big chill
the fiance and i have been watching the last few playoff hockey games and i think i got her interested enough in the whole michigan hockey thing...she been to a few football games and besides the FREEZING northwestern game of a few years ago she has had a blast....in a month and a half she will be my wife, and shes pumped about the big chill (cold war 2.0) anyone know about ticket prices or dates to buy tickets?
im pumped as shit after this CCHA title, and a relative new follower to the hockey program
March 20th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
When I googled it to check on prices for you I found out about a movie called "The Big Chill" that just so happens to be about college friends from the University of Michigan...go figure
March 20th, 2010 at 11:43 PM ^
Tell me I'm not that old. Please.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:45 PM ^
Its a 1983 movie and I am only 19 so...
March 20th, 2010 at 11:47 PM ^
Sigh.
You know who Jamie Morris is, right?
March 20th, 2010 at 11:48 PM ^
haha yes I do, don't worry
March 20th, 2010 at 11:50 PM ^
The Big Chill is actually a little old for me too (I am 30), but I got scared for a minute there.
March 21st, 2010 at 12:19 AM ^
I'm 30 as well and I finally rented that movie last Summer just to see the blue references.
I loved the part where they're all watching a UM football game on TV (a clip from the 1980 UM/MSU game is being shown on the TV screen - a long screen pass from John Wangler to Larry Ricks).
But then Jeff Goldblum's character blasts our famed winged helmets - calling them the ugliest helmets in football.
Blasphemy! How that line even made it into the script is beyond me. Especially since the character is a UM alum and the movie itself was written by a UM alum.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:46 PM ^
I think UofM has been advertising itself in movies for a long time. Either that, or there are a lot of Alumni screenwriters out there.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:51 PM ^
Both. Also a bunch of studio execs from Michigan.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:57 PM ^
UM alum who wrote and directed The Big Chill also wrote the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark along with some others (a few of which I probably wouldn't claim).
March 21st, 2010 at 12:05 AM ^
I'd lean toward the latter. There's a lot of us out there.
If civilization suddenly ended and U-M Alumni decided to form a new nation, we'd be able to field a potent army.
And promptly invade SEC country.
March 21st, 2010 at 12:08 AM ^
There you're wrong, I'm a Marine, and almost everyone I work with is from the South. We'd be grossly outnumbered.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:58 PM ^
Tix are onsale soon (mid-april). they are 15 bucks. the general feeling is that they aren't going to be that hard to come by. the AD seems to have priced them low enough to try to sell out the place. Check with your local alumni club as I know some of them are buying in bulk (at least I know NYC is doing this)
March 21st, 2010 at 12:26 AM ^
Season hockey ticket holders can buy unlimited tickets. After that football ticket holders and alumni associations go. Then the public tickets go on sale.
Assuming there are 4,000 season hockey tickets holders. If every ticket holder buys 10 that is 40,000 midfield seats. If you take out the student section and MSU's allotment, there is probably only room for around 50% of season football ticket holders (assuming there are 80,000 nonstudent season football ticket holders) to grab tix.
March 21st, 2010 at 12:35 AM ^
do you think tailgating will be similar to football?....im ready for beer and pregame
Getting married in a month and a half. You poor bastard. Let me be the first to say congratulations. One vagina for for the rest of your life. Real smart. Way to think it through.
"But then Jeff Goldblum's character blasts our famed winged helmets - calling them the ugliest helmets in football. "
There is a reason no one wants to sleep with him.
If you like that movie, check out "Return of the Secaucus Seven." And then when you discover what a great writer and director John Sayles is, go get "Brother From Another Planet."
I've never been into hockey but I want to go to this game just because it is UM and State playing a hockey game at the Big House. That will look sweet.
March 21st, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
I was all excited to talk about the movie. Where's the Berenger, Goldblum, and Hurt love?