Storms Saturday?

Submitted by gbdub on

Current weather predictions are showing a high chance of storms all day Saturday (which sucks, as this is the only game I'm going to be able to make this year).

Which team does this help/hurt more? Both teams seem pretty reliant on the pass so far this year, though I expect Michigan's D to hold up better. Still, a lower scoring affair could be dangerous if Michigan busts a few plays like they did against UCF. 

Just hoping this one doesn't get rained out like the last Utah game.

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evenyoubrutus

September 14th, 2016 at 12:22 PM ^

Not to rain on your parade (c wut I did ther) but while the weather channel's 10 day outlook is often willy nilly and almost completely unreliable, local weather forecasters are saying that a storm system is set to roll through the midwest beginning Friday night and over a 24 hour period.  Granted, it is still the weather and not always 100% correct, but as of now it seems like the odds are not in our favor to have a beautiful day of tailgating and footballing.

EDIT: and now that I check this morning the local guys have already changed their tune.  Please negbang

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bluebyyou

September 14th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^

Rain I can deal with, a pain to be sure, but the forecast is for thunderstorms.  If you have lightning in the vacinity, you get extended holds for obvious reasons and 110,000 people going into the covered sections of the stadium makes for a high density of people. Fun if you are in the student section, but not where I sit with older alums. 

Delays from thunderstorms don't happen very frequently and this is a 3:30 game, so let's hope the weather is out of the area by gametime. 

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True Blue Grit

September 14th, 2016 at 2:29 PM ^

when lightning is around is pretty much a joke.  By the time the lightning passes by, there's still half the crowd in the stadium due to the amount of time it takes to leave.   Compounding it is that everyone who HAS left is hanging around the sheltered areas near the bowl entrance gates making it even slower for other people to leave.  

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schreibee

September 14th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^

That is about as feasible a forecast for Michigan weather as I've ever heard, McMurtry.

It is also my only game this season, so no lighting delays please. Getting wet is what it is, not optimal, but the delays and marching up and down the aisles en masse... let's just say it robs the game day expereince of some luster.

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lhglrkwg

September 14th, 2016 at 12:38 PM ^

My buddy and I got food on Main and then were walking at Packard & 5th and could see that on the scoreboards all the way from there that they were warming up again, so we hopped in his car, parked illegally across Main St from the stadium and ran in. Truly one of the most bizarre experiences I've had in the Big House. There were a few hundred Michigan fans on the west stands and largely all of the Utah fans down at the sideline in the east. It was surreal to watch Michigan play Utah in the Big House in front of maaaybe 1,000 or 2,000 people

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rob f

September 15th, 2016 at 12:00 AM ^

that came back to Michigan Stadium for the conclusion of that debacle.

We left that game for a restaurant over by the Briarwood Mall area to get a bite to eat and dry off while sharing our misery.  By about 8:00 we decided to hit the road for home, but I realized I needed to stop at a gas station and did so on Saline Rd. near I-94, where someone told me they were hearing on the radio that clearance was given to re-start the game around 8:30 or so.

I almost just said fuck it, it's time to drive home, but Freddie B. Soft lost the argument---I instead headed back to The Big House to keep my record intact of never leaving a Michigan Football game early.

But yeah, that was surreal---and painful.  I still have pictures on my phone from that game, pictures I need to either print or discard.  What shall I do?  What SHOULD I do?

 

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GOBLUE4EVR

September 14th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^

western game got callled early like at the beginning of the 4th or half way through it... up in the suites people were going crazy because people wanted to leave but didn't want to because they didn't know if the game was going to resume or not and then after about an hour or so word came out that the game was called... 

while we were cleaning the suites out after everyone finally left, i looked out one of the windows and saw lightning hit the press box tower and that whole side went dark except for the emergency lights...

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MH20

September 14th, 2016 at 1:46 PM ^

With around a minute left in the third and Michigan driving into WMU territory, they stopped the game after a prolonged period of absolute downpouring followed by lightning in the distance.  Eventually it was agreed between Hoke and WMU's coach at the time (Cubit? I forget) to call the game.

I think that if the game had made it to the end of the third then the refs could have just called it without getting permission from both teams.  I could be making that up, though.

Also of note was that because the game didn't make it until the end of the third, individual stats from the game did not initially count toward season-long conference and national leaderboards.  I can't remember how that came about changing (or maybe it didn't? my mind is feeble) but I do recall a big furor in the immediate aftermath about stats not counting from that game (and also a Baylor game, IIRC).

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GOBLUE4EVR

September 14th, 2016 at 2:46 PM ^

knew that about the stats... 

the other thing i remember from being the suites for that game is this one suite holder losing his mind about the TV in his suite not working, i went in there thinking that they had changed an input or something... nope screen was black (just like all of the other TVs in the other suites) because the storms had knocked out the cable... i tried to explain that to guy and he didn't like that answer and then brought out "i didn't spend all of this money on this suite for a TV not to work"... i walked away... 

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GOBLUE4EVR

September 15th, 2016 at 3:54 PM ^

one of my suites i was just helping out one of the girls who's suite was and she didn't know what to do... also i think that it was a company owned suite so the guy was probably an employee who got his name picked out of a hat to use the suite for that game... 

my last season there (2013) i had a suite that was being split by 2 families... the one wife was a bitch and her husband always signed the bill at the end of each game that year... i would bend over backwards to get them whatever they needed because the one wife would bitch and compain about everything so i didn't want to have to deal with it... their bill was always around $500 (just in food) which is nothing compared to other suites and no matter how happy i tried to make them i always got a 10% tip out of them... thats the suite where i hoped for someone to spill something on themselves...

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gbdub

September 14th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^

Uh, were you there? It may have eventually finished, but it was definitely "rained out". Skies opened up and they told everyone to leave in the 3rd quarter.

So I guess it was "rained on extremely heavily, significantly delayed, and eventually completed in front of an empty stadium" if you want to be pedantic, but not a pleasant viewing or playing environment either way.



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