{"id":5671,"date":"2017-02-05T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2017-02-06T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:55:18","slug":"event-recap-fords-toughest-tailgate-challenge-super-bowl-live-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/05\/event-recap-fords-toughest-tailgate-challenge-super-bowl-live-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"[EVENT RECAP] Ford\u2019s Toughest Tailgate Challenge at Super Bowl Live, Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Bowl is more than just one of the biggest sporting events of the year. The NFL creates an entire experience for diehard fans each season leading up to the Big Game, and this year Houston hosted a nine-day massive fan festival with live music, interactive exhibits, and a ton of games for adults and children alike with the NFL Experience. Mountain Productions proudly provided the structure for Ford\u2019s exhibit at Super Bowl Live which involved <strong>suspending two Ford Super Duty F250 trucks<\/strong> that represented an enormous goalpost.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img1-768x589.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ford\u2019s Toughest Tailgate Challenge<\/strong> required a large scaffold goalpost tower with the strength and safety to lift two F250 trucks on each side (nearly 7,000 lbs). Mountain\u2019s engineering team got to work and designed the structure with full action plans against high winds and seismic activity. In order to lift each truck, our team rigged <a href=\"https:\/\/shopmtn.com\/collections\/electric-chain-hoists\/products\/cm-lodestar-next-gen-rrs-2-ton-single-reeve-60\">CM Lodestar Single Fall 2-Ton chain hoists<\/a> to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img2.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img2-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img2-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img3.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img3-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/superbowl-fordf250hang-img3-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like millions (if not billions) of people across the US, we can\u2019t wait for Super Bowl LI! Game day is here, and we hope all of you who were able to visit the Super Bowl Live pre-game festivities had a great time. Best of luck to Falcons and Patriots fans out there tonight!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%5BEVENT%20RECAP%5D%20Ford%E2%80%99s%20Toughest%20Tailgate%20Challenge%20at%20Super%20Bowl%20Live%2C%20Houston%2C%20TX\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Bowl is more than just one of the biggest sporting events of the year. The NFL creates an entire experience for diehard fans each season leading up to the Big Game, and this year Houston hosted a nine-day massive fan festival with live music, interactive exhibits, and a ton of games for adults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%5BEVENT%20RECAP%5D%20Ford%E2%80%99s%20Toughest%20Tailgate%20Challenge%20at%20Super%20Bowl%20Live%2C%20Houston%2C%20TX\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,91,89,92,43,90],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-recaps","tag-cm-lodestar","tag-f250","tag-nfl","tag-scaffold","tag-staging","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}