Vol. 1 — No. 12Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Sep 3–6, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 12 · Sep 3–6★ soknoear.com
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Kern'sSat

Kern's will rent you a private game day section on Saturday, and it has published the price

Three hundred dollars gets twenty people a canopy, a television and two couches on the lawn. Twenty-five hundred takes the small rooftop for seventy-five. The rest of the food hall is still free to walk into.

The lawn patio, sectioned off

Kern's has decided what it wants to be on a Tennessee Saturday, and unusually for this kind of thing, it has put the numbers on its own website rather than making you email somebody.

Where
Kern's, 2201 Kern's Rising Way
The Ultimate Tailgate
$300 per game · up to 20 guests · lawn patio section
Includes
TV, two couches, two cocktail tables, canopy, signage, one reserved space in the Kern's lot
The Fan Zone
$2,500 · up to 75 guests · the UpTop small rooftop patio
Booking
Signed agreement, 25% deposit, final count 14 days out
Saturday hours
8 AM – 11 PM

What the money buys

Three hundred dollars a game reserves a private section of the lawn patio for up to twenty people: a television, two couches, two cocktail tables, a canopy over the top, a sign with your name on it, and one reserved space in the Kern's lot — that is a space at Kern's, for getting to Kern's, and has nothing to do with parking at the stadium. Twenty-five hundred takes the small rooftop patio upstairs for as many as seventy-five, with the boundaries and signage handled. Catering and drink packages are added on top, redeemable at the bar.

Who this is honestly for

Not the couple looking for a table. These are group packages with a signed agreement, a quarter of it down at booking, and a final headcount due two weeks ahead, which puts Saturday's game past the deadline already. It's built for the birthday, the reunion, the office. If that's the autumn you're planning, the prices being public is a real kindness.

And if you just want to turn up

You still can. The hall is open eight in the morning to eleven at night on Saturday, the vendors are all running, and nobody charges you to walk in and find a screen. The packages are the upgrade, not the price of admission.

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