OT: Excessive Drinking at Tailgates
Like many of you, I am sure, I drank too much from time to time when I was younger. Now that I am in my 40s - with wife, kids, job, responsibility, etc. - I am almost never do so. However, the one last place/time/event I tend to drink to excess anymore is at Michigan tailgates. I think it's the college party atmoshpere that leads me to do this, but I'm not sure. Regardless, over the last several years, literally the only time I would say I was "drunk" was standing on the golf course outside the Big House. I am not talking "puking drunk," but definitely "saying inappropriate things to undergrads" drunk, for sure.
So my question: Is anyone else like this? What is the "cure" to this problem?? Is it crazy I am planning to tailgate less to address this problem???
Sincerely,
Drunk in Ann Arbor
August 25th, 2017 at 8:21 PM ^
Quit drinking and go to bed
August 26th, 2017 at 12:16 AM ^
When a venue doesn't sell beer inside, people feel they have to drink an entire game's worth at the tailgate party. Maybe if enough people stagger in, they will see the error of their ways.
August 26th, 2017 at 11:34 AM ^
If that's his wife, he should never leave the house.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:22 PM ^
I drink for taste, not to get drunk.
August 25th, 2017 at 9:21 PM ^
Man, you're going in the wrong direction.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:23 PM ^
Well, if you still do it as a 40-year-old, the solution is to act like a 50-year-old, maybe.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:24 PM ^
Holy shit, you have ONE MGoPoint after 8 years? And you earned it replying to THIS??? You honor me, sir...
August 25th, 2017 at 9:02 PM ^
Seven years, fifty-one weeks... one post, and this is it! Hell, we'll all drink to that!
August 25th, 2017 at 9:48 PM ^
mayph's next gem!
August 25th, 2017 at 9:55 PM ^
Welcome to the blog..oh wait
August 25th, 2017 at 8:25 PM ^
College atmosphere makes you miss the old days. Getting more drunk there reminds you of those days. Nothing wrong with living it up to reminisce and enjoy your day.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:27 PM ^
I miss Ann Arbor.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^
It's why I refuse to move away from Michigan.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:28 PM ^
This is not a problem. Edit the saying of inappropriate things and carry on.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:35 PM ^
Not a problem. Sounds to me like you're having a good time. As long as you're not hurting people or driving than party on!!
Although, if you're dressed like your avatar then there is a problem.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:31 PM ^
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning
August 25th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
Remember the more you drink, the more you will able to drink, so cutting back is not going to fix this. The only solution is more practice
August 25th, 2017 at 8:34 PM ^
AH, so you are the guy in Section 4 row 20 I wish would shut up and die - yes please stop drinking.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:34 PM ^
Don't be weird. Make sure by the time you drive you're under the legal limit. I dont understand why age has to restrict you having fun during our most glorious few Saturdays of the year.
I remember my uncle went missing during a game once (before cell phones) and we could not find him anywhere. Came back to the Red Lot and there he was passed out underneath the truck (he had to be at least 40 at that time).
August 25th, 2017 at 8:37 PM ^
You get drunk at tailgates...I don't see the problem. Don't drive home afterward.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:40 PM ^
I guess you could do coke instead.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:43 PM ^
Oh yeah, I remember seeing you last year!
August 25th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
favor of it if you can keep your shit together.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:46 PM ^
It might be just me, but I find that while I do drink generously as well at tailgates, I really only do it for 3:30 PM or night games (most of my night game experience is NOT in Ann Arbor, of course). The reason is that I am not - nor have I ever been - a morning person even though I pretend to be one for work. Find me a pot of coffee and something not too upsetting to the stomach for breakfast and I am good for a noon game. OK, maybe a few shots are involved too.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
Oh yeah, my buddies are going to chime in here any minute to rag on me but the drunkest I've ever been in my life was at tailgate. Not proud of it, but it's just so much damn fun you can easily get carried away.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:51 PM ^
is creepy.
Stop watching porn and go to bed.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:54 PM ^
FauxMo. People will drink, FauxMo. They'll drink at Michigan for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up onto the course not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your tailgate as innocent as children, longing for the past. "Of course, we won't mind if you drink some beer", you'll say, "It's only $20 per person". They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and beer they lack. And they'll walk out to the pickup; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the fairways, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll drink at the tailgate and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will drink FauxMo. The one constant through all the years, FauxMo, has been tailgating. Michigan has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But tailgating has marked the time. This golf course, this tailgate: it's a part of our past, FauxMo. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh...people will drink FauxMo. People will most definitely drink.
August 25th, 2017 at 10:56 PM ^
it deserves more.
August 26th, 2017 at 12:14 AM ^
This time pretend it is narrated by James Early Jones. Its even better.
August 26th, 2017 at 7:21 AM ^
'people will come, faux mo, oh yes, they will come' in that incredible, smooth baritone of one of the most notable of michigan men.
August 26th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
This changed my entire worldview. I shall become drunk with pride now!!!
August 25th, 2017 at 9:53 PM ^
1 powerful rum and coke walking to the gate. That's traditional. But that's all. Or else I would miss the game. And still have to drive 150 miles home. So I have a limit.
August 26th, 2017 at 7:06 AM ^
Is there anything else you should be doing at a Michigan Tailgate? Seriously.
And, for God's sake, learn to handle your booze.
August 25th, 2017 at 10:45 PM ^
I only drink when I'm by myself
August 26th, 2017 at 6:35 AM ^
I come in for at least one game per year and Sunday is my one day of the year that I have a hangover. Part of that is also because my dumb-ass best friend always insists on incorporating 101 proof Wild Turkey into the tailgate. I think if he left that shit at home, the 1st half of the game would be a bit clearer and Sunday morning would feel a bit better.
August 26th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
This post makes me want to slam a couple quick IPAs, followed by casually drinking Labatt Blues and playing bags for 2.5 hours while changing rock, pop and Michigan fight songs after their first 45 seconds and increasing volume slightly with each new song. I can't wait for next weekend.
August 26th, 2017 at 11:36 AM ^
"saying inappropriate things to undergrads"
Hey, I'm like that too!
Except I'm not drunk.
August 26th, 2017 at 6:26 PM ^
Why stop?