Tailgating Ideas – Don't Just Tailgate, Tailgate Better

Last week we took a break from the normal T&A photos we bring you this time of the week to bring you the Snack Food Stadium. But now that Super Bowl has come and gone we’re back to the same old stuff. This week’s eye candy is Victoria’s Secret model Joanna Krupa. I think that about sums it up. On with the links…

(Photo of Joanna Krupa courtesy F-Listed.)

• Stalk Tailgating Ideas on Twitter
• Top Ten places to Tailgate After Football Season is over
  
• Time to (horse) tailgate!
• Is this guy really whining about going tailgating?
• 8 Postcards That We’d Like To see
• 10 funny Photoshops of Michael Phelps
• You Know Your Party Sucks When…
• Which Was the Best Beer-Themed Super Bowl Commercial?
• The Year That Was: Baltimore Ravens Tailgating 2008
• Bacon Breaks Free from Breakfast, Becomes the Next Big Dessert
• One mom wondered what tailgating was all about, so she did some investigating and experienced it firsthand
• I knew IT! Moderate drinkers are happier, more successful, and healthier than teetotalers
• The Ultimate In Tailgating
• The 5 Chick Flicks Your Girlfriend Will Try To Get You To See This Year (And How To Avoid Them)
• Ridiculous Product of the Day: The basics of Tailgating
• 15 Bumper Stickers That I’d Definitely Consider
• Eating Bacon for 28 straight days
• Bacon Explosion Oven Recipe
• Tim Tebow caught on camera with Bikini Chicks
• The babes of Survivor Tocantins

I’ll admit it. I watched Super Bowl XLIII on TV like the majority of you all. I also caught some of the pre-game festivities on NBC today which also included the cameras capturing what the NFL labeled “Tailgate 2009″. As the cameras panned in and out of the band Journey, complete with replacement lead singer, belting out “Don’t Stop Believing”, I noticed that what was going in no way resembled a tailgate. (NFLJuice.com has a screen shot of this pathetic “tailgate”.)

It looked like a beer garden, complete with beers and food at exorbitant prices I am sure, and a band playing on stage. No grills. No pop-up tents. No one was sitting on a pick-up truck tailgate. Yet the NFL still has the balls to call that “Tailgate 2009″? I know I fought this fight last year but come on. Showing a concert in the middle of picnic tables is not tailgating in my opinion. And to try and promote that as tailgating is deplorable to those that actually tailgate.

The only “tailgating” going on in Tampa today was at Super Gate II, which thanks to the NFL, was three miles away from Raymond James Stadium. Don’t get me wrong, I love Jay and Karen DiEugenio who are the ones who primarily organized this thing, but tailgating three miles away from an event is not really tailgating in my book either. Call me a traditionalist but unless you have a grill and are preparing your own food in the same parking lot as the game or concert, it is not “tailgating”. Go ahead and find a new word to describe those other forms of having fun before the game but please do not taint the term tailgating by using it incorrectly. Call it Pre-Partying or something, just not tailgating. Okay, enough venting, how about some links….

• Super Bowl enthusiasts went to Estero, not Tampa, to tailgate Saturday
• A guide on how to touch boobs
• A Brief Look at Tailgating
• 18 Dirtiest Girls In Wing Bowl History
• Super Bowl XLIII Drinking Game!
• Don’t forget about tailgating as a scrapbooking theme
• Five Unhealthy “Healthy” Snacks
• Tailgating in Japan pre-Super Bowl
• BBQ Twitterers You Should Be Following
• Win Supplies for a Great Tailgating Party from Johnsonville
• While you are at it, follow Tailgating Ideas on Twitter too
• Top 10 Super Bowl XLIII Commercials.
• Steelers fans Jeff Roos and Larry Schafer say they’ll take the beach over tailgating
• Add Bacon To Any Website (Seriously, try this)
• American tailgating from a Canadian perspective
• Did you catch the rack on the Iowa cheerleader ESPN cameras caught?
• Is it truly a tailgate party without an actual tailgate and obnoxious keg chuggers?
• Super Bowl 3D Glasses – Marketing Disaster? (Yes, I would agree and it gave me a headache.)
• Pittsburgh fans build “Terrible Tailgate” for big game
• Tailgate Wars
• Have a game plan for Super Bowl weekend tailgating

I love bacon. We’ve told you about bacon flavored dental floss, bacon iPhone case, bacon flavored mayonnaise, bacon flavored mints, a Bacon Bra and even a bacon tuxedo. So it is well established we here at TailgatingIdeas.com like us some bacon. Nothing, and I mean nothing, prepared me for when I saw The Bacon Explosion!

Upon finding this beauty thanks to Jimmy Traina over at Sports Illustrated Hot Clicks, my heart skipped a beat. I am not sure if it was due to falling in love upon laying eyes on this little treasure or if it was my arteries slamming shut just by reading about it. All I can say if you are bad ass enough to try this out, here is what you will need.

2 pounds thick cut bacon
2 pounds Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce
1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub

That’s it. Now for the detailed instruction on how to create and properly prepare the Bacon Explosion you’ll need to head over to The BBQ Addicts. I was so impressed I immediately added them to my RSS reader and I am following them on Twitter after discovering this little gem. (Feel free to stalk me via Twitter as well.)

I am really interested to see if anyone else gives this a try and how it turns out. If anyone can pull it off and prepare a Bacon Explosion while tailgating, send me a few photos and I will feature you here on TailgatingIdeas.com. If I were a betting man, my money is on the guys from Freedom Grill to be the first ones to try this out.

By now you have probably seen or heard the news about the numerous wildfires that broke out in Southern California on Saturday. One of the reasons why this edition of the Weekend Wrap is coming to you on Sunday rather than the normal Saturday time slot, blame it on the fires. I was out tailgating in support of the Cal State Fullerton football team making a return when the wife called and said that the fires were getting close to our home. I packed up and headed home but by the time I got close to the freeway exits I would normally take, police and fire trucks were blocking the exits and were directing traffic to continue on the freeway. Let’s just say I made a few driving maneuvers that my driver’s ed teacher would kill me for but I was determined to get home to my family.Thanks goodness for cell phones because I was able to stay updated on our neighborhood’s status and if we were being asked to evacuate. The good news is that the winds shifted and there was no need for us to evacuate. Unfortunately for our house to be spared, others were lost.

So, I know this edition of the weekend wrap is a day late but I think I have a good excuse. Alright, hope everyone is safe out there and on with the links…

• Photos from the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
• Winnipeg Blue Bombers need to understand that tailgating is more fun than the game.
• Mmmm,Bacon iPhone Case
• Tailgating in comfort in the great indoors
• The Mailman, Karl Malone, was spotted tailgating this weekend in Louisiana.
• Don Chavez suggests 6 Ways A Woman Can Make Money In A Recession
• The University of Kansas Ten Commandments of tailgating
• 10 Scenes From Sports Movies That Really Pump You Up
• Turkey legs and Tailgating…
• Cancer Fighting Beer?
• Tailgating, tunes and tons of fun at Tigerama
• $100 To Tailgate In Norfolk?
• Time to Tailgate in Your Living Room: Cornhole for WiiWare
• In-car margarita maker isn’t a good excuse for drunk driving
• Yale vs. Princeton: The tailgate that matters
• Urban Meyer is a Parrothead
• So what’s so interesting about a 1950′s college football photo sold on eBay?
• Alabama fan hails Tiger tailgaters
• Products to make your outdoor Arizona party perfect
• Employees Enjoy the Texas Tradition of Tailgating
• Ten of the best vehicles for ‘green’ tailgating
• Cheerleaders of the CFL
• Packers fans must leave fire pits home
• Uncoached has The Hottest Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleader: Amy Mecca
• Healthy Tailgating Recipes – Part 8
• 5 Terrible Pick-Up Lines That Might Get You Laid
• Tailgating tradition gets fans in the game
• Football is more than just a game: It’s about tailgating.
• Guy Gets Trapped In A Balloon
• Tailgating in 25 degree weather
• Tailgates are over and I missed a big buck today…

There are two things going on here. 1) Meet xXElectraXx. Yes, her model page at Model Mayhem lists that is her name. Who are we to argue or question it? 2) We chose this photo because not only is this girl xXextremely hot but because she is wearing a South Carolina jersey and is not getting knocked over by a referee.

(Photo of xXElectraXx courtesy of Busted Coverage.)

On with the links…

• Five Tips on How to Prepare for Gator Growl Weekend.
• Key Learnings From Tailgating from a gal who lives in the city.
• Photos of hot girls in wife beater tank tops.
• 8 Reasons to go Tailgating in Norman, Oklahoma
• Plastic Free Tailgating
• 12 actresses that would have made great college cheerleaders
• The Top 8 Baywatch Babes of all Time (Our vote goes to Yasmine Bleeth.)
• Not to be outdone, The World of Isaac has the Hottest MILFs and Cougars of the 1980′s. (Our vote goes to Rebecca Donaldson of Full House)
• Juxtaexposed claims tailgating really is an art, you know?
• The 20 Worst Places to Wake Up on a Saturday Morning.
• A first timer recounts what it is like to attend a Michigan State tailgate party.
• With Halloween coming, Holy Taco gives Tribute to the Naughty School Girl Costume.
• Mobile Tailgating is More Sustainable (Mostly)
• Your Day Just Got Better Thanks To The Don Chavez Poon Hunt
• Tailgating Shows Spirit at St. Cloud University.
• Note to Self: Dropping your pants and giving the cops a B.A. = Bad Idea.
• Fans Fight the Tailgate Blues
• Miss Louisiana Teen USA Gets Stripped of her Tiara for Weed and Skipping out on a Restaurant Tab.
• Play tailgating games for a good cause
• Minnesota Viking Fan seems confused by having a Green Bay Packers Tattoo.
• Mizzou to cut back on tailgaters’ time at Reactor Field
• The Red Dirt Kings remind you to look at scalper tickets closely before buying.
• RV Tailgate Parties – An Art Form?
• Look good and smell great with the bacon tuxedo.
• Tailgating and trash-talking starts at the Trop
• 10 videos of Hot Girls Doing Keg Stands.
• Missouri curtails tailgating for Saturday’s homecoming game