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Tailgating Football fans kick-off games with lun ch, fun By LUCY McCAULEY A Carolina football game begins for many people hours before the kickoff. It begins on Columbia Street or in a Ram's Club parking lot by eating fried chicken and cole slaw out of the trunks of cars. Tailgating, or a picnic from the tailgate, prepares many fans for the hours they will sit in the sun at Kenan Sta dium. "Tailgating is when people use the tail gate of their cars for their picnics and they bring along their six-packs and coolers." said Frank Lord, who will be a junior when he enters UNC in January. People tailgate before games where Lord is from in New York. "They'll cruise out to the game a few hours early, have their picnic on their tailgates and go to the game with a nice buzz," he said. Although tailgating is the term used by both students and alumni, it can still be misinterpreted. "I always thought tailgating was when you follow too closely behind someone's car," Roger Stacks, a sophomore music major from Charlotte, said. "I got a ticket for that once." Tailgating is a tradition in many families who were lunching before the ECU-UNC game last Saturday. "We do this before every game," Lin Allen, a freshman from Troy, N.C said. "Usually we have fried chicken, but my grandmother came today and brought sand wiches." Allen was having a tailgate lunch with her family and several friends in the parking lot behind Carroll Hall. The Allen family has been tailgating for eight consecutive years, Sissie Allen, Lin Allen's mother said. The family includes grandmother Madeline Allen and three gen erations of UNC graduates all named James . Bruton Allen. "My mother and father started the tailgat ing tradition in our family at the Victory Village where World War II veterans lived," James Allen, Jr. said. "I was 12 or 13 and we would eat outside their apartment and then walk through the woods to the game at Kenan Stadium." . Two couples wre tailgating on Columbia Street in front of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house about an hour before the game began. "I 'don't start cooking until ball game season starts and then I make pimento cheese sandwiches." Barbara Flowers said.. The picnicers' pre-game lunch included cole slaw, chicken, deviled eggs and pimen to cheese sandwiches. Bill (Fatman) Flowers, a UNC alumni from Raleigh, said. (These tailgaters, as well as many other tailgaters last Saturday, welcomed passers by to join their picnic.) "You aren't fooling me," he said to a reporter "Have a piece of chicken." . . - Charlie Grant, also a UNC alumni from Raleigh, pulled out a bag filled with pimento cheese sandwiches, a plate of deviled eggs, and then said. "You have to at least try one of these cornsticks." ' Another pair of couples on Columbia Street were tailgating with their Mercedes 450-SL and Datsun 280-Z parked next to each other. "Most of the time we have a tablecloth on the car and wine and cheesecake," Mary McAdams, a UNC alumni from Rocky Mount, said. "Today were running late, so it's Kentucky Fried Chicken for lunch." There were four couples tailgating to gether in the parking lot behind the infir mary who not only had a tablecloth, but a candelabra. "We live for the tailgates." Ceet Perry from Chapel Hill said. "That's the only reason we come to the games." Ben Perry, who is the Associate Director of Records and Registration at UNC. said that they caught the crabs last week that were in the crab quiche they were eating. "Here, have a piece," he said. The Perrys were tailgating under a shady tree with Dale and Bud Dorgan, Francis and Richard1 Sparrow and Reba and Jim Lane. . Among the tailgaters in the parking lot behind the infirmary was a family from ECU. Their tailgate not only had food on it. but pictures of a beaten ram and a sign that said 'The ram is ours'. "We were going to wear our trench coats and sun glasses, but it was too hot." Pat Draunghon, an ECU alumnus said. The family almost brought lamp chops for lunch, and was going to share them with any Tar Heel tailgater. but Draunghon got hungry andate them Friday, he said. Four women who work for UNC were tail gating in the parking lot behind Beard Hall. JuSiJvJ mm APPLIANCES OR TELEVISIONS! mo cnsDiTons CHICKED WO SECURITY DEPOSIT NO LONG TERM h A J v 1 FIRST WEEK RENT ONLY WwA OCUGAT10N . ww- 4yr REGULAR RATES X SERVICE AND . TOOT w S America's Lggast TVAufoApptanwi Rant System RENT BY PHONE! Eastgato Shopping Center Chapel Hill, 958-4600 (next to Sal's Pizza) i i jr J "We came out here at about 11 o'clock." Gerry King said. "We even had wine and chilled wine glasses." Ava Fogleman said tailgating was the best way she knew how to eat lunch before a game. "All the goodies are in the back," she said. "Want a sausage ball?" There was a van full of picnicers in the parking lot behind the infirmary that. had friends in cars tailgating on both sides of them. ' ,; "We brought our portable tape-player even," Bev Tucker a UNC alumni from Hen derson, said. "Want to hear some beach music?" jS Lucy McCauloy is a stall' writor tor The Daily Tar Heel. 1 itmt) REDUCED TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE UNION DESK! Matinees at I 2:45 and 5:00TmP57fc?L H2-3CS1 I 1 VAHtOCOuOR Henry Fonda Jack Lemmon , i . . i Hurry. Ends Thursday' Now Showing! Nightly 7:20 9:30 3;15 5;15 FIRST MONDAY 7:159:15 IN OCTOBER Bill Murray HELD OVER 4th WEEK in STRIPES ifrM farrisons CMAPCl HtU WIT Under Franklin SL All ABC Permits "The place to be seen Before and After the game 967-4261 For Lunch: Your choice of hearty salads, homemade heaping sandwiches, steaming soups, rich flavorful quiche and desserts prepared daily. 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