I don’t know about you, but one of the things that gets me fired up for the football season is the thought of getting my ass out of bed at 7 a.m. to eat half a cow and drink enough booze to make me forget the football game I am about to attend. But if you’re going to do the tailgate thing right, it’s not about the food, it’s all about the vehicle.

Sure you can half ass it with one of those dinky team flags clipped on your window, but a real tailgater has a vehicle dedicated to roughly eight to twelve uses a year. Beyond that, the vehicle is proudly parked in the driveway as a reminder to the wife that if she pisses you off, you’re going to paint your team’s logo on the side of the house.

So here are almost thirty examples of people who know how tailgating is done right.

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