Early Tailgate this Saturday and Eclipse - What are you bringing?

[KingDL1]

Our Tailgate begins at 8:30 a.m.
Exact location, as always. Blue lot northwest corner closest to the Stadium.

We will be wrapping up Tailgate by 10:30 a.m.

Bring your favorite Drink.

Victor, Amanda, and Lauren plan to have Early Win Breakfast Casserole, Amanda’s Famous Mean Green Jell-O Shots, and their holy cow; this is too early Bloody Marys and Mimosas.

John has cookies and a yet-to-be-determined Eclipse food.

I will have Spicy Balls. Maybe they would be good eclipse food? 

 

https://meangreensports.com/sports/2018/7/31/gamedayparking

[97and03]

I will be enjoying apperitivo hour in Rome this Saturday around kickoff time and not thinking about the Mean Green for once in a long while. 

[DentonLurker]

20 hours ago, KingDL1 said:

We will be wrapping up Tailgate by 10:30 p.m.

I appreciate your dedication to post-game tailgating. My kind of team! 😁

[KingDL1]

1 hour ago, DentonLurker said:

I appreciate your dedication to post-game tailgating. My kind of team! 😁

Thanks for catching that. 

No Post game tailgating for me. 

[97and03]

19 hours ago, KingDL1 said:

No Post game tailgating for me. 

[KingDL1]

46 minutes ago, 97and03 said:

I'm no quitter boy; I am worried my balls might spoil.

 

 

[Marty]

Cap’n Crunch & a gallon of milk.

Edited October 11, 2023 by Marty

[97and03]

1 hour ago, KingDL1 said:

I'm no quitter boy; I am worried my balls might spoil.

 

 

[UNTLifer]

[SilverEagle]

44 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Absolutely classic.

[THOR]

my fancy tailgating people will be on their way home from europe....food....barley and hops with a side of some other thing that goes in alcohol.  i cant be relied upon to bring food...or a smart view of football

[untcampbell]

Annual BBQ for 60. 

GMG

[SilverEagle]

13 hours ago, untcampbell said:

Annual BBQ for 60. 

GMG

When does it start? 

[UNTLifer]

On 10/10/2023 at 7:38 AM, 97and03 said:

I will be enjoying apperitivo hour in Rome this Saturday around kickoff time and not thinking about the Mean Green for once in a long while. 

[MAX KOCH]

[diehardUNTfan]

Don't know anything about eclipses, but is it supposed to make the sky darker? Would be kinda cool if an 11am kickoff felt like a night game 😆

[GrayEagle]

It won't be a total eclipse so it will not be that dark at any time.  At worst 20% of the sun will shine.  When the sun is 80% covered will be the darkest.  Will likely require that the stadium lights be turned on.  

 

Edited October 13, 2023 by GrayEagle

[bstnsportsfan3]

47 minutes ago, GrayEagle said:

It won't be a total eclipse so it will not be that dark at any time.  At worst 20% of the sun will shine.  When the sun is 80% covered will be the darkest.  Will likely require that the stadium lights be turned on.  

 

[SilverEagle]

1 hour ago, GrayEagle said:

It won't be a total eclipse so it will not be that dark at any time.  At worst 20% of the sun will shine.  When the sun is 80% covered will be the darkest.  Will likely require that the stadium lights be turned on.  

 

I found Eclipse shades/glasses at Lowe's. 

[KingDL1]

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the early tailgate. Better attended than I expected. 

On 10/11/2023 at 8:20 PM, untcampbell said:

Annual BBQ for 60. 

GMG

@untcampbell how did your BBQ go? I heard it was a bit breezy your way. 

[untcampbell]

Brother, it was windy. But we put up our serving area inside a pop up shade thate we wrapped in a good and large tarp to block the wind. The trees gave shade for the big screen. We had 65 come by, 57 that ate. Board celebrities included @GrayEagle@SilverEagle@SUMG and @FirefightnRick along with a couple of others that I think are on the board. No judging anyone on this board, but only Mr. Fincher partook of the great Senor Smoke's BBQ.

51 of those that came to the tailgate also went to the game. Along with the 10 tickets we own, our tailgate brought along 37 ticket buyers that joined us in Section 110.

Not a huge fan of the 11 am start (it required starting up the smoker at 1 am) but it stretched out the party. Some ate around game time. Some of those then came into the game  and some of those ate again after. Some of us went to the game and ate after. 

The once a year tradition will celebrate year 12 next year. I will always prefer a 3 pm game but honestly there were lots of good things about this BBQ, the earliest of the 11. We had more time to talk before , to eat and then to celebrate. Instead of my traditional pregame diet Mountain Dew, three Miller lites and pre-game Scotch, I had four pre-game Scotch's (three Ardbeg and one Glenmorangie) and two post-game Scotch's (both Ardbeg).

Most importantly, the Mean Green are 9-2 in the games that Senor Smoke provides the BBQ karma. I challenge you to pick any random 11 games (other than the Hayden Fry years) where NT went 9-2. And we don't pick the "sure win" games. We try to pick a mid-season game, preferably in October, not the first FCS game of the year. And we win most of the time.

 

Should you wish to praise Senor Smoke for his BBQ karma, look for the guy in the picture attached. Picture is from last year's game

 

GMG

 

 

Edited October 16, 2023 by untcampbell

[UNTLifer]

I was planning to walk the tailgate area, but we got in late Friday night due to traffic through Weatherford due to an accident. We overslept and walked in right at game time after driving in from Grapevine that morning.