09/21/2008
The
Home Opener at Soldier Field! Chucky will be bringing in his
Buccaneers. Hopefully we will see flashbacks of the NFC
Central days when the Bears regularly embarrassed
Tampa
Bay
. The Bears are 35-17 all time against
Tampa
and have won 5 of the last 7.
read more
09/28/2008
Sunday
Night Football under the lights! The best thing about night
games.....is the longer Tailgate Parties!! Last year the Bears
waited until the last drive of the game to beat the Eagles.
That win snapped a streak of 7 straight Eagle wins over the Bears.
This year
Chicago
will be looking to start a winning streak of their own.
read more
11/9/2008
Former
Chicago Bears player and assistant coach Jeff Fisher will bring the
Titans into
Chicago
. The defense will have to contain Vince Young if they want to
extend our winning streak over
Tennessee
to 4 games in a row. read more 12/07/2008
A
Florida
team comes to
Chicago
in December. I sure hope it is cold out - - - then I can break out
my secret family recipe for Hard Hot Cocoa! The Bears and Jags
have only played four times, with each team winning twice. The
Jags should be in the hunt for the playoffs and this game could be a key
game to measure where the Bears stand. *This game is subject to
flexible scheduling (i.e. it could get moved from noon to 3:15 or 7:15).
read more
12/11/2008
Just
four days after our last Tailgate Party, we will do it again for a
special Thursday Night Football game against the Saints. This will
be our first limited Tailgate Party (only open to people that have
Tailgated with us before). The Bears have done well against
New Orleans
in the past couple December games - - - especially the NFC Championship
Game win that sent us to Super Bowl 41.
read more
12/22/2008
Monday
Night Football!
Green Bay
Packers!! Brett Favre or Aaron Rogers??? The final home game
of the regular season. The Bears are 90-79-6 in this great
rivalry. This game will also be a limited Tailgate Party. read more
|
 
|
The
Fork You Tailgating Club was created in 1997, when Bill, Dennis
& Ron began tailgating together before Bear home games. Together
we have 50 years of Tailgating experience. What makes
the Fork You Tailgating Club (F.U.T.C.) unique is our continual
growth in membership. Every game more people join the
Club. Once you have tailgated with us.....you are part of
the Club! We aren't sure how many people have joined, but
we had close to 1,000 people during the 2006 season! Our
main focus is to provide out-of-town fans and people
attending their first Bears game with a place to tailgate.
Everyone has heard of All Inclusive Vacation Packages. Basically, we offer All Inclusive Tailgating Parties.
All
you need to do is show up........and we take care of everything
else!!!
Founding
Members: Ron, Bill & Dennis
Charter
Members: Renee, Karin, Tom, Kevin, Jon and Dan
Dennis
was first exposed to Tailgating when he was just 7 years old in
1978. Since then, he has seen the Bears play in 26
different stadiums, made it through 8 of the 10 coldest games in
Soldier
Field history and was in attendance at the Fog Bowl and
the Halloween Night Monsoon Bowl. Dennis (a.k.a. Denrod,
urlacher2000, u2k) decided to offer these Tailgating Packages
after becoming fed up with the hassles of bringing all our
gear on road trips. He has also been appreciative of all
the great people they have met on the road that were hospitable
and accommodating to them. Even fans from opposing teams
have been willing to share that favorite recipe, let us
borrow something that was forgotten, allowed us to use some
grill space and talk football. He figured that the F.U.T.C.
could help out others......like we had been helped out over the
years. Dennis' favorite part of Tailgating is
cooking, meeting new fans every week, making sure everyone has a
good time & gets enough to eat. He also likes to burn
stuff! Dennis' favorite road trips were to Old Mile High
stadium in Denver
(2nd coldest November game in Broncos history and New Mile High
stadium in Denver
(Coldest November game in Broncos history) - - and both were
Bear wins! Other favorites include a Thanksgiving
win at Detroit in 1993, a win over the Tenneessee Oilers (before
they were the Titans) in Vanderbilt Stadium (before their new
stadium) and the Monday Night Miracle Comeback at Arizona
last season. Dennis' all time favorite Tailgate Party was
before the playoff loss to Philly
which was the last game at old Soldier
Field. Dennis has more Fantasy Football
Championships than Ron & Bill combined.
Ron
is a Bear Fan since birth. (He is also a closet Raiders
fan) The greatest day of his life was when he became a
season ticket holder in 2003. Ron (a.k.a. Crush) heading
into the 2007 season, has a consecutive Soldier
Field home game streak of 68 straight games! Ron
has witnessed the Bears play football in 13 different stadiums
and even made four trips down to U of I when the Bears played in
Champaign
for a season. He enjoyed sitting through 4 of the 5
coldest games in Soldier
Field History. His favorite games were the
back-to-back overtime wins against San Fran & Cleveland
in 2001. However, no game ever matched the intensity and
electricity in the stadium when the Bears beat the Saints in the
NFC Championship game last season. Ron's favorite road
trips include Miami
(Super Bowl XLI), Seattle
, Dallas
(Thanksgiving)
and New
England . His favorite tailgates are all of them,
but he thinks there will never be a bigger/better party than the
Monster Tailgate Party we threw in Miami
before the Super
Bowl. Ron takes over the grill when Dennis drinks
too much. He also makes one of our most popular appetizers
- - - Caribbean Jerk Chicken. Ron is a proud Organ &
Tissue Donor and his favorite color patterns are Navy Blue &
Orange, Silver & Black plus Pink & Chartreuse.
Bill
(a.k.a. Wild Bill or Sammy
Hagar) becomes Santa Claus around Halloween and for all
the games in December. He invites all good, and especially
bad, little girls to sit on his lap for photos. He also
likes long walks on the beach and dinner by candlelight. Bill had a streak of 65 consecutive home games at Soldier
Field - - - until missing the Packer's game last December
(so he could celebrate the New
Year in London
). His current streak now stands at 2. He loves the
start of every new season and will never forget the times when
the Tailgate Party was the best part of Gameday. Bill
loves all the road trips because of the Bear fans we meet all
over the country. This includes a Bear fan from Canada
who we met in Seattle
. You could see the passion in this fan's eyes when he
started to have tears in his eyes when he found out we were
season ticket holders from Chicago . Bill's favorite road
trip was the thrilling win at Tampa where Marty Booker made that
phenomenal catch in the endzone while being malachied between
Lynch and company. One of Bill's best memories of old Soldier
Field is when Mike Brown's mom came down to our seats
during his rookie season to thank us for supporting her son and
wearing his jersey. It was the first Brown jersey she had
seen a fan wearing (because it was custom made before he was a
star) and she gave us one of his rookie cards. If Dallas
is America 's Team, then Bill feels the Bears are the World's
Team w/ the best fans anywhere. Bill doesn't have a
problem with opposing teams fans joining our Tailgate Parties,
but he usually hides the lighter fluid from Dennis when they
show up. So far we have only sent one opposing teams fans
to the hospital. It was an accident, but nobody wanted to
take him to the emergency room (because it was too close to
kickoff!).
|
HOME
|
 |
 |
