With a bang we said goodbye to Empire Field. It was a great day for a Tailgate party and party it up we did. There were plenty of blueberry hotcakes, crepes and French toast to be had. There were multiple pounds of bacon and ham and Swiss cheese. Mimosas and freshly brewed coffee were there too.
We had a great time and we celebrated the End of an Empire. The Tailgate Empire strives to live on regardless of the playing field, but we will be forever grateful to the people that operated the facility for providing us a great spot to tailgate, and enabling us to reminisce about a different era in Vancouver.
A “Breakfast’Gater”, is when a tailgate party starts so early that breakfast is the meal prepared. We at the Tailgate Empire love these. This is one of the great appeals of the afternoon games at Empire Field. An early morning rise to head down to the stadium, and a beautiful sunny morning of cooking pancakes and bacon can’t be beat. You can add bacon to almost anything and it is instantly better!
At most breakfast’gaters I have been known to prepare crepes. The thin French pancake is a great breakfast/lunch item as you can stuff them with whatever you would like. For this day, I came prepared with Black Forest Ham, Maasdam Swiss Cheese and mushrooms. This was a great combo, but then I had an epiphany. Why not add bacon? The “Crepenator” was born and it was epic!!!!!!!
Fellow Tailgate Empire member Andrew was grilling up some Blueberry pancakes that were just melting in my mouth and the Emperor himself Brian W. grilled up his Dad’s famous French toast.
We all had full bellies and full hearts as we said goodbye to an era in Vancouver sports that was much needed. It was good to get away from the hustle and bustle of downtown and get back out to East Van to watch pro sports. That said, it will be great to open up the new BC Place stadium and get back to where I fell in love with the Orange and Black.
Tailgating downtown has always been a bit of a struggle. The PNE was the birthplace of the Tailgate Empire, but we will live on. We always do. Look for us at the corner of Quebec and Terminal and always obey the rules of tailgating that have never failed us.
- Pack it in. Pack it out. Be prepared to take your garbage home
- Propane bbq’s are the only type that should be used. Briquette bbq’s are just too dangerous to use around parked cars. Not to mention the disposal of hot coals as game time approaches. It just doesn’t make sense.
- Pay for every spot that you occupy. Pay for the spot when you get there. The parking lot deserves to earn revenue for their spots, and ensuring that they do will only help tailgaters.
- All beverages must be in cups. Simple, just put it in a cup.
- Plan a safe ride home! Make sure you have a designated driver.
From everyone at the Tailgate Empire, we enjoyed your company at Empire Field and look forward to seeing you on Friday September 30th!!
Remember the days of tailgating at the PNE fondly Lions fans…it’s unlikely you’ll ever have it that good again. That said, Tailgate Empire will live on in the streets in Vancouver thanks to our friends at Easy Park.
The BC Lions sent out e-mails to their season ticket holders yesterday offering parking 6 blocks away from the stadium under Pacific Centre Mall. And while the price is definitely right at $21.36 including taxes for all four games at BC Place, an underground parking lot obviously can’t facilitate tailgating.
The Lions staff took some much appreciated time to speak with me yesterday and while they wished us the best of luck in our tailgating future, there isn’t much they can do about it. Parking lots around the stadium are disappearing at the expense of real estate development and those that remain are privately owned lots that refuse to allow tailgating.
The PNE model proved once again that if tailgating is done with planning and some simple rules in place, it provides a great game day atmosphere for fans and even creates new ones for the team. Tailgate Empire will continue to pursue this tradition in Vancouver until we simply have no options left.
With that said, our regular group of tailgaters will be setting up shop at the Easy Park lot at Main and Terminal. The great folks at easy park gave us this lot during the last season at BC Place, and have graciously offered it to us once again on our return. The lot is one skytrain stop or a 10 minute walk to BC Place.
This is a small lot so spots are limited. Also there are some critical rules you must adhere to of we wish for this to continue.
1) Your spot must be paid for apon arrival. If that means you pay extra for arriving early, that means you pay extra.
2) NO CHARCOAL BBQ’s
3) All garbage must be removed by tailgaters. COME PREPARED.
4) All beverages must be in plastic cups.
5) There are no washrooms on site. Do not make the lot your washroom.
6) Eachl tailgater vehicle can only take up one parking spot.
There is another option for Lions fans pregame entertainment and that is the official club Street Party outside of Terry Fox Plaza on Beatty Street. The Lions staff have put a lot of effort into providing a great atmosphere for fans of all ages and on September 30th it will be their biggest event yet to celebrate the reopening of BC Place stadium.
I want to thanks the great people at Easy Park, in particular Greg Watrych who has gone out of his way to give us a home! Whenever you park downtown, please consider their lots for your parking needs!
So Tailgate Empire, we’ll see you on Sept. 30th at our new/old home!
Dear PNE and the BC Lions Football Club,
We started off with a blip and ended with a bang and as avid tailgaters we are here to say thank you.
After our rocky start, you stepped up to the plate and gave football fans in Vancouver the best tailgating experience this city has ever seen. There have been large tailgate parties in the city before. But nothing compared to what you provided for us. It was real, it was encouraged and it was awesome.
You proved beyond a doubt that tailgating is not an evil activity. You proved that with the foresight to provide garbage cans and washrooms and a few non-meddling authorities to watch over the proceedings that tailgating is an activity that just adds to the game day experience of fans, and boy did Lions fans have it good for the last year and a half.
Great steaks, prime ribs, homemade burgers, crepes, French toast, cedar plank salmon and other delicious meals were created in Lot 9. Footballs were thrown around, new friends were made and the BC Lions game experience rivaled that of our friends in Calgary, where the standard for this pastime has been set in the CFL.
The tailgaters in your lot were mostly season ticket holders, many who have never tailgated before. They are now wondering why they never did this before, and where they will do it when the games move downtown. They may be in for a shock.
We’re hopeful that those involved will make something happen downtown. It can only fill the parking lots, and create new fans if it’s done the way you showed them how to do it.
To the BC Lions we thank you as well. We know that both the PNE and the club worked together to make this happen for the fans. We hope you can work with your new partners to make sure this great football tradition doesn’t disappear in Vancouver. Your fans are now hooked.
Lastly to all the fans that came out and joined the tailgate experience thank you as well. You picked up your garbage. You respected the lot and your fellow tailgaters and you showed all the parties involved how great this can be.
We’re all members of the Tailgate Empire and it was a great ride!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Signed,
Tailgate Empire
We invite you to share your memories of the great tailgates at Empire Field, we would love to hear them.
Tailgating is a passion for members of the Tailgate Empire. It is something that we look forward to all winter. When the summer finally arrives, we constantly look for a reason to tailgate. Should we go to training camp and tailgate? When is the first pre-season game? A love of food and Canadian Football is what brings us together. The camaraderie and respect for the tradition keeps us coming back.
Tailgating in Vancouver started from humble beginnings for us. We were about a dozen people barbequing in the lot at Georgia and Beatty until the security there sent us on our way. By the time we left that spot there were probably 30 or so regulars looking for a place to carry on our pastime. We settled on a great spot under the Cambie Street Bridge and had a great time there. The Tailgates really started to grow and with the growth came a lot of issues. Mostly new tailgaters that didn’t respect or weren’t educated to the rules that we followed. Rules like putting your beverage in a cup, packing out your garbage, and only using propane BBQ’s.
This ultimately came to a head at the 2007 Western Final against the Riders. This was probably the largest downtown tailgate Vancouver had ever seen. The Roughrider fans were in full force and so were the Lions fans. We estimated 5000 people were there that day. Unfortunately at the end of it there was so much garbage left behind that even Global News had to show what a mess was made. I remember shaking my head when I saw the news report. I was not shocked at all when we showed up for the first pre-season game of 2008 and were turned away by the operators of the parking lot.
In search of a home once again we began the 2008 season. We found a great spot beside the Costco on Expo Blvd. It was a privately owned lot and there were no real issues there. Unfortunately like most pieces of property downtown it was eventually being used for a construction project. A nomadic tailgate group we were. It is really tough to plan a tailgate when you don’t know if you’re going to be asked to leave. Hard to understand why you can grill up some wieners in any other public space in this great province, but if you do it before a football game you are considered a nuisance.
After some lobbying from one of the Empire members we were granted a home by the great folks at Easy Park. It’s about a 15 minutes walk from BC Place but as long as we paid for any spots being used and continued to be the respectful group that we had always been, we could set up at Quebec and Terminal. We like this spot as it does have some benefits, but the distance to the stadium is the only real downfall.
Then the bombshell was dropped. The Liberal government was going to completely renovate BC Place Stadium. This was excellent news for the football fans of BC. Empire Field would become the temporary home of the BC Lions and off to East Vancouver we would go. The temporary stadium was built and with it an Empire of Tailgaters would emerge.
Really, tons of kudos has to go to the PNE, who operate Empire Field. After initially denying tailgaters a home, they put their heads together and came up with a set of rules for tailgating at Empire and have even supplied portable toilets and trash cans. This forward thinking and quick response has really helped tailgating in Vancouver turn into one of the can’t miss activities of the summer. The people who operate the PNE deserve a lot of praise.
With all the fun times at Empire Field, we look ahead to September 10th. It will in all likelihood be the last tailgater at Empire. A lot of thoughts run through my head when thinking about it. It will be sad to see it go, but it is a great reason to celebrate the great history and the fun times had at the corner of Hastings and Cassiar. I encourage everyone to come down early and be a part of it. We are planning a breakfast menu because of the early start time. Crepes, French toast, bacon, sausages and other types of goodness will be on hand.
Our hope would be that the BC Lions see the value of this great pastime that so many of their season ticket holders have come to enjoy. We would be thrilled if a local lot can be found to make BC Lions pregame tailgating the envy of CFL Fans across the country. As cities in the U.S. have know for years, the PNE setup has proven beyond a doubt that with some common sense rules, washroom and garbage options, tailgating is a very fan friendly event that produces great pregame fun and builds friendships as well as new fans.
Another chapter in the Tailgate Empire has yet to be written and we will continue to produce great meals and good times! Be sure to check back and see where we are and what we are doing as we look forward to the Grand Re-opening of BC Place Stadium.
Happy tailgating from all of us in the Tailgate Empire!
Tailgate correspondent Nick Herger was on vacation last week but his cedar plank salmon was too good to be missed and that includes on the blog. With Lions back to their losing ways, we reflect back on the tailgate that produced the first win of the season.
On the West Coast everything goes at a different pace. From Starbucks to yoga to a morning run in the rainforest, we left coasters offer up something different to this great union of Canada. It’s just the way it is in Lotus Land and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We have bike lanes and totem poles and this is where the Salmon runs.
We all gather at Empire Field as part of the Tailgate Empire to celebrate our passion for food and Canadian Football. With the Roughriders in town there is always a bit of extra buzz attached to the game. There are usually some watermelon helmets and a couple thousand Rider fans that find their way into the Lions’ den.
This week we really came to play. The football club really needed a win and the Empire really needed to change things up. We did Rib Steaks, Fall off the Bone Ribs, and a Prime Rib Roast in the first three weeks of the season and something different needed to happen. Something West Coast!!
This week’s menu consisted of a Cedar Plank Sockeye Salmon with a Neptune Sauce, a Tomato and Bocconcini Salad, a Pasta Salad and some Focaccia Bread with Balsamic. I had help from Sue. It was her first trip to the Tailgate Empire and she had a ton of fun!
First with the Cedar Plank we need to make sure it soaks thoroughly. We put ours at the bottom of the cooler for about 4 hours. It should have soaked a bit longer but it worked out just fine. We placed the Salmon filet on the cedar planks and then added the Neptune sauce. The Neptune consists of a can of crab meat, a brick of cream cheese, a tablespoon of mayo, some lemon juice, some Worcestershire sauce, and a bunch of scallions chopped up. We then spread the Neptune evenly over the fish. This sauce will heat up and melt into the fish. An absolutely great combo of flavors!! The fish can then be put on a hot bbq and grilled for 25-30 minutes. Be sure to keep a spray bottle of water handy for any flare ups. We want the cedar plank to burn, but not so much that it burns the fish.
The Tomato and Bocconcini Salad is a great idea for an appetizer. They are served on toothpicks with a piece of fresh Basil on a plate of Balsamic Vinegar which has a great presentation and is very practical. The flavors are very complimentary and fresh!
We also served up a nice pasta salad. Made of pasta of your choice, vegetables of your choosing, some feta cheese and an oil and vinegar based dressing. You can change it up based on the season as well as what main dish you are serving.
We tried to go West Coast on this one. A very fresh meal served up in Lot 9 of Empire Field. We pulled off an excellent meal and then went and watched an excellent football game! Up next week are the Bombers from Manitoba. I think a Ukrainian/ Polish feast is in order!!
There comes a time in every man’s life when he looks in the mirror and decides that nothing less than his “A” game will do. For the Tailgate Empire that day was last Friday at Empire Field. Members of the Tailgate Empire put their pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else, but on this particular Friday afternoon something was different. Something smelled different and we were counting on something tasting different.
The football club was 0-3, but that would not damper our spirits. There was no running game to be found in Jacques Chapdelaine’s play book, but the Tailgate Empire were prepared to run through a wall. Travis Lulay’s squad were a pass happy bunch, but the Tailgate Empire were happy to merely pass the mustard. The football club was struggling, but the tailgater’s were in mid-season form.
A tailgate menu is not unlike a coach’s game plan. We usually start preparing for the next game right after the last game has ended. It takes careful planning and preparation, and it will only be a success with proper execution. The menu this week was the best it has ever been. A slow cooked rotisserie Prime Rib, some Candied Yam, and a Garlic Lovers Caesar Salad. This was definitely an “Adult” tailgater. Well planned out and brilliantly executed.
We had to bring a full size BBQ down to Empire in order rotisserie the Prime Rib. It is a little bit more work, but a small price to pay for the epic meal that was in store for us. We started with getting our smoke box loaded up with Mesquite chips. We placed the smoke box close to the flames. We found a nice central spot on the roast to run the spit through so that it spins evenly. Once that was done we salted the fat by hand with a generous portion of table salt, and then rubbed the entire roast with Montreal Steak Spice. The roast is now ready for flame. We had a three burner BBQ, so we place the roast over the middle burner and we lit the two outside burners so as to cook the roast with indirect heat. This will ensure that we cook the inside of the roast without burning the outside.
We roasted it on medium for about 2 ½ to 3 hours checking occasionally. It is always best to use a meat thermometer. We wanted an internal temperature of 140-150 degrees for a nice medium to medium well Prime Rib. We usually like medium rare, but in this case we like to see the marbling in a Prime Rib cook thoroughly and inject more flavor into the meat. We pulled the roast off of the grill and tented it in foil to rest for about 10 minutes before we carved it up.
The Candied Yams are a favorite of ours from way back. They are easy to do and quite enjoyable. First, peel your yam and slice them into silver dollar sized pieces. Next, position the yam pieces into a domino like row on a sheet of foil with one yam piece leaning on the next. Drizzle some honey over the yams and sprinkle some brown sugar as well. Add a dollop of butter and wrap into a foil pack. Cook on the grill with indirect heat for about 15-20 minutes and they’re ready to serve.
We will spare you on the details of cutting lettuce, but we will hook you up with the only Caesar dressing recipe you’ll ever need. 3-4 cloves of garlic minced added to one egg in a tall container. Add ½ cup of vegetable oil and 2 tablespoons of olive oil while blending with a hand mixer. Once we’re all mixed in then we can fold in with a fork a dash of pepper, ½ tsp of mustard powder, tsp vinegar, tsp of lemon juice, tsp of Worcestershire sauce and ½ cup of grated parmesan cheese. Add this dressing to some romaine lettuce and croutons and your have the only Caesar you’ll ever need!
We definitely brought our “A” game this time out. It was some of the best Prime Rib we’ve ever had. The best part is that we pulled this gourmet beauty off in a parking lot and then headed in to Empire Field to see another entertaining football game. Check back next week as the Roughriders are in town and Cedar Plank Salmon is on the menu. Only three games left at Empire!
Related: For more photos from last Friday’s tailgate party, check out the gallery!
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The Lions may have lost the game but once again the tailgate party was a winner! Tailgate Empire kicked it up a notch with some outstanding food. Take a look at some of the fun in this photo slideshow!
As the Tailgate Empire grows so does the realization that we only have four more games left to enjoy at Empire Field. We won’t miss the bleacher seats or the tiny scoreboard. We won’t miss the portable toilets or the luke warm hotdogs either. We will, however, eventually see the sun set on what has become a tailgate location unrivaled above the 49th parallel.
All the more reason to make the most of every opportunity to scrape off the grill and get cooking in the sunshine and beauty of East Vancouver. Our empire of tailgaters has settled into an excellent spot in the North parking lot of Empire Field. Under the trees and on the grass we cook our meals and enjoy our beverages.
We were all treated to a great football game on Friday night. Big plays on both sides of the football and a potential game winning kick at the end. Alas a victory for the home club was not meant to be, but that would not spoil a great evening of fun for the Tailgate Empire. Unfortunately, this particular setting will eventually close its doors.
There has been a trend of less than stellar attendance at New Empire that may suggest that a downtown retractable roof stadium is exactly what the people of the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley covet. That and maybe a winning football club. As much as Empire has been a boon for tailgaters, it obviously does not have the benefits that a centrally located, state of the art stadium would. The lack of transit options as well as hotels and restaurants has obviously hurt the appeal of Empire, but tailgaters have definitely benefitted from the experience. Let’s hope that these experiences help to foster an enhanced outlook for local tailgaters in the parking lots surrounding a new BC Place Stadium.
On the Tailgate Empire grill this week we cooked up a devastating meal! Fall off the bone ribs with a homemade BBQ sauce. We also had grilled veggies, and a warm potato salad that I am still dreaming about. Others around us were grilling in style as well. There were various meats on a stick, a Greek salad that would have made Zorba jealous, some very colorful shish kabobs as well as the usual fare of burgers and dogs. Some of the very best meals being served today are coming out of the back of a truck in a dirty old East Van parking lot!
When preparing ribs we usually like to use the boiling technique. This should be done at home the night before. First we slice up an onion and a head of garlic and add it to a stock pot full of water. We like to season the water with garlic powder, salt and pepper and Mrs. Dash. Bring the water up to a medium boil. You’ll need to be sure to remove the membrane from the ribs. This is the silver skin on the underneath portion of the ribs. We then place the ribs in the stock pot and boil at medium for about 90 minutes. Let them cool and these ribs will be “fall off the bone” and will be ready for the BBQ sauce and the grill.
We made a homemade BBQ sauce. It is really easy and you can use most anything that you have in your fridge and pantry. We used 1 cup of ketchup, 1/3 of a cup of honey, 1/3 of a cup of corn syrup, 1 cup of red wine vinegar, 2 ounces of Sailor Jerry’s Rum, some Tabasco sauce, some garlic powder, and some salt and pepper. Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a boil while whisking. Once it is boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 40-45 minutes or until the sauce has thickened. Let it cool and it is ready for ribs.
We like to give the ribs a generous coating of sauce and place them on the grill. The best way we’ve found is to place aluminum foil over the grill surface and cook the ribs on indirect heat. Remember, the ribs are already cooked, and we are just trying to warm them and sauce them. Cook them for 10-12 minutes and then flip and re-sauce. Another 10 minutes or so and they’re good to go!
Our vegetable intake was fairly standard. Some onions and white mushrooms cooked in a foil pack with some seasoning and butter, as well as some peppers julienned in foil packs with Mrs. Dash. We also had a warm potato salad that a fellow member of the Empire cooked up. He didn’t give me the recipe, but it was a cheesy, creamy, bacony mixture of potatoes and corn. Absolutely decadent!
It was another fabulous meal cooked in a parking lot. We had a great meal and enjoyed some top notch football! Check back next week to see how we made out, or by all means grab a bbq and some grub and join the Empire!!
Avid tailgater and creator of the “Tailgate Empire” slogan, Nick Herger joins BCLionsDen.ca as our tailgate correspondent. After each home game Nick will be blogging about that game’s menu and other tailgating tips and pastimes. Nick is a great cook and always takes things up another level at our tailgate parties!
And the Empire Strikes Back for its final season on the PNE grounds. The “Tailgate Empire” that is.
It was a great season in the parking lot, if not on the playing surface of Empire Field in 2010. The tailgating was awesome! It started with a whimper in a pre-season game in which the future of tailgating in East Van was in doubt, but after some lobbying and some persistence it ended with a bang! A true West Coast tailgating atmosphere was born and the Canadian football experience for the people of BC was enhanced.
With that said, we would like to welcome you to the “Tailgate Empire”, a new feature here on BCLionsDen.ca. We are going to blog about the tailgating experience for fans of the BC Lions in 2011 and beyond. Menus and tailgating tips will be found here as well as “Tailgate Etiquette”. It is very important that tailgate etiquette is followed by all tailgaters as a few bad apples can ruin this tradition for the masses.
- Pack it in. Pack it out. – There may be garbage cans available to you, but don’t assume this will be the case. Be prepared to take your garbage with you.
- Respect thy neighbor. – Be sure to keep the tailgating experience positive for everyone involved. From fellow tailgaters to security personnel.
- Drink from a cup.- Alcoholic beverages are not allowed by the PNE and are not encouraged by The Tailgate Empire, but if one was to be consumed it should be consumed from a cup and not a can or bottle.
- Get a safe ride home. – We want you to come and enjoy yourselves, but we really want to see you back at the next game. Plan a safe ride home from the tailgate and game.
Now that that important info is out of the way, let’s get to the tailgating!! For the preseason game we stopped by a true East Van gem. The Columbus Meat Market “Macelleria Italiana” is just a few blocks from Empire Field and has some of the finest meats you will ever grill. We love a place where you order the size of a steak by how many fingers you wave in the air. We ordered 4 Rib Steaks, 1 ½ fingers thick. If that doesn’t give you the meat sweats, nothing will!
Our Menu for the preseason game was a good one. Bone in Rib Steaks, steamed potatoes w/ onions and garlic, corn on the cob and seasonal veggies were all on hand at Empire Field.
When we cook steaks on a grill we want the grill to be “Nuclear Hot!” Get the grill as hot as you can and place your seasoned meat on it. We do this to sear the juices into the meat. Cook for about 2-3 minutes and then flip it over. We then turn the grill down to about medium or possibly a little less. Cook for about 2-3 minutes again and give the meat a 1/4 turn. This will give you a nice grill mark for presentation. Cook for another 2-3 minutes and flip the steak over again to achieve grill marks on both sides. 2-3 minutes on that side and you will be done. Be sure to let your meat stand on a plate covered with foil for at least 5 minutes before you cut into it. This will allow all the juices settle down inside the steak instead of flowing out onto your plate.
To pull off a great meal in a parking lot, you need to do some of the work ahead of time. We bet you can’t remember how many times your steak was done, but you were waiting for your potatoes to fully cook before you could eat. To avoid this, we always pre-steam or bake our potatoes fully or to about 80% and then just use the grill to re-heat or cook the last 20%. Many methods would work, but we like putting our partially cooked ‘toes in either a foil tray or just by making a foil pack with aluminum foil. A little butter and some sliced onions along with some minced garlic inside the foil pack and the ‘toes are good to go.
As your mom probably told you, veggies are the most important, and sometimes the most satisfying part of your meal. For the pre-season game against the Riders we used a couple of different methods for veggie preparation. For the corn on the cob, we just peel the husk and remove as much of the corn hair as possible and then fold the leaves back into place and fire them back on the bbq. Give them about 20-25 minutes of indirect heat and they’ll cook nicely. We also prepared some bell peppers and mushrooms. We sliced the bell peppers, washed the ‘shrooms and put them in a foil pack. Add the seasoning of your choice and cook along side the corn on indirect heat for about 20-25 minutes. We sliced our zucchini into long ½” zucchini steaks and grilled them for about 3 minutes per side. A little salt and pepper and they are ready to eat.
A great meal it was. This was the first of six meals that we will enjoy at Empire Field in 2011. Next up are the Calgary Stampeders. Red meat anyone? I’m thinking beef ribs. Check back next time to see how we did.
Happy Tailgating!!
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As s souvenir for the great tailgate parties we’ve enjoyed and will enjoy this season at Empire Field, we’ve created a t-shirt to remember them with and to raise a little money through CFL Fans Fight Cancer for a local cancer charity.
Fellow tailgater Nick Herger came up with the slogan “Tailgate Empire” and I designed a shirt around it. Lions centre Angus Reid is on board and will produce the shirts via his silk screening company. The shirts will be $20.00, which is $5.00 above cost. 100% of that $5.00 will go into the CFLFFC fund. the image that will appear on the shirt is below.
We have men’s youth and women’s cut shirts available!
If you would like to join the “Tailgate Empire” and support this cause, simply leave a comment below and indicate what shirt size you would like and we’ll be in touch. To date we are approaching 30 requests for shirts so let’s grow the empire and donate some money to kick cancer’s butt all over the field!
