Question regarding tailgating versus watching the game at home

[BR549.sixpack]

Typically when attending an early afternoon or late afternoon game you begin tailgating sometime in the AM and as is the case with myself, and I assume with most of you, you begin drinking your alcoholic beverage of choice, so by game time the misery of watching us play football is tolerable.

Now is there a different set of rules or expected behavior for staying at home and watching the game on TV? I don't feel guilty for one second popping a beer at 10AM on Saturday while grilling some pork ternderloin at the game but at the house it just isn't the same.

 

[3000lbchicken]

8 am is perfectly acceptable if you have a 7:30 tee time as well.

 

[McMeat]

Being at the game itself gives me every reason to start drinking in the morning all be it a noon or mid afternoon kickoff.

Now at home, if I started to loosen up the infield at 10am under any circumstances it would go as follows. Wake up, shower, turn on Gameday, pop first beer, wife puts foot in my ***.

 

[fishwater99]

Here is my advice..

If your wife is a problem, then cook her some breakfast and give her a Bloody, mimosa or a tequila sunrise...
Hell you might even get lucky at halftime....

 

[BR549.sixpack]

the problem is not so much the wife, although she does have her moments, it the kids that are a problem. They expect and understand that daddy will be a blubbering incoherent idiot pissed off at the world at any MSU game but so far I have been unable to explain my behavior when I am at home.

I was just wondering if others were in the same predicament as I am especially since I won't be attending any MSU games until the The Little Rascals are relieved of their coaching duties.

 

[redfish66]

You can't drink all day if you don't start early.

get the grill going and grab a beer.

 

[MaxwellSmart]

made me want to drink early long before JWS and Crooms sent fall Saturdays into the *******.

 

[hullabaloodog]

If you're grilling, that's all the excuse you need. If you're not and it's an early game, then I usually wait until about 30 minutes before to start drinking. If we're playing mid-afternoon on TV (not likely this year because that would mean we were the CBS game), start drinking about halftime of the Raycom game.