while not exactly tailgating stories, I have some good pre-Holbrook Lane Ave adventures.
1993 OSU-PSU blizzard game in Columbus. I was 13 years old. I was in the Holiday Inn parking garage drinking Little Kings with my dad and some other guys and a cop walks over and asks if I was old enough to be drinking. My dad handed him a Little King and said yep. The cop said enjoy the game.
About an hour later on Lane Ave, some douchebag PSU fan deliberately pushed me when I was trying to eat some street meat. So I took what was left of my gyro and whipped into the back of his head. This guy laughed so hard he gave me a six pack of gennessee and went back into the 7-11.