
At Diffa’s Dining by Design in Chicago in November, an elegant tailgate party inspired the vignette from Sparc Inc., designed by Richard Cassis and Hunter Kaiser.
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Guests entered the Bahia Mar Beach Resort & Yachting Center through an inflatable football helmet tunnel for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County’s homecoming-theme Déjà vu Ball in 2010.
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Tables at the premiere of football player Ernie Davis’s 2008 biopic, The Express, featured football-appropriate centerpieces that included pom-poms, helmets, and pennants.
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Gesture recognition technology can lend an innovative techy vibe to a tailgate bash. For the Sports Illustrated Heisman Tour, Brightline Interactive created a two-person game where players tried to complete the most football passes in one minute.
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Solo cups are an often-spotted component of any tailgate party. Turn them into decor by arranging dozens of the cups inside the spaces of hurricane fencing to spell out game day messages.
Photo: Susie Montagna

Food service company Sysco Metro NY served tacos and other hors d’oeuvres from a station covered in Astroturf at Jets & Chefs.
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