From adjoining hillsides, they watched and ate as an outnumbered Confederate force broke the Union soldiers’ battle line, sending troops and spectators off to a hasty and disorganized retreat and showing that the Civil War would not end as quickly as originally thought. It was the early stages of the Southern rebellion, which many people said would last six months, tops. to a spot near Manassas, Virginia, by a stream called Bull Run. In 1861, families and a few members of Congress packed picnic lunches and some booze and journeyed from Washington, D.C. It’s about identity.”Įight years before Rutgers and Princeton faced off, a precursor to tailgating took place during a bloodsport of another kind. “It’s something in our humanity,” Tonya Bradford, an associate professor of marketing at the University of California-Irvine, who’s researched the history of tailgating, tells Mental Floss. The art of this gastronomic tradition-and if you’ve walked around a tailgate lot on a Saturday or Sunday during football season, you know it is an art-goes back even further than that, touching on the primal urge for food and fellowship. But there were no coolers, kegs, or deep fryers in sight instead, sausages were simply grilled at the tail end of a horse, hence the term tailgating. While there doesn’t appear to be any conclusive proof, legend has it that the first college football game-played in 1869, between Princeton University and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey-was also home to the first football tailgate. Nothing works up an appetite quite like watching a war. These raucous pregame parties played out across every active NFL stadium that day, and whether the fans knew about the history or not, they were all taking part in a ritual that may be even older than the game of football itself: Tailgating. For many, this early-morning revelry would last longer than the game itself Browns coach Kevin Stefanski even warned fans not to party too hard and risk missing the opening drive. Once the vehicles were allowed in, a sea of die-hard fans poured out into the parking lot to party in the hours before game time, feasting on barbecue, burgers, and hot dogs until they were let inside the stadium for kickoff. The night before, a line of buses, trucks, cars, and RVs stretching two and a half miles long waited to gain admission into one of the stadium's lots-the famed “Muni Lot”-on South Marginal Road, which wouldn't even be open until 7 a.m. Instead of burying the hatchet with his old friend, Tak risks everything to protect a woman he barely knows.Two Shifters are on a collision course with destiny, but will the sins of their past prevent them from having a future?Love takes courage.On Sunday, September 19, 2021, the NFL's Cleveland Browns played their home opener at FirstEnergy Stadium against the Houston Texans. Hope is intelligent, unpredictable, and knee-deep in trouble. Things heat up after a chance meeting with a captivating woman who commands his attention. Tak is a fish out of water in the city, but settling unfinished business with an old friend means leaving tribal land and traveling to Austin. Bad luck is following her like a menacing cloud, and the only way to survive the storm is to walk through it. The last thing she needs right now is trouble, but trouble finds her when she?s caught trespassing on private property. Book 2 will leave you on the edge of your seat.Hope is a young woman on the brink of a successful career as a jeweler.
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