No more night games

[Mr. Stupor]

Please - no more night games ever!

We just suck in them. Our coaches suck and do all sorts of crazy stuff, and we seem to always play really, really badly.

Why don't we just put an end to them? They do us no good. It feels like we used up a century's worth of night mojo in the 54-51 game...

 

[TXnumbCAT]

The B1G championship game is a night game; I believe.

 

[pawildcat]

Please - no more night games ever!

We just suck in them. Our coaches suck and do all sorts of crazy stuff, and we seem to always play really, really badly.

Why don't we just put an end to them? They do us no good.

Television rules the world. The schools have little to do with it.

 

[Medill '03]

Please - no more night games ever!

We just suck in them. Our coaches suck and do all sorts of crazy stuff, and we seem to always play really, really badly.

Why don't we just put an end to them? They do us no good. It feels like we used up a century's worth of night mojo in the 54-51 game...

And that wasn't even a night game. 2:30 start. Recently the Vandy win was at night. But Purdue, Ohio State, Penn State, and many other losses do stand out.

 

[nuwildfan2]

And that wasn't even a night game. 2:30 start. Recently the Vandy win was at night. But Purdue, Ohio State, Penn State, and many other losses do stand out.

Wasn't Wis a night last year or was that 2:30?

 

[Medill '03]

Wasn't Wis a night last year or was that 2:30?

2:30

 

[hdhntr1]

2:30

This was the first night game victory I remember since 2004

 

[Styre]

This was the first night game victory I remember since 2004

We won night games over Western Michigan (and possibly Syracuse if you count 5 PM as a night game) in 2013 and Vanderbilt in 2012.

 

[Alaskawildkat]

OK, here is the definitive word. Since 2000 we have won 6 and lost 8 night games.

http://hailtopurple.com/cde/homesites.html#nightgames

 

[willycat]

This was the first night game victory I remember since 2004

Also that victory vs. Ohio St. in 2014 was one of the most memorable games in recent NU history, day or night.

 

[hdhntr1]

OK, here is the definitive word. Since 2000 we have won 6 and lost 8 night games.

http://hailtopurple.com/cde/homesites.html#nightgames

Thanks. I forgot about the Western Mich and Vandy games were at night but it was a bad run losing the other 7.

 

[stpaulcat]

Please - no more night games ever!

We just suck in them. Our coaches suck and do all sorts of crazy stuff, and we seem to always play really, really badly.

Why don't we just put an end to them? They do us no good. It feels like we used up a century's worth of night mojo in the 54-51 game...

We beat tOSU in a night game, and almost beat them a second time in a night game (although you may be right since that latter game may have killed us for the rest of that season and the next).

 

[60657Cat]

Also that victory vs. Ohio St. in 2014 was one of the most memorable games in recent NU history, day or night.

We beat Western and Vandy at night. Pretty short memory.

 

[MRCat95]

Also that victory vs. Ohio St. in 2014 was one of the most memorable games in recent NU history, day or night.

I have a pretty good memory, so I cannot believe I forgot our victory over the national champs last year. Somehow, it could not have been too memorable.

 

[Mr. Stupor]

One thing I think particularly hurts us in night games in the fall is that the dew collects on the grass at night and you wind up with a slippery ball and guys slipping around. Thorson's second fumble, IMO, only happened because the crappy snap hit the wet grass and made the ball slipperier than Thorson was expecting when he went down to get it.

 

[kreggk]

I'd imagine that wet grass is pretty impartial.