By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger It is transition time in the USA. That's when summer folds into fall. It begins with Labor Day Weekend when we turn on the TV and am ambushed by programming showing helmet-clad college and professional athletes running around a gridiron and hear countless "experts" talk about those helmet-clad college and professional athletes … [Read more...]
No Alabama Tailgate Parties For 2020 Crimson Tide Football Season
Tailgating On The Quad On The Sidelines By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger In a move about as surprising as Najee Harris being named the starting tailback, the University of Alabama announced there will be no official tailgating on the Quad this fall. The tailgate parties are as much a part of college football as the games themselves but … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Alabama-Tennessee Rivalry Still Special To Many Fans
A Perspective of The Third Saturday in October From Both Sides of the Ball By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger I'm from Knoxville. And went to college in Tuscaloosa. I'm surprised they let me back in the Volunteer State when I go home to visit the family. That security doesn't stop me when I arrive at McGhee Tyson Airport with a list of … [Read more...]
Top College Football Tailgate Party Schools And Towns
From Austin To The Grove, Where To Really Get In The School Spirit(s) By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Colleges Blogger College football is about more than, well, college football. It's about tradition, culture, atmosphere and ... partying! Partying in the town in the day/night before the game, partying at a tailgate party on game day and partying afterward back … [Read more...]
Alabama Football Tailgate Party Run By Auburn Company (And It’s Not Cheap)
The Quad Is A Pricy Place For Tailgating With The Crimson Tide By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There is a price to pay – quite literally – for having a winning football team in college football. This goes beyond coaching salaries and facilities; it means fans pay more and more for everything associated with the team. It starts with tickets, … [Read more...]
Jimmy Buffett Tailgate Party Irvine Review
Parrotheads Flock To L.A. Trop/Rock Show The fins were up, the feathers were out and the tiki bars were set up at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater for the return of Jimmy Buffett to a Saturday concert in Los Angeles. Buffett concerts are The World's Greatest Single-Day Party and Irivne is among the best venues for Parrotheads on the tour. That's because it has a massive … [Read more...]
College Football Tailgating Key To Getting Fans To Games
ADs Need To Embrace The Game-DayExperience College football athletic directors are scratching their heads on how to get their fans to come to games rather than stay at home and watch on TV. They are trying all kinds of things but the prime solution is right in front of them: the tailgate parties. In order for people to get out of their house and spend the time and money to … [Read more...]
Jimmy Buffett Albuquerque Show No Parrothead Tailgating
There's Certainly No PreParty Margaritaville At This Concert Venue Looks like the blenders won't be churning in Albuquerque before the Jimmy Buffett concert. His show at the Isleta Amphitheater on Tuesday, Oct. 20, will be without the usual Parrothead preparty because a New Mexico state law prohibits drinking in parking lots. And as any Parrothead know, the whole … [Read more...]
Dallas Cowboys Top Gameday Bar Tailgate Tavern
Tailgating Within Field Goal Range Of AT&T Stadium If you are going to a Dallas Cowboys game this year – either as a Cowboy fan for if you're visiting and cheering for the other team – and want a good bar to go to before entering AT&T Stadium, there's a place that's steps from your entrance gate. It's the Tailgate Tavern, a mere field goal distance from Cowboys … [Read more...]
San Diego Chargers Pregame Tailgate Bud Light Party Zone
Bud Light Chargers Power Party Features Beer, Food And The Chargers Girls One of the most fun elements of going to an NFL game is the action that happens around the action on the field. That action starts several hours before kickoff with the pre-game tailgate parties. And at each San Diego Chargers home game, there's a built-in tailgate party. It's the Bud Light … [Read more...]
USC Football Says No On-Campus Tailgating For Arizona Game
Fans Also Not Excited About Thursday Night Pac-12 Encounter There's not been much for USC fans to be excited about this season – other than the firing of Coach Lane Kiffin – and they are not at all excited about having to play a game on a Thursday night. First, there's LA traffic, it's at night and, well, it's on a Thursday instead of a Saturday. And now, USC has sent … [Read more...]
It’s A Roll Tide Weekend For The Nightlife Party Blogger
It's Back To School For cDllege Football Tailgating And Tuscaloosa Bars For Alabama-Ole Miss Game It's Roll Tide and, yes, even a Hottie Toddie or two as I spend the last weekend of September in Tuscaloosa for the Al-a-BAM-a and Ole Miss college football game. It's back to school for me, for I am a Bama graduate – and putting that degree in journalism to good use with … [Read more...]