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Frederick, Charles R., Jr. "A Good Day to be Here: Tailgating in the Grove at Ole Miss," Folklore and American Studies, Indiana University, February 1999.
College football games attract millions of fans to stadiums throughout the United States every fall. Football games combine hard-hitting athletic competition with colorful pageantry and social life not found in other American sporting events. In the South, the Game is the focal point for an enveloping contextual event that often begins Friday afternoon and continues on after the game clock has expired on Saturday. Folklorists have shied away from large scale organized sporting events. Because of their association with formal, hierarchical, official culture, we have not often pursued them as objects of study. But by using the established theoretical approaches to festival scholarship developed by folklorists and others, I have examined how this event at one school, the University of Mississippi, fits within the tradition of American festivals.
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