UNIVERSITY PARK
Walt Gillikin grabbed a burger to go with his bottle of Coca-Cola during a Penn State football parents’ tailgate last Saturday, as his weekly multi-tasking adventure was already underway.
It was a little after noon, still more than three hours until the start of the Nittany Lions’ game against Indiana, and he wore his custom blue No. 93 Penn State jersey to support his son and starting punter, Blake Gillikin. But he also closely monitored the Northwestern-Wisconsin matchup being played more than 700 miles away in Madison, Wis., where Tyler Gillikin, Blake’s twin brother, started at long snapper and helped the Wildcats take an early 3-0 lead.