It's 'tailgating' time at 'The Q!'

The days are beginning to get longer, the leaves look like they are just barely hanging on and the sound of helmets clashing reverberates through the fall air. It’s football season again and with football season comes another football fan-honored tradition – the tailgate party!

At the Charger tailgate parties and games grown men wear things that they normally wouldn’t be caught dead wearing: little gold necklaces with plastic footballs – faces painted half blue and half gold…and lightening bolts on the head.

Some say that the tailgate party dates to the beginning of American football. In 1869...