The first tailgate of the season is typically a bittersweet affair. Super jacked for another football season, but inadvertently many kinks must be worked out. Always on the cutting edge of innovation, we did roll out a few new items.
Swanky new TV stand to take the AV situation up yet another notch!
Turns out, despite the extremely efficient tri-pod style design, this stand canNOT, in fact, hold up to Hurricane Issac wind gusts ... so that was kinda painful to find out. Again, a few kinks!
We also took the glassware up a rung this season. MTB will be flinging drinks with just a touch more sophistication.
Just a quick housekeeping item ... TEAM (The Eleventh And Mississippi) Tailgate has created quite a cult following over the years, so if you are new to the game we wanted to ensure you could locate us on Saturdays this Fall. Turns out the very special (and long overdue in our humble opinion) renaming of Eleventh street adjacent to the stadium did in fact stretch all the way to our front steps ...
Although we will not be renaming the operation, it is pretty cool to have Coach Fam along for the ride from here on out ... just spitting venom toward Missourah with all the rest of us!
It was nice to have all "the pillars" of the operation on hand bright and early to usher in the Charlie Weis era and yet another loud and proud season of TEAM Tailgate.
And it just wouldn't be an official blog post without a few obligatory pics showing that, once again, the crowds were treated to divine eats and obscene amounts of booze. The staple that we've all come to love, and truly one of the signature offerings ... The Campbell.
Our friends over at CLEAR10 provided the libations.
As for the game action ... perhaps a little TOO close for comfort there in the 4th quarter. We saw some very encouraging things, well as some things requiring attention. Bottom line, we saw them with over 46,000 strong from Jayhawk Nation. Great day! Here's to a fun tailgate season!
