With football season kicking off (sorry!) this weekend, we’ve done a good deal of pigskin previewing here at the Houston Press. But we’ve just realized we overlooked one of the game’s most important contingents of all: the tailgaters.

Thankfully, our friends at the Denver Westword haven’t dropped the ball (sorry again!). They’ve trolled through hours of YouTube drunkenness and culled a full season’s worth of parking lot pandemonium. You can see the results here, or just check out Houston’s awesomeness below.

— Keith Plocek

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HACc4TCJKHw%26color1%3D0xb1b1b1%26color2%3D0xcfcfcf%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2008.

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