Gridiron Fanatics

The Northwestern Wildcats and Illinois Fighting Illini are looking into holding their annual Big 10 match up at historic Wrigely Field.

“Northwestern spokesman Mike Wolf says the schools have talked several times with the Chicago Cubs, most recently last weekend.
Wolf says the schools have a lot of details to work out, among them the financial arrangements and logistics of turning Wrigley’s surface into a football field. But Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald and Illinois’ Ron Zook like the idea.”

The soonest this game could happen would be late in the 2010 season. Apparently the idea of college football games being played in Major League Baseball stadiums is spreading like wildfire. Last week Army announced that they will play three added games at Yankees Stadiumin addition to Notre Dame in 2010.

When is this madness going to end? Part of the mystic and allure of college football is the pageantry and gameday atmosphere on a college campus.

The giant crowds, tailgates, keg stands and continuous playing of your schools fight song is part of what makes college football so great. I think that by moving these games to MLB stadiums you are going to be lacking that certain aura that surrounds college football. However, maybe in the case of Northwestern and Illinois they need something special to spark some interest in their game. Outside of the Northwestern or Illinois Alums I do not think the general college football fan really cares about their game. I just hope that this trend does not gain more steam and have Texas playing Oklahoma in the old Astrodome or Georgia and Florida facing off at Turner Field.

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