If you plan on going to the home football game here at Mehlville, you may want to show up an hour before to have some fun at a tailgating event.

Panther Den is a fun tailgating event that is before every home game. Mehlville students show up an hour before every home football game to hang out and cheer on their team. It is located at the top field that is in front of the top gate, where fans enter the stadium.

“Panther Den is an activity we do before home football games where we have games set out and we come out and have fun,” said Panther Den leader Landon DeRoy.

You might wonder what games they have to play at these events.

“We always have cornhole set up, sometimes more than one game going at a time, there is always a football or a volleyball being bounced around, in the past we have had some days where we have a jam or spike ball,” said Tom Ratliff, Panther Den Sponsor.

If you even have your own yard games that you know are super fun then you are encouraged to bring them.

“We have cornholes there all the time and we have a football being thrown around. We encourage other students who attend to bring their yard games for other students to play and have fun,” Deroy said.

If you are an underclassman, and you have never been to Panther Den, you have nothing to worry about.

“Everybody in the entire school is welcome and we would love to have as many people as humanly possible show up, we are there for about an hour before every football game, we would just love to see every single person at the school show up,” Ratliff said.

Make sure that if you are a Mehlville student and you want to cheer on our football team with your fellow students, come out an hour early to bond with other classmates and play fun yard games. Regardless of your class, everyone is invited and encouraged to go. If you have any questions, Thomas Ratliff is the sponsor of Panther Den and his room number is 218.