Tailgating Ideas – Don't Just Tailgate, Tailgate Better

(This is a guest post and product review by Jennifer Vitela from Girls Gone Tailgating. At the bottom of this review learn how you can get one for free.)

I love Fox’s “New Girl” on Tuesday nights. The one-liners are better than any other sitcom on network TV. Just the other day, Nick and Schmidt pitched their idea for “Real Apps” to Jess’ rich boyfriend. It was basically a Swiss army knife attached to an iPhone. Because who doesn’t want a pocket knife and tweezers glued to the back of their phone? A ridiculous idea. Or was it?

Days later I was tailgating at the USC spring scrimmage when Dave Lamm from TailgatingIdeas.com gave me a little present… one that made me the coolest girl in the parking lot. Because I was the only one who could open a bottle of Pacifico — with my iPhone. That’s right. The Opena Snap-on Hard Case with an Integrated Bottle Opener is an iPhone case with an actual slide out bottle opener!

Read the rest of this entry »

Do you eat, sleep and dream about tailgating 24 hours a day? Is your tailgating set-up the envy of the entire parking lot. Do you bring it hard and without remorse every weekend? If this describes you and your tailgating crew, you could earn yourself a sponsorship from Tailgate Beer. Check out their flyer.

Since tailgate Beer is distributed in a few states including California, Minnesota, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Washington, those tailgaters residing in those states are eligible. Feel free to nominate yourself or someone you know and email the particulars to: [email protected] Good luck.

Earlier this week we announced the Cooler Dry Giveaway where we were giving away a three-pack of Cooler Dry clips to followers on Twitter. The caveat was the more followers you had, the more entries you would earn. We used the random number generator found on Random.org and out of 78 entries it chose No. 3 as the random number.

We’re happy to say that Garrett and Megan who run the blog Life of the Tailgate and who are also on Twitter (@LIFEotTAILGATE) are the winners.

Congratulations Garrett and Megan and we’ll message you through Twitter to get your shipping address.

Were you with us last week when we introduced you to the Cooler Dry? It is a simple yet ingenious plastic clip that props the lid of your cooler partially open allowing for air circulation and proper evaporation of moisture. As you can imagine it fights the build up of mold, mildew and that awful “old cooler” smell after it has been packed and stored for months.

We were sent a sample three-pack and have installed all three Cooler Dry clips on three coolers here at TailgatingIdeas.com headquarters. We have another three-pack that is unopened and we thought it a good idea to give it away to one of our readers. It won’t cost you anything to toss your hat in the ring for consideration. Here’s how it will work.

The winner of the three-pack of Cooler Dry will be determined via Twitter. (Twitter is free to use and if you don’t have an account already, you can sign up for free at Twitter.com) The winner will need to send out a Tweet to their followers using the hashtag #coolerdry. Here is a suggested tweet you can cut and paste and send out to your Twitter followers:

@TailgatingIdeas giving away a 3-pack of Cooler Dry http://j.mp/gR4MhD to avoid having a smelly cooler. Use #coolerdry in your tweet to win

Here is where it really gets good. For every 100 followers you have on Twitter, that is equal to one entry. (Don’t worry. If you have less than 100 you still get one entry.) Have 1,000 followers? That equates to 10 entries. If Ashton Kutcher, (@aplusk) who has 6,196,873 followers on Twitter at the time we posted this, tweets out the above message, he would receive 61,968 entries. So the more followers you have on Twitter, the more entries you’ll receive. Multiple tweets are appreciated but will not increase your chances of winning nor will they boost your number of entries.

Deadline to Tweet is Friday, January 14, 2011 at midnight pacific time. The winning entry will be determined randomly and picked by the True Random Number Generator. The winner will be notified via Twitter and once we have your address we will send you your three-pack of Cooler Dry clips. We’ll even foot the bill for the postage.

Now that football season is over and most of you tailgaters are winterizing your tailgating gear, a set of Cooler Dry clips will help out a ton next summer when it is time to break it out and do it all over again. Good luck to everyone.

Most anyone who has tailgated at least once in their life has had pork while in the parking lot. Baby back ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, pork loin… they are all huge crowd favorites while tailgating. So what if there was a way to win some cool tailgating gear and get some free pork to go along with it? Now you can and it is so easy and won’t cost you anything.
The National Pork Board has teamed up with celebrity chef Michael Symon and have come up with hints and tips for Tackle Tailgating with Pork. There Michael Symon shares pork recipes, grilling tips and overall lots of tailgating ideas on how to incorporate pork into your next tailgate party.

To help promote this initiative the National Pork Board is offering up a Tackle Tailgating with Pork prize package to one lucky reader of TailgatingIdeas.com. The prize package includes:

• Gift card to a local retailer (to purchase the pork)
• Cooler
• Grilling utensils
• An “I Heart Pork” apron
• Digital Thermometer
• Autographed copy of Michael Symon’s Live to Cook

In the interest of full disclosure, the National Pork Board sent me this same type of prize package. I was surprised when I received it because I was expecting the cooler to be rather small. In actuality what arrived was a 38 quart wheeled Igloo cooler. The $25 American Express Gift Card will also come in handy for buying some baby back ribs to smoke for this weekend’s upcoming games.

So here is how you can win your own Tackle Tailgating with Pork prize package. All you need to do is become a fan of ours on Facebook. Once there, look for the Tackle Tailgating with Pork post and leave a comment telling us what is your favorite pork dish you like to eat while tailgating. Comments will be accepted until Midnight, Monday, November 1, 2010. After all comments have been submitted before the deadline, one person will be selected at random using the Random.org True Random Number Generator. Once selected we’ll ask you for your address so that the National Pork Board can send you your prize package. It’s just that easy.

To check out the National Pork Board on Twitter, you can follow them @allaboutpork or on Facebook at The Other White Meat Campaign.