People often ask us how and the heck did we come up with the name Bloomers? Well it’s really quite simple. When you tailgate on a lot of thousands of people, it’s hard for your guests to find you. Even when they have a general idea of where you’ll be. So we decided we needed something that friends and guests could look for that would be different than that of anyone else. As we grew one thing we added was a flag pole. Well that’s not good enough folks, because there are hundreds of flag poles scattered across the lot. So suggestions were made to hang a woman’s brassiere from the pole or a man’s athletic supporter but as these were suggested several times, we couldn’t guarantee that someone else wasn’t going to do it as well.
Then we got the idea of a pair of bloomers. Who wears them anymore? Who even sees them anymore? So we hoisted a pair on the flag pole so we could say, “look for the flag pole with the bloomers flying on it.” People then started saying; “oh, you’re the bloomer guys” or “you’re the bloomer dudes” and it just sort of stuck. It was John Madden that said any good tailgating group has to have a name. Hence, the birth of the St. Louis Bloomers Tailgating Club and the rest is history.
Pictured from left to right are: Big John, Ricky, Davey, George, Z Man, Mike, David & Yours Truly, Bret
David is our promotional Guru. Anything you could possibly want with your name and advertising on it, Dave’s your guy. He could probably even get you a nuclear submarine with your name and logo on it if you had the money.
John is our electrical expert. Anything you need to know about the electrical field, he’s your guy. He dabbled momentarily in block retaining walls but realizing we’ll never need those, he moved back to the area of his expertise, POWER baby, power.
Billy is the wire rope (steel cable) nerd. Any size, shape, gauge or whatever of wire rope you need, he can get it. Billy left us after a few seasons to pursue fame and fortune in LA. While he has become quite successful, he still hasn’t found that elusive wire rope spun from gold, or platinum or silver or………………
Ricky is our natural gas expert. No, not as in human natural but as in earthly resource natural. He knows about all there is to know about natural gas. Ricky is also the Bloomers Equipment Handler. Millions of dollars of precision tailgating equipment are entrusted to Ricky for delivery and storage each week.
Bob the “Z-man” is our guru of pigs. No that is not to say that Bob is a pig himself. He just happens to have a vast knowledge of swine. He is also quite knowledgeable on feeds, whether it’s hog chow, rabbit chow, goat chow, cricket chow and the list goes on and on, he’s your guy. Since our need for animal feeds are very rare at the tailgate, Bob has become our official Pig Roaster.
Yours Truly, Bret De Rousse. My forte is commercial, industrial general construction. I’ve been doing it with the same company for thirty years. However you can’t tell anyone about construction that they don’t already think they know and the end result is always, “what’s the bottom line”, (cost)? No matter how you try to explain it, no matter how many other firms you out bid, it’s always that the cost is too high, that price is ridiculous, there’s got to be someone cheaper, etc, etc. Hence, I say I have no forte. I am just the overseer.
