BisonRoadWarrior
Postdoc
Posts: 2746
Loc: Where the Bison Roam
Reg: 08-16-06
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06-29-12 02:05 PM - Post#130371
Perusing the image gallery of Bucknell's summer improvement project at Christy Mathewson stadium, a Bucknell pal raised a good point: Has the university ever considered switching the "home" side so it's on the east part of the stadium?
Televised games always have the cameras pointed at the largely vacant away-side. The nice part about that angle is the backdrop of the campus, we would look so much better if the stands in the shot were filled with Bison fans rather than being pathetically empty.
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NEPatsfan
Pre-Frosh
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Reg: 07-27-11
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Re: Making Football More Telegenic
06-29-12 03:13 PM - Post#130373
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
As a fan who attends games regularly at the stadium as a Bison Club parking member, the sun shining in your eyes for an afternoon game on the East side is brutal and sometimes scorching early in the season. Back in the late 80's the East side was the home side for a few years I believe. Part of any home field advantage is not having to deal with the chains and downmarker on the East sideline that must be opposite the press box/cameras. Let's win a PL Championsip and then fill both sides!
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Bison137
Professor
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Reg: 01-23-06
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06-29-12 03:28 PM - Post#130374
In response to NEPatsfan
I have to agree with both sides. I agree completely that the TV wiew would be a lot better if the home stands were on the East. Unfortunately as NEPatsfan points out, the sun is definitely tough when you're seated on the East side. At lax games - where the East seats are the only ones used - it can be tough looking into the sun, and it can get really hot late in the season.
Maybe someone with some clout can have the sun's path reversed.
2012-13 Attendance: 19 games and 8,354 miles driven.
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bison75
Junior
Posts: 224
Reg: 01-26-06
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06-29-12 06:15 PM - Post#130384
In response to Bison137
I like to watch from the east side, because I can walk all the way across the top from one end to the other following the line of scrimmage. But the sun really is nasty. I'd keep it as it is.
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BuffaloBison
Sophomore
Posts: 181
Reg: 03-07-06
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06-29-12 06:52 PM - Post#130387
In response to bison75
How about packing the east stands with cardboard cut-outs?
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bison63
PhD Student
Posts: 1887
Reg: 01-23-06
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06-29-12 09:44 PM - Post#130388
In response to BuffaloBison
Like NEPat's thinking. let's establish a winning tradition and put real people in the stands. There was a time, believe it or not, when students actually attended games. Of course in those days they used to have Homecoming Parades with floats, and a Homecoming Queen as well
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res
Masters Student
Posts: 478
Reg: 03-21-06
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07-02-12 08:08 AM - Post#130417
In response to bison63
There was a time, believe it or not, when students actually attended games.
By the early '70s, that time had largely ended. Lewisburg High would put 11,000 in there on a Friday night and we'd follow up with 4,000 the next afternoon. And that's when the powers-that-be used to turn a blind eye to students' use of various mind-altering substances in the stands. My favorites were the guys who used to bring in trash cans full of grain alcohol and fruit juice. It used to take three or four of them to carry those in.
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atlantabison
PhD Student
Posts: 1341
Loc: Atlanta, GA
Reg: 01-25-06
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07-02-12 09:16 PM - Post#130429
In response to res
There was a time, believe it or not, when students actually attended games.
By the early '70s, that time had largely ended. Lewisburg High would put 11,000 in there on a Friday night and we'd follow up with 4,000 the next afternoon. And that's when the powers-that-be used to turn a blind eye to students' use of various mind-altering substances in the stands. My favorites were the guys who used to bring in trash cans full of grain alcohol and fruit juice. It used to take three or four of them to carry those in.
Stop spreading rumors about me, I deny it was alcohol. We were just hydrating on a sunny Saturday in the fall.
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