Blue end zones are coming to Michigan Stadium

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Blue end zones are coming to Michigan Stadium for the first time in program history. ???<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoBlue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoBlue</a> 〽️? <a href="https://t.co/dImv2jAskA">pic.twitter.com/dImv2jAskA</a></p>&mdash; Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/UMichFootball/status/1007666175029829633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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goblue16

June 15th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^

In all seriousness do members of the athletic department read mgoblog or are members? It seems like a lot of strong opinions on this blog become reality on more than one occasion. Either way I love it been wanting this for a long time

Wolverine Devotee

June 15th, 2018 at 1:43 PM ^

I’m super OCD (shocker) so I’m really excited that the rendering shows our official Nike font as the Endzone lettering. 

Now we gotta put Jumpman under the basketball nets on the padding like UNC does.

Sambojangles

June 15th, 2018 at 1:55 PM ^

Dumb question: as far as I know, the next Michigan Stadium event is the Liverpool-Man City ICC match at the end of July. Why are the goalposts still up? Why are they laying down the turf now just to have to put a soccer pitch on top of it later? 

I'm sure there is some schedule that makes it all make sense (maybe not enough time in early August to do this before the team starts fall practice in the Stadium?) but it just seems strange that the field is being laid down now.

crom80

June 15th, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^

YES! Now we will finally be able to run the 'lie down and try to blend in with the end zone during kick-offs and pretend you don't look like a tool and hope you don't make the non-top 10 plays that evening on ESPN because the ball wasn't even kicked to you and everybody in the stands were pointing and laughing even though it's homefield.' play.

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Don

June 15th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^

"I don't care if they paint the end zones pink and our team is wearing pink tu-tus and pink helmets and pink jockstraps as long as actually get in the fucking end zone with the ball more often than our opponents."

Did I do it right?

gasbro

June 15th, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^

Sky view makes me wonder if the blimp has been retired?

I remember walking out of class on a Friday and seeing the blimp quietly  hovering overhead on perfect fall day and then realizing we have a big game tomorrow - that was cool

The Fan in Fargo

June 15th, 2018 at 3:27 PM ^

Didn't read comments above but weren't we talking about this last winter? This is simply and undeniably awesome! Just like at the Rose Bowl. Remember watching those games as a kid before I had hair on my knuckles and thinking how sweet it looked. Nice play guys, very nice play!

Synful

June 15th, 2018 at 6:52 PM ^

At first I was all "oh gawd no" but if they turn out like that one picture then I'll like them a lot even though it does deviate from the traditional look of the field inside the stadium.

We'll get a much better idea later when we're in the seats with oodles of others in the fall.  :)

UM Fan from Sydney

June 15th, 2018 at 7:18 PM ^

It’s about bloody time. I feel as if this has been my idea all of these years, but no one wanted to listen. Now the school wants to act like they thought of it first.