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Catfanlou_rivals54997

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With five minutes to go in the first half and the wind freezing anything in its path we decided if the powers that be didn't care about us we wouldn't care about them . We left the stadium and drove to Louisville . But get this . The game was so slow due to all of the tv time outs we saw the last five minutes from third quarter on.

I guess lesson is if you can't beat them join them .

Four hour games are ridiculous anytime but in cold weather really inconsiderate to the fans. However am glad I was on of the fifteen thousand or so that attended .
 
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I took my 4 year old to the game. I bought the tickets back in Oct on stub hub....it was his first college football game.


He made it till deep in the 3rd quarter, then just couldn't take the cold anymore. I thought he did great. I can't wait to take him next year.
 
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Tskware

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I left 5 minutes into the 3rd quarter, once we got up 35-13. Even aside from the cold (and it was cold as hell) live games are excruciating. I think TV advertisers are going to have to compromise, start paying for ads running at the bottom of the screen or in the corner of the screen, like they do NASCAR and soccer. Otherwise, there are too many viewers like me who are not going to watch a four hour broadcast, will DVR it and speed through the commercials. Once the ad guys figure out no one is watching the ads anymore, the TV money will dry up.

Could work for TV advantage as well, if the ads ran alongside live action, they could actually televise a live game in 3 hours like they used to, and get more shows on TV, equalling more revenue, plus adding benefits to live attendance.
 
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I get it was cold but what were the powers to be supposed to do? Give you free hot chocolate? Take you inside the suites for free? The weather wasn't anyone's fault. The forecast was spot on for a week.

Also, if you commit to going to a sporting event, what does it matter if it's 3 1/2 or 4 hours. It wasn't like football was an hour and a half long a few years ago and now it's 4 hours. The replays and timeouts don't make that much difference. Sure, the game could be sped up with quicker replays. That goes for all sports now that technology and "getting it right" is the main concern. These are the circumstances that come from people who yelled years ago that the human nature of sports was ruining it.
 
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Obviously with so much more passing in todays games and the clock stopping on incomplete passes the game will be longer. The replay takes awhile too, that probably adds 10 to 15 minutes to each game. During the UT game yesterday the announcers were talking about doing away with the clock stopping after 1st downs. Missouri ran something over 110 plays and they felt it was too many plays and raised the risk of injury. But every change of possession, score or whatever having to fit 3 minutes of commercials in definitly adds the most time and the least likely to change. Those ads are paying for us being able to watch them on HD while sitting in our warm man caves, dens or whereever we choose to watch on TV.
 
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Catfanlou said:
With five minutes to go in the first half and the wind freezing anything in its path we decided if the powers that be didn't care about us we wouldn't care about them . We left the stadium and drove to Louisville . But get this . The game was so slow due to all of the tv time outs we saw the last five minutes from third quarter on.

I guess lesson is if you can't beat them join them .

Four hour games are ridiculous anytime but in cold weather really inconsiderate to the fans. However am glad I was on of the fifteen thousand or so that attended .
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The coldest game ever went to was the All American Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama between UK and Wisconsin. Some Wisconsin fans decided they would spell out Wisconsin without shirts during the game, not one was left by half time.
 
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vhcat70

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I left because the PA put out such loud DA sound constantly. Love to take shotgun to that whistle. They think no one likes to talk to another person?
 
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We also had one of the slowest officiating crews I can ever recall. ..they looked like turtles after every penalty, of which there were far too many, slow to announce what the penalties were, slow to place the ball, slow on the reviews. ..SLOW.
 
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KYCAT78 said:
The coldest game ever went to was the All American Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama between UK and Wisconsin. Some Wisconsin fans decided they would spell out Wisconsin without shirts during the game, not one was left by half time.
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Coldest game I ever went to was Peach Bowl in Atlanta in 1976. We were young and thought we were going south . Sat in top row of the stadium with cold wind killing us. Thanks to my friend Jack Daniels I made it through the game . But I was younger then .
 
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TV is destroying the flow of the game. One of the reasons, I didn't keep my tickets. I build up time on my DVR and skip through the commercials.
 
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Catfanlou said:
With five minutes to go in the first half and the wind freezing anything in its path we decided if the powers that be didn't care about us we wouldn't care about them . We left the stadium and drove to Louisville . But get this . The game was so slow due to all of the tv time outs we saw the last five minutes from third quarter on.

I guess lesson is if you can't beat them join them .

Four hour games are ridiculous anytime but in cold weather really inconsiderate to the fans. However am glad I was on of the fifteen thousand or so that attended .
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This just in: old man yells at cloud.
 
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Catfanlou said:
Coldest game I ever went to was Peach Bowl in Atlanta in 1976. We were young and thought we were going south . Sat in top row of the stadium with cold wind killing us. Thanks to my friend Jack Daniels I made it through the game . But I was younger then .
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40 years ago. I was there as a student and sat in the lower level under the shadow of the stadium. It was cold.

Nice vid about that game:
 
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UKvisitor said:
40 years ago. I was there as a student and sat in the lower level under the shadow of the stadium. It was cold.

Nice vid about that game:
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Fantastic video. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Liked it when they said even the pigeons huddled to keep warm.
 
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Tskware

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Did not attend, but everyone that did said the 2009 MCB against Clemson was brutal, cold as hell.
 
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jauk11

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Soupbean said:
That was a cold one. And the Vandy game Artose Pinner's last year was too. Colder than the balls on a short legged penguin.
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I thought all penguins were short legged? But those stupid ones (Monaech?) that march miles inland in Antartica IN THE WINTER to do their thing are really stupid.

Come to think of it, don't the males spend a lot of the time they have to sit on the young ones to keep them warm, maybe they aren't as selfless as I thought, maybe they are just using the babies warmth to keep their balls from freezing.
 
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Hadn't put that much though into it Jauk now am going to research all that to see if you know what you're talking about!
 
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KYCAT78 said:
The coldest game ever went to was the All American Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama between UK and Wisconsin. Some Wisconsin fans decided they would spell out Wisconsin without shirts during the game, not one was left by half time.
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The Wisconsin Hall of Fame bowl game wasn't that bad, the West Virginia Hall of Fame Bowl game the year before was brutal.
 
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Catfanlou said:
With five minutes to go in the first half and the wind freezing anything in its path we decided if the powers that be didn't care about us we wouldn't care about them . We left the stadium and drove to Louisville . But get this . The game was so slow due to all of the tv time outs we saw the last five minutes from third quarter on.

I guess lesson is if you can't beat them join them .

Four hour games are ridiculous anytime but in cold weather really inconsiderate to the fans. However am glad I was on of the fifteen thousand or so that attended .
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i always stay til the end. but that game almost got me to leave early, just an extremely slow pace.
 
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trueblujr

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The 2009 MCB was pretty cold. Low 30's, light snow through much of the game.

Last years game against Charlotte was pretty brutal and one of the very rare instances I left early.

I've been to a ton of cold games though, growing up my dad would bring me to either the Vandy or UT game, which was always the last home game depending on the year and usually pretty brutally cold.

The UT game that Billy Jack Haskins QB'd before he left was pretty nasty.
 
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