In the next few days you will notice that TailgatingIdeas.com will have a new look and will also have some new content. Cut to the chase, Tailgating Ideas will be partnering with a brand new magazine called Tailgating Digest.

Since starting this website back in 2007 in response to the lack of tailgating ideas and scarcity of general tailgating information out there on the web, we have striven to provide you the best content for tailgaters written by tailgaters themselves. When we were approached by the people behind starting Tailgating Digest, we were impressed with their passion and commitment to bringing the best tailgating information to the print medium as well as maintaining a high standard on the web.

Just because we have chosen to partner with Tailgating Digest doesn’t mean that you will miss any of the things you have come to enjoy about Tailgating Ideas. If you have us in your bookmarks, you won’t have to change anything. You will still be able to reach us by going to www.tailgatingideas.com. We will still continue to post tailgating product reviews, news aggregates, recipes, tailgating cartoons, humor pieces, tailgating videos and anything else we think tailgaters might enjoy. Even though the look and the feel of the website may be changing, the content and what you have come to expect from us will not.

As far as our partnership with Tailgating Digest goes, you will have the opportunity to not only sign up for a free copy of the digital edition of the magazine but you can enter to win cash in the Tailgating Digest $10,000 Giveaway! The digital edition of Tailgating Digest will include articles and opinion pieces written by real tailgaters with real tailgating experiences and knowledge. The articles you will find in Tailgating Digest will only be available in the magazine so subscribing is the best way to ensure you will be getting all the tailgating information you can handle. The content you will find in the magazine will have the same high standards you have come to know from us over the years on the web. No cutting and pasting of press releases. No stroke piece product reviews. And no selling out. All of the members of our writing staff have been invited to join the team of contributors for Tailgating Digest. Content in the magazine will be exclusive to the magazine and by subscribing to the digital edition, you will get that content for free.

Tailgating Digest will be a Bi-Monthly magazine launching in the spring with the focus on tailgating and the tailgate party lifestyle. Here is a look at the editorial focus of each upcoming issue of Tailgating Digest.

March/April – Basketball and NFL Draft
Basketball tailgating? See it to believe it! Plus, our readers tell us their favorite NFL draft picks!

May/June – Baseball
Tantalizing recipes shared by baseball tailgating fanatics! Plus, a peek at the big college lacrosse final tournaments.

July/August – Football Training Camp
Tailgaters take to the streets and nearby parking lots at football training camps! And, get out your green jacket… we’re going to tailgate at the Masters Golf Tournament!

September/October – Football
See the winning photos from our “Extreme Football Tailgaters” contest! Tailgating on ice?? A look at college hockey.

November/December – Football and Holiday Gift Guide
Cold weather football fan…atics! Plus, a holiday shopper’s guide of tailgating goodies to add to your wish list.

A great magazine and website is built on content. Both Tailgating Ideas and Tailgating Digest understand this ideal very well. Nobody wants rehashed content. You want fresh, unbiased and engaging content. We are committed to bringing this to the web and in magazine form.

If you would like to suggest what you want to see in a tailgating magazine, feel free to leave a comment below and tell us. Giving you the tailgaters what you want is the top priority.

Be watching in the days ahead for these new changes and don’t forget to enter the $10,000 Giveaway!

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Breaking from our normal topic of all tailgating all the time, we wanted to share with you some of our favorite Super Bowl commercials from the past 10 to 15 years. Keep in mind that this collection of ads were not voted “the best” by the USA Today Ad Meter but merely are the ones we thought we the most creative and humorous in our opinion. In no particular order:

Snickers starring Betty White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA7-31Cxc2I

Volkswagen – The Force

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

Reebok – Terry Tate Office Linebacker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

Doritos – Laundromat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMghffhJes

Etrade – Milkaholic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CML4ukjUDR4

Godaddy – Proceedings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_1gE83cx7M

Visa – Snow Volleyball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J2Sr7ZXDZs

Doritos – House sitting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCdnFMp6s84

If you believe we left your favorite off this list, feel free to suggest it in the comments section below.

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(Please excuse the idiots walking in front of the camera. Apparently the red light on the front of it wasn’t enough to let them know they should walk around behind it.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlAarX3E6W0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJEIGGS2PA

To learn more about the TurboChill, visit their website at turbochill.com

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LOS ANGELES STADIUM

INSPIRED BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA…DESIGNED FOR THE NFL

As football fans prepare for Super Bowl XLVI, the team at Majestic Realty is preparing the next great sports destination in Southern California, Los Angeles Stadium.

Los Angeles Stadium is our vision for the future of the NFL in our region. Shovel ready, we maintain a philosophy that our final product should draw from two key principles:

1. Football is a fundamentally different experience for fans than other sports.
2. We must capture the Southern California Lifestyle.

With those two principles in mind and a 600-acre blank canvas, we are designing what will become the greatest football experience in NFL history.

FOOTBALL ISN’T FOOTBALL UNLESS YOU CAN TAILGATE

Like most fans, we believe that football isn’t football unless you can tailgate. Football is the only sport where each week the pregame and post-game is just as important as what takes place on the field. We understand this philosophy and take it to heart. This is why we believe our location is the best for the NFL and offers the league and the future team no compromises. We have no compromises on parking, tailgating, traffic woes, retail destinations and other amenities for the fans.

Our location allows us to draw from four counties and over 15.5 million fans and is based on the top stadium models in the NFL like Dallas, New England, Miami, Washington and other areas. Because of our location, you won’t have to fight traffic and you won’t have to search for parking.

(Also a unique and strategic part of our stadium design is we will build in a way that prevents car and pedestrian traffic from intersecting. This big thing is often overlooked but will drastically reduce the amount of traffic issues.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuHMqQnv5BE

600 ACRES!!! OPEN SPACE IS KEY TO A GOOD TAILGATE

With 600 acres, we can work with fans and the league to design a perfect tailgate and one that resembles the Southern California Lifestyle. For instance, our plans include wave pools for surfing, mountain walls for rock climbing and a one of a kind skate park for future X-Games.

In addition, we will have unbelievable amounts of open space that will allow for traditional tailgate activities. Fans don’t want to sit at a chain restaurant and they don’t like the idea of being cornered in a parking garage where you can’t see the sun and you have no place to tailgate. They want to show up with a grill, a cooler, a big screen, an RV or a truck and enjoy the day. Because our location is outside of the urban core, we have plenty of space and on-site parking so you don’t have to walk. And for those who want to take public transportation, we will have an on-site Metro Link station and one of the largest bus staging sites in the area. (But we know you can’t transport your grill via bus…which is why fewer than 8,000 fans use public transportation to football games in NYC.)

WE NEED YOUR INPUT

Here is the fun part…We are looking for fans, enthusiasts and tailgating experts to share with us some of the best ideas for the future development of our site. Do you have an idea on how to make our site unique to Southern California or do you have thoughts on how we can upgrade the quality of a traditional tailgate?

If so, we need to hear from you. This stadium will be designed for the fans and for the ultimate tailgate experience.

Also, please check out the official LA Stadium website at www.lastadium.la

Follow LA Statdium on social networks:
Facebook.com/lastadium
Twitter.com/lastadium
YouTube.com/lastadium

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One in particular stood out and it is called BasketPong. Since beer pong is the fastest growing tailgating game in the parking lot amongst tailgaters, we were pleasantly surprised to see a new twist on an old game. You see, BasketPong takes the game play of beer pong and combines it with elements of basketball to make a completely new game. We met with Paul and Richard out in Las Vegas and had a chance to put together this video interview demonstrating how to set up and play BasketPong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYuRsRNiEM

If you chose to skip the video, BasketPong comes in it’s own self-contained carrying case and sets up in minutes. Everything you need to play is contained within the game case. All you need to do is provide the beer and plastic cups and you are ready to play vertical beer pong in less than 90 seconds. Even the easiest of traditional beer pong tables do not set up that fast. And with stadium parking lots reducing tailgating times around the country, every minute counts when it comes to your tailgating time. Take a look at the photos we took along each step of setting up the BasketPong.

We were able to not only test and review the BasektPong beer pong game out in Las Vegas but we also tested the game once we got home. After setting up the game and playing it a few times we discovered a few things we had not noticed while out at the Tailgate Show.

One thing we liked is that you can use the backboard to help bank in the ball and make it into the cup. NBA players may lose style points for using the backboard but not in beer pong. Also, while playing with a friend, we transitioned into playing a game of H-O-R-S-E in that when one player would make a cup, if the other player failed to hit the same cup, the missing player had to drink the cup. We’re sure that once you play the game you can come up with a few rules and changes that suit you and your group of friends.

Another aspect we enjoyed was the fact that it does not take up a lot of room in your tailgating space. Normally while tailgating and wanting to play beer pong, you need to find a 8′ x 2′ space under your canopy so as to not spill out into your tailgating neighbor’s space. With BasketPong, less space is needed. Also, set up and break down is fast and easy meaning you will have more time playing and tailgating and less time setting up.

After seeing this product in Las Vegas and also testing one of our own, we are definitely going to give BasketPong the Tailgating Ideas “Tailgate Approved” stamp of approval. We enjoyed this product so much and think it would be a valuable addition to your tailgating gear that we have added it to our online tailgating gear store.

BasketPong is priced at $119.99 plus $14 flat rate shipping to the lower 48 states. Click HERE to learn more about BasketPong and how to take your beer pong game vertical.

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Simply stated, the Shotgun Champ is a plastic cup that has a hexagonal slotted pyramid at the base that punctures a hole in the base of your beer can. There is a mouth piece at the side of the cup where you will receive your beer rapidly. And when we say rapidly, we mean really fast. The Shotgun Champ is designed to empty a 12 oz can in less than two seconds. Repeat: 2 Seconds!

In order to use the Shotgun Champ you will need 1) a 12 oz. (or larger) aluminum can 2) a hard flat surface 3) a willingness to pound beer really fast. Here is how you use the Shotgun Champ.

1. Place the can upside down on any flat surface. Tables are the preferred surface but a unfolded tailgate will work or even the ground.
2. Put the Shotgun Champ on the base of the can and tap it to slightly puncture a small hole in the can.
3. Push the Shotgun Champ down onto the can until it locks
4. Lift the can up and place the mouthpiece in your mouth while the can is still mostly upside down.
5. Bring the can up and pop open the top of the can.
6. Drink the contents until gone.

If you need a video tutorial, here is one followed by a brief demonstration of two people trying the Shotgun Champ for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6e8F3zF1LE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4xezcgl6fc

We enjoyed this product and the effectiveness it brings to shotgunning that we have decided to offer it in our online tailgating gear store. You can get your own Shotgun Champ from Shop.TailgatingIdeas.com for $6.95 plus $5 priority mail shipping. The better news is that if you buy two Shotgun Champs we will charge you the same shipping price as if you bought just one. After all, who wants to shotgun all by themselves? Get the Shotgun Champ HERE.

Consuming large quantities of alcohol can be hazardous to your health and should be avoided. This product is a novelty item and is not intended for use as a means to consume large quantities of alcohol. The user may consume larger quantities of fluid in a shorter period of time than drinking without this product. Users of this product are hereby advised that they are responsible for what they consume out of this product. Using beer/alcohol in this product will result in quick elevations in blood alcohol level, and intoxication will occur more quickly and more intensely than consuming fluids without this product. This product should never be used, or furnished to persons fewer than 21 years of age. Use this product responsibly and in conjunction with state and federal laws regarding alcohol consumption. The user assumes all risks in any way associated with the use of this product. Tailgating Ideas does not promote excessive alcohol consumption. DRINK RESPONSIBLY AND DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE.

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