Planning a football game at Wrigley Field is becoming amusing
by Dane Noble on Nov 19, 2010 11:26 AM CST
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When it was first announced that Wrigley Field would be transformed into a football field for the Northwestern-Illinois football game on Saturday, a lot of folks started scratching their heads about how that would work. Then, it all started coming together, sort of.
They've just about finished building it, and now some of the semantical things are coming to light. Like, the fact that only one end zone will be used for the offenses. That's right, the teams will rotate during each offensive possession and only use the west end zone as a scoring target due to safety concerns. Apparently, the large brick wall at the other end has become an issue.
Update (1:44 ET): Cubs President Crane Kenney is not a very happy person right now.
And also announced was the decision to swap sidelines during halftime. You can see by the picture of the setup that one sideline is significantly smaller than the other, so the best way to solve that problem is to just flip benches after the first half. This is becoming very amusing... amusing enough that Doug Farrar is using #wrigleypickuprules on Twitter, and came up with this gem:
Running from first to third on a swing pass is a automatic first down. #wrigleypickuprules #calvinball
What are your thoughts on this game being played at Wrigley, and what sort of pick up rules can you think of?
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Our rule was always
6 seconds and no throw counts as a sack
by jimribs on Nov 19, 2010 11:44 AM CST via mobile reply actions
They also just decided
that the Defenses can blitz after counting to 6-apple, and only once per set of downs.
You must have me confused with someone else, I have never been to Chicago.
[whispers] I sexually assaulted Scottie Pippen in 1997.
This is from Twitter too and it requires posting here
@buckeyebanter The NU-ILL game will consist of 4, 15-min quarters or until the mom of the kid who brought the ball calls him for dinner #WrigleyPickupRules
You must have me confused with someone else, I have never been to Chicago.
[whispers] I sexually assaulted Scottie Pippen in 1997.
Nate Scheelhaase
just called all time QB, guys
You must have me confused with someone else, I have never been to Chicago.
[whispers] I sexually assaulted Scottie Pippen in 1997.
One more then I'm done
All the offensive plays are gonna be drawn up using your finger on the football
You must have me confused with someone else, I have never been to Chicago.
[whispers] I sexually assaulted Scottie Pippen in 1997.
Why not just move the field the extra 3-5 feet to the West?
It looks like there’s a few feet in that NW corner that simply aren’t being used currently. Why not move the field West those couple feet, and then allow the play to happen as it should bloody well be happening?
Al Yellon over at Bleed Cubbie Blue has some fantastic photos of exactly what Wrigley Field Football is going to look like. Check em out!
Defense can only blitz once
Usually reserved for third down…also teams can elect to throw to the other team as an alternative to kickoffs and punts
(Asshole Sr) "If you learn one thing here, NEVER pass out in Ohio."
They're still searching
for the outlet to plug in this game. BZZZZZZZ….
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, 1/2 pack of cigarettes...it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
What is the difference with Wrigley now
and when the bears played there? Is this just a matter of trying to get more seats?
I read/heard somewhere that Da Bears' endzones used to be 8 yards instead of 10.
Don’t know if that’s true or not and I don’t have a link b/c I honestly don’t remember where I ran across it.
WILDCARD BITCHES!!! YEEEEHHHAAAAA!!!!!
also
the walls were very close to the back of the end zone back then i believe. there is a famous bronko nagurski quote somewhere about how he broke a few tackles (i think), scored a touchdown and ran smack into the brick wall. said something funny about the hardest tackler out there was the last one but i forget exactly what was said.
some of these college kids (obviously none are in the same league as superman bronko was) though could probably seriously f themselves up without even trying to. you would think someone would’ve thought of this months ago when they started planning this game.
by reefermadness3 on Nov 20, 2010 1:07 AM CST up reply actions
Ayup, that’s mentioned here:
There is a story described in the Pro Football Hall of Fame archives that Bronko Nagurski, the Bears’ Hall of Fame fullback (1930-37 and ‘43), once bulldozed his way through the Washington Redskins’ defense and then ran all the way through the end zone untouched before slamming his head on the bricks of an unpadded wall at Wrigley Field. That was back when the players wore leather helmets.
Nagurski, obviously dazed, supposedly went back to the bench and told Coach Halas: “That last guy gave me quite a lick.”
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Wow, gotta love this event turned fiasco,
even with the season over it look’s like another “cubbie-occurence”, Lou must be chucklin’ about now.
"most football players are temperamental, thats 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental" Doug Plank
What happens if there is a pick 6, not possible?
dear gar/pax,
trade for carmelo anthony.
thank you
by chicago030 on Nov 19, 2010 11:41 PM CST via mobile reply actions
that is an awesome question
maybe they could use a pickup rule — play a bit of rugby action and boot that ball through the uprights when you get close to the dangerous end zone.
i wasn’t planning on watching this game even if it is up the street but now i think i am going to just because of these recent shenanigans.
by reefermadness3 on Nov 20, 2010 1:10 AM CST up reply actions
Itll be the same because he can stop himself.
they just don’t want offense going that way and someone running the deep fade smacking into the padding.
You must have me confused with someone else, I have never been to Chicago.
[whispers] I sexually assaulted Scottie Pippen in 1997.
There's still two endzones.
This is being blown out of proportion. The only major change is that both teams will direct their offense towards the same endzone in all series. I guess an implication could be the coin-flip, but that rarely comes into play as a game changing event. This isn’t a fifty yard field.
It's the same...
you can score defensively on the other endzone, but the offense is aimed at the safe one.. lol
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by Ashley Czuba on Nov 20, 2010 7:36 PM CST up reply actions
When the Bears played at Wrigley
The field ran along the 3rd base line and part of the end zone was cut off and only 8 yards or so deep.
It’s amazing that those in power when this idea was hatched didn’t figure out that this was going to be a problem.
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I saw that.
Hilarious!
"A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year." - Walter Payton
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by Ashley Czuba on Nov 20, 2010 7:36 PM CST up reply actions
That's ok. He's also not a very useful person.
Cubs President Crane Kenney is not a very happy person right now
If I didn’t know the Cubs better, I’d think this was just a poorly conceived money grab/ popularity stunt.
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