of the Tailgate: The Best Traditions

by Greg Knopping on Nov 6, 2010 3:00 PM EDT in Captain of the Tailgate

As announced last week, we'll be running a series of posts here sponsored by Captain Morgan, called "Captain of the Tailgate." Each week, we'll bring up a different element of the tailgate experience, and ask you to share your best tailgating experience. At the end, we'll round up the best experiences from the Pats Pulpit community, and share them on one final post.

This week's topic: the best traditions.

For me, my favorite tailgating tradition (aside from whom I actually attend the game with) has to be the pick-up games I used to play with my brother when I was younger. When we went to the games, we used to show up early, when there was still a lot of space in the lots. We would always find a couple of kids around our age (and usually older than us), and challenge them to a game of two-on-two football. We kept stats and everything. The one stat I can actually remember: in all of our years going to Patriots games, we never lost. Undefeated. Not to brag... but yeah, we kicked ass. While we no longer take part in such games, there were a tradition for over a decade at any Knopping tailgate.

So what are your tailgating traditions?

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Here's my tailgate memory

Here’s a funny one….. I used to park in the liquor store parking lot just down the street from Gillette. I got there just as soon as the city would let them sell event parking and stayed for the entire day. The end of the game itself was merely “halftime” when I ponder the day’s tailgaiting activities. I often stayed well into the evening. I chose this specific place because there was an awesome little cubby cove in the lot that’s protected by an ATM shelter. It’s one of those old ones where you actually go into a small heated room to get out of the elements.

I loved that little area because it the ATM meant one thing to me….. FREE POWER. Anyway, we’d run extension cords around the little ATM shelter under the door and into the outlet. We’d then watch the late game on TV…. We brewed coffee. ETC ETC.

I mention all that to set up this funny outcome….. That is; we ended up tripping the breaker rendering the ATM unusable for the remainder of the evening. Everytime a poor sapp would try to use it, we’d pretend we had no clue….

by Bills friend on Nov 7, 2010 12:20 AM EDT reply actions