GFed Stopped by UM

[tourist]

Yeah it was an insanely stupid comment. One thing we could do that would be great is if we replaced that chain link fence surrounding the stadium with say maroon wrought iron decorative fencing.

Like that surrounding Memorial Stadium in Great Falls? When I was a teen, long before most eGrizzers were born, a friend and I scaled the fence, well partially scaled the fence. The friend lost his grip at the top, and gravity took over. Did you know the iron fence has a pointy top, like a spear. Well, my friends considerable weight allowed the pointy top to stab into his thigh, full length(four or five inches). We got him off the scewer and home. As I look at it now, with my experience and training, he was damn lucky he didn't puncture the Femoral Artery. Wrought Iron fencing is decorative, but chain link fencing is effective enough.

 

[TheNorthRemembers]

This.

And also, the part he was looking at and saying it needed TLC is just a whole lot of concrete. Concrete is concrete. The stadium design itself isn't changing. Maybe a fresh coat of paint on a few things here and there might make a difference but other than that I don't know what he's talking about really.

I do think we could hang up some banners there or something. Slap a decal or two across the concrete. Maybe have one of our many art students paint a mural. That said I don't really care about what it looks like on the outside, the stadium full on a Saturday in the fall is where it shines.

 

[TheNorthRemembers]

Unsurprising that the boomers that inhabit this site don't know this guy. He's a pretty popular online personality. His whole schtick is trying to walk onto the field of college stadiums around the country. He is pretty entertaining and I've always enjoyed his stadium tours. I have been hoping he might swing by here some day and it's cool that he did. A little bummed out he didn't get on the field and he didn't really have that many nice things to say about it. But if there's one thing we don't need it's more praise for Wa-Griz. The people already know.

 

[AnotherGrizFan]

He has no influence with you because you're a dusty old boomer who still thinks things are done the way they were when you "played the game" game when, checks notes, Nixon was in office.... Not sure why it is so hard for you to get that this type of stuff is not geared toward you. No offense, but you are not the target demographic for pretty much any UM marketing campaign, and you are not a big enough donor (if you were I'm sure you'd have told us by now) for this stuff to be applicable to you. I get it does not make sense in your narrowminded brain where, if things don't make sense to you they are stupid, but there are in fact things happening around you that are good for UM even if you can't see it that way. Stuff like these videos, while seemingly meaningless to you do in fact have a huge influence on people, well, on the people they are meant for anyway, thus your conundrum. Go do some water aerobics or take a lap.

I can assure you that Jack is not a significant donor…even if you count the money that he throws at the teenage cheerleaders. People on this site who know less football than he does seem to feel compelled to placate him and prop him up but the reality is he does not have any influence or positive impact to the Griz football program.

 

[ElrodGrizzly]

I do think we could hang up some banners there or something. Slap a decal or two across the concrete. Maybe have one of our many art students paint a mural. That said I don't really care about what it looks like on the outside, the stadium full on a Saturday in the fall is where it shines.

I have never really looked at the cement and been disappointed, but I like your mural idea. Art students, and former ones, too. Ryan Bagley did an awesome job on the Press Box, and he played in the stadium. It would be cool to have some work by him as a mural down on that ground level portion

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

I can assure you that Jack is not a significant donor…even if you count the money that he throws at the teenage cheerleaders. People on this site who know less football than he does seem to feel compelled to placate him and prop him up but the reality is he does not have any influence or positive impact to the Griz football program.

This oughta play well.

 

[alabamagrizzly]

This oughta play well.

I mean, if we want this thing to get to 17 pages.