There’s two types of people in this world there’s people who love to say yes and there are people who love to say no which are you the doorman when it comes to the college football tailgating experience there is no one person as powerful as him he is the gatekeeper between the bottomless beer-chugging
Bliss of a fraternity tailgate in the sober streets of the outside world but before he lets you through he needs to know the answer to one question do you know a brother to better understand the psychological makeup of the doorman i sat down with one at the University of
Iowa what is knowing a brother even mean I if I asked who was that brother and I call him over and you can’t answer well home down he’s from you don’t know that brother mmm that’s one of the first things we learn about someone if you don’t know he’s from Minnetonka
Minnesota Naperville Illinois you don’t know that brother you know his face and you know that there’s beer in there but you don’t know that brother and if you don’t know that brother your only hope to party is to fall into one of three pre-approved groups someone who is in
The Brotherhood a friend of someone in the Brotherhood or a female although these rules are strict it’s not necessarily the doorman who makes them do you make up the directives or do you get the directives from another more powerful group I would say the people
Give it to us it would probably be older actives people have kind of been through this before and know what kind of you know the guidelines entail and then us we just kind of carry out those without even questioning them yeah we just do what was told us to be right although
Blind allegiance is always a great strategy there are exceptions to every rule unique circumstance during a tailgate can put the doorman in tough situations that require him to make gut decisions i’ma run through a couple of different people types of people and I want you to
Say yes or no no no maybe no prop well if yes or no is this person getting in okay high school friend who you know if they do come in they’re gonna make they’re gonna embarrass you know a guy who says his dad was in your friend yes
Guy who you know has a hot sister who might come yes Wall Street banker who claims he can buy you yes someone considering being an astronaut yes conjoined twins ones hot ones ugly yes conjoined twins same scenario except this time they’re girls yes a big group of girls and and I’m not
Am big in not in the sense of how many there are okay through out the door yes or no are you letting them in I am letting them in I think we have a lot of open-minded guys here or I just want to have a good
Time and I think if they pose no problems out the door I let them in and I hope they have a great rest of their day with they’re ubiquitous power and influence it’s easy to forget that door men have feelings too what are you most nervous about so if they don’t know me
And they’d see me as a pledge that I’m worried like why should they respect me where did my credibility come from in fact sometimes the only credibility a doorman has was earned by the generation before him did you ever have to work the door when you were back in your day to
Work the door thank you is a privilege to work the yeah because your friends are coming in all the hot chicks are coming in to see you and if they want to get in let’s guy go through you to get more phone numbers and shake a stick at years
Of experience can yield high expectations well you better be letting on the hot chicks and for one they never throw the bums out and I better keep the party going however keeping the party going often means shutting the party down for unwanted visitors no buddy buddy buddy if you’ve been around you
Before you know it’s not oh I’m not trying to be a dick this is a personal I’m doing I’m and tools I do the truth is that to keep the party exclusive the doorman must keep many groups out yet one demographic never has a problem when
You got in the party today how were you treated who is it hard for you to get in the party you knew that oh I knew I knew coming into any easy access for women is no mistake you know making sure that we’re controlling the the guy to girl
Ratio is pretty important at times tell me more about that what is that the guy – girl ratio is just you know your overall ratio of girls to guys that that the function how important is the guy to girl ratio oh it’s it’s huge you want
All the chicks are there and a few guys you want your fraternity all your fraternities there what do you want it to be primarily a positive ratio is good good for the good for the street cred you have to make sure the odds workout works you know four to one so what I
Know is that if you’re saying the guy number first and the girl number second it’s one eighth or on my rate and that’s my and that’s my line at the door each person I spoke with had their own ideal ratio however they all agreed that there’s one that never works what about
The ratio one to one on paper that’s one of those things like the math checks out on paper when you apply it the real life it never works out like that and I kind of feel like that leads to a middle school dance dynamic where it’s kind of like Michael strands teeth you
Know one on one side one on the other and I feel like a lot of boys will tend to go towards the boys will be playing pong doing other stuff and the girls will be going over there do you know just kind of doing their thing and I
Don’t think that’s good for anyone if there’s a one to one then like every single guys like oh I’m gonna actually have to do something with it I’m gonna have to talk to her like it’s kinda like I’m going to have to do something as scary as it is to talk to a
Girl for these brothers there’s one thing that’s even scarier there’s the term sausage fest mean um bunch of dudes bunch of dudes bunch of dudes is that something that you want to happen oh this makes you laugh doesn’t it it does if the tailgate is a sausage fest that’s
Undeniable proof that the doorman has failed so to ensure his success these brothers prefer that their doormen pursue the impossible what’s the opposite of a sausage fest ooh I would say like a like a panty part of yourself just like I don’t know just a bunch of
Bunch of titties or something I don’t know you you
source
