Tailgaters open their playbook for elaborate football feasts

Food Network Fan · 10-13-2009, 12:03 PM

Tailgaters open their playbook for elaborate football feasts

By KAREN FERNAU • from Gannett wire • October 13, 2009

The founders began as run-of-the-mill tailgaters, eating chips at a card table and grilling hot dogs on a hibachi the year the Arizona Cardinals arrived in town.
But as the transplanted team struggled on the field, the tailgaters upped their game in the parking lot.
Bone-in prime rib, lobster tails, Cuban pork chops, turducken and crab flown in from Baltimore gradually replaced the humble pregame nibbles of their infancy.
As Rob Greer of Gilbert, Ariz., says, “We had to have something to look forward to on game day, and it wasn’t always the football. I can say that because I have been a respectful fan and season-ticket holder from the beginning, except for one year.”

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ibcheft · 10-13-2009, 06:33 PM

Seen a advertisement about football games and wine, showing having a wine party watching a football game, now I thought of a lot of stuff, but that is one that just does not mix, football and wine nope, football and beer yup, wine just does not quite seem right with contact sports or even baseball for a matter of fact or even Nascar. Wine needs to go with Polo, maybe water sports of some type. But not football, and not tail gating, some things just get way out of hand. Elaborate parties like they are talking prime rib, lobster, come on people get off your high horses and come down to earth with the real people, hamburgers, hot dogs, brats, ribs, briskets, and all the fix-ins.