Tailgating Ideas

If your tailgating set-up could use a little sprucing up, Tailgating Ideas and AT&T have teamed up to help take your #Tailgatingfail and turn it into a #Techgating victory.

Tailgating Ideas is giving away an AT&T Gift Card valued at $500. The gift card can be used to purchase all kinds of technology, including AT&T U-Verse to take your tailgating to the #techgating level.

Entry to win the $500 gift card is simple and free. All you need to do is submit your entry via any three different social media channels, all of which are free. Submission via any combination of the three channels can only help increase your chances of making the top 10. Three ways to enter:

1. Submit a photo or Vine video via Twitter. Submissions should embody why you should win the $500 AT&T gift card. Show us how your tailgate party could stand to be upgraded with the latest technology and #techgating devices. Make sure to tag @TailgatingIdeas in your tweet and also use the hashtag #Techgating.

2. Submit a photo or Instagram video via Instagram of how you are #techgating during game day. Same criteria that applies to the Twitter submissions will apply for Instagram submissions. We want to see why your tailgating crew could use an upgrade in technology and how a $500 AT&T gift card would get you there. Make sure to tag @tailgatingideas and use the hashtag #techgating in your submission.

3. Submit a video of yourself and your tailgating crew showing us how you are #techgating and explaining why you should win the $500 gift card. Tell us what you would spend the $500 AT&T gift card on and how it will help you take your tailgating experience to the next level. Publish the video to YouTube or Vimeo and send us the link via email through our Contact page.

Deadline to submit entries is November 23, 2014 at midnight Pacific Time. During the week of November 24th through December 1st, the top 10 finalists picked by the Tailgating Ideas staff will be posted to the website. There you and friends will be able to vote for your favorite submission. The top three entries receiving the most votes will be considered by the Tailgating Ideas staff to determine the final winner of the gift card. The Tailgating Ideas staff will ultimately decide the winner while considering voting results as a major determining factor. Winner will be notified December 3, 2014.

Best of luck and make sure to share this on all of your social media channels. $500 for #techgating supplies can go a long way. Good luck and get those submissions in before the November 23rd deadline.

No matter where you live in the United States, chances are you are fully aware that most of the country is buried in snow. The airlines have been forced to cancel hundreds of flights due to the weather and people are shoveling out tons of snow everywhere. So we thought it appropriate to include a little snow bunny as this week’s eye candy. Enjoy and try to stay warm no matter where you are. Links follow the eye candy:

• Join us on our Tailgating Ideas Facebook Fan Page
• While we’re being all social media, feel free to follow Tailgating Ideas on Twitter too
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• Editorial: UGA students must earn tailgate changes
• Senior Bowl tailgating secret: Be one big, happy family
• Enter the Super Sucky Sweepstakes and you could win swag from Ref You Suck
• UGA considers easing tailgate rules
• Offer up a Coke Cheers and for each “Coke Cheers” submitted, Coca-Cola will donate $1 to Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Triple Play program
• Tailgating decor

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.

Last week we featured a video of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleaders attending the Howl-O-Scream event at Busch Gardens. That was just a warm up for the coming weekend which featured NFL games being played on October 31st. Most NFL cheer squads dress in Halloween outfits on the home game that is closest to Halloween but this year, Halloween fell on a Sunday. So if you didn’t go to an NFL game this Sunday, here is a taste of what you missed. Links to follow:

• Join us on our Tailgating Ideas Facebook Fan Page
• While we’re being all social media, feel free to follow Tailgating Ideas on Twitter too
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• Last Football Game = First Tailgating
• Game Plan for the Perfect Game-Day Tailgate
• Eastern Kentucky Homecoming offers everyone a time for tailgating and traditions
• Guide to tailgating at Buffalo Bills games
• Tips for a Fabulous Tailgate
• The Tailgate Party and Liability
• Tailgating opportunities build up school, team spirit at University of South Dakota
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• Tailgating at the Towson vs. Rhode Island Game
• Gameday in Tempe – Part One – The atmosphere
• Steelers Tailgate party more than just a fun gathering
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• Friday I’m in Love with Tailgate Technology
• Changes to UNLV student tailgating policy
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• Tailgate parties are ruined by yellow napkins

We’ve all had one too many while tailgating. But I am not sure if we all have tried to take a nap in our tailgating chair. And I highly doubt that any of us have ever been so hammered we have been dumped out of said chair and not been able to figure out if we were pushed rather than figuring we fell out on our own. Or maybe this guy knew Ohio State was going to lose their No. 1 ranking after only having it for a whole week and decided getting blasted was the better option. Links follow the video:

• Join us on our Tailgating Ideas Facebook Fan Page (If we can get 300 fans by Halloween we’ll give away a free Drill Blender to one fan selected randomly.)
• While we’re being all social media, feel free to follow Tailgating Ideas on Twitter too
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• Strongsville students flock to inaugural football tailgate party
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• Dairy Council of Arizona has some healthy alternatives to typical tailgating foods
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• USC Tailgating experience in jeopardy?
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• Candidates meet voters with pre-game tailgates
• USC Cracks Down on Beer Pong, Loud Music at Tailgates
• In Kansas: For the love of pre-game
• Tailgating Pitt dental student style
• Finding the Perfect Tailgating Food
• Gameday crime changes UTEP tailgating rules
• The Arizona Cardinals Want To Destroy Tailgating In Favor Of Money
• Houston Texans Turn Tailgaters Into Dollars
• Tailgating in style: Far, far beyond hot dogs and beer
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• MSU vs. U-M: Who tailgates better?
• PTA May Lose $10K If Tailgating Not Allowed
• Family Tailgate Party Raises Money for Flood Victims
• Houston Texans new policy keeps lots free of nonpaying fans — but not gripes
• Testing a timeless tradition of tailgating
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