Gameday.Style

Any lover of good gameday fashion, is either in love with, or falls quickly in love with Judith March.  Judith March is a national clothing line thick with adorable gameday dresses.  
This blue style is a current Judith March piece.   (Waiting for the Gameday 2012 line to appear!)

You can see some of last year's Judith March gameday styles in this Gameday Style post from September.
Twelve Saturdays, a Judith March online retailer, and curator of superb gameday fashion gives us a sneak peak from market of what is to come this fall...some clever shirts with team legends...




If you love following Judith March, you'll enjoy reading about the founder and designer, Stephanie Nichols, and her grassroots start of Judith March.  She is a graduate of Troy University and their alumni magazine just recently featured her story and endeavors right here.

Folks, the summer turns into football season at our house about the end of July.  I always have to have my game on all summer long in thinking about future tailgates, player dinners and September/October/November houseguests.  So-- recipes I make for summer treats are always translatable to the busy football season in our coaching family.  If any of you know a college football coach, this is sacred time-there are just a few weeks every year he can travel with his family.  That time is now and if you look around the beaches, there are some football coaches vacationing. (smile!)
We are just finishing up our stint at the beach.  We were lucky to have family join us part of the time and they brought Rice Krispie Treats...what a great beach snack.  Great beach snack = great tailgate snack.  I started looking online for some Rice Krispie Treat recipes and found this mouth waterer via the blogger, Ally Garner, of Copacetic in Carolina's Pinterest board.


Meet  Trail Mix Krispie Treats with …

It's fun to tailgate at the College World Series in Omaha.  The Omaha World-Herald published an article about the tradition: Published Thursday June 14, 2012   http://www.omaha.com/article/20120614/MOMS06/306149931

Favorite teams not in CWS; fans still come

By Maggie O'Brien
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Doug Guidry is loading up an 8-foot trailer with crawfish, shrimp and chicken sausage and driving 17 hours from Louisiana to Omaha for the College World Series. The funny thing is, his favorite baseball team — the Louisiana State Tigers — didn't make it to the series this year. But that couldn't stop the die-hard baseball fan and his six buddies from making the trip. Turns out, they're pretty big Omaha fans, too.
AD After 11 years of Cajun-style tailgating and baseball, the series is these guys' annual vacation.

It will be an interesting and fun college football season this fall.  With all of the conference changes, we will find new rivalries forming and a lot of gameday travel that is new to fans.  The Southeastern Conference added the University of Missouri and Texas A&M during the offseason.   Mizzou and A&M are both preparing fans for their new schedule by providing information now to prepare for fall travel.  Mizzou magazine, the magazine of the Mizzou Alumni Association, made a fantastic guide to the pleasures of SEC travel.  See the feature at the link below.
http://mizzoumag.missouri.edu/2012-Summer/features/s-e-c/index.php

A special cooler is a great Father's Day gift idea.  Here is the Gameday Style  cooler post from the fall...so dad can keep his drinks cold in a super fancy cooler like a Yeti or in a super cute hand-painted cooler...


Need a gift idea for someone that takes their gameday seriously?   Perhaps a nice cooler would do the trick.  
It's easy to find a plain cooler and paint it up!  Southern Tide has held a cooler contest for the past two college tailgating seasons and here are what some folks came up with.   



Customizing a cooler with one's favorite team would be a popular gift.  Need some help doing so?  There is an entire Facebook page dedicated to the painting of coolers right here... http://www.facebook.com/groups/5377024169
Here are a couple of darling team themed coolers from the Facebook page.  You'll find more photos and tons of tips at the page.

Father's Day is approaching and for many football style gift ideas to purchase or hand make, go to this link on Gameday Style:


http://livingforgameday.blogspot.com/search/label/Equipment

And for some menu ideas, peruse the Gameday Style recipe postings:


http://www.livingforgameday.blogspot.com/search/label/Roster%20of%20Recipes





Or for a gift of football art that looks handsome in a den or office, go to 


http://www.livingforgameday.blogspot.com/search/label/Reasons%20We%20Love%20the%20Game

for some beautiful vintage photograph resources to order and frame.  Many can be ordered from Life magazine.