For the people who think night games are a bad idea...
http://www.maizenbluenation.com/2009/03/night-games-at-big-house.html
Dex is right. I was in way over my head. My bad guys. I just got too carried away. I didn't plan on making anymore posts about night games, but now I definitely won't. My other two were not well thought out, but please click and read what he has to say. It is actually pretty well thought out.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:09 AM ^
Hungry Howie's tastes like ass, and Dominos doesn't? I know Dominos started in Michigan and all, but that doesn't make it good.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:25 AM ^
I thought the Dominos pizza at games tasted pretty good, not the best I have had, but pretty good. Obviously their delivery pizza is much better. But the Hungry Howie's pizza at the games is nasty. Everyone in my family that got pizza at the game said it was terrible. I even have one by my house and I got it delivered from there once. That was the first and last time I got pizza delivered from there.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:37 AM ^
Are we talking cheek, or hole?
March 11th, 2009 at 11:27 AM ^
But Domino's didnt taste much better either. My wife actually worked at Domino's when the switch happened and it was a surprise to them at the Main street store. Anyway the only good pizza anywhere at a sporting event is at the Joe with the Little Caesar's.
Anyway maybe people would go to a restaurant at 11p for a bite to eat but if I had to drive back to Farmington Hills, Royal Oak, or any other Detroit Suburb I would just want to get home at that point.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:07 PM ^
Definitely. But maybe the locals would and maybe the ones that have the longest drives, like 3-5 hour drives.
Your assertion that businesses would make more money because there would be a "longer wait for the game to start" makes no sense. Just because the game is scheduled for later in the day does not mean that people will travel to AA longer before kickoff than they otherwise would. To assume that people will arrive at, say, 11AM regardless of when kickoff is scheduled is ridiculous.
By this logic we should move the games to Sunday or Monday and allow local business to take advantage of the extra day/s of customers. Or go one better and move the entire schedule back one week, thereby keeping all those people in town for an entire week.
March 10th, 2009 at 11:46 PM ^
But Dex is mistaken about one thing:
"It will be the first ever non-football event held in the Big House outside of a graduation ceremony."
They once held what I remember as a concert/antiwar rally there. The entertainment was local bands; I believe SRC and "The Up" both played that day/night, I and I think John Sinclair might have even been involved. I was there and partook of the, uh, environment.
There was a lot of activism going on back then, and I can't quite remember why we were there, but I do know we were there.
Where did I say anything remotely resembling what I am "mistaken" about?
God you suck.
March 10th, 2009 at 11:53 PM ^
The year was 1969...
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:KZyEbQ128HUJ:www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/g…
"There were events all over campus on October 15 ......
Instead of using the Events Building that night, the New Mobe held a rally in the Michigan Stadium attended by 25,000 to 30,000 people. The event was carried live by WUOM, the University radio station. As the WUOM radio announcer reported it, “it was the first time in memory that this great and venerable stadium” had a nighttime event.9 Lights were brought from the Willow Run airfield for the occasion.
Speakers included Chicago 8 defendant Tom Hayden, national New Mobe leader and Cornell University economics professor Douglas Dowd, Congress member John Conyers, State Senator (and later Detroit Mayor) Coleman Young, UAW Vice President Douglas Fraser, Grady Glenn a UAW Ford Local 600 building president, U.S. Senator Philip Hart, and local New Mobe leaders. The speakers list reflected the left-center coalition approach of the New Mobe leaders and included several African American leaders."