Things That Should Not Be Purple

I find this all refreshing, that such a big thing became subject to human error. How all kinds of big decisions can be made, but one little aspect got overlooked. Just a welcome sign that we're humans, not machines.

 

Funny thing is that the Big 10 knew about this for months and even signed off on the field layout. I guess once somebody got a look at it with players on the field when Northwestern practiced there yesterday somebody's legal counsel got nervous.

 

Bunch of wusses

 

The Bears played at Wrigley for years back in the day. How come this never came up then?

 

They didn't build the luxury seats down the third-base line then.

 

Field ran the other way then too.

Read yesterday that they took out the luxury seats for this game. One issue might be that the dugouts stick out farther onto the field than they did 40 years ago. Also, they added several rows of seats behind home plate a few years ago as well.

 

I don't know--I think it really cheapens the whole event. Makes it seem like less than a real game to me for some reason.

 

Do Illinois and Northwestern play real football anyway?

 

More than Notre Dame has, for years.

 

At least Wrigley is still Wrigley.

The Notre Dame-Army game? Like watching a Civil War reenactment in Hawaii.

 

Rumple, I can't speak for Northwestern, but on behalf of Illinois, perhaps you're forgetting the 4 national championships? Yep, some heady times I'm sure when the students jumped in the Packard post game, headed to the speakeasy, gave the password Oskee Wow Wow and did the Charleston all night long to celebrate....

 

It's not a "little aspect."

Anybody old enough to ever remember Bears games being played at Wrigley would have immediately said, "hey, what about the brick wall across the end zone?"

Is there nobody in the whole NW athletic department more than about 45 years old?