Football @ Wrigley

This Saturday, Illinois and Northwestern will play their football game on Wrigley Field. There is one problem with this... the field isn't big enough to play with two end zones. The east end zone only has one foot of space between the back of the end zone and the outfield wall. They tried to pad the wall, but Big Ten officials said today, backed up by NCAA rules, "Limit lines shall be marked ... 12 feet outside the sidelines and the end lines, except in stadiums where total field surface does not permit. In these stadiums, the limit lines shall not be less than six feet from the sidelines and end lines". Since there is only one foot of space, Big Ten officials have said only the west end zone will be used. Twitter users then sarcasticly posted, "Will they use an alltime QB?", or my personal favorite, "What happens if someone's Mom calls him in for dinner?". Yes, this is the Big Ten we are talking about here. The last time a college football game was played on Wrigley Field was 1938. The players must have been tougher then, because as far as I know, they played with two end zones. I guess safety has become a major issue in today's sports, but if they had known about the safety issues in 1938, would they have done the same thing? We will never know. All I know is this will be and interesting game.

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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/11/19/wrigley/index.html#ixzz15mScm2uT