tailgate 2007

[Wingspan]

if you just drove these...then you'd have plenty of room

[SunMo]

i'd also be queer, and not like football

[Wingspan]

Problem solved?

[SunMo]

certainly seems that way

[Rome]

That car looks like it could use some HGH.

[T_Section224]

i'll be there monday.  what is all the tailgate talk about, aside from being lazy and reading several pages back, have they outlawed partying in the lots?

[Sgt PSN]

i'll be there monday.  what is all the tailgate talk about, aside from being lazy and reading several pages back, have they outlawed partying in the lots?

Yes.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Well, it wasn't as bad as I feared, but the rules are in place...they just didn't enforce them very well. Maybe someday they will don the jackboots and work over the fans, but not this week.

Good seeing everybody this week. Good luck in Houston, Phreak!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Well, it wasn't as bad as I feared, but the rules are in place...they just didn't enforce them very well. Maybe someday they will don the jackboots and work over the fans, but not this week.

Good seeing everybody this week. Good luck in Houston, Phreak!

You're in too good of a mood.  Stop it.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Farg Reid, farg McNabb, farg Lurie. Have a nice day!

[Susquehanna Birder]

Story update from the Daily News:

Urban Warrior | TAIL-SPIN: WHO'S RIGHT?
By Chris Brennan

FORGET THE Eagles vs. the taterskins. The big battle down at the South Philadelphia sports complex last night pitted the Eagles against Comcast-Spectacor.

The Eagles, upset about my column yesterday, now claim that changes proposed to limit tailgating did not come from them.

The changes, which took effect Aug. 1, include an increase from $11 to $20 for parking and a ban on buying extra spaces to set up grills, tables and tents.

Mark Donovan, the Eagles senior vice president of business operations, last night said the team "objected" to those changes while meeting with officials from the city and Comcast-Spectacor over the last few months to discuss the new parking/tailgating policy.

"We don't control this," Donovan said. "We are in favor of tailgating in every shape or form."

Those objections came as news to John Page, chief operating officer for Global Spectrum, which oversees parking at the Wachovia Center and the Spectrum.

"That certainly isn't the case," Page said when I told him of Donovan's comments last night. "All throughout this process, there's been nothing but mutual agreement on everything."

Page said the only change the Eagles asked for in the new policy involved how to charge for parking recreational vehicles. One proposal said if an RV took up four spaces, which now sell for $20 each, then the fee should be $80. The Eagles, Page said, asked that the fee for RVs be limited to $40.

The owner of the lot keeps $11 from the $20 parking fee, while the Eagles get $9, Page said. When the parking fee was $11, the lot owners kept all of it.

Page added that if the Eagles want to undo the tailgating policies, all they have to do is ask. The Eagles, he said, have considerable sway in the debate because the tailgating policy involves the team's home games.

"In this case, everybody's been in agreement," Page said. "We're up for anything."

Page did ask to clarify something he told me last week, when he described the changes as an "Eagles initiative." He now says it was a collaborative effort.

Mayor Street's spokesman, Joe Grace, yesterday had a third take on the new policy: There is no new policy, he said. Grace said the "stakeholders" in the sports complex - the sports teams, Comcast-Spectacor, the city - have not reached any final decisions on parking and tailgating.

"It just hasn't happened yet," Grace said. "Clearly, there are discussions going on down there."

So here we have two multimillion-dollar corporations pointing fingers at each other while fans fume in the parking lot and the city's not choosing sides. Whom do you believe?

Consider this: I had three conversations last week with Bonnie Grant, director of communications for the Eagles. At no point did Grant ever say the Eagles objected to the policy changes.

The first time we spoke, Grant said she didn't know about the changes. She called back a day later to confirm that they were happening as part of a collective effort by the Eagles, the city and Comcast-Spectacor.

She also described the changes as a way to efficiently manage traffic, getting more cars into the lots earlier. And she said the team appreciates the tradition of tailgating.

I had two conversations with Grant yesterday. Again, she never claimed that the Eagles objected to any of the changes. She did, however, seem surprised when I told her that drivers were handed fliers describing the changes as they rolled into Comcast-Spectacor lots yesterday afternoon.

Those fliers told tailgaters they had to confine their parties to 4 1/2 feet behind their parked vehicles while keeping the driving lanes clear. That's what the policy looked like on paper.

Down in the shadow of the stadium, something very different was going on. People with tables, tents and grills set up in parking spaces were told occasionally by parking-lot attendants that they had to break camp.

But nobody did. And the party kept going strong.

"They can't mess with an institution like this, no matter what they say," said Tom Masticola, of Chester, who was tailgating with friends with a tent set up in a parking space.

Mike Henkel and 30 buddies also set up tables, a tent and a grill in a parking space after paying for nine cars. When an attendant said the tent had to go, Henkel gave him $20 to keep the space.

"It's worth it," Henkel said. *

[SD_Eagle5]

I didn't see any changes as far as tailgating goes, we got there at 4 and drove around the wac/spectrum for 30 minutes looking for a spot. I might get down there early for Sunday's game and save a bunch of spots, then sell them to people who get there late.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Thanks Sus. Good to see you again.

It was good seeing everyone again. It had been awhile since I was down there. I think I should stop attending NFC East games. Last one was when McNabb tore his groin.

MDS...where the hell were you? I thought you bought a ticket?

[SunMo]

he talks big, but he'll never man up and come down and see everyone

[ice grillin you]

pretty sure hes never been to a sporting event