Michigan Stadium Allowable Items Question
We're taking my daughter (9) to her first Michigan football game this weekend, and she's really excited. However, she's also 9 and I'm pretty sure she's not going to be totally enthralled with the game. I'd like to bring along the iPad for her to mess around on, but I'm not sure it's allowed into the stadium. As I looked at the website, it said Cell Phones and Pagers were allowed (because it's 1994, obviously), but I couldn't find anything about tablets.
Does anyone know if tablets are allowed into the stadium?
September 5th, 2018 at 10:18 PM ^
Should be ok, as people bring in large paper signs and other stuff....
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We need more cowbell!!!
September 5th, 2018 at 10:31 PM ^
I still remember the days when kids felt lucky enough to go to a game with dad that they didn't need no stinking iPad.
Now git off mah lawn
September 5th, 2018 at 10:33 PM ^
I know that it's not listed as permitted or prohibited. I can tell you that the family that sits in front on us every week have brought one in the past for their kids.
September 5th, 2018 at 10:43 PM ^
Counterpunt: why risk it?
if security says no iPad, do you forfeit the device or the seat?
Advice: 1. make sure the car is close just In case. 2. Charge phone, download the apps she wants ahead of time. 3. Call ticket office and ask to be sure . It’s a 5 minute phone call. 4. I am a parent of younguns so I ain’t judging but seems like you could get her through a single game sans tablet, Daddio. Tell her the backstories of all the players. Especially the Aubrey f bomb story.
September 5th, 2018 at 10:56 PM ^
There is a bag check on the south side of Crisler that you can check prohibitted items and get them after the game if they won’t allow it in.
September 5th, 2018 at 10:56 PM ^
Why would a tablet be any different than a phone?
September 5th, 2018 at 11:09 PM ^
A tablet is generally larger than a phone and doesnt make phone calls.
September 6th, 2018 at 8:15 AM ^
Neither does a regular phone in the Big House on a Saturday.
September 6th, 2018 at 8:33 AM ^
That isn’t what I was getting at.
September 6th, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^
for me and my kids it helps with a barrier. We do no phones, no devices at dinner including when we eat out. We never let our kiddos watch on the phone so they don't associate the phone with something they can watch things on.
The ipad on the other hand, that association does exist. It seems silly but with my kids ipad vs. iphone are church and state.
as an aside, you can definitely make it the game without a device, there is enough to walk around and see as well in the stadium area, plus food, etc.
September 5th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
Does Michigan still ban water in the stadium? I will continue my boycott until that ends.
September 6th, 2018 at 8:31 AM ^
I agree with your sentiment. But.... you can take any cheap water bottle from Costco, fold it up until it fits into your wallet, and walk in. Once in, one good puff will put it back to usable mode. There are several places to fill a bottle in the stadium. No line up.
September 6th, 2018 at 8:36 AM ^
What if it's Nike water? Do those boycotts cancel each other out?
September 6th, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
You could always suitcase the iPad then extract it after you get in the stadium.
September 6th, 2018 at 5:42 AM ^
Ahh the old prison wallet
September 6th, 2018 at 7:10 AM ^
Wear the oh so snug tighty whities that always pop up on my sidebar and slip ipad into the band and walk carefully through the gate. I've worked at a gate for six years and never encountered one, so I assume everyone smuggles them in. (My Ipad mini fits nicely in a side pocket of cargo shorts).
September 6th, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^
The only question here is - how do you get the tablet to conform to one's, uh, curvature down there, just to make it even less obvious?
September 6th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
I have an extremely flat and rectangular ass, so I'm willing to smuggle iPads into the stadium for the right price. Never thought I would offer to be an iPad mule, but I'll take whatever I can in this gig economy.
September 6th, 2018 at 1:16 AM ^
Prohibited-Shmibitted
I usually smuggle a shiv in my ass (for stadium seating disputes)
but an ipad sounds like a great addition.
Thanks!
EDIT: Damn you Straight Dave! I never even saw your comment.
September 6th, 2018 at 1:28 AM ^
Considering it isn't on the prohibited list you could try and bring it in. It just takes one person though at the gate to say "no" and you'll find yourself heading back to the car. You could always call the Athletic Dept and see what they have to say.
September 6th, 2018 at 2:31 AM ^
Left Tackles still prohibited...not sure about tablets.
September 6th, 2018 at 9:56 AM ^
Thanks for posting this........I'm sure any serviceable high school offensive linemen won't see it.
September 6th, 2018 at 2:33 AM ^
Does anyone know if they allow serviceable left or right offensive tackles inside the stadium? Asking for my friend Jim...
September 6th, 2018 at 9:57 AM ^
Thanks for posting this.......I'm sure any serviceable offensive high school lineman won't see it.
September 6th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
Yes, if they're on the visiting team.
September 6th, 2018 at 5:46 AM ^
My son is also 9 but he's been going to games every year since he was 4. While he isn't 100% into the game, and often complains he can't see, he loves going to the Mden and concession stands. Leave the iPad, bring your wallet.
September 6th, 2018 at 6:06 AM ^
Don't be that dad.
September 6th, 2018 at 6:28 AM ^
This should be a sticky btw...common question
September 6th, 2018 at 10:00 AM ^
Crawl back into your cubicle or dark bedroom. Find something better to do to service the public at large than chastise someone for where or what they print.
September 6th, 2018 at 7:56 AM ^
Remember since 2006, all your hopes, dreams and expectations need to be checked at the entrance gates to the stadium...
September 6th, 2018 at 9:17 AM ^
This one hurts ?
September 6th, 2018 at 8:29 AM ^
Make sure it's charged so she can be on it in the car and at the restaurant too
September 6th, 2018 at 9:03 AM ^
As a corrallary to this topic, I’m taking my 18 month old daughter. (Her first game!). I’m getting some flack from folks in that she’s too young and that it will be too loud for her.
Anyone taken their 18 month old? Any issues? Any suggestions?
September 6th, 2018 at 9:19 AM ^
I've seen this happen a lot. Very ambitious patenting imo. I don't see anything wrong with it. Have fun!
September 6th, 2018 at 9:28 AM ^
I’m probably only taking her for a quarter and walk her around the concourse a little then call it a day.
September 6th, 2018 at 10:12 AM ^
Ahh, memories.
Sounds like a pain in the ass but maybe that's just me.
At least it won't be hot?
September 6th, 2018 at 10:18 AM ^
My advice? Start small. Take the kids to the spring game. That way when a diaper bomb or meltdown happens you're not missing anything important.
September 6th, 2018 at 11:04 AM ^
Agree with Mad Hatter. We took our ~18 month old to the Spring Game last year to test the waters. He was all over the place after about 10 minutes. No way we could have gotten away with that with crowded seats.
September 6th, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
You know your kid better than anyone else. Just be prepared to take her out of the stands if it goes poorly. Only tip is obvious, make sure she's well fed beforehand to curb crankiness. I say go for it.
September 6th, 2018 at 9:18 AM ^
I don't think they would care about a tablet, but if you're expecting to get a usable 4G signal inside the stadium.....hahahahahahahaha!!
September 6th, 2018 at 9:50 AM ^
Dude seriously, if your kid cant sit still for 3 hours and watch the football game without needing an IPad to occupy her attention, don’t take her.
Take someone who will actually watch and appreciate the game. Or donate the ticket to a veteran.
Obviously you’re not going to listen to me, and you’ll take her anyway. But leave the IPad at home. Tell her to suck it up if she’s bored. She’s 9. She’ll live.
September 6th, 2018 at 8:16 PM ^
I agree - this is super disappointing and I don't know what has happened to parenting. When I was a kid my parents would never have let me waste a Saturday with a computer of any kind and it isn't safe for kids to be unsupervised on the internet anyway. My pops would just thrust a loaded firearm in my hands and send me out the back door on the family three wheeler with the expectation I would come back before dinner.
September 6th, 2018 at 10:48 PM ^
Agreed.
When I was 9 I was lucky if I found a couple of broken glass bottles to entertain me on a Saturday. It was mostly just lazy days licking paint chips off the carpet and and napping under the village powerlines.
September 6th, 2018 at 11:01 AM ^
Bleacher seating means you are shoulder to shoulder with the person next to you whether you like it or not. Good luck using a tablet at all, let alone getting it out of there without it being dropped and broken.
September 6th, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
It's the strictest policy of any stadium I've ever set foot in, throughout the United States and around the world. It's a miserable stadium experience.
The policies are so strict and the goons they hire are so unreasonable, it takes away all of the enjoyment of going to a football game. That being said, if you get stopped with any of the prohibited items (i.e. those deadly poncho cases), simply turn around and go to a different gate. You'll eventually get through.
September 6th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
Hey Jello I’m one of those “goons” at the gate and to those like you who I encounter I just say “Have a nice afternoon and Go Blue” even though I am thinking something a litte more antagonistic.
September 6th, 2018 at 5:38 PM ^
Hey Scanner, I've been going to the games for over 20 years and have never once had a bad interaction with you goons. Goon on.
September 6th, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
Every doctor I know carries a pager. So it has nothing to do with being 1994
September 6th, 2018 at 2:25 PM ^
Oh wow! You know people who are doctors! You are so special. When is this, 2001?
(Sarcasm if you couldn’t detect it)