This is why you shouldnt play football at Wrigley Field

[betplom]

After 18 months of planning, NCAA officials have realized that baseball shrine Wrigley Field is dangerously unsuited for football.

Unfortunately, they made the realization one day before a big football game is played there.

On Saturday, Northwestern and Illinois will play at Wrigley in front of a sold-out crowd. The lucky fans are seated in the western end zone.

That’s because the back of the eastward end zone abuts a brick wall in right field. The goalposts there have been mounted on the wall.

One long touchdown pass and someone is going to get seriously pancaked.

So Friday morning, the NCAA passed a set of temporary rules that make football a half-court game.

All offensive plays will now head toward the relatively wide-open expanses of the west end zone. Each time possession changes, the ball will have to be re-placed to accommodate the change.

“It's a little different and the decision is a little late,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told USA Today.

In an effort not to totally alienate half the crowd, all kickoffs will head into the east end zone. If you’re sitting there, remember to keep your head up.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/footb...shouldn-t-play-football-at-wrigley-field?bn=1

 

[roguejuror]

"Dumb Yanks" could have been used here plommer.

 

[betplom]

"Dumb Yanks" could have been used here plommer.

Very true.

Juror, America has an infinite supply pal, Plommer will have plenty of chances in the future to use this phrase.

 

[RayRay]

FW has a handful of good pics of this debacle somewhere... cant wait for some red zone pass plays

 

[Saulty]

Why didn't they orient the field diagonally so there would be no walls behind the end zones?

 

[betplom]

Why didn't they orient the field diagonally so there would be no walls behind the end zones?

What? Are you a fucking engineer or something?

 

[Archie]

I don't think the field would be wide enough near the "home plate" end to fit the endzones in. beyond that... a diagonal would configuration would mean 75% of the seating would suck very badly.

a "half-court" game is pretty silly though. I can't believe they didn't get this worked out well in advance. I'd like to see another angle of the field from the reverse. as the right field wall must be really close to the sideline on that Eastern side of the field. That might be even more dangerous than the endzone wall proximity

 

[Herman]

Yankee Stadium has the diagonal configuration for the Notre Dame game tomorrow

The dugout box seats at Wrigley make it logistically impossible to fit the field in diagonally unless they blew up the bricks which they aren't doing

 

[Herman]

I don't think the field would be wide enough near the "home plate" end to fit the endzones in. beyond that... a diagonal would configuration would mean 75% of the seating would suck very badly.

a "half-court" game is pretty silly though. I can't believe they didn't get this worked out well in advance. I'd like to see another angle of the field from the reverse. as the right field wall must be really close to the sideline on that Eastern side of the field. That might be even more dangerous than the endzone wall proximity

it was worked out in advance, everyone approved it and the big ten approved it in a walk through on Monday

then the media backlash started which, in my opinion, forced the change

 

[MrX]

Is anyone else thinking that any sort of easterly or westerly wind could have a major impact on the total?

 

[Bread]

Mr X you and your science.

 

[Mudcat]

You'd think someone could have anticipated this situation but I guess no one has a tape measure.

 

[FairWarning]

Is anyone else thinking that any sort of easterly or westerly wind could have a major impact on the total?

YES

When the Bears played there until 1971, the field went from CF to home plate. Since then, there has been field-level seats added that have made that layout prohibitive.

 

[reno cool]

Is anyone else thinking that any sort of easterly or westerly wind could have a major impact on the total?

and you were worried. Looks like over gonna cover by halftime.

 

[Mrs. X]

Mr X you and your science.

Mr. X's scientific kung foo strong.

 

[Saulty]

They could have removed the brick and put it back after the game. There is technology to remove whole structures from their foundations to other locations and these fukkers couldn't move a brick wall.

 

[senco78]

They could have removed the brick and put it back after the game. There is technology to remove whole structures from their foundations to other locations and these fukkers couldn't move a brick wall.

werent the hedges at Sanford stadium removed for the olympics and put back after the events.

 

[roguejuror]

this is why they got to bring professionals like pavy in from other countries