Tailgate party

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Tailgate party

A tailgate party (also called tailgating , from the English word “tailgate” = “tailgate”, in this case “trunk” or “loading area”) is an event from the USA that usually takes place in the run-up to American football games. Tailgate parties are held primarily in the US and Canada and are considered an American tradition.

Tailgating

For tailgating, American football fans sometimes meet several hours before the start of the game in the parking lots in front of the stadiums to eat and drink together. Typical elements of the Tailgate parties are barbecues and grilling as well as the consumption of beer and other alcoholic beverages. The food and drinks are often served directly from the loading areas of the pick-ups or from the trunk of the sports fan’s cars, which is known as tailgatingled. The Tailgate parties will continue during the football game as well. According to a study, up to 35 percent of Tailgate attendees only attend the parking event and not the football game. Tailgate parties at college team games, e.g. B. the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , are viewed as a student ritual . Several generations of alumni often come together. Alcohol consumption is a serious problem that the university administrations are trying to counter with rules and interventions.

When tailgating, recreational or drinking games such as cornhole and beer pong are often played.

Tailgate parties are now also held as part of other sports such as baseball or basketball or other events such as weddings .

history

The origins of the Tailgate parties have not been handed down with sufficient reliability. Some historians date the first such events to the beginning of the 20th century at Yale University and the Ivy League games played there . Author Rich Marazzi states that Charley Loftus, then the university's director of sports information, may have coined the term tailgating. Other American football historians place the first Tailgate parties in Green Bay in 1921, when the Green Bay Packers joined the American Professional Football Association , the forerunner of today's National Football League ; however, there are no secure records for this either. The Tailgate parties are said to have established themselves in professional football by the 1960s and 1970s at the latest.

The American Tailgaters Association refers to the events surrounding the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 as a precursor to tailgating, as civilians are said to have gathered around the battlefield during this battle to watch the conflict; they would have consumed numerous foods and alcoholic beverages together.

miscellaneous

The Briton Adam Goldstein attended Tailgate parties at all stadiums of the US National Football League from 2006 . He published his experiences in 2014 in the book Tailgate to Heaven - A British NFL Fan Tackles America .

At stadiums that are located on rivers or lakes, tailgate parties are held, which do not take place on cars in parking lots, but on boats, these are known as sailgating . Examples of this are the events at Neyland Stadium at the University of Tennessee or at Baylor University in Waco , Texas.

literature

  • Adam Goldstein: Tailgate to Heaven - A British NFL Fan Tackles America . Potomac Books, Washington, DC 2012, ISBN 978-1-59797-692-3 (English).
  • Holger Weishaupt: Everything about American football . 2nd Edition. tredition, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7482-1710-7 .
  • Martin J. Gannon, Rajnandini Pillai: Understanding Global Cultures . SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2012, ISBN 978-1-4129-5789-2 , pp. 249 ff . (English).

Web links

Commons : Tailgate parties  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Weishaupt: Everything about American football. Chapter Tailgate & Super Bowl Barbeque.
  2. ↑ NFL Tradition: The Parking Lot Parties. Der Spiegel, September 26, 2011, accessed on March 2, 2021 .
  3. ^ A b Mary Beth Albright: History of Tailgating. National Geographic, November 5, 2014, accessed March 2, 2021 .
  4. ^ Matthew D. Krasowski: Alcohol and tailgating at football games. Oxford University Press, August 30, 2016, accessed April 9, 2021 .
  5. ↑ David Needy: Tailgate tradition in football - When beer and ribs fraternize Americans. n-tv, September 29, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2021 .
  6. ^ A b c Matt Osgood: War, Beheadings, and Booze: A Brief History of Tailgating. vice.com, November 14, 2014, accessed March 2, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Why have tailgate parties not spread to the UK? BBC, August 16, 2014, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Sailgating. Baylor University, accessed March 2, 2021 .