Tailgating hours before kickoff is as much apart of the NFL gameday culture as the game itself, and that is no different when it comes to the Tennessee Titans.
Fans from across the world travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles to experience these festivities first hand with the locals who support their team inside their home stadium on a weekly basis.
The real question is, which NFL stadiums provide the biggest bang for your buck from an experience, financial, and popularity standpoint?
A recent article from Betway revealed that the Buffalo Bills have the best tailgating experience in the league due to a combination of fan hype and fair prices.
The Titans and Nissan Stadium scored pretty good, cracking the top 10 on the list. Tennessee ranked ninth overall with a “positive sentiment score” of 16.60 percent.
In order to objectively determine which tailgate parties were the best, Betway used their data to come up with a unique formula that equally weighed a variety of different criteria across all 32 NFL teams.
Betway’s research took into account the following aspects when weighing out their formula:
Hours open before event – the number of hours the stadium parking is open before the game starts.
Parking ticket price – the price in USD a parking ticket cost in the 2021 season.
Charcoal price – the price in USD of a branded 12-pound bag of charcoal at Walmart, to use for grilling burgers and hotdogs.
Burger price – the price in USD of a branded pack of 12 burger patties at Walmart.
Hotdog price – the price in USD of a branded pack of 14 sausages at Walmart.
Burger bun price – the price in USD of a branded pack of eight burger buns at Walmart.
Hotdog bun price – the price in USD of a branded pack of eight hotdog buns at Walmart.
Soft drink six-pack – the price in USD of a six-pack of 9oz Coca Cola bottles at Walmart.
Number of social media posts online mentioning each team’s tailgate parties over a 12 month span
Truth be told, you can make a strong argument that downtown Nashville alone is worth the trip to Tennessee.
Nonetheless, the team’s pregame popularity figures to grow even more once the Titans’ billion-dollar playpen opens up in 2027.
