When was your first tailgate?

[Flag Guy]

Iowa game 2003. We were in a really really long line at some god-awful hour like 4 a.m., after stopping at Hyvee.

[Phaedrus]

I "think" it was either 1979 or 1981, against San Diego State. I was still in High School, and our Physics Teacher had 3 free tickets, and I was one of the lucky guys who got to go.

We found our seats real early and then I wandered off, like I usually do, and got in with a bunch of college kids drinking screwdrivers, of all things.

I still detest the taste of screwdrivers.