Take a walk on the wild side ...
When we first arrived at the Georgia Dome, around 7 am, only the pros were on the scene. We found Kyle Vaughn setting up his amazing tailgating trailer near the blue lot, and up in the Marshalling Yard where they park the RVs and busses, the staff from Chef Vic's was setting up a huge tailgate party for the employees of Quaker Oats.
We setup next to the other RVs, and busted out the new Camp Chef Griddle (with 3 burners of cooking surface!) to cook up some pancakes and bacon for our neighbors.
Jay tossed in some cinnamon chips and came up with a tasty tailgating treat that smelled amazing and reminded us of the churros back home.
Our neighbors in the Marshalling Yard loved the Cinnamon Chip Pancakes, too. Almost as much as they loved our free stuff!
When the group from the American Legion in Columbus discovered our goody-bags and give-aways, we had a great time signing them up for the Pep Squad and hooking them up with aprons, shirts, boxers, and bottles of Frank's RedHot Sauce.
Jay grilled up a batch of Whiskey Ribs (inspired by our visit to the Jack Daniel's Distillery earlier in the week) that were sticky and sweet and fell off the bone. Yumm.
At Taste-off Time, Nate Edge took home the title, and the new Camp Chef Explorer Grill, for his recipe for the Falcon's "Souper" Bowl.
All his tailgating friends in the Yellow Lot were proud, and posed for photos with Nate and his new grill.
After the game, the party kept going (despite a disappointing loss to Tampa Bay) and we decided to explore the lots on the other side of the stadium.
All day we'd been told by fans that the "real tailgating goes on over in the gulch".
And they were right.
We found the areas around the Orange Lot and Lot A still going strong.
Our favorite ride of the day was Tom Dunn's Falcon "Fanbulance", a surplus buy complete with the lights and some stuff (like a television) most ambulances don't have!
Everywhere we walked, pots were steaming, fish was frying, and grills smoked away in the dusk.
Leo was stirring what remained of his TUB of gumbo, while his brother finished up cooking the last of several hundred chicken wings.
Beneath the overpasses, cars were crammed into every corner and bass beats echoed while tailgaters danced, and ate, and drank into the night.
Photo of the Week !
In Atlanta, they start their boys young on the road to pro-football. During the tailgate, local boys Briston and Justin taught Frankie to throw, catch, and TACKLE!
Friends of the Tour !
Our new "favorite bartender"! Toni from Bottoms Up! was hired by Vertical Synergies to keep their tailgate party going with her great Bloody Mary's and tasty "chocolate cake" shooters.
And...
we discovered she just happens to be married to one the musicians responsible for the 80's smash hit, "Pac-Man Fever"! How cool is that?
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