CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Loran Smith: Home Tailgating

CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Loran Smith: Home Tailgating

The tailgate parties where football aficionados swarm with a passion, which have become centerpieces of campus scenes, don’t just take place near the confines of a stadium—the imposing edifice that originated with the Colosseum in Rome in 80 A.D. You can’t score a dinner reservation at an Athens restaurant for the fall unless you make a booking six months in advance—but you can always cook out at home, which many residents do.  We should never f…