[NU Sports] Dumb, dumb, dumb

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Jim Phillips keeps pursuing the idiotic 'game at wrigley' idea.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-611/Northwestern-continues-to-explore-Wrigley-game.html

I can think of many reasons not to do this:

- Awful parking (and my parking pass will do me no good here, AND be useful for one fewer game in Evanston)

- Our fans likely outnumbered by opposing fans (very likely liquored-up after a few hours in wrigleyville)

- Surrounding neighborhood of bars and taverns is fitting for a pro venue, but the college game should be surrounded by academic buildings and sun-dappled trees

- Seats at Wrigley bound to have worse sight-lines than prime seats at Dyche

- Crumbling concrete. inadequate bathrooms and?concessions at Wrigley

- Probably charge more for the game, especially with the new Cub buyers taking on all sorts of debt.? Weren't the Blackhawk tickets $100 and up ?

And quite a few more come to mind.? Also, some of us South-siders were raised to never venture north of North Avenue...(grin)

Hockey on a baseball field in mid-Winter is a great attraction - Football on a baseball field in mid-November is a marriage made in hell.? Don't forget how the infield can mess up several aspects of the football game.

And won't the Wrigley neighbors, who try and limit all usage there (night games, concerts), try and veto this idea ?

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85