{"id":47301,"date":"2026-01-03T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47301"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:20:52","slug":"tailgate-parking-lot-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47301","title":{"rendered":"Tailgate &amp; parking lot #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9540-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-47302 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9540-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Parking Lot #13 @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47288\">Raymond James Stadium<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89150\">Tampa<\/a>, FL<\/p>\n<p>Without knowing the parking situation, we chose Lot #13 and planned to tailgate.<\/p>\n<p>The last NFL tailgate I attended, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=36718\">I made a short video about it<\/a>, which unexpectedly made into the final round of a film festival.<\/p>\n<p>~ the video<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9519-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9519-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9523-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9523-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_9756-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cct2vk_ExFY\">from the lot to the stadium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ffyqqiohCdg\">going to the stadium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TImevrZYgqs\">the Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ctdcCvnN7CA\">the last 3 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WEbSJaRlMS8\">after the game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eA9_0-W-ZXg\">rain<\/a>, water puddles in parking lots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The parking lots around Raymond James Stadium are fragmented and spread out. We ended up in Lot #13, which is fairly far from the stadium. It has portable toilets and costs $41, while the more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3414.png\">expensive lots go for $95.40<\/a>. Lot numbers are not clearly marked. As soon as we turned onto N. Himes Avenue, handmade \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vfPJEx7qJ3g\">$20 Parking<\/a>\u201d signs began popping up, put out by individuals\u2014likely nearby homeowners or condo owners.<\/p>\n<p>When we first arrived, dust rose every time a car drove by. Not long after, rain moved in, turning the ground muddy and leaving puddles in some areas. A few tailgaters were scattered nearby.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"$20 parking @ Bucs\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfPJEx7qJ3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parking Lot #13 @ Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL Without knowing the parking situation, we chose Lot #13 and planned to tailgate. The last NFL tailgate I attended, I made a short video about it, which unexpectedly made into the final round of a film festival. ~ the video from the lot to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}