This post from the Pit brought back a ton of memories from our trip to the Orange Bowl.
I remember having a sinuplasty the week leading up to the Orange Bowl, so I agreed to head up the Boards Tailgate. It started my continued tradition of being a treasurer for Boards related activity via Paypal. I met up with a few other posters at the Walmart just down the street from the stadium, and proceeded to buy out pretty much their entire beer selection which IIRC we loaded most of in the back of 94Deac's truck. DHD had brought down a tiny camping grill and we proceeded to cook on it for the rest of the day. The place we originally planned to tailgate was not available, but we ended up landing an even better location near some sort of carnival type area with a large cement sidewalk and tables. Word slowly got out that we had changed locations and we had a massive turnout. The Deacon Club buses let out at our tailgate and we had quite a few people walk up and ask to pitch in $$ if they could tailgate with us instead of going to the DC tailgate.
We lucked out and had plenty of booze and food, the bottom fell out, and a ton of posters got to meet each other that day. Mags even brought name-tags for everyone. Even though we lost, it was still and amazing time. I've only got a few of my pics that I can still find online. Feel free to add your memories or other pics from that day.
The rain, oh the rain.
Not sure what they asked or what I said, but I do remember telling them to "cut" I need more beer.
Not sure who they were, but the one in the pink sure could chug a beer.
Lots of Boards Posters here, names intentionally left off to protect the innocent.
They brought the chopper over and left it for hours on end throughout the tailgate.
At the 2006 ORANGE BOWL tailgate in Miami -- before RJKarl was a real person with a name and known business ventures on the internet -- DF2009 and I told everybody that his dad was RJKarl, and you should have seen posters freaking out. It was hilarious. Then DF2009, WFDeacon04, and I played football in the torrential rain while everybody cowered in their cars and then TSY was talking about my dad at the portajohns without knowing who I was or that I was standing behind him and then I did a profanity-laced interview with Dave Goren where I said I had been waiting "my whole life" for this kind of game and all the OLDS made fun of me because I was only like twenty at the time.
That tailgate has to be an all-time great moment in boards history.
I remember having a sinuplasty the week leading up to the Orange Bowl, so I agreed to head up the Boards Tailgate. It started my continued tradition of being a treasurer for Boards related activity via Paypal. I met up with a few other posters at the Walmart just down the street from the stadium, and proceeded to buy out pretty much their entire beer selection which IIRC we loaded most of in the back of 94Deac's truck. DHD had brought down a tiny camping grill and we proceeded to cook on it for the rest of the day. The place we originally planned to tailgate was not available, but we ended up landing an even better location near some sort of carnival type area with a large cement sidewalk and tables. Word slowly got out that we had changed locations and we had a massive turnout. The Deacon Club buses let out at our tailgate and we had quite a few people walk up and ask to pitch in $$ if they could tailgate with us instead of going to the DC tailgate.
We lucked out and had plenty of booze and food, the bottom fell out, and a ton of posters got to meet each other that day. Mags even brought name-tags for everyone. Even though we lost, it was still and amazing time. I've only got a few of my pics that I can still find online. Feel free to add your memories or other pics from that day.
The rain, oh the rain.
Not sure what they asked or what I said, but I do remember telling them to "cut" I need more beer.
Not sure who they were, but the one in the pink sure could chug a beer.
Lots of Boards Posters here, names intentionally left off to protect the innocent.
They brought the chopper over and left it for hours on end throughout the tailgate.