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Tailgating Tips For Your Pre-Game Party
By Leslie BlumensteinThe practice of tailgating is most closely associated with football, but the truth is that tailgating parties take place at all kinds of events from baseball games to NASCAR races. So get your sports party invitations sent out and throw a party! Sporting events and now even concerts have become perfect excuses to get together before the event and have a tailgate party. As you are setting up your party in the parking lot or adjacent field, here are some Tailgate tips for your pre-game party. Here's a checklist to help you remember all your tailgating essentials: Tarps, ropes, chairs, tables, seat cushions - some of those stadium seats are pretty hard Weather protection - sunscreen, layered clothing or an umbrella, you need to check ahead on the weather ...
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Football Fun Facts
- There are 32 NFL Football Teams.
- There can be no more than 53 players on an active NFL team roster. There is a stipulation that a team may only carry 45 players on its game day roster, so the team must decide each week on which 8 players will be inactive.
- Jay Berwanger was the top selection in the first-ever NFL draft in 1936. But his asking price of $25,000 for two seasons was too high, and he never signed a contract and instead took a job as a foam-rubber salesman.
- In 1902, the first attempt a pro-football league, the National Football League (NFL) was made up of the Pittsburgh Stars, Philadelphia Athletics and the Philadelphia Phillies.
- The first night football game ever played was held in 1902. The two teams were Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Athletics won the first night football game, 39-0.
- NFL players were required to wear helmets in games for the first time in 1943.
- The name "Super Bowl" is credited to Lamar Hunt, architect of the AFL and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. The inspiration came to him from his daughter's toy Super Ball.
- The first Super Bowl pitted Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers (13-2) against Hank Stram's Chiefs (12-2-1) and was played before 61,946 fans in Los Angeles' 100,000-seat Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967. The Packers took the game 35-10.
