The great pastime of tailgating goes back all the way to ancient times, when Romans used to eat, like, burnt turkey legs and fermented ox tails while hanging around the Colosseum before watching a bunch of animals kill people.
And for as long as there have been tailgates, there’s been people competing to have the best setup. It’s the game inside the game.
That’s especially true at the Grove, a hallowed spectacle of pre-game and post-game festivities unlike any other, nestled in the heart of a campus older than the majority of the United States (don’t Google it, dork).