Tailgate like a Champion

As promised in the last post, the story of the tailgate...

The best way to explain this tradition is for me to ask you to imagine a beautiful summer's day; clear blue sky, humid heat with a faint warm breeze. You're standing in the middle of the road, cordoned off by police, to your left is a huge football stadium creating a comfortable shade and to your right you're surrounded by masses of OU fans all merging into one great imagine in their red t-shirts. You are part of that image. The road is filled with with people throwing footballs, playing bags, drinking and being merry.

Now, I am a huge advocate of closing down the streets to have an organised party with the whole university, but tailgating takes this to a whole new level. I'm not sure whether its the fact that everyone involved gets behind the football team or that both the home and away fans can celebrate together without either one throwing a punch that makes it so great. Or maybe its just the excessive amounts of beer and BBQ food...

Mandatory beer-bong

As tailgating begins around 3/4 hours before a 6 o'clock game several things are necessary; playing games, eating food and drinking beer. Each group of students with a tent sets up their own beer pong tables, brings their own beer bong (as seen to the left) and football. Some Americans take this very seriously and even bring their sofa and flat screen TV to their tents to watch the game, I mean why buy a ticket when you can bring your whole living room to the stadium? Air conditioning companies bring their air con tents so you can cool down between beers and those all important portaloos are set up in a nice neat line for your convenience. Game day doesn't get much better than this!

'How do you hold a football?'