Things That Should Not Be Purple

Gotcha. That's going to be weird, for sure, putting a coffin-corner punt out at the one, then having to march everyone 99 yards the other way. Game could run long.

 

The winners are the folks in the rooftops across the street, catching field goals in their beer cups.



And can we take a moment to remember how great Wrigley Field is WITHOUT the advertising all over the ivy (or the fake photographic ivy, in this case).

 

Wrigley when the Bears played there. No clue why they didn't try to recreate this.

 

New York Times story says they have luxury boxes on the third-base side that makes that configuration untenable, I believe.

 

The Cubbies get beaten more often than Whoopi Goldberg's character in The Color Purple.

 

Can't they just fly the alien Soldier Field addition over the Wrigley Field and land it there for the day?

 

They can use the end zone for something like that. But where they were worried were passes in the end zone and receivers and DBs crashing into the wall. Although, if it's not a concern of right fielders crashing in there while chasing fly balls, I don't know why they're worried that football players in helmet and pads are crashing in there.

And, like spike said, if I had paid full price for those east end zone tickets, I'd be a little pissed. They paid to see a whole game, not half a game.

 

Ah....the return of Losers Walk.

 

I think that's usually sort of a pale blue.

 

The Big Ten should simply order NW to play the game at Ryan Field, which has a larger capacity than Wrigley.

As far as how much it will cost NW and how much of a ticket clusterfuck would result, the answer is, "tough shit. It was your great idea. You had 6-8 months to figure out how to do it right. You fucked it up, so let us reiterate: tough shit. Do it, or forfeit."

 

Northwestern must not be a very good engineering school.

 

I can't walk away from this thread without doing what's expected of me: