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talwart University of Michigan
football fans will have to find
someplace else to chow down
free next season.
The famous Ira Jaffe tailgate party
that fed about 2,000 people before each
home game for the past 30
years is "almost 100 percent
gone says attorney Jaffe, 68,
of Farmington Hills.
After the final home game
last season, bulldozers flat-
tened the hill near the stadi-
urn's main tunnel entrance.
The stadium is being reno-
vated and enlarged.
The hill was the site of
the food extravaganza that
fed many from the Detroit
Ira Jaffe
Jewish community, includ-
ing Jaffe's friends, relatives
and clients, plus interlopers who had no
idea who Jaffe was.
"I used to go around and ask people
who invited them to the party, and
strangers would look me in the eye and
say, `I know Ira Jaffe and he invited me:"
Jaffe says. "But usually, they would say
something like, `My friend's cousin's
uncle's mother-in-law.'"
A U-M grid booster since his father,
Benjamin Jaffe, took him to games
as a youngster, Jaffe graduated from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and U-M's law school, opened a law
firm in Southfield, and began normal
tailgating in the stadium parking lot.
"I guess our food and noise annoyed
people around us because they com-
plained, and school officials made us
move to a bigger site on the hill 18 years
ago," says Jaffe. "We even sent invitations
to friends and clients, and we set up a
20 by 40 tent, plus smaller tents."
Jaffe's friend, Dr. Mel Lester of
Franklin, another ardent U-M football
supporter, joined him and the party
"just got bigger and bigger for each
game," Jaffe reflects. "Someone said we
served enough food each week to feed a
Third World country."
Jaffe and Lester each
did some barbecuing, but
they also hired 10 employ-
ees to help. They brought
empty tins to Plaza Deli in
Southfield to fill, and usu-
ally took off from work on
Friday to round up tables,
chairs, carpeting and a
generator to put into a
Rider rental truck for the 6
a.m. trek to Ann Arbor.
"Then it took us five
hours to clean up after the
game, and often on Sunday," says Jaffe.
Jaffe and Lester were touched when
U-M Athletic Director Bill Martin came
to the last party to present them with a
plaque to recognize their years of ser-
vice and spirit for the football program.
"Mel says he has retired permanently
from tailgating, but there's a slight chance
I may try it again for only half of next
season's home games, but I don't know
where; it's very doubtful: Jaffe adds.
Meanwhile, he is turning his attention
to the 40th anniversary of his firm, Jaffe
Raitt Heuer and Weiss in Southfield.
He's asking each of the 80 attorneys to
commemorate the occasion by perform-
ing 40 hours of community service this
year.
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