{"id":8461,"date":"2025-09-10T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:12:27","slug":"tailgating-returns-for-2025-trojan-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/10\/tailgating-returns-for-2025-trojan-football-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailgating returns for 2025 Trojan football season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 With <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">football<\/a> making its return to Veterans Memorial Stadium so does tailgating, which has brought back plenty of excitement for fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s all about community and Trojan pride honestly,&#8221; said Seth Walker, student worker at the tailgate. &#8220;I can walk up to anybody in the tent and I&#8217;ll have the same spirit and enthusiasm about watching our team play and win.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many fans, tailgates and football are a staple in our community, but not so much for international students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m working with Freshman Forum at the international tailgate, giving international students who aren&#8217;t really from America to be able to have that Trojan pride and to be able to tailgate to really serve them to give them the best college game day experience,&#8221; Walker explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/04\/trojans-lay-siege-to-the-colonels-during-season-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NEWS FOR YOU: Trojans lay siege to the Colonels during season opener<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For most of the international students, the game against Nicholls was the first time they experienced any kind of tailgate or American football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[It&#8217;s the] first time that I will see a football game in America so that I&#8217;m really excited like I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s really going to be the vibe,&#8221; aid Noah, a French international student. \u201cThere is a good community, there is a good vibe. I can see that all the people talking about that [the game] they walk in the Troy university and the campus, everyone is like a group so it&#8217;s good to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the tailgate, the Trojans would go on to <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/news\/2025\/8\/30\/football-troy-runs-past-nicholls-in-fourth-quarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">win against Nicholls<\/a> 38-20, scoring four touchdowns in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 With football making its return to Veterans Memorial Stadium so does tailgating, which has brought back plenty of excitement for fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s all about community and Trojan pride honestly,&#8221; said Seth Walker, student worker at the tailgate. &#8220;I can walk up to anybody in the tent and I&#8217;ll have the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/10\/tailgating-returns-for-2025-trojan-football-season\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127,1125],"tags":[2484,1764,2483,2482],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-8461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-local-news","tag-troy-trojans-v-nicholls","tag-troy-university-football","tag-troy-university-tailgate-terrace","tag-troy-university-tailgating","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8485,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions\/8485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}