Backyard Football -- Big 10 Style

That certainly sucks for the fans with tickets in the disused endzone. Hopefully there will a safety at that end.

Half court football. I blame Jim Delany.

Please tell me you are kidding

Does the scoring team get to chant “losers walk the field” after each touchdown?

Out of bounds is the street curb and the hedge.
 
End zones are the oak tree and Mrs. Smith’s yard.
 
All rush is on Three Mississippi.
  
Ready? – break!

Sideline busts!

I grew up on a large corner lot with a long side yard that was perfect for touch football. The only problem was that my dad planted two shitty saplings right in the middle of the field. We learned to avoid them and to use them as extra defenders against visiting teams from other parts of the neighborhood. One of my friends nearly split his scrotum running completely over one of the young trees.

I saw an old photo of a Bears game being played at Wrigley back in the ’50s, and it showed the field running from the first base dugout out to left field. There did not appear to be the same spacial limitation running the field in that direction.

Given that I am almost positive the dimensions of Wrigley have not changed over time, this begs the question: What asshat decided the setup for this game?

Sheesh.

Hook ’em!!!

Old School photo:

http://gapersblock.com/tailgate/wrigley-field-chicago-bears-football.jpg

Looking at that pic why would you play a game there at all? Tons of shitty seats, not many good ones.

Eyes, the end zone you most likely did not see in that old picture was cut off in one corner… about seven yards deep.

I saw an old photo of a Bears game being played at Wrigley back in the ’50s, and it showed the field running from the first base dugout out to left field. There did not appear to be the same spacial limitation running the field in that direction. Given that I am almost positive the dimensions of Wrigley have not changed over time, this begs the question: What asshat decided the setup for this game?

Luxury boxes — they didn’t exist back when the Bears played there and they now force the different set up.

Cool. Anyway, have we joined the Pac 16 yet? Is WM still here?

Whatever Teamster cut, bolted, and installed that unnecessary goalpost is gonna be pissed.

So who’s on tap for the 3rd qtr serenade, “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”? Butkus? Ditka? Anyone?

‘Cause it’s one, two, three downs and out at the old ball game…

Brick Horn -
 
Touch football on grass?
  
Wow. Rugged childhood, dude.

Why the fuck play this game and the ND-Army in baseball stadiums when both cities have perfectly good football stadiums that are available? Nostalgia? Bullshit, everthing about the good old days was exactly good and this is a perfect example.

For what it’s worth, the new Yankee Stadium was designed to be able to host football games.

It might not be perfect, but it’s not the mess it is at Wrigley right now.

Plus, us Irish fans get to have a “home” game with a jumbotron. We hear these were just recently invented, no?

As an NU season ticket holder I had mixed feelings about this game. The tickets were sold independent of the regular package at a much higher price — and everyone knew before buying (based on that Blackhawks game) that Wrigley would have a lot of limitations.
A lot of people will have really bad views of the field (like 1/3 of the fans).

Should be a fun atmosphere. You go for the neighborhood and the beer. And to watch a young coach put the nail in the coffin on the Zookster.

Rugged childhood, dude.

Hey, we can’t all grow up on the mean streets, stealing groceries from old ladies and refining our skills by punching frozen sides of beef in a meat locker.

Anyway, I’m not exactly sure why I typed “touch football.” We didn’t always play tackle, but it certainly was the norm.

For all stoppages and TV timeouts the Ref will yell out “Game off”

I hear Jim McMahon called all time quarterback.

We’re shirts, Sasha’s skins.

I like the quirky events. Never went, but from the pictures our old baseball stadium (Clark Field?) had a cliff in center field. Players could actually climb up it to catch the ball which made for a nice home field advantage.

So what is quirky about running into a brick fall a half a foot out of the back of the endzone? I would laugh if come game time the wind is howling over the right field wall about 20 mph that can happen.

You have the ESPN Gameday crew for a freakin’ Northwestern game. I would say this has worked perfectly.

The novelty will wear off pretty quickly because most of the seats will flat suck.

Texas played TCU one year when there was an ice storm in Ft. Worth and the Astroturf in Amon Carter turned into a skating rink.

The stands were right up against the endzone, and back then they didn’t have padding on the walls. TCU ran a fade pattern in the north endzone. The pass was a little long and the UT defensive back (Genn Blackwood I believe) saw that he and the receiver were about to slam into the wall. Blackwood held out his arms to try and break the hit — he ended up with a broken arm.

The TCU receiver was looking back for the ball when he started to turn. They announced that he had suffered a “broken face.”

Not a broken jaw. Not a broken nose. A broken face.

So when a defender intercepts the ball and has a runback for a pick 6, does he just have to be really careful?

I love All-Time QB. The whole concept of it is just awesome, if you think about it.

I hope this game ends in a hail-mary with the QB yelling “Jackpot!” right before he throws.

The teams should line up on the 50 and play Smear The Queer for three hours.

srr50,

The receiver was Steve Williams. A good guy, but ummm….that pretty much ended his playing career. Facemask shatter as I believe he hit the metal railing without slowing much.

5 Mississippi rush?

I’m sure ESPN’s Big10+2 contract had no bearing on picking this abortion for gameday over the Neb A&M game. At least Herbstreet is flying down to College Station to call the game after Gameday. Then again we tend to suck when Gameday is on campus so maybe it’s a blessing in the sky.

Is the Aggie game on TV? ColoradoAg is going to have to steady his nerves with many Presbyterians.

Homesick – The Big 10 braintrust has thought of that situation. When a defender returning an interception reaches the 50 yard line, he must turn around and run back towards the west. No opposing player may tackle him unless he has also reached the 50 and turned back. Any blockers for the returner may block only those players that are still running in the same direction as the blocker at that time.

Clear? Please note that the Big 10 has hired 22 extra officials for this game just to keep track of who can block or tackle whom in this situation.

That answered my question, Jim.
You have to wonder, how much national interest would this game have had if not for this stupidity? Personally, I can’t wait to see if a defensive touchdown results in a concussion or head injury. The resulting media storm would be breathtaking.

And sure enough, wouldn’t you know it…they had a pick 6 runback.

I believe no one was harmed.

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