"Your team can't always be great, but the tailgating is."

We might even throw in some tailgating (more on that later).

But men alone seem to see tailgating's parking lot spirituality.

The tailgating and the trash-talking were fine, but a stadium does not make a program or a rivalry legitimate.

She enjoys the tailgating as much as I do."

They have withstood the tailgating of the Orioles.

Tailgating has been on steroids for years, expanding from box lunch to bar mitzvah proportions.

"The tailgating, the excitement, it's electric here," he said.

The linemen's tailgating has been a postgame rallying point for players from both sides of the football.

I relish preparing for each new storm the way other people get ready for big football games, especially the tailgating."

Tailgating will start in early afternoon.

He will cut back his tailgating to four months a year, and his bride will join him for the occasional weekend.

Tailgating has long since progressed from chips and cold sandwiches to sophisticated buffets complete with tablecloths.

In January 2012 the venue posted that tailgating would be returning with a set of rules posted on their website.

Iowa State is well regarded for Tailgating.

For many years, there were few bars or restaurants nearby where fans could gather, and tailgating was expressly forbidden in most parking areas.

"Another facet of the project is figuring out the effect tailgating has on the likelihood and severity of an accident.

But as more affluent alumni embrace high-dollar tailgating, they often bring a new level of sophistication to pregame drinking.

Tailgating, which originated in the United States, often involves consuming alcoholic beverages and grilling food.

In years past, the area had been a game-day parking lot where actual tailgating took place, but school officials banned cars there about 15 years ago.

"If it wasn't for the family and the tailgating, I couldn't do it," Chris Clarke conceded.

The Minnesota Kicks are remembered for the tailgating in the Metropolitan Stadium parking lot.

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Madden is the author of a book entitled John Madden's Ultimate Tailgating, released in 1998.

Worse than their habit of passing in the midst of oncoming traffic is the delight Portuguese take in high-speed tailgating.

But the truck held on, tailgating them only two or three feet away.

People attending such a party are said to be tailgating.

I've seen an awful lot of tailgating going up and down the state during the last two months.

But tailgating was decades away when the Bowl first opened.

Many fans who were tailgating here today supported the new policy.

She didn't want him tailgating all the way back to town.

When flying in a group, the birds tailgate each other.

Once there was a man in a black Mercedes who tailgated us for at least two miles.

The game is often played while tailgating at sporting events.

"If they get rid of tailgating, what else is there to do?"

It used to be enough to see the guy tailgating you nailed by the police two miles up the road.

"Now they tailgate, but a larger majority of kids actually go into the game.

"Where I tailgate, a lot of guys who sit out there were already struggling," he said.

He's not pushing the cars in front of him into the center lane by tailgating.

Conversely, if you are being tailgated, just let the offender go by.

Other cars are tailgating there, so pretty hard to stop without car becoming a bit shorter.

The crowd swelled to about 1,100, some of whom had tailgated for hours.

The scene looks like a football tailgating party, only toned down.

It's so nice to be back with the people we've tailgated with for years.

"You're not tailgating from the back of a pickup truck," he said.

But if the stadium is built, he said, tailgating will be a moot point.

We are now tailgating a truck filled with soldiers in green uniforms.

Like the old days of the Giants, they'll be tailgating."

Tailgating in the parking lot before the shows made these rock concerts all day parties.

"So, we're in heavy traffic, a lot of people tailgate."