michigan stadium to Host a Night Game in 2011
Over the last few months, the nerd circles have been become giddy in Ann Arbor. Rumors were flying that the 2011 matchup between michigan and Notre Lame at the Outhouse will be played at night. Welcome to the 20th century, u of m!
I have been to a handful of night football games (Michigan State got the memo that fans enjoy them about a decade ago). Night games gives schools a great amount of coverage as they’re usually nationally televised tilts (shout out to Madd Dogg – he likes saying ’tilt’).
Fans are allowed to tailgate all day long i.e. get drunk enough to puke, puke and still have long enough to continue drinking until they’re drunk again. Students can drink all day, go to the game and head straight to the bar afterwards. It makes for a useless Sunday, but how would that be different?
Night games also change the college football Saturday routine for fans. For fans without tickets, it allows you to be productive during the day Saturday – which usually means yard work or following your wife around on her errands. Joyous.
Maybe most of all, fans get excited for night games. The home field advantage is ratcheted up a notch. The aura is that much stronger, the players are geeked up a bit more (and in Ann Arbor the geeks are geeked up a little more) and the fans are that much louder.
Too bad michigan won’t be able to take advantage of that last benefit. An 8:00 kick will be past the blue hairs’ bedtimes. The Outhouse will be lucky to have 30,000 people there.
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