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Plan your tailgate

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Checklist

Run the list — captain ops before you roll.

  • Team Captain’s Pregame Checklist Live tool — walk the plan once before you roll (resume + print)
  • Packing & load-out Car, coolers, canopy — load order that survives the drive
  • Planning & roles Assign jobs, pack-out, leave it kinder
  • Ice Math for Twenty How much ice · how many coolers · when to refresh
  • Who brings what Assign the slices so nobody doubles the chips
  • Rookie Calm First time on the lot? What to do — and more importantly what not to do — so you help, blend in, and get invited back.
  • Guest Glory Want to be invited back? Do / don’t for timing, contribution, cleanup, and leaving the asphalt (or patio) kinder than you found it.
  • Run Team Captain’s Pregame Checklist
  • Ice Math for Twenty
  • Rookie Calm
  • Tailgating 101: Roles & checklist

Captain tool first. Packing, roles, ice math, and guest lanes sit underneath — open the card you need this weekend.

I Love To Tailgate
I Love To Tailgate
Established 2007. Game Day starts here

We didn’t invent the tailgate. We’re perfecting it — multi-sport lot hospitality with room for everyone at the table.

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