Michigan football night games petition!

are you the guy who also suggested black jerseys?

How about some piped in music and advertisements wall-to-wall too!

Slacktivism: The search for the ultimate feel-good that derives from having come to society's rescue without actually getting one's hands dirty, volunteering any of one's time, or opening one's wallet.

The online petition isn't doing any good besides making you feel like you are making a difference by sitting there and clicking a button instead of doing the actual sacrifice needed to make a difference.

I don't give two-shits about your petition. Thanks for your interest in Michigan Football and we appreciate your continued support.

Go Fuck Yourselves and GO BLUE!

Sincerely,

The Guy Who Still Doesn't Give Two-Shits About Your Petition

Even if I wanted Michigan to host night games, I wouldn't put my name to a petition that appears so unprofessional and contains so many grammatical errors in just four sentences.

Also, I don't want Michigan to host night games.

The persuasiveness of the argument is generally inverse to the number of exclamation points therein.

Faithfully submitted,

MBAgoblue !!!11!!!eleventy

Shut up the people that are calling for night games. Show them where the fan base lies. Thank you

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/toemeetsleather

Yeah dude, stop advertising on message boards. This is like some scripted infomercial. Its sad and pathetic.

Agreed. This is Michigan, we don't play night games, we don't need night games. We're a program built on tradition, and it's a tradition that we play when the sun is up. While a night game may be fun, it will never happen. Also, it's one step from piping in Nickelback which would be truly awful. Also, maize jerseys? No.

No

It is a matter of safety reasons for the law enforcement.

I'm pretty sure they don't want to deal with 100,000 people at 10 or 11 PM.

If we're winning games Michigan can play at 6PM on a Tuesday in purple uniforms for all I care

to a fellow UM fan for the terrible crime of having an opinion that is different than yours.

It would be nice if any of you had the class to apologize. As if......

I sure am glad that the rest of the posters here aren't like those of you who flamed this poor guy for a heartfelt gesture of fandom.

I guess things must be getting pretty tough up there.

Was the PSU game in 2006. Their stadium was electric, the crowd was crazy and it was extremely intimidating.

Anyone that is so opposed to night games has never been to one. They are just night and day (ha) from our normal games and would be great to have every once in a while.

I really don't see the "hazards" of a night game either. PSU has night games and they are just as big as we are and if you've ever been to PSU getting there isn't exactly easy, there's actually mountains... In Michigan we have... uh.. straight roads that have no elevation change.

The only people who don't want night games are the blue hairs who tell me to sit down and shut up because they are trying to watch a football game. Our fan base makes me very angry and if you can't stay up that late to watch a football game then don't bother coming.

No tradition changes at all by changing the time that the game is that is ridiculous and stupid. If the game wasn't on a Saturday then yes it would be weird.. it's called Michigan football Saturday's.. not Michigan football Saturday afternoons.

I think the safety/security fears are overblown, but nevertheless to start I would only do it in one of the non-conference games in early September or late August to maximize the amount of daylight remaining. I would start the game around 5 or 5:30 so that when it's over there is still some waning daylight to help people get out of town.

One difference between Michigan stadium and most others is that the Big House is situated within residential areas, and so the traffic egress is not as easy and clear-cut as with stadiums that are located away from congested areas, surrounded by acres of unencumbered parking lots.

Regardless, I've been in favor of the occasional night game for years. I look at it this way: we're supposed to have such an incredibly gifted and brilliant alumni base. Are we really saying that these Michigan grads—accomplished doctors and lawyers and executives—are incapable of navigating home at night, but the drunken ignorant goobers down in Baton Rouge are able to do it routinely every year?

I'm not in favor of change for change's sake, but sometimes prudent caution ossifies into a hidebound, calcified, avoid-change-at-all-costs mentality that prevents beneficial evolution from occurring.

The only thing that intimidates the other team (having played football myself) is noise from the crowd. Thats it. Not the color of the opponents' jerseys, not the color of the fans apparel, and not the color of the sky.

The build up to a night game may have more energy, but once it gets under way the same fans will fall back into their same roles as fans. Unless you change the demographic of the crowd (not going to happen because financially established people are paying for the tickets) and or loosen up those fans --> alcohol (which can't be served at the stadium by law due to on-campus location) then you won't see a difference. I don't like to be a nay-sayer, but you are not thinking out all the details.

Games with 3 PM kickoff times frequently end when it's dark out. See the Manningham catch against PSU, Braylon's game against MSU, etc. I really don't get what the big fucking deal is......OH EM GEE WE'RE PLAYING UNDER THE STARS? Who cares? Do you really think because it's night out the old people yelling sit down in front are going to want to come? Do you really think that people who drive out to the games from Macomb, Oakland and other counties are going to want to trek a 1 hour drive once they get on the freeway on top of making it out of Ann Arbor after a game while their kids are with them? It's a logistical fucking mess. I feel like a three year old wrote this but even when a three year old hears it so many times they understand.

they are the ones who hold sway over the subject of night games...not the AD..not Uof M.

The lack of parking around the big house is a huge factor. As is the added police to combat the all-day party. (the police dept. is against it.). Before you go throwing the blue hairs under the bus you should know your facts. It's the city dummy...not the university. They'll be quick to remind you that 2/3rds of A2 residents are not in school. I know...I've gone up against them in the past...they have the final say about kick off times.

I taken the liberty of phoning the assistant secretary of the athletic department. She has agreed to either of two arrangements. Please take the liberty of voting for either:
Option A: Nickleback wears maize jerseys during a nighttime concert at the Big House. The resulting fan noise is piped in during a twilight game.
Option B: We have one home doubleheader each season where UM wears traditional uniforms during the day. Only those with UM degrees from prior to 1950 may attend. The second game is a night game with UM's new purple jerseys (thanks Dex). To attend, you must have BAC of .20 or higher. This way we get at least one win (purple jerseys + night game = win) and the athletic department doubles it revenue for game day.

All we must do to see one of these happen is select an option and each contribute $1,500,000 to the athletic department!!!!!

what a stupid fucking idea.

I love this thread.  Some of these people look silly.

I have to say that night games are a lot more electric, the fans are more into it.  And it gets LOUD.

What's great is that you almost got to 100,000 signatures on the petition ;) Congrats on 2-years.