[Husker] 60 Minutes of OT?

[gzimmerman5 at kc.rr.com]

Beat me by two years, Mike. My first was in 1958. I was just a wee lad, we moved to Omaha not long after. 
--
Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

---- Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote: 
> > 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.)
> 
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