In the comment section of a recent article, Josh responded to my entirely reasonable assertion that I be put in charge of selecting teams for the college football playoffs by saying (I'm paraphrasing) "Shut up and make me a sandwich."
His exact words were "When are you going to cook something? You know, people eat in the off season." Which is fair. More importantly from my perspective is that it's a convenient excuse to write about tailgating with no obvious tailgatable event (other than the two-hundred and fortieth anniversary of the signing of a particular declaration) on the horizon and earn an unscheduled but always coveted RBR contributor's paycheck.