Peak tailgating season arrives for WI sports fans

Wisconsin sports fans live for September’s triple-threat season, where weekends are devoted to the Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers.

With an athlete-level dedication, Wisconsin tailgaters are masters of the trade – home teams support them and feel the love.

• Miller Park features over 12,000 parking spaces, an anomaly for urban baseball stadiums, but ideal for tailgating.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel estimates each Packers’ home game has an economic impact of $13.5 million.

• Madison game-day tailgaters consume an estimated 30,000 cans of beer and 5,000 pounds of meat, according to the Isthmus.

– Megan McDowell