[Husker] 60 Minutes of OT?

[Steve Cornelius]

Mike:

I think the reconfiguration has something to do with the addition of
on-field luxury seats a few years back.

There could also be a cost consideration. Field goal attempts from inside
the 20-yard line were sailing over the right field bleachers on to Sheffield
Avenue. I'm sure the ballhawks who normally hang around Waveland and
Sheffield Avenues would fight for a ball and not give it back!

I'm usually in the area of Clark and Irving Park and should have walked down
the few blocks to Wrigley Field to take photos of the
marquee<http://www.cubworld.com/category/a_cubworld_cam/>
!

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Steve Cornelius
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:57 PM, 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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