OT: MSU trying to play bball on aircraft carrier?
Gotta give credit where credit is due. Little Brother's AD is trying to organize a college basketball game to take place on board an aircraft carrier on Veterans Day. What. a. sweet. idea.
Not many details, but if you want to support communism, you may click:
http://freep.com/article/20100327/SPORTS07/3270346/
still.
93rd Anniversary of Armistice Day isn't too shabby. That would be pretty cool, just don't get drunk--there aren't any railings.
a MSU props and a freep link
No quoted needed:
March 28th, 2010 at 11:30 AM ^
"Are those...Spaceballs?"
"Oh shit...there goes the planet."
Minus 1 point for putting a link to a free press article... Regardless of the communism comment.
Man, didn't even take time to link the print version.
A very emphatic -1 to you, sir.
the Print link now goes to this new format that doesn't appear to be linkable. if you have a better suggestion go for it.
Don't link to Freep articles?
Seems like the obvious answer to me..
attempt to be Top Gun? Hockey in a football stadium, basketball on an air craft carrier...what's next? LAX on an airplane?
Actually, some in the Michigan fan base would support communism.
That could be pretty cool.
can that rag-tag bunch of flunkies be trusted around that kind of weaponry?
in the lack of Playing With The Boys/Top Gun photoshops in this thread.
I was hoping it'd be an actual underway carrier.
...basketball while underway in USS Monterey (CVL-26) during WWII.
Ford was a hell of an athlete. Story here...
Ford was a hell of an athlete. Story here...
What happens when the ball rolls off the edge? Is the game canceled? Whoever's leading wins?
...destroyer maneuvers to recover the roundball overboard.
Unless the plane guard helo gets there first.
Unless the plane guard helo gets there first.
They've been floating this idea (no pun intended) for a few years. If there's a cheap publicity stunt to be made, Izzo's all over it.
March 27th, 2010 at 10:07 PM ^
Just seems like a bad idea to me.
I don't know how this would be possible on a carrier. The flight deck non skid would be pretty tough to work with to lay down a floor. Does anyone know of any other decommissioned carriers that are moored other than the Yorktown in Charleston, SC? Regardless, would anyone really watch this? I wouldn't even turn it on.
March 28th, 2010 at 10:58 AM ^
i've never been on an aircraft carrier, and i know they're freaking huge and therefore have quite a bit of inertia, but wouldn't you expect at least some pitch and roll from wave action, even when moored? wouldn't that mess up a sporting event?
...not in Jacksonville. When she was decommissioned she was homeported at Naval Station Mayport (adjacent to Jacksonville), but she now is berthed at the NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is available for donation as a museum and memorial to a qualified organization via the NAVSEA Museum Ship porgram and various cities are developing proposals for such a museum. I resisted clicking on this Freep link for the longest time until I couldn't resist checking where they thought this game would be held. November in Philly is obviously not going to work. Neither is Boston, one of the cities considering a bid for the ship. The chance this ship will be in Jacksonville in the near future is, in a word, remote.
Chalk this one up as some promotor's pipe dream.