Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds familiar, we have the World Cup in cricket coming upon us in a fortnight. Luckily we have a pretty efficient suburban train service that takes us to the stadium (60000 capacity) - with our roads, driving is a PITA! Tickets will not go so high, but scalpers will have a field day, no doubt about that! Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:52 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: > Jayanand, > > Tailgating is fixing a meal, having a party in a parking lot before a > sporting event, usually American football. People tend to get fancy > and that event was a cooking competition with 6 teams from around the > country. It's a high dollar hobby for these folks...they pack up > their grills and smokers and RV's and follow their football teams > around the country to party in the parking lot before a game. Some > folks just go nuts about the American football. The cheapest ticket > to the SuperBowl now is $2-3000, I have seen them as high as $250,000. > Parking spots are going for as much as $1000. > > We are having some winter weather down here. It's kind of irritating, > the streets aren't being sanded or cleared very well because of the > contracts with the NFL which guarantee that the "official venues" > shall have clear access and guaranteed power. So us normal folks are > enduring slippery streets and rolling blackouts so that the NFL > activities can continue as planned. > > Leo Wesson > Photographer/Videographer > 817.733.9157 > www.leowesson.com > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Leo, > > What's going on? I thought tailgating was driving in another car's > > slipstream... > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> http://www.leowesson.com/blog/Blog/Entries/2011/2/4_tailgating.html > >> > >> Leo Wesson > >> Photographer/Videographer > >> 817.733.9157 > >> www.leowesson.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >