90,000 May Be a Thing of the Past

Mavric

Mavric

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This shouldn't surprise people. The widening of seats in North Stadium has been going on for a couple years, and is something we've tried to keep track of best we can. It seems like you could make a safe bet the 91,585 fans present for the Nebraska-Miami game in 2014 will be the largest crowd to ever witness a home Husker football game.

In fact, I'd guess the days of hearing announced crowds of 90,000-plus at Memorial Stadium may be soon at an end.

Last year, the Huskers had announced crowds of just above 90,000 in five of the seven home games. The largest crowd was 90,546 against Purdue. The games against Wyoming and Maryland were just under the 90,000 bar.

So it will be interesting, when seat widening across the stadium is complete in the years to come, what the going number attached to full attendance at Memorial Stadium will be. When I was a young kid, everyone used to talk about 72,000 filling the stadium. When I was an older kid, everyone talked about 76,000 filling the stadium. (The picture above is Memorial Stadium in 1965 when capacity was pushed to 53,000.)
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Wider seats is a good start. But it's clear that we also need larger Husker fan apparel.
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Atbone95 said:
Or we as America stop letting people get so fat and we don't need to widen seats
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The seats in Memorial Stadium back in my day were about 12" wide. People getting fat has nothing to do with it. Trying to put 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag is what it boils down to. I've always thought the seat width allotment in that stadium was just stupid not enough.

 
Being able to sit in my assigned seat without having to turn sideways half the game and man titty hump the people next me would make me want to attend games a hell of a lot more. Seriously, worst part of games is the crowded rows that don't need to be crowded.

 
1995 Redux said:
Being able to sit in my assigned seat without having to turn sideways half the game and man titty hump the people next me would make me want to attend games a hell of a lot more. Seriously, worst part of games is the crowded rows that don't need to be crowded.
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Agreed.........but what the heck is "man titty hump"? Not sure but it sounds interesting.

 
El Diaco said:
1995 Redux said:
Being able to sit in my assigned seat without having to turn sideways half the game and man titty hump the people next me would make me want to attend games a hell of a lot more. Seriously, worst part of games is the crowded rows that don't need to be crowded.
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Agreed.........but what the heck is "man titty hump"? Not sure but it sounds interesting.
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It's like when you are general admission at a concert trying to get to the front. And the crowd behind you starts pushing forward, and suddenly you are pushing your chest all up on the dude in front of you. If you're lucky there is a gal behind you.

 
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