According to mlive.com - here's the LINK. Michigan Stadium will hold the 2013 Winter Classic. Yes, we know it's been coming, but it is now official The NHL will announce tomorrow.
Also learned in this link above is the GLI will be played outdoors at Comerica Park. So, Michigan Hockey will now play outdoors AGAIN....
I think I'll wear my David Harlock game worm Toronto Maple Leafs sweater to the game. He was afterall the first 3-time Captain at UM....
Go Blue!
I hope to be there, unless
Yes
It's the Red Wings and the Maple Leafs. They two of the biggest fanbases in the NHL and both are within driving distance.
Looking forward to the games
I can't waet! I hope I stay worm.
/jerk
Edit: Spelling mostly changed, so this post is irrelevant.
Thanks HeadAsplode! I've
Thanks HeadAsplode! I've changed my spelling! But I appriciate your comments!
Ha - no problem
If they coordinate these games well (and Michigan's bowl game doesn't interfere), I think this will be a really great event for Ann Arbor / Detroit. I feel like the novelty of playing outside is losing its uniqueness, but hopefully it gives all fans the opportunity to see them play outdoors.
From Det News:
Ads and booze will be filling Michigan Stadium
All for $3 million
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The Future begins now. Brace yourselves.
Booze-filled stadium
It wasn't all that long ago that booze filled the stadium. It's just that the U didn't get a cut then.
Bleh.
Bleh.
Booze?
Until about 30 years or so ago, it was OK to bring alcohol into Michigan Stadium. Then, for a few more years, they allowed "pass-outs" at halftime. A few years later, they even stopped that.
Nothing like giving adults the right to make their own decisions concerning alcohol...
My roommate's dad was here in
My roommate's dad was here in the early 80s and said they used to buy an extra ticket and bring a keg into the student section with them. Maybe if we allowed this students would show up on time? Just a hypothetical.
Both venues will be great and should fill up. Does anyone know the fourth team in the GLI next year?
The free press is saying that
The free press is saying that it will be Western Michigan this year, but I thought I had previously heard it was St Cloud State. Not sure if they got the boot to try to get better attendance.
http://www.freep.com/article/20120208/SPORTS05/120208026/Finally-Hockey-beer-coming-to-Michigan-Stadium-for-Winter-Classic-between-Red-Wings-Maple-Leafs?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|SPORTS
This....
My mom and little brother would watch the first half in the stadium; we'd walk over from a friend's house on 3rd St. at halftime. Mom and little bro out, Dad and big bro in. With a 12 pack of Miller Lite (all for Dad - I was 8). Between that and the fact that section 16 smelled like some major doobage, I'd have to imagine the games were a good time. #1984
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Allow me to be that guy
to ask, tickets via the AD? Or strictly via the NHL or the Wings and Leafs?
I know someone posted yesterday a series of jaw-dropping prices for the earlier Wings Winter Classic event at Wrigley. Did any Cubbie fans have dibs or priority on those tix?
Larry
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NHL, Wings and Leafs
The University will not be involved other than helping out with stadium operations
(See the link in my above post to the Det News)
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Yeah, read the Snooze
but didn't see anything that definitive during my quick read. I guess we wait for the NHL to announce prices and availability, etc. (Really was hoping it wouldn't be NHL, Wings and Leafs, to be honest. Wanted my Priority Points to have value here, too.)
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
I highly doubt it. The
I highly doubt it. The university really isn't going to have anything to do with it. Its gonna be in the NHLs court. I have read that the Wings and Leafs season ticket holders have priority. Then you got all the media, alumni, sponsors, etc. I think this is going to be a hard ticket to pull. What will be left are gonna be $100 and at the top of the stadium. Time will tell however. I hope I'm wrong because I plan on going.
I have a real hard time
I have a real hard time believing they're going to be able to sell 110,000 tickets for this thing if the nosebleeds are $100+. No freaking way.
I don't. With the fan bases
I don't. With the fan bases of the wings and the leafs. Plus toronto being so close, I have a hard time believing this won't sellout. IMO this is going to be a hard ticket to get. I hope I'm wrong.
The Wings can't sell out all their playoff games
In a Stadium a tiny percentage of the size. The only reason you got that many for the Big Chill was you had football people, two local fanbases, and it was dirt cheap, and a novelty. They could do it with ten dollar tickets. But that's going to be hard to pull off with $3 mil going to U-M (like $30 per seat), even with NBC money. Unless they're planning on doing it just so ESPN will actually mention their sport, and plan on taking a huge loss and selling tickets dirt cheap. Because all their Stadium's fans will be watching something else somewhere else. You can't underestimate hockey fans passion, but you can overestimate their numbers. The NHL better be setting up "historic" tour packages in Canada.
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According to the...
...article, there is no need to freak out about a possible OHL game at Michigan Stadium. As expected, those games will be at Comerica.
News conferences have been scheduled for Michigan Stadium, which will host the game in front of an anticipated NHL-record crowd of more than 110,000, and Comerica Park, which will host several events leading up to the Classic, including AHL, OHL and college games.
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I am very excited about this,
I am very excited about this, I hope my schedule allows me to attend. Who am I kidding, I don't have a schedule.
It's really cool that the
It's really cool that the University has both the largest football and hockey single-game attendances ever. It bothers me that we're allowing the NHL to take the spotlight from the university in our own stadium for some cash. Money isn't everything Dave
DB is countering this by
DB is countering this by saying it just means we'll have to have another game and beat the record.
Read: Moar Arby's!
Man, you really can bitch
Man, you really can bitch about anything, can't you?
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No, but I can point out a
No, but I can point out a money-grab when I see one.
I don't mind this
I can
I don't mind this
I can deal with some advertising to raise revenue.
Duke & Duke
That would have been a golden quote "Money isn't everything, Mortimer!"
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
that movie
is funny as hell. plus you get to see jamie lee's boobs.
that state south-east of Meechigan should be leveled and turned into a parking lot.
I have no feelings on this
one way or the other really. Meh
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TWC
this is a good thing. i wonder what throw-back sweater will the wings be wearing?
that state south-east of Meechigan should be leveled and turned into a parking lot.
I have heard some chatter
I have heard some chatter that they will be wearing the striped sweaters with Detroit on the front. They wore the same sweater sometime in the early 90s as part of some NHL-wide promotion or something.
I hope this gives the EA
I hope this gives the EA people enough time to code the Big House into NHL 13
I skipped out on NHL 12 this
I skipped out on NHL 12 this year, and was always planning to buy it next year, but this would make that purchase even sweeter.
The only question now is
Labatt Blue jersey, Michigan hockey jersey, or Montreal Canadiens Roy jersey
BORK BORK BORK
Definitely Michigan jersey,
Definitely Michigan jersey, nobody liked Roy
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I'm pretty sure the combo or
I'm pretty sure the combo or Montreal and Roy would get me beat up by both teams fans.
BORK BORK BORK
No jersey.
No jersey.
Michigan Resurgent? Michigan Resurgent!
Cubby, add the wolverines!
Haha I forgot about that
Haha I forgot about that commercial.
Go with the Michigan jersey or the Labatts. Roy is still hated in town and Toronto fans despise MTL.
The GLI
outdoors is just wrong.
I hope to be there, unless I'm at Michigan's bowl game. I hope we manage a late BCS bowl again so the place is full... Can it realistically sell out if the droves of Michigan fans who normally fill the Big House are either at our bowl game or elsewhere watching it on tv?
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