NORTHWESTERN WILDCATSCATZ
Made the ~45 minute trip north with my bro in law. Wonderfully beautiful drive by the lake. What a fun, SkinnyBenny-inspired afternoon.
This is the facade of their WSC. It's by far the nicest facade on the exterior of the stadium, as you'll see shortly.
Every other part of the exterior is a complete dump. It looks like they're doing some kind of work on it, but we're a month away from Northwestern Football and it still looks like this all the way around the stadium:
I liked the "tickets" sign.
A lot of Northwestern's buildings have this ivy on it. Their vanier has some. Looks kind of weird.
Their "Wildcats" script font cracks me up. It is as 90s as it comes. You would think they would try to rebrand it and emphasize their new stripe more, maybe, but nope. Wildcats script it is. That script is as Northwesterneo as it gets.
Ok anyways moving onto the inside of the stadium. It was hard to fit everything into one shot, so i'm going to post this stock photo just so everyone is oriented correctly:
Luv their wildcats on top of vanier.
So moving on, I loved their grass field. It was very pretty and i almost laid down in it and took a nap. The grass is the best part of the whole stadium because every other piece of it is small and falling apart.
Their Vanier is small and old but they have a tarp tunnel! Wonder if they shoot the fog through it when they come out?
OOD is right behind the stadium. Didn't go in there because i don't really care about bball arenas. Sorry. They have a skywalk that connects Vanier to the arena though:
They have a 4 ft berm that surrounds the field. Standing in the endzone seats (which are pretty far from the field) isn't so bad because the field is sunk a little bit lower. If it wasn't, those endzone seats would be dreadful.
I'd like to direct your attention to their dinky little scoreboard. So pathetic. Tucked away in the corner. Just barf. The scoreboard on the other side isn't much better. But hey! ribbon boards!
Another weird thing is that the field is absolutely huge. It was hard for me to judge where the sideline began because their's no paint obviously, but it seemed like the stands were a mile away. On the plus side, they have tons of room for harley day.
Statue of willie in the endzone. Reminds me of the one at old stadium. We should probably put one in BSFS.
Their WSC isn't bad, relative to the rest of the stadium. It's pretty small, but definitely not Iowa State small. Also, they call their ring of honor the "honor roll" which is funny to me given Northwestern's academic prowess.
Here's the weird out of place portal SB referenced earlier in the thread:
Sloppy stuff. HEY NORTHWESTERN, THE SEASON IS IN LESS THAN A MONTH. GET YOUR crap TOGETHER. YOU'RE IN THE BIG 10. YOU WON TEN GAMES LAST SEASON. YOU HAVE TO AT LEAST PRETEND TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY:
This sea of visiting stands is just the worst, although i do kind of like their nice 4 foot grass berm:
Sorry SB, no light porn to speak of. I don't think they have lights/they don't play night games. Big 10 is the worst.