Exactly who deserves credit for inventing the tailgate party is a matter of great dispute. Yale, which was a pigskin powerhouse back in the days of the flying wedge, claims that its fans were the first to tote picnic baskets to ball games. In Green Bay, Wis., they say Packers backers had the brainstorm of serving lunch from the tailgates of their pickup trucks, whereas regulars at the annual Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville—a multiday bacchanal of feasting and booze—brag that they conceived the ultimate innovation of making the football a mere footnote to the party outside the stadium.
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