Extreme Tailgate Expenditures

I overhead just yesterday that a local group of tailgaters has acquired a custom made $30,000 smoker for Sunday tailgates at Bank of America Stadium.

Let that soak in for a moment. $30,000 just to smoke meat on Sunday in the NFL. Amazing. I am humbled.


Now to put it in perspective, we have in our arsenal the ability to serve 100, perhaps 150 with additional planning, on any given Sunday. That is quite a crowd in the confines of a parking lot.

We have a 40 inch commercial Weber Smoker Grill, $1200 new, a modified Weber Bullet $375 new, a new three burner and griddle $250 new, several drum smokers, and a reserve of standard webers and smokers if needed. This is all standard equipment to any solid tailgating group.

Add to this our RVs, tents, tables, chafing dishes, mobile bar, TVs, generators, coolers, and you see the variety of approaches to Extreme Tailgating.

My hat is off to these tailgaters, their $30,000 cooker, and their legion of followers. It is what makes Carolina Panther Tailgating the best.

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