When they played Illinois-Northwestern at Wrigley with that weird endzone, both teams went one direction just to avoid that RF wall, look it up, it's interesting
Yet, the Chicago Bears played at Wrigley until 1970. The Arizona Cardinals, which played in Chicago until the 1960s, played at Wrigley in the 1930s. If you remember Soldier Field in the 1970s, the bleachers used at the north end had been used by the Bears at Wrigley.
@@kentfrederick8929the way they layed the field out in Wrigley when the Bears played there was awkward too, with one end zone going to the left-center wall, and the other end zone being partially cut off by a dugout. While no one fell into a dugout while playing (to my knowledge), I think Bronco Nigurski did end up running head first into the outfield wall, knocking himself silly.
What's so "weird" about playing football in a football stadium? Just because it's college football in a pro football stadium, doesn't seem weird at all, to me. Yes, the football games (college or pro) played in baseball stadiums, is weird.
Daytona Speedway is too large of a track (2.5 mile tri-oval) to host a football game without adding seating in the infield, whereas Bristol's track is only .5333 miles meaning the football field fits almost perfectly in the infield.
They've played soccer games in the infield trioval grass before. There's also enough room to put a football field in the same place. There's also a lot of room in the infield road course section between the east and west horseshoes, you could probably fit a football field there and put temp seating around it. Or they could put down turf where the battle at the beach used to take place down the superstretch, but I find that to be a more unlikely option.
Florida Georgia is actually a huge rivalry. Even in the years when one team isn’t competitive, it still sells really well. Even though it’s not the nicest nfl stadium, it still has a lot of features and conveniences that you don’t typically get at college stadiums. And it’s also really important to the local economy since it brings in so much to the city.
Also, it's a treat for Georgia fans that live in southern GA that may not be willing to make the long drive to Athens nor a trip to Gainsville. Your premise and mine are why I support the Razorbacks continuing to play football games in Little Rock. Supports the economy for both LR and central AR and provides fans in central, southern, and eastern AR a short drive to see the Hogs.
TIAA Bank Field was the old Gator Bowl Stadium. Well, one of the upper decks was. The Florida-Georgia game has a longer history there than the Jaguars.
I’ve been to 2 college games in Dublin. Croke Park is owned by the Gaelic Athletic Asscociation and has a much larger field than a regular football field. I saw Penn State and Central Florida there and Georgia Tech vs Boston College at the Aviva Stadium, which is used for rugby and soccer.
Should have included the Tokyo Dome (another example of a football field put in a baseball stadium) Also I don't see why either stadium in Ireland is "weird" - they're rectangular stadiums meant for Gaelic football, hurling, rugby, and soccer, which all use larger, rectangular fields than NFL/NCAA football. That's about as ideal as it gets, no different from the NFL playing at Wembley.
It absolutely is weird to play American college football in another continent The NFL does it to try and build a global empire and possibly expand there one day College football just does it for the sake of "lmao wouldnt it be cool if we played a game in Ireland" It's not the stadium itself that's "weird", it's the location. Though it's still pretty freaking weird if you've only ever seen football stadiums before Saying this as a fan of the Ireland games btw
I think part of the reason the Penn State vs Michigan State is being played at Ford Field is because Spartan Stadium in East Lansing is just horrendous.
In addition to college football, Wrigley has also hosted the NHL Winter Classic a few times & was even the home of the Chicago Sting of the NASL (the predecessor to MLS) at various times from 1975-1984.
still do it that way (dual posts, in the end zone) in rugby, and Canadian football still has its goal posts on the goal line. Many high school football fields in Canada use a hybrid soccer/rugby/football goal post as the field length is about the same (110 yards).
If I remember correctly when games are played at Wrigley field the offense always goes to the end zone that has room. This minimizes the risk of WR going beyond the end zone and hitting the wall.
After seeing the tight configuration required to fit a football field in the home of the Chicago Cubs, Jim Delany, the commissioner of the Big Ten, announced that the teams would run all of their offensive plays in one direction, toward the western end zone.
Most of the pictures of Wrigley hosting you used were from 2010, and for that game they were only allowed to play towards one end zone because of that issue with the wall. A few years later Wrigley was renovated and in that renovation they made it so the dugout could be disassembled giving them more room for a football field which is why Northwestern is trying to play there every year now
Croke Park in Ireland is still in use, but only for GAA: Gaelic football and hurling. They don’t like foreign games played there like soccer and rugby. Aviva Stadium is home to Ireland’s rugby and soccer teams.
PAC12 Championship in Santa Clara was the only stadium that was relatively a major stadium that was an ideal medium location for all conference teams. It was either there or Oakland, & I wouldn't doubt Oakland got a resounding Nay vote from all PAC12 teams ha
Just remember, the Bears used to play @ Wrigley. (Different era , though.) And the Bengals should have kept the original name of their stadium (Paul Brown), but they decided to get greedy.
I mean the Wrigley wall has a crack in it because Bronko Nagurski ran into it during a training drill so i think that its cool that Northwestern would play a game there
Need to update the info on Wrigley. There's much more room now because they can disassemble the 3rd base dugout and move the field father west, so the east end zone does not have any more space issues. You're showing pics from the 2010 game against Illinois. It's no longer like that.
The only reason they did it at bristol is because it's designed closer to a football stadium and sadly it wouldn't work at daytona because the frontstreach grass can fit a football feild
How about pac bell in San Francisco home giants long time ago California play there but they move leavi stadium no more bowl in Santa Clara foster farm and red box bowl in Santa clara
You forgot about Petco Park in San Diego. It hosts the Holiday Bowl and it looks very odd. I watched some of the Holiday Bowl last year and the stadium looked very unnatural.
@@DebitAdamsSightlines were actually great for Soccer and Football at Safeco. Seattle Bowl's mistake was leaving for Qwest Field. The novelty playing Football and Soccer at Safeco is what made those games fun. Moving the playing of those Seattle Bowl's to Qwest Field kinda became that game's downfall.
probably the weirdest one would be Bowman Gray Stadium. Its Winston Salem State's home field (NCAA Divsion 2), but around the field is a quarter mile asphalt short track. But unlike the Bristol game, Bowman Gray is only half as big, meaning the same seats that give you a great view of the racing also give you a great view of the football game. Fun fact, its also the best short track in the country. The racing is great and so much crazy stuff happens there
I don't understand the odd field configuration at Wrigley Field. The Bears played there for many years so I don't understand what the problem is. Can they not look at old photos and set up the field like it was in yesteryear?
Playing a college football game at a NASCAR track is very weird. All tho one thing i do like about college football is the varieties of games being played at different venues, its kind of interesting to look at, and there is nothing like that in the NFL
They fixed Wrigley to make it so they can fit the field safely now by making it so they can take out some seats on the third base line to move the field over a few yards
In the late 80's, Penn State people considered Pitt to be their big rival. I guess joining the Big 10 ended that. The other rivalry of sorts was Alabama because Joe Paterno could never beat Bear Bryant.
Big missed opportunity to talk about Georgia State. A lot of the mentioned baseball stadiums host one game a year but Georgia State in Atlanta play in the old Braves stadium for all their home games.
That wouldn't work Tracks too massive But theres a nascar track (all be it a bottom tier nascar sanctioned series) that has a football field built into it It is the former home of Wake Forest it's called Bowman Gray Stadium
@@wolfgamingnetwork3542 "too massive" is not the problem. You're implying they would put it in the infield which isnt even possible because of the road course, sandtraps, buildings, dirt track, golf course, and grandstands, and access roads. They could simply paint yard lines and end zones on the backstretch grass and put seats down the backstretch asphalt and then boom you have a football field. The reason they dont do it is because there's a concrete wall on one side and they'd probably have to take it down to make room for the sideline.
You stated UNC normally plays in Ireland. They have never played in Ireland. Here who has played in Ireland. BC-2 GT-2 ND-3 NAVY-3 NW-1 ARMY-1 PITT-1 RUTGERS-1 PENN STATE-1 UCF-1 NEBRASKA-1 FSU-1
@@michaelleroy9281 yes, that is true. Until 1976 when NY football Giants games moved from New Haven, CT to the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Given Jacksonville's location in the north of Florida it makes sense to be where the rivalry game is played, since it's closer to Georgia than Orlando, Tampa, or Miami. Also Everbank is smaller than the home stadia of both Florida and Georgia (because they're SEC teams that aren't Vanderbilt), so adding seating is not surprising. It's also why the place is as big as it is, since usually the Jags draw nobody.
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When they played Illinois-Northwestern at Wrigley with that weird endzone, both teams went one direction just to avoid that RF wall, look it up, it's interesting
Correct, it did not reach the NCAA football requirement of the wall paddling being 10 yards away from the endzone.
Yet, the Chicago Bears played at Wrigley until 1970. The Arizona Cardinals, which played in Chicago until the 1960s, played at Wrigley in the 1930s.
If you remember Soldier Field in the 1970s, the bleachers used at the north end had been used by the Bears at Wrigley.
@@kentfrederick8929 probably a newer safety thing, that game was played in 2010
@@kentfrederick8929the way they layed the field out in Wrigley when the Bears played there was awkward too, with one end zone going to the left-center wall, and the other end zone being partially cut off by a dugout.
While no one fell into a dugout while playing (to my knowledge), I think Bronco Nigurski did end up running head first into the outfield wall, knocking himself silly.
i remember when that happened, they made the ruling on that the friday before that game
Wrigley Field was the home of the Bears from 1921-70 they have played football there for 50 years up until then
“The over under is going to be 26 total points.” Bro I’m dead 😂😂
Imagine a fully sold out nfl game at Daytona with a race going on at the same time 😂
The only time tickey prices would be kinda justified
The St. Thomas vs St. John’s game in 2017 was hosted at Target Field, that one was weird but still fit 40k people
What's so "weird" about playing football in a football stadium? Just because it's college football in a pro football stadium, doesn't seem weird at all, to me. Yes, the football games (college or pro) played in baseball stadiums, is weird.
Keep grinding bro, I’m one of the people that finds stadiums and stadium transformations interesting, thanks bruh
Bristol Motor Speedway hosting Tennessee vs Virginia Tech.
They billed that game as the most important game ever played until they realized how ridiculous that was with Tennessee in 2016 and Virginia Tech.
9:20 Penn STs Rival is Pitt.
But they are too scared to play them.
Daytona Speedway is too large of a track (2.5 mile tri-oval) to host a football game without adding seating in the infield, whereas Bristol's track is only .5333 miles meaning the football field fits almost perfectly in the infield.
They've played soccer games in the infield trioval grass before. There's also enough room to put a football field in the same place.
There's also a lot of room in the infield road course section between the east and west horseshoes, you could probably fit a football field there and put temp seating around it.
Or they could put down turf where the battle at the beach used to take place down the superstretch, but I find that to be a more unlikely option.
Look up the "Seattle Bowl" at Safeco Field (now called T-Mobile park). Early 2000s bowl.
Only played one there. The first one. The rest were at Qwest Field after it was completed.
NFL's Chicago Bears played numerous seasons at Wrigley Field
NFL's NY Giants played numerous seasons at the original Yankee Stadium
Florida Georgia is actually a huge rivalry. Even in the years when one team isn’t competitive, it still sells really well. Even though it’s not the nicest nfl stadium, it still has a lot of features and conveniences that you don’t typically get at college stadiums. And it’s also really important to the local economy since it brings in so much to the city.
Also, it's a treat for Georgia fans that live in southern GA that may not be willing to make the long drive to Athens nor a trip to Gainsville.
Your premise and mine are why I support the Razorbacks continuing to play football games in Little Rock. Supports the economy for both LR and central AR and provides fans in central, southern, and eastern AR a short drive to see the Hogs.
Its really not
How about emerald bowl at AT&T park in San Francisco baseball stadium cal vs Miami 2008 and 2009 USC defeated Boston College 24-13.
Cal also played a season at Oracle Park back in 2011 when Memorial Stadium in Berkeley was getting renovated
TIAA Bank Field was the old Gator Bowl Stadium. Well, one of the upper decks was. The Florida-Georgia game has a longer history there than the Jaguars.
Florida-Georgia has been played in Jacksonville 90 times.
Fun fact bristol isnt the first nascar track to host a football game
Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem NC was the home of Wake Forest
You should do one on outdoor hockey venues for college and pros
I’ve been to 2 college games in Dublin. Croke Park is owned by the Gaelic Athletic Asscociation and has a much larger field than a regular football field. I saw Penn State and Central Florida there and Georgia Tech vs Boston College at the Aviva Stadium, which is used for rugby and soccer.
Should have included the Tokyo Dome (another example of a football field put in a baseball stadium) Also I don't see why either stadium in Ireland is "weird" - they're rectangular stadiums meant for Gaelic football, hurling, rugby, and soccer, which all use larger, rectangular fields than NFL/NCAA football. That's about as ideal as it gets, no different from the NFL playing at Wembley.
It absolutely is weird to play American college football in another continent
The NFL does it to try and build a global empire and possibly expand there one day
College football just does it for the sake of "lmao wouldnt it be cool if we played a game in Ireland"
It's not the stadium itself that's "weird", it's the location. Though it's still pretty freaking weird if you've only ever seen football stadiums before
Saying this as a fan of the Ireland games btw
I think part of the reason the Penn State vs Michigan State is being played at Ford Field is because Spartan Stadium in East Lansing is just horrendous.
In addition to college football, Wrigley has also hosted the NHL Winter Classic a few times & was even the home of the Chicago Sting of the NASL (the predecessor to MLS) at various times from 1975-1984.
Talk about weird safety issues, football goal posts were dual posted and in the end zone for decades.
still do it that way (dual posts, in the end zone) in rugby, and Canadian football still has its goal posts on the goal line. Many high school football fields in Canada use a hybrid soccer/rugby/football goal post as the field length is about the same (110 yards).
Ryan Field/Dyche Stadium is being torn down at season's end, so NW will probably be playing at Wrigley or Soldier Field until 2026
If I remember correctly when games are played at Wrigley field the offense always goes to the end zone that has room. This minimizes the risk of WR going beyond the end zone and hitting the wall.
After seeing the tight configuration required to fit a football field in the home of the Chicago Cubs, Jim Delany, the commissioner of the Big Ten, announced that the teams would run all of their offensive plays in one direction, toward the western end zone.
Im an Illini fan and remember that win for us very well. But as a kid I remember the Bears calling Wrigley home
The Bears played for several decades at Wrigley, did t they? And they made the dimensions work.
Love the stadium content! It always looks weird when college football is hosted in a MLB stadium. That Marlins dome stadium is straight up trash.
Most of the pictures of Wrigley hosting you used were from 2010, and for that game they were only allowed to play towards one end zone because of that issue with the wall. A few years later Wrigley was renovated and in that renovation they made it so the dugout could be disassembled giving them more room for a football field which is why Northwestern is trying to play there every year now
The Chicago Bears played at Wrigley for 50 years (1921-1970), so it's really not weird at all.
That right field wall is pretty weird. Maybe it was set up differently back then or something.
I am pretty sure that safety standards were vastly different back then.
@@StandStrong614 When the Bears played there the football field went from the first base side towards left field instead.
@@johnnewman7373The north end zone was only 8 yards deep and the goal posts were on the goal line
Croke Park in Ireland is still in use, but only for GAA: Gaelic football and hurling. They don’t like foreign games played there like soccer and rugby. Aviva Stadium is home to Ireland’s rugby and soccer teams.
PAC12 Championship in Santa Clara was the only stadium that was relatively a major stadium that was an ideal medium location for all conference teams. It was either there or Oakland, & I wouldn't doubt Oakland got a resounding Nay vote from all PAC12 teams ha
Just remember, the Bears used to play @ Wrigley. (Different era , though.)
And the Bengals should have kept the original name of their stadium (Paul Brown), but they decided to get greedy.
I mean the Wrigley wall has a crack in it because Bronko Nagurski ran into it during a training drill so i think that its cool that Northwestern would play a game there
Guaranteed Rate Field had a Northern Illinois football game back in 2016 and was slighty better for the field layout than Wrigley.
I remember that too I watch the game on TV that was awesome they could play more college football games and guaranteed rate field in my opinion
Globe Life field hosts Army Vs Air Force every year now.
I'm surprised that's not hosted in Mile High Stadium in Denver.
@@charleswebsterjr.6350The Army at Air Force game this year is at Mile High on 11/4.
That wall behind the endzone would be dangerous, if there were any chance of anyone actually entering the endzone for Iowa-northwestern
Need to update the info on Wrigley. There's much more room now because they can disassemble the 3rd base dugout and move the field father west, so the east end zone does not have any more space issues. You're showing pics from the 2010 game against Illinois. It's no longer like that.
To this day, the Chicago Bears have still played more games at Wrigley Field than Soldier Field.
The only reason they did it at bristol is because it's designed closer to a football stadium and sadly it wouldn't work at daytona because the frontstreach grass can fit a football feild
How about pac bell in San Francisco home giants long time ago California play there but they move leavi stadium no more bowl in Santa Clara foster farm and red box bowl in Santa clara
Wrigley had a major remodel a few years ago to allow a full football field.
You forgot about Petco Park in San Diego. It hosts the Holiday Bowl and it looks very odd. I watched some of the Holiday Bowl last year and the stadium looked very unnatural.
I attended the pinstripe once was the old time I saw a football in a odd venue .
Safeco/Tmobile Field hosted a single bowl game while building the Seahawks Stadium awhile back.
I remember that I wasn't bad for football off of soccer
@dontedrake2316 I seen the soccer configuration. Not bad, good temporary while they were finishing Lumen/CenturyLink.
@@DebitAdamsSightlines were actually great for Soccer and Football at Safeco. Seattle Bowl's mistake was leaving for Qwest Field. The novelty playing Football and Soccer at Safeco is what made those games fun. Moving the playing of those Seattle Bowl's to Qwest Field kinda became that game's downfall.
@@WONDERHOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I like unique venues for bowl games. I hope the Holiday Bowl stays at Petco Park.
NU is gonna have to play a bunch of “emergency games” at Wrigley next year while Ryan Field is being rebuilt probably…
probably the weirdest one would be Bowman Gray Stadium. Its Winston Salem State's home field (NCAA Divsion 2), but around the field is a quarter mile asphalt short track. But unlike the Bristol game, Bowman Gray is only half as big, meaning the same seats that give you a great view of the racing also give you a great view of the football game.
Fun fact, its also the best short track in the country. The racing is great and so much crazy stuff happens there
0:55 my guy, that’s like 5 feet 😂😂😂😂
When Bears played at Wrigley the set up was Left Field to 1st Base side.
And the south end zone ran into the 1st base dugout and wasn't even 10 yards. It was weird.
@@Edge21190It was the north end zone and it was only 8 yards deep
They also have the MAC championship at Ford Field
As usual. Great content. What does it say when we all hate watching college games played in an NFL stadium? Strange, but so true.
I don't understand the odd field configuration at Wrigley Field. The Bears played there for many years so I don't understand what the problem is. Can they not look at old photos and set up the field like it was in yesteryear?
They shouldn’t even play any football there.
Cal played Miami in the Emerald Bowl at PacBell Park in SF about 10 years ago .
Odd that you had wrigley in your list and didn’t mention that the Bears played there for 50 years.
Safety standards were very different when the Chicago Bears played at Wrigley Field.
Playing a college football game at a NASCAR track is very weird. All tho one thing i do like about college football is the varieties of games being played at different venues, its kind of interesting to look at, and there is nothing like that in the NFL
You only play one direction at wrigley. It’s awesome
They fixed Wrigley to make it so they can fit the field safely now by making it so they can take out some seats on the third base line to move the field over a few yards
In the late 80's, Penn State people considered Pitt to be their big rival. I guess joining the Big 10 ended that. The other rivalry of sorts was Alabama because Joe Paterno could never beat Bear Bryant.
Big missed opportunity to talk about Georgia State. A lot of the mentioned baseball stadiums host one game a year but Georgia State in Atlanta play in the old Braves stadium for all their home games.
i don’t see the big 10 championship being at levi stadium. the big 10 has no fanbasse in norcal. at sofi stadium i can see.
Got a buddy returning kicks at u of Minnesota and said playing at yankee stadium was a lifetime experience
Do a college football game at the brickyard in indianapolis
That wouldn't work
Tracks too massive
But theres a nascar track (all be it a bottom tier nascar sanctioned series) that has a football field built into it
It is the former home of Wake Forest it's called Bowman Gray Stadium
@@wolfgamingnetwork3542 "too massive" is not the problem. You're implying they would put it in the infield which isnt even possible because of the road course, sandtraps, buildings, dirt track, golf course, and grandstands, and access roads.
They could simply paint yard lines and end zones on the backstretch grass and put seats down the backstretch asphalt and then boom you have a football field.
The reason they dont do it is because there's a concrete wall on one side and they'd probably have to take it down to make room for the sideline.
Bears used to play at Wrigley field for 50 years you know
Just like the Lions used to play at Tiger Stadium.
Rogers Centre used to have some bowl game
i think northern illinois played a game at guaranteed rate field almost a decade ago
Now do the NHL outodoor venues. How to get 60,000 screaming idiots to attend "the fights" in hope that a HOCKEY GAME breaks out.
How did the bears field go into Wrigley
You stated UNC normally plays in Ireland. They have never played in Ireland. Here who has played in Ireland.
BC-2
GT-2
ND-3
NAVY-3
NW-1
ARMY-1
PITT-1
RUTGERS-1
PENN STATE-1
UCF-1
NEBRASKA-1
FSU-1
Yankee stadium used to have NY Giants games in 1950’s.
Until 2 games in 1973
@@michaelleroy9281 yes, that is true. Until 1976 when NY football Giants games moved from New Haven, CT to the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
How is Levi stadium and Paul brown stadium weird locations lol
The new york giants played at old yankee stadium for 17 years
“The pac 12 are finally good”
You must be pretty young
Ireland mentioned 💪
It's ridiculous to me when they use baseball stadiums for football.
College Football games belong in college stadiums.
How is an NFL stadium hosting college football weird?
No they don’t need roofs
What's so weird about having NFL stadiums hosting college football games?
#IPersonallyWouldntConsiderTheseBadNecessarilyNoDoubt!
Most of these are not weird at all.
We are unrivaled. Just look at the protected rivalries
Bright 🍬 😛💣💚
Hockey
Can’t believe Colorado blew 29 point lead
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With a name like Tropicana it should make us feel happy, but it does the complete opposite it's a huge eyesore
There is nothing weird about football at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Bears played in Wrigley for 50 years.
this video genuinely gave me a seizure
Given Jacksonville's location in the north of Florida it makes sense to be where the rivalry game is played, since it's closer to Georgia than Orlando, Tampa, or Miami. Also Everbank is smaller than the home stadia of both Florida and Georgia (because they're SEC teams that aren't Vanderbilt), so adding seating is not surprising. It's also why the place is as big as it is, since usually the Jags draw nobody.