[Husker] 60 Minutes of OT?

[Mike Nolan]

> This seems kind of silly to me.  If it's that big of a concern, they 
> shouldn't be playing there in the first place.  I'm sure the Bears 
> didn't do this when they played there in the 70's.  Was anyone ever 
> seriously injured because of the outfield wall?

Back when the Bears played there, the 3rd base line was the sideline, so 
the field ran north-south.  This layout runs east-west with the sideline 
along the first base line.  

Not sure why they chose that when the 'standard' layout for an outdoor 
football field is north-south.  It may be that some of the remodelling 
they've done at Wrigley since the Bears last played there in 1970 make 
this a slightly better fit.  The media is going to have a field day with 
this, pardon the pun.  Stewart Mandell is already pretty wound up about it.

Were players seriously injured running into the wall back then?  Yes, some
were, I can remember watching several games where someone ran into the
wall and missed the rest of the game, or longer.

The winds can be tricky at Wrigley, as any Cubs fan knows all too well.

If they come from the southeast, as currently forecast, it will be mostly 
at the offense's back if the offense always plays east-to-west.  
--
Mike Nolan
(I attended my first game at Wrigley in 1956.)