From office space to movie theaters, and from road trips to restaurants, American industry and individuals alike have had to reimagine how we work and play amid the COVID-19 pandemic that’s kept us keeping a safe social distance from one another for more than six months now. Given significantly lower coronavirus transmission risks outdoors as opposed to, say, crowded into an eatery or cinema, you’d think that the time-honored tradition of tailgating before a major sporting event might carry on relatively unchallenged — to which we must inquire: Where do you get that bottomless font of bright-eyed optimism?