Tailgating 2015, ready or not!

Okay football Saturday sports fans, time to start prepping because tailgating is 30 or less days away!

At MSU, we went through the reseating process year two.  Got my seats moved in closer to the 50 yard line, and higher up, near the portal.  Tickets arrived this week. highest price, $70 for the Alabama game.  Man cub already has his fall schedule confirmed where he doesn't have classes on Friday afternoons.  This is very important for freshmen parents, if you are expecting your student to secure you a prime spot for tailgating!  No Bulldog parking spot for us, but plans are to get there well before four hours before kickoff to be able to unload close to the spot, then off to our favorite pay to park spot in the student commuter parking lot!

At TSUN, out seats got shuffled around a bit because the old ones were classified as part of the "best in the house".  To keep them, there was going to be a $1,000 per seat (times 4) capital contribution, in addition to the $400 per seat Rebel Club fee, on top of the season ticket price.  At luck would have it, only moved over one section, and a few rows up, but 3 seats are one one row and the fourth two rows back.  Parking spot is in the same location, thankfully!

The spousal unit has already scouted out the local tailgating location.  The grass has been replaced with pine straw.  Hopefully the ground will be firm enough to hold up  all those fancy 3 inch stacked heels. 

I'm upgrading to a bicycle wheel garden cart for Starkvegas this year, hoping it will allow us to get to the car with everything in tow and to exit the campus earlier than past years.  I've still got my pull along little wagons for the overflow.

The TSUN crowd is gonna be in for a treat this year.  Man cub and built a corn hole game this summer.  As heavy as it is, we'll find out whether it makes return visits.  I can just see it: loser has to do something silly, that they might regret as the afternoon begins to fade toward kickoff!

Our friend Charla is working on a new chandelier for the tent.  Gina will have the tablecloths tighter than a pair of skinny jeans on a coed.  Don't even think of spilling food or drink on them the first week. and   We added a couple of round tables last year.  Wonder what else awaits us????

Can't wait to see all the new fashions.  All those freshmen parents better have their act together and have on the correct shirt come game time.  The funniest thing from a few years ago was this young coed all decked out in her finest, even showing off her summer tan.  Problem was she wore ankle socks all summer and she wear wearing sandals.  Gotta watch that tan lines girls!!!  Last year I almost fell out of the chair when I saw three generations of women, with the same hair style, same color of dress, all knee high!

Several of the youngsters and I have plans to set our chairs close to the roadside on University Avenue as it enters the Grove.  We are tempted to print up signs, one side with "pour it out!" and the other side with "let them pass"!  The "LTP" side will only be used on an exception basis:  Grandmaw getting busted, momma toting a baby in the other hand, etc.....

I'm hoping to see some new variety in the tailgating food items as well.  Chicken fingers have been a tailgating staple for years. For the women folk, its always about the chippy dippy,  and some kind of calorie free desert.  For me, its all about carnivore, bring on the meat!  I've got a buddy in the carnival food business that would make a killing with his red velvet funnel cake with cream cheese icing!  Now wouldn't that be the bomb!

All that said, ARE YOU READY?????

#HOBBYLOBBY and #HAILSTATE!