Notes from TCF gamed day fan experience

[swingman]

Nice turnout by students on cold, wet, windy day...lower Section was jam packed, upper section half full, maybe more, lot of kids in concourse area. Frat row was fun to see, Dinkytown was very busy, didn’t get to Stadium Village. Like what they’ve done by BWW...lot of action there.

Looks like a new parking lot going in next to SkiUMah lot. Should help tailgating scene. Lot 37 and SkiUMah had tons of tents.

Liked Eric Decker on Big screen for Do the Gopher. The kids loved Lizzo mixed in to the music....stick with Lizzo for a while. Get Lizzo to dance the Gopher? Shorten up the actual time doing the Gopher...leave more time for Zombie nation.

Lotus egg rolls were good on Plaza at half.

Love dramatic Gopher.

Outdoor club seats need to repriced if they want more butts in seats. Extra revenue might mean they don’t care. Seat bumps to outdoor club offered to long time season ticket holders an option?

Put Goldy doing push-ups on the big screen for whole crowd to see.

Nice to have a lot of another Gopher first downs to do.

Spelling M-I-N-N-E-S-O-T-A at the end of the Rouser still one of best Big Ten stadium game moments there is. Had some actual gusto in it yesterday for first time this season. Hope we get to do it a lot versus Nebraska.

 

[BilldGopher]

Nice summary.

Looks like we've got Bobbie the hostess for the duration. Did she ramp up her accent a notch?

The battery company ad that doubles as a crowd make noise promo with electricity-static sound was still there on a couple of third downs. Not as loud and seemed like the static part didn't last quite as long. Lower volume was an improvement but still irritating.

Dance team did a heck of a high kick in the West End Zone during their performance. Mrs. Billd thought some were alums so good for them.

Great to see a several amazing medical stories during commercial timeouts, especially the bone marrow donor who traveled from Europe (Germany?) to meet the recipient.

Agree seeing The Evil Eye Hex Gopher on the big board is just fun.

 

[RememberMurray]

Thanks for posting these. Great stuff.

Imagine what it will be like next week!

 

[swingman]

Liked having the dance team in open end end zone...they need to engage the whole stadium more with a lot of the fun college game day stuff like cheerleaders, band, Goldy, not just the student end zone...I love when the trumpet section wanders through the upper deck at a game.

Kudos to the band sections that wander through the tailgate lots pregame!

Spin my head needs to be on big screen.

The Simba baby lift thing is so good.

 

[McGopherFan]

Did anyone notice the Minnesota flag was flying upside down yesterday?

 

[swingman]

I noticed when wind picked up second half and was blowing in hard from open end that the Illini back up had all his passes blown long and off target....you have to be able to run the Ball in the Big Ten, esp the West.