[NU Sports] The end zone

[Mike Nolan]

> Thick padding has been added all along the wall (it's actually
> painted/designed to look like ivy, but with an Allstate logo conveniently
> placed) to try and prevent such situations.  But, it is indeed a tight fit,
> and along about half of the east end zone there is just 6" clearance between
> the back of the end zone and the wall.  It is an improvement over old Bears
> games, when the field went north-south and a corner of the south end zone
> was actually cut off by the dugout (which was covered, thankfully).

And people ran in to the wall back in those games, too, and there were
some injuries, too.  (And I believe there was a lot less padding than
it appears they're using for this game, although they added more padding
in the mid 60's.)
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Mike Nolan