Yankee Stadium ready for football...

[illini1]

Here's a picture of that right field endzone:

That's part of the difference of the two feet from left field to right field.

Yeah have fun receivers.

Seems to me that the padded wall area there is in the same spot as the goal post support would be. Receivers know how to avoid that.

The goal post support is behind the thick endline (in the pros, not all college fields use the endline). According to a quick Google search, the endline is 6 feet wide. This padding is one foot from the back of the endzone.

They just announced that the offense will always be going towards the West Endzone in order to avoid the East Endzone. I'm not joking. WTF!

[TFoA]

I'm hoping for a Pick 6 on every possession.

[JQK]

This is fu*king stupid...

[Cujo]

All of these other gripes about football at Wrigley are now secondary:

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Yeah... Um... WHAT?!?!?

Wow.

This is just sad.

And now they're not even using one of the endzones.

Just another Wrigley Field travesty.

[CS85]

The whole wrigley football game is becoming a fiasco. Gonna be some boring crap to watch on TV.

[pheer]

Problem er, solved....

One end zone for offense at Wrigley

They are only using one end zone for offensive plays. Sounds like the whole idea of this game is offensive, but what do I know....

[TheOldRoman]

This is a joke. Why did we need this circus? Wrigley is a :censored:hole. It is a third rate ballpark built for a fourth rate team and it has an overpowering smell of urine. It is a horrible, unsafe baseball stadium and a complete joke for football. Maybe we should have just made the field 50 yards instead. Can we institute a rule where teams have to win by two scores? Count to five before rushing the QB? Shame on the U of I administration for signing off on this nonsense.

I feel sorry for the fans who paid $150 face value for tickets in the east end zone to watch 100% of the game on the other side of the field. On the positive side, though, being in the non-covered outfield means they aren?t likely to get hit in the head with falling concrete. Load up Zook, AD Ron Guenther and the entire administration on a clown car and send them the heck out of town.

[CS85]

Tell me how you really feel.

[The_Admiral]

saaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhx

[TheOldRoman]

I don't think being a White Sox fan shapes my views of Wrigley. I didn't like it back in the day, circa 1995-2003, when I was a "Chicago fan" due to watching the Cubs on WGN in the afternoons as a kid. For those of you who aren't from around Chicago, the falling concrete thing actually happened. About 5 years ago concrete started falling above the concourse. The Cubs' solution was to put up nets to catch the falling concrete.

As for this game, it was an ill-concieved cash-grab from the beginning. The field was too small for the Bears in 1970 (one endzone had a corner cut off). Adding extra seats behind homeplate made the field even smaller. The fact that it got to this point, that it took U of I until the day before to figure out that having the endzone 18 inches from a brick wall was a bad idea, tells you all you need to know about U of I's administration.

[The_Admiral]

I think this Northwestern game is a stupid waste of time, but "third rate ballpark built for a fourth rate team" sort of belies any claims that baseball loyalties don't come into play anywhere.

[TheOldRoman]

I think this Northwestern game is a stupid waste of time, but "third rate ballpark built for a fourth rate team" sort of belies any claims that baseball loyalties don't come into play anywhere.

In my defense, it was built for the Whales of the Federal League. It was built on the cheap by that day's standards, and just as old Comiskey Park, it spent most of its existence being neglected and deprived general upkeep by ownership. Wrigley was not highly regarded until the early 80s, and the Cubs tried a few times to get a new park built. But yes, not a fan of the Cubs.

[pcgd]

Just to be clear...is a Northwestern home game organized by Northwestern. U of I had little if anything to do with the planning or decision making process...

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[epper]

Sucks for the fans who have tickets in the unused endzone! All of the action and touchdowns will be on the opposite end for them (unless there's a pick-6 or fumble ret. TD).

[TheOldRoman]

Just to be clear...is a Northwestern home game organized by Northwestern. U of I had little if anything to do with the planning or decision making process...

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I realize this is a Northwestern home game and not a "neutral site" game. Northwestern needed U of I to agree to the game being moved to this venue, and of course they obliged. U of I had their engineers out there measuring just as NU did.

[TheOldRoman]

Sucks for the fans who have tickets in the unused endzone! All of the action and touchdowns will be on the opposite end for them (unless there's a pick-6 or fumble ret. TD).

There could be a punt return TD also. They will change sides after the possession change. However, in the rare event we so see a TD in that endzone, they will walk back to the other side of the field to kick the extra point in the other uprights.

[Frylock]

As I said on my Twitter feed, it's time to start calling it "Wrigley Failed"...

[Cujo]

The Bears are out of town this weekend. Why not spare everyone the headache and just play the game at Soldier Field?

Also, the Wrigley sign needs to be painted red ASAP!

[The_Admiral]

The Bears are out of town this weekend. Why not spare everyone the headache and just play the game at Soldier Field?

Soldier Field provides its own slate of headaches.

[FiddySicks]

Well, it's been like 75 years since Wrigley hosted a college football game. The game hasn't even started yet and we already know it'll be at least another 75 before some bonehead decides to do it again.