Hello everyone this is your host Brian Garner and welcome to Tigers tailgates
and friends. So did you think it was gonna be easy this year? With the success
the Tigers had last year and the flurry of activity going on you know here in
the preseason you better batten down the hatches. If you are not a season ticket
holder and the Mizzou ticket office has sold over 44,000 season tickets
you might be in for a bit of a bumpy ride. Let me explain. Let's let's talk
tickets. The Mizzou allotment of season tickets was sold out. Mizzou played seven
home games and as of a weekend or so ago the total number of remaining tickets
for all seven of those home games was 1,961. That's all they had left. How do
you get tickets to a game? Right now Mizzou is offering a four pack of
tickets to the first two home games for $99 which includes all you can eat hot
dogs, popcorn, and soda. Now these seats are located up in the 300 level and if
you want to get in on that you call 1-800-CATPAUSE. You better do it now
before they're gone. Another offer they are having is a real steal on hill seats.
Now they call those standing room only but everybody sits on the hill. Those are
going for about 15 bucks but you better get a hold of the ticket office to find
out. Again that number is 1-800-CATPAUSE. You better be ready for a little bit of
a wait because I'm sure here at the last second it is going to be crowded on the
phone lines. Secondary ticket market is your next option but here you're going
to be at the mercy of the secondary ticket scalpers so to speak and on top
of the horrible resale costs you're going to have they'll have fees tacked
on that you're going to have to you know pay and with the excitement building for
the potential success these prices are going to be at a premium and demand is
going to be awfully high so good luck with that. This first segment is brought
to you by Livestream STL the St. Louis leader in sports streaming service. If
you'd like to get in on the Livestream by being a sponsor when will they bring
you high school and college junior college sports the number to call there
is 314-852-4398 again that's Livestream STL. Let's talk parking. 90% of the
parking lots are permit only meaning they were assigned to season ticket
holders before the season started. Sometimes these folks if they can't go
to a game or two they'll sell their parking passes for a particular game.
There are a few public garages where you can park around the complex. These
are on a first-come first-serve basis cash only when you enter. You can go to
MUTigres.com you can go to game day and then scroll and make your way through
to parking maps all that information will be there. I believe the cost of the
public garages and the handicapped parking lot is $40. It's upped again this
year so there you have that option. There are some free garages you can park in
that are a little more toward the middle of campus. You may have to hoof it a bit
before you know before you get to the stadium but there's a couple of those. So
if you go to MUTigres.com you'll find color-coded maps with permit lots, public
parking, the ADA parking all that. The last thing about parking I think many
Mizzou fans especially the first-time Mizzou fan meaning freshman parents I
don't think you quite understand the amount of traffic and potential
congestion that's going to be you know in and around the complex. Warning leave
early or you're gonna get caught up in all that traffic trying to get into the
different tailgate lots. This is gonna be a mess. Parking lots usually open at 8 a.m.
for the games that start at noon or later and for games that start before
noon the lots typically in the past opened at 7 a.m. but again good luck with
this. Let's move on to tailgating. If you're a tailgate newbie and I say that
affectionately or if you want to say a rookie here are some helpful tips. First
tip hook up with a friend at their tailgate. You got to know somebody
that's a veteran you could hook up with them experience a great tailgate learn
the ropes and have a great time and you can do that right from the outset. If you
want to go at it for yourself here are some suggestions. Number one get a tent
that's about 10 by 10 that's the perfect size to put up behind your car. This will
keep the Sun off of you here in these hot September months. Number two bring
some chairs to sit in while you're tailgating. Number three bring food
whether it be a picnic style or if you want to cook at your tailgate we'll talk
about that a little bit later but you have options. Number four bring a table
or two to set your items on. You don't want to be setting stuff on the ground
or working out of the back of your car so a nice little table would be key.
Number five and most important here in this hot weather stuff a cooler with
whatever you want to drink but be sure while the weather's hot that you got
plenty of ice. There's nowhere around the athletic complex football stadium area
that you can get ice so you will be SOL if you don't bring plenty of ice.
Another key bring weights to attach to the legs of your tent because when you
get up there the wind starts blowing sometimes it's a nice cool breeze
sometimes it blows like crazy but it blows across the parking lots and when
you first get there like I've done early in the morning there's no wind at all
when I'm setting up but by Joe as soon as you get set up the wind starts blowing
across those hills and if you don't have your tent hunkered down with weights
your tent could get picked up and tossed around like a cork and that will ruin
your day. Every year I see several tents destroyed because people didn't have
them weighted down the wind will start blowing and you'll actually see it lift
up the tents and move them. There are sometimes people bring just minute
little weight and it's still a pick it up because the tent canopy acts as a
parachute weight down your tents. You can get as minimalistic as you wish or you
can get as extravagant as you would like with tailgating in the food. People bring
generators like myself and Rick Storey to power electrical devices they bring
different types of grills myself I've been known to bring a ninja grill that's
powered by electricity a charcoal grill a pizza oven that's powered by propane
and even a black stone that's powered by propane and there's been occasions
depending on what I'm fixing that I bring a combination of some of those so
they have a hot coal bin that's stationed around that you can dump your
coals in but there you have options there. My biggest advice for newbies and
rookies and again I use those terms lovingly is to join the Mizzou
tailgating Facebook page. The administrator is Rick Storey. This page
is a private group with over 10,000 members that was started by Rick I'm
saying maybe 10 or so years ago. It was designed to help tailgaters because
Mizzou you will not find any information on Mizzou websites about tailgating so
Rick started this page to help people with tailgating questions advice and all
the like. The members of this group are the friendliest bunch around they're
always looking to assist new folks in any aspect of the tailgating they are
warm welcoming and some will even invite you to their tailgates to get you rolling
now all you got to do to join is send a request to join the group and soon as
Rick gets home from work and he sees that request he'll hit you up you'll join
there's no test you got to take there's nothing like that you just asked to join
menus for tailgating range from the simple brats burgers and hot dogs to the
more involved for example Rick Storey and myself are known for our tailgate
meals from like biscuits and gravy french toast pancakes breakfast burritos
just to get the day started now there were some friends of mine that tailgate
right next to me where I tailgate and oh my gosh there's a they are a group of
about 20 25 people it's family and they bring grills hot oil fryers blacks that
you name it they bring it but what they do for breakfast they cook eggs bacon
pancakes sausage and biscuits it's unbelievable the stuff that they make
then once they get done with that they will move on into the lunch hour at some
point and I've seen them making fried chicken catfish french fries burgers
brought wings you're only limited by your imagination so like I said moving
into lunch meals with things like again I said jambalaya has been fixed fried
chicken ribs pork tenderloins pizza yes pizza fajitas wings brisket and Rick
Storey the administrator for Mizzou tailgating on Facebook and a dear friend
of mine when Florida comes to town Rick has a gator ship to himself and he
actually smokes a gator right there in the parking lot and serves gator when
the Florida gators come to town I'm not kidding you people don't believe it but
it happens again I said your menus only limited by your imagination and your
energy level you can do as little as you want or as much as you want a lot of
fans like myself and Rick Storey and dozens and hundreds and dozens of
others will cook up a hearty breakfast then follow that up with a very
appetizing lunch or an early dinner it depends on the game time game times
vary from 1130 a.m. to 7 p.m. kickoffs any time in between the game times are
controlled by TV networks so don't get upset with Mizzou or anybody else you
all know if you watch sports sports is controlled by the money bag networks
they will tell SEC teams and other college conferences what time they want
the games to air so they can work and get the best and biggest ratings and
those game times are usually announced a week prior to the game as for
beverages boy I'm telling you anything goes soda make sure you have plenty of
water beer liquor it all flows and plays baby at Mizzou tailgates some tailgate
parties bring bars to set up with friends to serve their guests drinks for
my vantage point in the ADA lot I can see right now in my imagination I can
see three different tailgates that bring bars assemble them put them up and they
serve drinks to their patrons right from the bars it's quite the ordeal some
tailgates are small in nature maybe three to four people are two or three
couples of friends and then you know they go up exponentially I'll give you
an example a few years ago Rick story and myself planned on heading to Wyoming
when Mizzou was taken on the Wyoming Cowboys in Laramie it started out as a
intimate little gathering now maybe eight ten twelve of us and as the word
got out on the tailgating page more and more people were going and they wanted
to join us well we found a pretty good-sized lot and everybody bought
parking passes in those lots and but I guess maybe I don't know a few days
before we left it really got crazy all of a sudden there were more and more
people contacting Rick and myself and before you know it we had about 50 or
60 people well we weren't done then on Tuesday or Wednesday before the game I
have a lot of friends that are parents of the players and before you know it
the players parents all contacted me and asked if they could join us well Rick
and I being the tailgaters that we are we said absolutely the more the merrier
suddenly the word was spread through the Mizzou tailgating page on Facebook and
on the Mizzou parents football team private page we let them know where we
were at where we're gonna be and we made plans you know for food accordingly told
people to bring stuff when we got set up that morning people were around us they
kept showing up and throughout the morning more and more kept showing up
before we could even eat a bratwurst or drink a beer there were about 85 to 100
people at our tailgate I'm not kidding you we had more fun we should have been
arrested for the fun we had needless to say it was an awesome experience that
still talked about today and there are tailgates like that happening with Rick
over in lot X where he's at they have a group over there that oh my gosh they
all get together they have TV set up they all bring food and I would say that
lot X group around Rick is probably 50 to 60 people over in the lot where I'm
at there are some days oh I don't know anywhere between oh maybe a small
gathering of 10 or 12 14 up to 40 or 50 it just people love tailgating they love
showing up and tailgating with friends or if they get the chance to park by us
they do and it turns into a great big pregame party tailgating won't always be
easy and what do I mean by this the first couple games the weather could be
in the 80s you really need to dress down to maybe shirts t-shirts I'm sorry
shirts t-shirts shorts and bring some sunscreen and make sure you got your
tent you'll also get games where the wind blows across the hills in the
parking lots you know that the parking lot sit on sometimes that wind is mild
and easy and a welcome sight sometimes it's horrible and blows gale force I say
it you got a your stuff blowing around you can have stuff blowing off the
tables there have been times even with the heavy concrete well let me back up
my weights on my tent are three foot long three inch in diameter PVC pipe
that is filled with concrete and I'd say each one of those is probably oh I don't
know 30 40 pounds and they are attached to the legs of my tent and I have one on
each leg other people do you sandbags some people use weights that are
specially made to slip around the legs of the tent but I'm telling you you
better be ready for that wind to come through there and sometimes even with me
it'll start to pick up my canopy and move it and a lot of times people will
reach up and grab the crossbars of the canopy just to keep them from blowing
around so you got to do that but the wind could play havoc with your tailgate
so be prepared when you set stuff like on the table stuff that you got something
to sit on top of it so your napkins and plates and and and empty dishes that
you're getting ready to fill don't blow away then you get rain oh boy you get
the rain whether it be a misting rain which ain't so bad a little shower or a
heavy constant rain or the monsoon type we have tailgate in it all folks it's
gonna happen to you this is where you got to be prepared you never know check
the weather before you go and if there's even the slightest chance for rain take
rain stuff take rain suits be prepared to to put your stuff in plastic containers
under your tent so they don't get drowned another thing you can do some
tents you buy come with side panels if they don't go get side panels that you
can velcro attached to the sides of your tents to help you keep from getting wet
I'm telling you rain is gonna come into play you don't want all your stuff
getting soaked and again that'll ruin your day you know nothing like a
horribly wet tailgate I'm gonna give you an example again Rick Storey and I are
great friends and a few years ago we went to Memphis Tennessee for the Liberty
Bowl that Mizzou was playing in we always checked the rather weather we
were ready but and and we'll cover in a future episode we will cover road trips
and tailgating but we were all set up and ready to go so when we got there
there was it was okay it was a little breezy and right before we got
everything set up it started raining a little bit so we saw what might happen
well there was a tractor-trailer parked about 30 30 40 50 feet to our east and
it was empty there was nothing around and some people that had sat up there
left well we went over there set up our tents right next to it so that way we
have some cover on the one side of our tent now we were just lucky well boy
here come the rain and we got my rain suit out of my car got that on and
everybody else had rain gear on ponchos and stuff like that well as Wyatt Earp
said in Tombstorm hell was a coming and here came the rain it was raining like
crazy everybody was hunkered down under the tent we were staying dry because of
the rain suits the ponchos and all that and we were hanging on to the tent even
though Rick had weighted his tent down we were hanging on to it so the wind
wouldn't pick it up and blow it all the while our amenities dishes and all that
stuff were undercover well the wind was blowing so hard Rick was cooking I
believe it was a big pot of jambalaya he had a beer in one hand he was had a
ladle in the other hand stirring that jambalaya to make sure it didn't burn
we hung on folks I'm telling you we didn't lose the tent the accessories
all the tailgate stuff or the pot of food and when we endured the storm and
it stopped we climbed out of our rain gear we had one heck of a lunch and a
great finish to our tailgate point being you gotta be prepared you gotta brave
the elements man hold on now we ain't done we ain't done not by long shot now
you move into the cold weather deep in the fall and sometimes snow you want to
tailgate in the cold weather or snow you don't well that's why nobody will
remember your name but some of us hardheads that are die-hard fans we will
show up at 8 a.m. for a 7 p.m. kickoff weather be damned we will set up and we
will roll I'll give an example of what happened with that well first let's back
up first let's get you acclimated so here's the deal with the cold weather
you gotta dress in heavy warm layers because if you're gonna tailgate like a
pro you're gonna be out there a while boots wool socks long johns sweatpants
jeans layered top jackets scarves gloves the whole thing some people even have
hand warmers you know the kind you shake up that you use for hunting we use those
I have electric hand warmers that are battery operated that a friend turned me
on to I use those it helps keep the hands warm you can put the panels up on
your tents to keep the heat in and the cold out some people bring fire pits I
don't know if they're outlawed or not but I've seen them and some people bring
electric or propane heaters one of my buddies biggie Ernest Parnell he brings
a fire pit and wood to burn to help keep his guests warm you can do this it's a
mindset it's a challenge and it's a boatload of fun a few years ago Mizzou
was playing Tennessee and it was a late game I think a seven either six or
seven o'clock kickoff the lots opened at 8 a.m. there wasn't a it was cold there
was a threat of snow and there wasn't a lot of people tailgating at that time or
even entering the lot I was the first one into my lot I got my tent set up got
my chair sit right outside of my tent kept going got my tables out got me a
hot cup of coffee as I was setting everything up and as I was finishing up
batten down the hatches of the tent I looked over at my chair because it had
started snowing and my chair was filling with snow I'm not kidding what'd I do you
ask here's what I did I finished that cup of coffee I brushed that snow out of my
chair poured myself a cocktail and about nine about quarter to nine I was having
a cocktail and waiting on other hearty souls to show up you can do this tail
gating is the second coolest thing on Saturdays in the fall coming right
behind the Mizzou game itself so folks you got to be ready for the elements
after Mizzou's success on the field last year and the prospects for this year it
could be it could be a best bet for me since I've become a season ticket holder
that this could be the best year ever my kids are going to be joining me often
for tailgating and the games as well as my two-year-old grandson you have no
idea how cool it is for me to have my kids there almost every Saturdays at the
zoo tailgating with me enjoying great food great Tiger fans the friends I've
made there and on the home front my wife who does not attend the games but she'll
have it on in at home because she wants to know what kind of mood I'm gonna be
and when I get home and she'll follow the game she doesn't come but she'll be
enjoying having Saturdays to an empty house all by herself and for those of
you who know me and my passion for this program and how excited I get on
Saturdays in the fall well this year is gonna get worse for me I'm gonna blow the
lid off the tailgating at the zoo with friends friends like Brett Scott and
Dina Joey and Monica Tanya and Joe and countless others who will choose to join
us and friends from the tailgate page who will come by just to say hi or even
enjoy some food with us folks all I can say this year's for this year it's a new
year we're getting the band back together we're on a mission from God
well folks this segment is brought to you by the Mizzou tailgating Facebook
page in existence for about ten years the administrator is Rick Story get on
Facebook go to the Mizzou tailgating page ask to join they'll get you set up
they'll welcome you with open arms and be a part of the tailgating experience
now it's time for we're gonna christen this ship with the recipe of the day
today's recipe bacon wrapped bratwurst bites now the recipe I'm gonna give you
is for about oh I don't know 12 bratwurst bites but you can adjust the
ingredients and increase them for the amount of people that you might have at
your tailgate again I think this recipe is for about 12 brat bites but when I've
tailgated and I've made these it's every year I do them I make them for about a
hundred and twenty brat bites which a lot of people so here we go get yourself
four brats one teaspoon of cayenne pepper and five tablespoons of brown
sugar six slices of bacon you can bake these in the oven the night before bring
them up game day heat them up and serve them they're outstanding you can grill
them whatever you like so you cut the brats into thirds in a side bowl you
mix the brown sugar and cayenne pepper and mix it up well you take the bacon
you cut the bacon strips in half you take a brat you wrap it in a half piece
of bacon you secure it to the brat with a toothpick and then once you get those
done you start dropping your brats with the bacon wrapped around it you drop it
in the mixture bowl and coat it with the ingredients of brown sugar and cayenne
pepper place them on the grill and be careful but if you're not careful and
you turn them off and the bacon will start burning and then you ruin them so
be careful when you cook them on the grill and and I've I've baked mine in
the oven the night before and then heat them in a chafe banquet pans morning
of the game and I've cooked them on the grill I'd like cooking them the night
before getting them ready and they heat up perfectly in banquet pans the next
day the cooking time in the oven is about 35 minutes but again watch your
grill times it could bury folks that's our recipe of the day if you would like
one of your recipes featured on Tigers tailgates and friends email it to me at
capital B lowercase Garner so be Garner GAR NER 2422 at att.net that's the
podcast email and we'll share one recipe every week as we go along after at the
end of every episode and if we start getting lots of recipe submissions I
will take one episode in its entirety and we'll devote the entire show to
tailgate recipes so jump on board if anyone would like to stop by my tailgate
to say hi for the first game coming up Thursday against Murray State or you
would like to join our tailgate on any particular Saturday let me know email me
here at the show my location is I'm on the southeast corner of the Hearn Center
in the ADA parking lot I'm in row one I'm right adjacent to the corner of the
Hearn Center I have a white Toyota RAV4 with SEC football on the license plates
folks a very special thank you to all you listeners I appreciate the time
you've taken to share your day with me please share Tigers tailgates and
friends with your friends and I encourage you to get involved by
contacting us again via email be Garner 2422 at att.net I've already had many
friends reach out with well wishes and I'm so grateful to all of you who've
already reached out for the and given me kind words and words of encouragement
and wishing me well I appreciate that and I'm grateful to all the kind words
and it's always great to hear from friends I love you guys you can find us
at Spotify Amazon music Samsung podcast podcast index listen notes and probably
as of Tuesday when this is published every Tuesday morning but as of Tuesday
it'll probably be on Apple podcast I ran into a little glitch and I'm gonna get
some help Monday morning and we'll we'll get on there too so look for us find us
join us and let's have some fun come back next week when our topic will be a
day in the life of Mizzou fall camp till next time folks M I Z