Who Is...joe Cahn

Why you don't need to remember his name
Because he goes by Commissioner of Tailgating.

Why his title makes sense
Each football season since 1996 the Commish, 54, has logged 30,000 miles in his Monaco Signature coach, visiting about 50 of the nation's finest stadium parking lots. A bachelor, he likens tailgating to "an old-time community social where all sorts of folks come together," and he rarely enters a stadium. "I know my place," he says. "You don't see NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue outside tailgating, do you?"

Why serious 'gaters should invite him to help out at the hibachi
Cahn founded the New Orleans School of Cooking (which he's since sold) and has prepared king salmon at a Seattle tailgate and Cuban pig in Miami. He always wears the home team's colors, and he can spin a good travel yarn-like the time John Madden invited him into the Madden Cruiser for a pregame bite of barbecue

Heaven is
Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium. "They know their barbecue, know their football, and they have a lot of porta potties out there."