Pizza Pizza Bowl Fires Back!
it sounds like the Little Caesar's / Illich family will not cede their college football bowl turf to the Fords so easily, announcing that they will explore a college bowl game at Comerica Park.
i can't imagine that the B1G would put another team in Detroit for the bowl season, but this would give all of us up-north man-ball damn-the-weather tough-talkers a chance to go to a game outdoors in Detroit in January or December. the way the college football bowl schedule works with games starting around the 20th of december and some played up until the 10th of january, the games could be far enough apart to not overly fatigue metro Detroit football fans. and surely the Lions will be dead in the water by then.
Surprised to read that there were over 60,000 on hand for Purdue vs Central in 2007, but that last year with a blizzard on the way, there were only 23k for CMU-WKy.
can't we all just get along? or at least alternate years?
there are multiple venues which have multiple bowl games each season.
I was considering if I'd even want to go to NYC to see a bowl game, and I love New York. I decided yes, it would be a great weekend - spend it in NYC, see a bowl game colder than balls
But outdoors in Detroit? Can't be serious.
Good luck.
really Mike, we're gonna freeze our asses off outdoors in December for the MAC champ?
One of those MAC teams have to come up north and play in the cold?
Oh, wait....
"Over 60,000" is no doubt the paid attendance; I went to the Purdue-CMU game and while it was very well-attended, it didn't put more than about 45,000 butts in the seats. And that had a lot more to do with CMU than a Big Ten team. At least two Chip fans for every Boilermaker.
Bring in good teams and nobody will care what the bowl is named or where it is located.. Two really good teams playing outside in snow would be sweet. I say we bring a SEC school up here for once.
They could play in the Silverdome.
Al Glick Field House
to see the Alabamas of this world take on M in the snow, there's a reason the bowls draw M fans to sunnier climes.
Had a feeling the fighting Illitchi wouldn't lay down quietly.
Why don't they play it in the new hockey arena? Then everyone could describe it as "cozy".
Worst owner in pro sports.
Every non-expansion team (original Browns did it in Baltimore) has made the Superbowl except for the Lions.
WCF's middle name should have been "Theodore."
I think last years low attendance numbers had less to do with the blizzard threat, and more to do with the fanbases. 23,000 was literally all of the CMU and WKy fans combined.
Insert all due assumptions about MAC football, but 2007-2009 CMU was not a bad team to watch. The Dan Enos era...not so much imagination happening these days.
The Cherry Bowl have yet to be headed.
F this!!! Give me three bowl games so we can have a playoff for the champion of the D.
Okay, so I have to ask, what is so great about Commerica? Aside from Illitch having ownership there. Detroit as a host city is a terrible choice. This is not to bag on Detroit, but the reality is unless you are a local and know where the cool places/safe zones are, it has to be one of the worst cities in the country to visit. It's not a friendly town for dropping in and visiting. If you are a tourist, you go to Slows, the Art Museum, and then what? Drive to Dearborn to see the Henry Ford I guess.
There is the Silverdome which is umh still in exsistance, but of course Pontiac isn't much more attractive than Detroit and the Silverdome still doesn't have its new roof.
I'd say do it in the Big House over Christmas Break. The town is pretty empty and thus tourist friendly. Plus the Big House has managed to attract 80k+ for the winter hockey games, so clearly the locals don't mind the cold or at least don't mind freezing for a decent venue. The only really issue would be if we're playing in a NYD Bowl, which we will of course, then Hoke might want the Big House for practices during the week.
I mean, it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think you feel like you're anywhere unique or special in it. Not like Tigers Stadium. It's pretty modern entertainment cookie cutter. And would be pretty bad for football sight line wise.
Don't think you'd have much conflict with Michigan practice. The bowl is usually played right after Christmas and Michigan is gone to the bowl site usually by then.
I wonder how much alcohol I would need before attending an outdoor game in January. A decent amount and a scarf, thick coat/hat/gloves and I'm good to go!