***Winners announced *** Share your craziest tailgate memory, win a day in BBQ Paradise

Set up on Thursday. Went shopping for beer, food, etc.. on Friday. Showed up on Saturday morning (around 7:30 for a 7 ko). GAME WAS AWAY.

stood there puzzled because was a kid and was with my parents.

There are probably a lot of crazy stories that I don't remember...but should. One good one off hand would be when Mike the Tiger walked through before the North Texas game last year and we talked him into hitting the slip-n-slide. He probably immediately regretted it after being soaked and gaining 30lbs.

yes he did indeed

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i would have to say BilJ wins, but he must bring H.B. to the BBQ Paradise as a date

Because the App St game was so early (10AM) I decided to start tailgating at 3:30 am. A couple of friends and I did 2 power hours and ran around yelling in everyones appartments to get up cause it was game day. Ran to the stadium but I left my ticket at our tailgate so I ran back to get my ticket, got into the game then took a nice nap till gametime! Best tailgate ever.

I didn't get to tailgate very much before the games but after one of the games we stopped by some wonderful tailgaters in the RV lot and they gave us a few beers to drink for our walk to our vehicles. Of course my friends and I were cordial enough to hang out with them and drink a few before we went on our merry way.

Well it became a small tradition to stop by every weekend and grab a couple from the nice tailgaters and hang out for a bit. Not a crazy experience but definitely a great memory.

Isn't there a video for that?

Tailgate table slide

Sorry for making this so long but it's a story.
It was Tulane a couple years back. My brother in law (Steve) is a lawyer who graduated from Tulane. He wanted to have a big party and roast a pig for the game. Our father in law and I decided that we would do it.
The tulane grad, got a huge camper and parked it in the parking lot for campers on thursday night. Turns out they were parked next to Chuck Wiley's mom and dad. Our pig pit is on a flat bed trailer and they needed room for the trailer, so they asked Wiley to please move their camper a little bit. Steve ended up having to pay them some cash to move their camper.
Anyway, when they were pulling the trailer into the parking lot, the cop said that it would be ok to have the trailer in the lot because of the pit. We started rolling (cooking) the pig at 4:00 Saturday morning (we got there at 3:00).
At 9:00, the same cop that let us in shows up and says we might need to move the trailer because they are not allowed in the camper parking lot, but he would try to talk to some people to let us keep it. 11:00 rolls around, and the pit is cooling so we need to add more coals. At that time he comes back and says all is well and the trailer can stay. 30 MINUTES LATER, a "sergeant", supposedly, shows up and says a tow truck is on the way, and we have ten minutes to move it or it will be towed. After trying to contest the fact that another cop let us in there with it, he would not budge.
Nine minutes later, said tow truck arrives. My father in law and I, start cutting off the pig whatever we could, and then just took the whole pig off the pit just before they towed it away. As they roll off with the pit, a trail of smoke and ash is rolling out of it down the road.
We were able to get enough meat off of it to eat, but still. An hour and a half later, we see Steve riding by with the trailer, smoke still coming out of it, bringing it to a friends house in BR.
We actually tailgate on the Chancellors steps every gameday, and have fed the last three Chancellors. We also did a massive tailgate and pig roast in a gated parking lot on Poydras St., with lawyer Steve and friends, for the National Championship in 2008. That is a long story too so I will not talk about that one. Again sorry for being so long with this.

jembeurt, are you referring to the lot @ poydras & okeefe for the tailgate of the nat championship game?