Play Beer Pong on Nintendo Wii

May 31, 2008 in Tailgating Games, Videos

wii-beer-pong-1.pngYour beer pong game could use a little work. Okay, it pretty much sucks. What if there was a way to sharpen your beer pong skills without exposing your glaring weakness to everyone at the tailgate party? Your prayers have been answered and all you’ll need is a Nintendo Wii.

JV Games, Inc. is the developer of a new beer pong video game slated for the Nintendo Wii platform. Early rumors have it that you can play tournament style beer pong in three classic environments including the basement, the garage and the local bar. What? No tailgate party environment? Beer pong is a tailgating game staple and it is a travesty it is not an option in this game. How cool would it be to have to contend with cross winds or even possible smoke in your eyes from the neighboring grill? I guess the developers aren’t tailgaters or they definitely would have included tailgating in the game.

(A YouTube video of the game in action is after the jump.)

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The Simpsons Go Tailgating

May 31, 2008 in Videos

You may recall back during Weekend Wrap #11, Dad in the Headlights shared a quote from Homer Simpson in regards to wonderful act of tailgating. The Homer quote came from the Simpson’s season 19 episode #18 called “Any Given Sundance” in which Lisa makes a film documentary about her family and is encouraged to submit it to the Sundance Film Festival. I have been searching high and low for the now infamous clip of the Simpsons tailgating and I finally found it. Click on the video below for the opening 3:30 minutes of the show in which the Simpsons go tailgating. (You might have to suffer through some short commercials in order to see it but I promise you’ll get a kick out of the opening scene.)

Weekend Wrap #14: Link You Later Next Week

May 31, 2008 in Mailbag

news_wrap.jpgLast week’s Weekend Wrap had almost 30 news and blog links included. That’s good and bad news. It’s great news in that there are more and more people blogging about tailgating and more and more “mainstream” news agencies are writing about tailgating. The bad news is that compiling all those links and news stories about tailgating is not only time consuming for me but can take a lot of time to read them all for you. With that in mind, I am happy to announce that I will be expanding the Weekend Wrap to include a mid-week edition starting next week. You’ll still get all the tailgating news and blog posts but you won’t have to wait all week to read them. I’m just thinking out loud but the mid-week wrap up will probably be posted on Wednesdays. Feel free to leave a comment here with suggestion on what we should call it. If I decide to use your suggested title, I’ll give you full credit in the inaugural post next week. Now, on to the news of this week in tailgating. Read the rest of this entry →