Gear

Fall Tail

Your Tailgate Toolkit Enhancers

Most endeavors are emboldened with the right tool. Blacksmithing: the anvil and hammer. Carpentry: some kind of saw. Political satire: Anthony Weiner. And for your tailgating this season, these five Foxboro-ready items to keep in mind when strategizing parking lot dominance. Nobody occupies cement like you.

FOR THE SUDS

Leather and Wool = Beer Jacket

What it is: Basically a Minnesota-born leather moccasin for your can of chosen suds. With shearling wool for added insulation.
Tailgating utility: Reach in cooler. Remove beer. Place beer in this. Lift. Sip. Repeat. Call us if you have any questions.

FOR THE BRATS

One Ferocious Portable Stove

What it is: A mobile, collapsible cooking station, powered by everything from kerosene to jet fuel. Yes. Jet fuel.
Tailgating utility: Use the nine-inch-diameter burner surface to get an iron skillet of bacon going. Or a pot of late-season corn. Or just show people what burning jet fuel looks like.

FOR THE MUG-WORTHY

A Copper Mug to Hold Beverages

What it is: A solid copper mug, hammered to perfect imperfection and lined with nickel. And yes, it’s tarnish-resistant.
Tailgating utility: The only thing you can do with a strong-handled goblet ideal for Moscow Mules... place several in it and then drink. Sometimes it’s the obvious answer.

FOR MEAT DILEMMAS

A Charcuterie Stop While en Route

What it is: An assembly of housemade, takeout charcuterie boards from a wine bar/cured-meat emporium that’s 20 minutes from Foxboro.
Tailgating utility: Order it for pickup after forgetting to pack your usual wooden plank topped with cubed pig’s-head meat cooked in its own fat, various pickles, mustards and fig jam.

FOR WRAPPING UP

Your Legs Will Enjoy These

What it is: An unimaginably toasty 100% virgin wool blanket from Pendleton Woolen Mills with a leather belt strap handle.
Tailgating utility: January playoff games.