Week 17: Miami @ Jets

Any of you that live in the TriState area or any of you who live out the TriState planning to make the trip to our swamp home?

 

Thats a shame man. I am extending out a welcome to me and my buddies tailgates (yeah, we have two of them located about two minutes apart) to any member from ThePhins that is coming up for the game. I know sometimes it sucks not to have anybody to tailgate with. :up:

 

I don't know if any of you enjoy a game of BeerPong, or several, but here is our Gameday BeerPong table:



And for a picture of 124, here is my crazy *** up in New England for this years December game. I was the only Jets fan I saw, other than my friend who was with me:

 

What do you mean man? Were you by our lot?

 

No ****. My parents grew up in Oakland / Franklin Lakes and went to Ramapo and Indian Hills.=. I actually grew up in Wayne and Pequannock, NJ but I'm currently up in Newton which is in Sussex County.

And which parking lot do you guys usually tailgate in? There are plenty of big winabagos, buses, vans, etc.

 

So you parked across the street by the Izod Center? Why? :confused2:

In the background in the one picture is that stupid f'ing Zanadu project, the dumbest thing and ugliest creation on earth. The place I'm usually around is, you know, by the actual stadium, in either Lot 5 or Private Lot 11, but you can park your car in either 5 or 13 and walk right into 11.

 

Yeah see I don't tailgate over there, I much prefer to tailgate by the stadium where I can just walk right in. That and there are always 5-10,000 Dolphin fans each time we play you guys since their are Fin fans all over the country, its hard to spot out a selected few. :up:

 

Yes and it looks TERRIBLE. I'd like for someone to burn it down with the creators of it inside of it. Indoor sking? Seriously? In New Jersey? :pity:

Oh and I just realized why you didn't park by the stadium, you probably did not have a Parking Pass. You need a parking pass to park in the stadium lots since the stadium construction took up 20-25% of the lot. Parking passes are only offered to season ticket holders but people sell them online for 3x the value all the time.

 

That is the lone thing I like about the Dolphins organization is that they somehow, sometime between the 1972 season and Marino gained all these fans over the nation, but the fans actually stayed with the team so they weren't bandwagons, to a degree. Its pretty interesting and even though I hate to see my teams rented stadium :pity: filled by visiting fans (you should've seen the freakin' Pittsburgh game this year), it is awesome to see that certain teams have such strong fanbases. Miami's problem is their fanbase in actual Miami is nonexsistent.

 

Really? Thats interesting. Do you remember which way you came in and did you flash the Parking Pass to the guards? Also what time did you come in around? I know it was a 1pm kickoff and by like 10 they start putting people by the Izod center.

 

Yeah see you have to get there earlier than that, like the real tailgaters. :wink2:

My one crew that I hang out with gets there at Midnight the night before (they have a three hour drive each way, so why not right?) and the others usually are there for a 1pm game by 8am at the latest. Its good times.

You can usually find my crazy *** there between 7-8 no matter if its a 1pm or 4pm kickoff. :hi5:

Here's a picture of my crews tailgate that gets there at midnight (this is from the Jets@Giants game we bought tickets to in October):

 

At my one friends tailgate (they're friends with The Goose) we tailgate with Tony Siragusa FOR FREE, when others have to pay, once or twice a year when FOX roles into town. Good stuff. :up:

 

Yes it is. There is plenty of beer as well, but thats usually BYOB. The guys at the one tailgate bring all that hard liqour -- They're great, great guys.

 

Funny actually because a couple of Jets fans who we tailgate with go there almost every Monday Night for MNF and sometimes Tony is there hanging out with him. He's actually opening up a place in Pequannock (where I'm from) so I'm pretty excited for that. :up:

 

Did he give you anything free? I mean, you did come in a Dolphins jersey. He must've felt bad for you inside. :wink2:

 

He's very different in person, but often he's hard to talk to since he's running around doing all sorts of things at the tailgate. He actually lost his sunglasses and used my buddy Duane's (he's in the picture with the green New York Jets shirt with two ladies side by side) sunglasses for a game. Pretty funny stuff.

 

Sorry to hear about your prior visits to the Meadowlands, but as I'm sure you know not all Jets fans are like that. There are fans like that in every stadium (accept Arizona, where there are no fans) and I can relate to that story.

Back in 2006 a bunch of us, maybe 40-50 from JetNation.com (the site FinFanInCali/like2god invited me from) went on a trip to Cleveland (we do a trip every year) and while tailgating we had horse **** thrown at us by I'd say a 12 year old boy, and thats probably adding on a year or two this age. They had cops on horses go by and the horse **** down the street a kid picked it up and flung it at our tailgate. Fortunately, there were some cops tailgating with us and went over and took care of the matter.

However, when walking in I had a woman try to poor a beer on me but instead I slapped the beer out of her hand and then a man came up threatening me, I pushed him out of the way and then had a hamburger tossed at me, which missed. The cops escorted some of those fans away. I was not making a scene, just walking through the parking lot with a couple of nice Browns fans that we met. My mistake for wanting to go in early and leaving the group. :pity:

I can assure you that if you come to either one of the tailgates I go to on Sundays that you won't be treated poorly. Most of the guys I tailgate with are my friends and we're fun loving people. Sure we will smack talk, but thats as far as it goes (except for the Redskins game last year, but we won't get into that;)) Heck each tailgate we seem to host fans from the visiting team. :hi5:

To top it off, I myself and bringing a Patriots buddy of mine to the Home Opener. I'll be his body guard all day.