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College GameDay at Wrigley Field 11/20

  • vball10set
    ^^^ I can see someone getting seriously hurt here--NOT a good situation IMO.
  • ts1227
    darbypitcher22;558983 wrote:that's a problem during the Emerald Bowl too

    It's going to be even worse at Wrigley... it's so close to the field that they couldn't even use a stanchion on the goalpost or it would have been hanging over the end zone. At least at SBC Park they had a couple of feet to work with.

    Looks like they may have padded the wall in the above picture? That Allstate ad with the ivy background looks like padding. It's still going to hurt like hell if you hit it.

    What makes it more odd is it's a completely different configuration than used historically for the Bears, they always ran it the other way (1B dugout to LF wall) and there was more room. They haven't added any seats or messed with dimensions that would really necessitate a change.
  • krambman
    Check this out, the front of Wrigley has been converted to be all Wildcat. They're even painting the marquee purple! Here's a live webcam feed.

    http://www.cubworld.com/category/a_cubworld_cam/
  • sherm03
    krambman;559220 wrote:
    Guess I was wrong...that looks TERRIBLY unsafe. I guess it fits better in Yankee Stadium after all. LOL.
    krambman;559229 wrote:Check this out, the front of Wrigley has been converted to be all Wildcat. They're even painting the marquee purple! Here's a live webcam feed.

    http://www.cubworld.com/category/a_cubworld_cam/

    That is really cool!
  • dazedconfused
    from this picture, it looks like there was never much room


    and while i was looking for the picture, i found this tidbit on wikipedia
    The football field ran north-to-south, i.e. from left field to the foul side of first base. The remodeling of the bleachers made for a very tight fit for the gridiron. In fact, the corner of the south end zone was literally in the visiting baseball team's dugout, which was filled with pads for safety, and required a special ground rule that sliced off that corner of the end zone. One corner of the north end line ran just inches short of the left field wall. There is a legend that Bronko Nagurski, the great Bears fullback, steamrolled through the line, head down, and ran all the way through that end zone, smacking his leather-helmeted head on the bricks. He went back to the bench and told Coach "Papa Bear" George Halas, "That last guy gave me quite a lick!" That kind of incident prompted the Bears to hang some padding in front of the wall
    and while i was looking for the picture, i found this tidbit on wikipedia


    sounds like football games at wrigley were always an adventure
  • ts1227
    dazedconfused;559262 wrote:from this picture, it looks like there was never much room


    and while i was looking for the picture, i found this tidbit on wikipedia

    sounds like football games at wrigley were always an adventure


    There definitely wasn't much more room, but a couple feet behind the end line beats the about 6 inches they have this coming weekend.
    It generally just seems like a bad idea to play there at all, honestly. Sure, it's historic... but the damn field doesn't fit! lol
  • karen lotz
    sjmvsfscs08;558635 wrote:~52,300 for baseball games, not sure if it changes or not. I would be absolutely shocked it it wasn't sold out.

    A limited number of Standing Room tickets will go on sale Tuesday. $175 a piece. Probably a good sign the game is sold out.
  • darbypitcher22
    ^^^^

    that's truly shocking they're going to get that price.

    and the goal post looks truly dangerous. When you think about it, the fact that it almost looks shorter along the edge before the wall turns, the outcome of the game could be severely affected in the 4th quarter. It totally changes your play-calling
  • krambman
    Here's another picture of the wall.

    Sorry it's so big!

  • vball10set
    way too big--come on, krambman!!!
  • gorocks99
    vball10set;560550 wrote:way too big--come on, krambman!!!

    That's what she said.
  • gorocks99
    I think I may wander on over there on Saturday morning; Gophers have a bye week so it may be a good morning to go and soak in the atmosphere. Maybe get some thanks from Illini fans for putting the nail in Zook's coffin last week :)
  • krambman
    vball10set;560550 wrote:way too big--come on, krambman!!!

    Sorry, it's not my image. I got it off of Twitter and it was much smaller when I copied the location, but the TwitPic site obviously made it smaller and I'm too lazy to upload it to photobucket and resize it.
  • wildcats20
    So this is an ESPN game...

    Oh wait, it's ESPN U, aka not even a true national TV game...
  • sportchampps
    the other endzone backs up to the dugout.... both teams said they will change their gameplans because of the field... as a player would you like to run a fade route to the corner of the endzone if ur going to running into a dugout and breaking ur neck
  • wildcats20
    sportchampps;563453 wrote:the other endzone backs up to the dugout.... both teams said they will change their gameplans because of the field... as a player would you like to run a fade route to the corner of the endzone if ur going to running into a dugout and breaking ur neck

    2 words.

    HELL NO.
  • sjmvsfscs08
    It'll just prep some players for Arena Football. :D
  • Thinthickbigred
    I like it ... Nice nostaligic moment ..and with ND and Army at Yankee new stadium its going to be an enjoyable weekend for football ...
  • fan_from_texas
    As a NU fan, I'm obviously thrilled to see this. It's a shame, though, that Persa is out for the season with an injury. He was perhaps the most underrated player in the Big 10--his numbers were really impressive, especially considering his supporting cast.
  • krambman
    fan_from_texas;564359 wrote:As a NU fan, I'm obviously thrilled to see this. It's a shame, though, that Persa is out for the season with an injury. He was perhaps the most underrated player in the Big 10--his numbers were really impressive, especially considering his supporting cast.

    As a Buckeye fan I'm bummed that he's out too. He was our best hope of Wisconsin losing sending us to Pasadena!
  • Leonardo
    Yankee Stadium from baseball field to football field in three minutes:
    http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Video-Yankee-Stadium-goes-gridiron-in-3-minutes?urn=ncaaf-287230
  • gorocks99
    UPDATE: Only one endzone will be used during the Illinois/Northwestern game: http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncf/news/story?id=5824661

    Ridiculous that that had to happen. And I can't imagine how pissed the people who have seats in the east endzone must be.
  • vball10set
    ^^key word being ridiculous....I think it's the right thing to do, but it was poor planning to begin with
  • gorocks99
    vball10set;565477 wrote:^^key word being ridiculous....I think it's the right thing to do, but it was poor planning to begin with

    Exactly, I think it's the right decision now but c'mon ... they had to figure this one out in the PLANNING stages, not a day before the game. Northwestern .. you're smarter than that.
  • krambman
    This is the first college football game in Wrigley in nearly 70 years and I'm pretty sure that this will be the last ever football game in Wrigley.