Road trippin’
ANN ARBOR — CMU football fans showed their University of Michigan counterparts how tailgating is done this past weekend.
Before the game kicked off at noon, hundreds of Central fans parked their cars, ate their food and cracked their beers while lining Ann Arbor’s streets in a Saturday football tradition.
Mount Pleasant senior Tyler Hofbauer said he’s “never been to a tailgate this bad — ever.”
The U-M fans were more laid back and he said he didn’t feel the hostility of being an opposing fan.
“It’s definitely not the energy level that you have at a CMU tailgate,” he said. “For the most part, it’s pretty lame compared to Central. I think here, because people aren’t as drunk and having a good time like we do at Central, makes it a little more laxed on the opposing team.”
That excitement was a key factor lacking for U-M fans, students said, since many of the Michigan fans saw the game as “just Central,” meaning many of them could care less.
Fowlerville senior Scott Gascon made the two-hour drive to party before the game.
“Last year me and my buddy went down to Penn State,” Gascon said. “This year, we’re going down to Kentucky and probably Northern Illinois and maybe Toledo.”
