Rutgers visiting section
From poking around online I gathered that the lower deck visiting fans' section in Rutgers' stadium might be 112 or 113. I called Rutgers' box office and the guy there said it's 112. However, he didn't seem to know what he was talking about. Anyone know what it actually is?
September 20th, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 8:11 AM ^
I went two years ago and heard about the opening game against PSU. Apparently the Rutgers fans threw bottles and spit on the PSU folks (not that they don't deserve this to some degree). There were numerous fights and the police had a huge presence there.
Not that Michigan is a huge rival, and the game could get ugly, that is something to keep in mind. That said, I'll be there again although we are stayingin NYC rather than New Brunswick this time around.
I'll have to check my tickets, but section 112 sounds right.
September 20th, 2016 at 8:49 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 8:54 AM ^
In all seriousness, the alumni are nice, normal people, but some of the RU students will be looking for a fight, especially when they are blown out and it's a 7pm kickoff. Just watch out and walk away.
September 20th, 2016 at 10:12 AM ^
You must be reading one of those crappy tourist guidebooks. In all seriousness, there are few "nice, normal people" in Jersey. They are not friendly. They are not happy to see you under any circumstance -- a football game, Christmas, a lavish engagement party, a Bruce concert, the Feast of St. Ann.
If you really need to see the game out there, just keep your irrepressible Michigan smugness to a minumum. Capiche?
September 20th, 2016 at 10:34 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
Go back to your shinebox and get me a scoring update on that New Mexico game.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 11:19 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^
No. No. No. No. No.
Why would you think they think beating New Mexico is anything to be proud of?
Their state song is Born to Run. Away from Jersey.
Seriously. If you go out there, try not to talk to anyone not wearing maze. Be safe.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:22 PM ^
I thought this was Mmmm Go Blog -- the official Zingerman's fanboard. Boy was I surprised!
I stayed anyway.
September 20th, 2016 at 10:34 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 11:20 AM ^
Holy crap. Where's the farthest east you've been? Columbus?
September 20th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 10:36 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 9:29 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 10:42 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
Detroit is a tough town, true.
September 20th, 2016 at 9:51 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 9:59 AM ^
Your "stereotypical boisterous New Yorker" (whatever that is) and a true Jersey goomba are two different cats, pal. Stay safe.
September 20th, 2016 at 9:55 AM ^
That's just Jersey people in general. Be safe, friend.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
It's really not. I am a New Jerseyan and a UM grad. There are a significant number of us. You will find most Jersey people to be kind and hospitable if not provoked.
Frankly, most people in the state who bother to watch college football look up to our program and respect it. I attended the first round of this series in NJ in 2014 and - painful though it was - I didn't experience any negative fan interactions. Even the usual back-and-forth teasing that goes on was innocuous. After they blew the game we left and didn't have face any gloating or poor behavior despite being a large group of fans decked out in UM gear following what was one of the biggest wins in RU's history. Frankly, I was shocked by our experience. Given the context, I expected RU's fans to act much more offensively.
Long story short, NJ is a rather friendly place to go watch Michigan play a Big Ten game.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:33 AM ^
Oh. You must be from Peapack-Gladstone!
September 20th, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^
If you're from Jersey, and everyone is so "signifantly" "kind" and "hospitable," why were you so "shocked" nobody was beating you and your car with a golf club outside such "a rather friendly place" like Rutgers Stadium?
Seriously everyone. If you go out there for the game keep your head on a swivel. I'm trying to help.
September 20th, 2016 at 8:43 AM ^
The section appears to be both 112 and 212.
September 20th, 2016 at 9:03 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 10:26 AM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 10:59 AM ^
Were you the dope who put up the Rutgerz thread when New Mexico was up 21-0 in the first quarter?
September 20th, 2016 at 9:58 PM ^
September 20th, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^
Say Hi to the kid who plays air guitar to Bon Jovi during TV timeouts ...
September 20th, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 11:58 AM ^
Fuhgeddaboudit
September 20th, 2016 at 9:36 AM ^
I got my tickets through UM when I renewed my season tickets.
I am in Section 203.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:01 PM ^
I got my tickets through the Michigan Ticket Office and mine are in 211. They told me it was one of the Michigan sections (there are several portions of sections for visiting teams, just like we spread visotors out across the top of the south endzone). That said, I have four extras at cost if anyone is still looking for tickets. Email me at [tickets gone].
September 20th, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^
113 is the main section that the alumni club in NJ secured, but that's sold out, from what I understand. The sections around it (112) are also going to be heavily saturated with Michigan fans and alums.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
It is a derby (rivalry game), after all.
Plus close to NYC...which is the singular fact that got that school into our conference in the first place.
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September 20th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^
That "singular fact" you speak is people and jobs and money are fleeing the Midwest in droves and have been for decades. You needed to make up that vanishing pie by selling your Big 10 soul to the NY and DC media & recruiting markets.
Shady deals with people from Jersey not uncommon. Not uncommon at all.
September 20th, 2016 at 1:12 PM ^
Did a Jersey goomba beat the fucking crap out of you?
September 20th, 2016 at 4:00 PM ^
You talkin to me?
September 20th, 2016 at 10:38 AM ^
We are in section 204 and also got tickets from Michigan.
September 20th, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^
Yeah, they got a "visitors section" all picked out for ya. Say Hi to Jimmy Hoffa for me.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:12 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^
Pretty mellow in fact.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^
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September 20th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
lmfao
September 20th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^
Thank you. I mean no harm.
September 20th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
bought tickets in Section 112 because we had been told 113 was the Michigan fan/alumni section