Danny and I went to Giants stadium Saturday to the Carolina preseason game but more importantly to check out the parking/tailgating situation.

First off, we confirmed that our usual spot is in a fenced in construction area. Entering the stadium our old way will do nothing for us, just take us to parking on the other side of the stadium which is strictly parking lot, no good areas for tailgating there. We walked around to the construction area checking for a spot. If you continue walking past the horse track to the other side of the track you get to a good area. It’s a decent sized parking lot but has good curbage on two sides. One side is just like our old area except not on a street, both sides face parking lots. This is the concrete curb and this is a reference shot:

The other side is similar to this one except that one side faces the street (with nothing on the other side of the that street but trees) and one side faces the same parking lot as above. The difference between this curb and the other is this is grass covered. Pros and cons to that I suppose.  One big con is that for this game there was NOT a port-a-potty near the grass curb and we decided that was going to cause some big problems.

Parking should be cake for us since arriving so early. For everyone else though its gonna be a nightmare. You had to see the lines coming in to the parking lots and there were *maybe* 50% of the fans there. You can park alongside the curb if need be.

Dan talked with a 90 yr old security guard at length about what the best route is to get into this new lot. He claims he will have an exact mapquest route for us shortly.

On an unrelated note, while at the stadium we spoke with Franks agent who stated Frank is close to making a decision on his future and may be releasing a statement at the end of this week.