The Tao of Tailgating

This handbook is meant to guide beginning and long-time tailgaters to a higher level of enjoyment of their activity. It encompasses the planning, practice, and purpose of tailgating, with sections devoted to equipment, weather, safety, recipes, music, venues, tailgating with disabilities, courtesy, community, and philosophy. The author offers advice, insights, and his opinions acquired from more that forty years of experience tailgating in Orchard Park NY before Buffalo Bills games and on the campus of Western Michigan University before WMU Broncos games. He discusses the DOs and DON'Ts and the WHYs and WHY NOTs of tailgating, and suggests that you can find not just enjoyment, but also meaning, on an autumn morning in a parking lot if you look for it. The book includes photos of equipment, food, venues, and people enjoying themselves while engaging in, what the author maintains is, the existential activity of tailgating.