When tailgating goes wrong. 11 cars outside of the Dolphins/Patriots game torched by hot grill.

‘I’m a rookie tailgater. After serving up 6 burnt burgers on buns I had to borrow from the car next to me, I want to hustle inside for opening kick. Problem is, those coals won’t be cool until the 4th quarter. And if you don’t have the right auto insurance coverage, you could be left to pay for the charred out hull that was once your car, yourself.’ 

UNREAL! Maybe it’s because the rules of tailgating are passed down at birth in the Midwest, but you never, EVER, put a still-warm grill near a car, let alone inside of a car. That’s Day 1, syllabus-week stuff.

And it sounds like at least one of those cars had Patriots bumper stickers on it. Can you imagine going to a game on a 100 degree Miami day, sweating your ass off for 4 hours, watching your team lose, and then walking back to the parking lot to find your car absolutely torched because someone near your spot put a hot grill back in their car? I might just walk all the way back to Boston. Brutal.

PS: For all of the experience I have as a tailgater in my life, I always, ALWAYS forget something. Buns, a spatula, a lighter, condiments, charcoal, the grill, the meat, it’s always something. You ain’t tailgating if you’re not walking shamefully over to the nearest fellow tailgater and asking to borrow something.

Double PS: Clip relevancy rating: 8/10.