Why are these are things that the announcers at the Illinois-Northwestern college football game might say this weekend? To lighten the mood?
Illinois and Northwestern are playing at Wrigley Field.
The famous baseball diamond with its ivy covered brick walls. Said brick walls are, approximately, twelve inches behind the back of the end zone at some points under the rightfield grandstand.
The other end zone along the third base dugout is no peach either. They cribbed the let's host a college football game idea from Yankee Stadium, but Wrigley looks great.
They have added extra padding to the brick outfield walls. With all the concussion discussion that has been in the air in recent months, we here at the Clarion Content, hope they carefully weighed the players well-being and safety against the value of the all-mighty dollar.
Playing at Wrigley Field will most definitely sell some ducats.
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The last time Northwestern and Illinois played at Wrigley field was 1923. The last college football game there period was in 1938. The last pro football game was the Bears in 1970...
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