Michigan Stadium Movie Night
August 17th, 2014 at 9:53 PM ^
Did you ask if Saturday Night Lights is going to be a yearly thing? Such a great event, last night was.
August 17th, 2014 at 9:55 PM ^
August 17th, 2014 at 10:00 PM ^
A million times better than the spring practice. More people, more interesting.
Add the fact that that was my first time in Michigan Stadium for a Football event at night....amazing.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:10 PM ^
Wait...weren't you there last night?
EDIT: sorry, thought your comment was about MOVIE NIGHT being way better than the spring game. I'm sure that is an accurate statement, but now realize you were comparing last night's scrimmage to the Spring Punt and Walkthrough Fest.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
I called it the Spring Stretchy and Drills
August 18th, 2014 at 7:45 AM ^
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August 17th, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^
@umichfootball provided a decent photo of the event:
.@TheLEGOMovie at Michigan Stadium. Everything is, in fact, awesome. #UMMovieNight pic.twitter.com/IW53fyEO8M
— Michigan Football (@umichfootball) August 17, 2014
August 17th, 2014 at 10:03 PM ^
August 17th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
That's me and my grandaughter on the blanket at the bottom of the I in the end zone. Movie was OK, stadium was special. I've never been on the field before, in spite of 40+ years with student/alum season tickets. Hots dogs, pretzels and bottled drinks were half of the usual price, which made them reasonable.
I am not a fan of most of the things that DB and his marketing crew have done over the last few years, but this one was nice.
For the next time - The self printed tickets had all the usual prohibited items listed. However, the were letting packs and baby strollers in (I think they were searching them) so anyone with a small child too young to watch the movie could still come in. Wish they had made that clear at mgoblue or somewhere else.
All in all enjoyable and will do it again.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:54 PM ^
August 18th, 2014 at 10:21 AM ^
I've been on the field once, and still have a picture of it somewhere. I was in the late orientiation before freshman year, which basically meant that I got on campus about a week early to do my orientation. My future best man was also in that group, and one of the things we got to do was run around the field in Michigan Stadium. Our orientation leaders even brought a football for us to toss around. Pretty dang awesome.
Very jealous of your movie night! Sounds like a blast!
August 17th, 2014 at 10:00 PM ^
How did the OL look?
August 17th, 2014 at 10:04 PM ^
topic for a little while?
August 17th, 2014 at 10:18 PM ^
don't jump down the guys throat- he just wants to know how the OL pieces are fitting together.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:23 PM ^
Hey man,
The success of the OL is important. Good lineman are the building blocks of good offense.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:39 PM ^
August 18th, 2014 at 3:30 AM ^
August 17th, 2014 at 10:16 PM ^
Since you asked nicely and twice, yes.
I promise to refrain from OL comments until after the opener.
This will not be easy but I am pledging to do this. Not switching to optimism, but willing to let the coaches do their work and present their product when it is due.
Who is on board with the pledge? No snarky/the world is ending comments until we see the product on the field in a real game.
Sign on by commenting below.
August 17th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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August 18th, 2014 at 8:29 AM ^
NASA can keep their faulty no gravity in space to themselves.
August 17th, 2014 at 11:31 PM ^
August 17th, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
but this event is a great idea. If I had young kids and season tix, I would have been there.
August 18th, 2014 at 1:10 AM ^
My were so excited to be there and had a great time, but I spent over a half hour in line for food because the concessions people were totally unprepared for what was really a very small crowd. I waited in line with my son for 20 minutes before the movie started only to find that they had already run out of hot dogs, brats and pretzels (everything besides candy and drinks). They wouldn't go get anything from another line for me, and they weren't warning anyone behind me not to waste their time. So then I had to take my son back to the field and run all the way back up the stairs again and go back to the end of another line to get actual food. If you're going to ban outside food, you'd better be able to handle the demand you create, especially with so many kids who don't understand being told there's no food for them. On the plus side, the fact that the tickets (which were never checked by anyone) were free and the food was half the normal price was nice, especially given the feeling during football games that they're squeezing us for every penny they can. I know this was the first time for this, so hopefully they will be more prepared next time, though I assume the crowd will be larger next time, too, because more people will know about it and they'll probably give more than a week's notice.
August 18th, 2014 at 5:39 AM ^
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August 18th, 2014 at 7:34 PM ^
...and one for the public? Hell, you could probably sell some season tickets at that one.
August 18th, 2014 at 8:55 PM ^