Tailgate Party To Kick Off First Game
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Back by popular demand: The Ag Council
will
have a 'name the goat' contest and will allow
students to take their picture with the goat
at the tailgate party Saturday.
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Sam Houston State football fans will have the chance to rally
in support of the Bearkats before the beginning of first game
of the season, against the Midwestern State Indians, at the
first tailgate party of the season on Saturday. The tailgate
party will begin at 4 p.m. in the Bowers Stadium parking lot
and the game will begin at 6 p.m.
The Alumni Association will be serving up chicken fajitas,
chicken nachos, beef kabobs and sausages on a stick, courtesy
of Jay Barnes, owner of 10 Houston- and San Antonio-area Willy’s
Bar and Grills.
Barnes said he would be on hand at the game because the university
will be honoring the four national championship winning golf
teams, which won in 1978-1981, at halftime during the football
game, and he decided to participate in the tailgate activities.
“I was on the golf team in ’78 (at SHSU), and I left there to go
to the University of Houston restaurant school, so I graduated from the University
of Houston,” he said.
“I was just ready to help out,” he said.
In addition, KSAM 101.7 FM will be doing a live broadcast from
the tailgate party.
The department of military science will have a paintball game,
where students will have 10 chances to hit a target for $1,
and will be selling raffle tickets for a chance to fire the
cannon at halftime for $1 each. Tickets will be sold until
a few minutes before halftime, according to Capt. Christopher
Wooten.
“We will have a barbecue pit and will be cooking hamburgers,” Wooten
said. “Any and all are welcome.”
Student Activities will provide turkey legs, sausages on a
stick and drinks and are providing tables for the first 20
organizations that go by Student Activities. The Episcopal
Student Center, Kappa Psi Omega, the Ag Council and the Wesley
Foundation have already reserved tables, according to a member
of Student Activities.
Brian VanDelist, Ag Council member, said the group will be
bringing a 6-feet long gooseneck barbecue pit built by the
agricultural mechanization club that will hold 80 turkey legs.
“Last season we brought a goat to the game that we had painted orange using
hair spray, and everybody thought it was pretty cool. So we're bringing it back
this year,” VanDelist said. “We are going to try to have a ‘name
the goat contest,’ and we are also working with the cheerleaders to let
Bearkat fans have a chance to get their picture taken with a cheerleader and
the goat.
“We just plan having a lot of fun and supporting the Bearkats football
team. I don't think people realize that we have honest to goodness tailgate parties
but we do, and we have a lot of fun doing it,” he said. “There would
be nothing better than to fill up the home side, the end zone and the visitor's
side to show our Bearkat pride. The more the merrier. Come on out, wear
your orange, unleash the Bearkat inside.”
Student organizations that are interested in having a table
should go by the Student Activities Office, on the third floor
of the LSC, by Friday to register.
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SHSU Media Contact: Jennifer
Gauntt
Sept. 4, 2003
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