Filled with parking lot tips and recipes for the 50 million tailgaters nationwide, this handy resource offers every need-to-know detail sports fans must have to enjoy the ultimate tailgating experience.

Whether you tailgate in the Muni Lot with hoards of other Browns fans or in the backyard with the neighbors, you'll enjoy the inspiring party mix of useful tips and fun stories in this book. Reporter Peter Chakerian spent a year hanging with the city's most dedicated tailgaters to uncover the food, games, clothes, and gear that make Browns tailgating such a wild pastime. It's filled with their suggestions for where and how to tailgate, as well as their favorite tailgating tales. It's a celebration for the veteran tailgater--and a great introduction for newbies.

When it comes to the game-day tailgate, be it at home or at the stadium, there’s no playing around. The perfect gift for sports fans who love great food, this cookbook contains 150 tailgate-ready recipes, from kick-off appetizers to victory-dance desserts, that are sure to score big. Tailgating and viewing parties are events in and of themselves, and this book will help you plan and prep ahead of time so you can serve up fast, easy, and savory crowd-pleasers. With recipes like Double-Play Chicken Skewers, Bases Loaded Potato Salad, High Octane Chili, Show-Your-Colors Fruit Salad, Pit Crew Brownies, and so much more, it’s all the classic game-day fare you love and taking it to the next level to be shared and won over by all!

A de facto American national holiday and phenomenon, the Super Bowl claims a spot as one of the most significant sporting events in the world and the most widely celebrated, feasted and feasting event of the year— with $14+ billion at stake, commercials costing $7 million for a 30-second spot, record-setting broadcast ratings, and 113+ million viewers. More avocados (105 million pounds) are consumed, and more beer is drunk (325 million gallons) on the single day of Superbowl Sunday. But there is much more at play than partying at our annual sports extravaganza, as this scholarly researched yet readable volume demonstrates: Here you will read a historical perspective that includes discussions of the meta-event’s economics (stakeholders, host cities, advertising, gambling, and media), fandom, ratings, halftime entertainment, the roles of mythic spectacle and religion, football’s sexist, militaristic language, gender issues like cheerleaders and sex trafficking, the Puppy Bowl, medical concerns like concussions and violence, tailgating and foodie ideas—all along with tidbits about your favorite team(s) and player(s). Touchdown!

There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory. In September 2006, popular sports columnist and lifelong University of Tennessee fan Clay Travis set out on his "Dixieland Delight Tour." Without a single map, hotel reservation, or game ticket, he began an 8,000-mile journey through the beating heart of the Southland. As Travis toured the SEC, he immersed himself in the bizarre game-day rituals of the common fan, brazenly dancing with the chancellor's wife at a Vanderbilt frat party, hanging with University of Florida demigod quarterback Tim Tebow, and abandoning himself totally to the ribald intensity and religious fervor of SEC football. Dixieland Delight is Travis's hilarious, loving, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining chronicle of a season of ironic excess in a world that goes a little crazy on football Saturdays.

The Bad Driver’s Handbook: Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to Frustrate, Annoy, and Endanger Those Around You debunks the myths of the “good” and “bad” driver by describing in detail the liberating truths about driving that have long been suppressed. Novice and experienced drivers—along with those who are bewildered by the utopian fantasies about driving found in the typical DMV handbook—will find all of their questions answered by authors Larry and Zack Arnstein, who offer comical commentary and tongue-in-cheek observations on such bad driving techniques as: Bribes, Threats and Other Secrets to Getting Your License Intimidating Pedestrians Making Your Car Louder Turn Signals: Why Give Up the Element of Surprise? Tailgating: How Close Is Not Close Enough? Sleeping at the Wheel (Do’s & Don’ts) Motorcycles: Faster, Cooler, Safer! Driving When You Can No Longer See

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.