Pats season: imminent.

Tom Brady: a free man.

You: about to enjoy the bounties of the Tailgating Toolkit, a visual codex containing all the devices and provisions you’ll need to hold court in a parking lot starting tomorrow night. It’s all right here in the slideshow where it counts.

There will be tiny wooden stereos. There will be oversize cookout boxes. There will be regular-size Dutch apple pies.

But first, there will be this slideshow.