Tailgating at Sens games - would you attend?

[Tuna99]

Would you attend a Senators tailgate?

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[dumbdick]

Swap the "coolers filled to the top" for "heaters turned to full blast".

Then I'm in. And by in I mean 1 or 2 beers. 'cause i gotta drive.

And also don't start too early, cause the kids got hockey practices.

Then I'm in.

 

[Micklebot]

Tailgating during the playoffs, I'd do. But for a Tues night game against SJ in Feb, not a chance.

Seems to me the ingredients for successful tailgating culture are the following;
a) weekend games
b) good weather
c) 1 to 4 o'clock starts
d) scarcity of games

The NHL games don't typically check a lot of those boxes, which is why it's less common.

 

[dumbdick]

If I was younger and cooler, I'd be bringing an ice fishing pop up tent and stocking it with a heater, some tunes and some buds.

I wonder how long it would take them to shut down a campfire if someone brought a raised fire ring and set it up in the parking lot.

But prices and lack of transportation are the real reasons people don't get bombed at the games.

Hopefully the team finds a way to build in some tailgating options at Lebreton. Or they at least build some kind of high capacity bar nearby that people can hit before and after.

 

[Tuna99]

Tailgating during the playoffs, I'd do. But for a Tues night game against SJ in Feb, not a chance.

Seems to me the ingredients for successful tailgating culture are the following;
a) weekend games
b) good weather
c) 1 to 4 o'clock starts
d) scarcity of games

The NHL games don't typically check a lot of those boxes, which is why it's less common.

let’s target the Bluejackets game Sunday April 6, all lined up for a great event. It’s on a Sunday so makes sense to our biological clock that wants canned beer and dirty wings on a Sunday at 3pm because it’s a 5pm game start so lots of light, in the playoff run, weekend, low attended game so the Sens could probably use the help, and we fans want it, and we deserve it, and there’s no good reason not to do it.

Charge $40 to park that day, Sens keeep some money for the cleanup, some money goes to charity, and it’s. win win win for everyone (this idea is so crazy I am proposing upping parking fees)

Stick the TSN crew right in the middle of it, they all have to sit on coolers and Cheryl Pounder has the biggest cooler. Who doesn’t want to see Chris Neil crush a table?

Thoughts?

 

[Micklebot]

let’s target the Bluejackets game Sunday April 6, all lined up for a great event. It’s on a Sunday so makes sense to our biological clock that wants canned beer and dirty wings on a Sunday at 3pm because it’s a 5pm game start so lots of light, in the playoff run, weekend, low attended game so the Sens could probably use the help, and we fans want it, and we deserve it, and there’s no good reason not to do it.

Charge $40 to park that day, Sens keeep some money for the cleanup, some money goes to charity, and it’s. win win win for everyone (this idea is so crazy I am proposing upping parking fees)

Thoughts?

That game has potential for all the ingredients (aside from scarcity, but with 82 games a year, you'll always have some saying, I'd do it next game and fail to hit that critical mass).

Be nice if it could be tied into Fan appreciation week, but that's the following week.

 

[Tuna99]

That game has potential for all the ingredients (aside from scarcity, but with 82 games a year, you'll always have some saying, I'd do it next game and fail to hit that critical mass).

Be nice if it could be tied into Fan appreciation week, but that's the following week.

Illl throw a Permit together and reach out to Micheal Andlauer, let you know how it goes.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDoo]

Yes, if it's in late May or June....

 

[maclean]

Just out of curiosity, isn't one of the main cultural differences that allows this phenomenon to exist in the US the fact that alcohol consumption outside a licensed establishment is not a mortal sin there?

 

[Tuna99]

Just out of curiosity, isn't one of the main cultural differences that allows this phenomenon to exist in the US the fact that alcohol consumption outside a licensed establishment is not a mortal sin there?

Liquor board has tailgate permits to license a public space, Sens are uniquely positioned with their arena in a cornfield to do this now. Maybe the only NHL team that could do it.