Mid-Week Eye Candy Wrapper #17: You’re Fired Edition

September 24, 2008 in Mailbag

So Matt Millen got the boot out of Detroit for a decade of sucking and making bad draft picks. I guess falling in love with first round wide receivers is not all it is cracked up to be. So in honor of Matt getting canned today I offer you Holly Weber, Miss Freedom Grill 2008, whom I am sure you would never want to fire.


Chicago Bears Ban On Ticketless Tailgaters The Focus On CLTV

August 14, 2008 in Tailgating Ideas

In the wake of shortened tailgating times now in place at Qualcomm Stadium, Giants Stadium and now Candlestick Park in San Francisco, fans in Chicago are complaining they can’t tailgate after the game starts. Bears fans have not had their tailgating time cut before the games but there is an ordinance in place that tailgaters lingering in the parking lots around Soldier Field will be asked to go inside the game or vacate the parking lot.

Garrard McClendon, a host on the Chicago based CLTV station, recently devoted his entire show to taking the Bears management to task on this policy. It has surfaced on YouTube in three segments. Sit back and see what they are mad about out in the Windy City. Do they have a legitimate complaint in the wake of all of the reductions in tailgating time before the game at other stadiums?

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Soldier Field Parking Now Available Online

July 25, 2008 in Tailgating Ideas

Anyone that has been to Chicago’s Soldier field knows that parking there is quite limited. The overall tailgating experience suffers because of this fact and many fans would have to get to the lots so early that some would start lining up at 4 am. Although I admire that kind of commitment to tailgating a 3 am wake up call is tough on the body. (Especially after a long night on Rush Street.)

Standard Parking, the company that owns and operates the parking lots around Soldier Field, is offering Chicago Bears tailgaters the opportunity to buy their parking passes in advance and online. Buying stuff online? What a concept!

And don’t think that you can be a venture capitalist and buy up all the spaces and then start selling them off on game days for a profit. You’ll need to have a Bears ID which I am assuming is your Bears season ticket account number.

Bravo to Soldier Field for thinking ahead and having the tailgater in mind for once. Can you convince the folks at Qualcomm Stadium to do the same? If so that would make my life as a tailgater a lot easier this coming season.