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Illinois -7.5 vs NW'ern at Wrigley (ov/un 49.5) 3:30 ET, ESPNU

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Jaxbuck;1814582; said:
No kidding.

Hell, in the 70's our parents all drove 400+ HP cars (that did not come with seat belts), no one ever heard of a DUI and the most popular summer time game (Jarts) was essentially cornhole but with 3ft long metal rods with a sharpened point instead of beanbags.
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Unleaded gas, emissions equipment & the switch from SAE gross to net HP measuring meant our parents were lucky to have 150HP cars.

It became mandatory to include seat belts as standard equipment in 1968.

Jarts were only about one foot long.
 
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FUM4OSU;1814587; said:
It wasn't too long ago that the field goal post were in the middle of the endzone. Talk about a hazard!! :)
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It actually was a long time ago for college - even before that last college game at Wrigley in 1938. The NCAA moved the goal posts to the back of the end zone in 1927. I was surprised when I first saw Big Ten film fault games of the 1940s that show the posts on the back line rather than the goal line.

The NFL foolishly had goal posts on the goal line until 1974. And Canadian football still has them on the goal line with the huge end zones behind them.
 
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Muck;1814607; said:
Unleaded gas, emissions equipment & the switch from SAE gross to net HP measuring meant our parents were lucky to have 150HP cars.

It became mandatory to include seat belts as standard equipment in 1968.

Jarts were only about one foot long.
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O.K Mr killjoy. :tongue2:

Muscle cars went really fast, I don't care what the net HP rating was.

Mandatory or not the first time they became mandatory to wear we all had to dig the damn things out from the seats we had stuffed them down into. People thought they were actually a safety hazard because if you went into a lake or the car was on fire you'd be trapped in the car :lol: .

1ft or 3 they were a long metal rod with a point that we threw way up in the air in the general direction of each other. Someone would get hauled away by social services if they let their kids play with those today.
 
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Jaxbuck;1814612; said:
Muscle cars went really fast, I don't care what the net HP rating was.
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There were no fast muscle cars after 72.

1ft or 3 they were a long metal rod with a point that we threw way up in the air in the general direction of each other. Someone would get hauled away by social services if they let their kids play with those today.
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There was a metal tip backed by a thicker metal weight but most of the dart was still plastic.

I still have ours. I taught my nephew how to play when he was 7 or so.

On the other hand I didn't tell him about how we would huddle together in a tight group, throw the jarts straight up as high as we could then scatter and run like hell...
 
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FUM4OSU;1814581; said:
The last game played at wrigley was 1970 by the Bears when they were building the current soldier field. Since then the stands have gotten bigger, making the room for a playing surface smaller.
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But the old configuration didn't fit either. The football field initially ran north/south instead of east/west, so the corner of the south end zone abruptly dropped into the visitor's dugout.

Talk about a fade route.

Picture from Wikipedia.
 

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