Tailgate parties in England

[Spectral]

It's a barbecue in a car park?

Basically, yeah. Outside sports stadiums though generally. We drive too damned much here and part of the product of that is cultural things that crop up around it. It's pretty fun, especially for college football.

[Auxora]

I've lived in America for 20 years and I've never seen one anywhere outside of movies and television.

I am unconvinced they exist here.... let alone in the UK.

Have you been to college or pro American Football games? I've never been to one where there wasn't a tailgate party.

[the game]

Basically, yeah. Outside sports stadiums though generally. We drive too damned much here and part of the product of that is cultural things that crop up around it. It's pretty fun, especially for college football.

I really wish that tailgate parties would catch on for like concerts or gaming/comic/movie conventions.

[lockedout]

I really wish that tailgate parties would catch on for like concerts or gaming/comic/movie conventions.

They have them at all of the above.

[Theodarzna]

Have you been to college or pro American Football games? I've never been to one where there wasn't a tailgate party.

I've been i college for what seems like an eternity now, collecting degrees like they go out of style.

[PC2]

I really wish that tailgate parties would catch on for like concerts or gaming/comic/movie conventions.

We live in dark screen-lit dungeons, we wouldn't last long outside.

[the game]

We live in dark screen-lit dungeons, we wouldn't last long outside.

[Deathquoi]

I've lived in America for 20 years and I've never seen one anywhere outside of movies and television.

I am unconvinced they exist here.... let alone in the UK.

What? Go to any NFL stadium on game day and you'll see thousands of people tailgating.

[Deleted]

No we don't, we invite people to BBQ or house parties like normal people. Closest we get is a picnic or fish n chips in a car

[the game]

No we don't, we invite people to BBQ or house parties like normal people. Closest we get is a picnic or fish n chips in a car

In American culture tailgate parties are normal.

[Puupi]

Nope, not here.

[Deleted]

In American culture tailgate parties are normal.

And they're not normal here thus the question "Are they common in England"

[Kalis]

The stadiums in England are usually in the middle of cities and have little to no parking, so people use public transport to attend games.

Plus we like to drink before games, at half time and afterwards, and drink driving is discouraged.

[Theodarzna]

What? Go to any NFL stadium on game day and you'll see thousands of people tailgating.

I did the high school cheerleader thing, and am sick of football.

[Yvaelle]

Not a thing in Canada or the UK.

The closest I have ever been a part of was - we once organized a LAN party in the middle of the night on top of a mall, where they had tons of outdoor wall plugs and had just upgraded their wifi (but left it open), so we parked ~40-50 cars up there in the night one summer, and were gone by morning. So there were tailgates, and there was partying - but it wasn't a 'tailgate party'.