Michigan spring game attendance estimated at 60,000
That would make it the highest attended spring game in Michigan history. Harbaugh!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2015/04/04/jim-harbau…
I just got back. Fun day. Perfect weather.
Wish the game had more scoring but that's okay: it was an actual spring game! That itself was exciting.
My photo I tweeted got put up on the scoreboard.
That crowd was every bit of 60,000. Crisler lot was doubled up and we had the grill going like an actual game.
Most importantly: HARBAUGH! When he came out, he got a standing ovation. It was perfect.
And Norfleet was dancing to Atomic Dog during warmups.
Can't wait until the fall!
and its starting to be busy time on the farm....did check the blog though and enjoyed the postings. thanks to all.
but shoulda done it anyways. ROAD TRIP !m Sorry I missed it but both my ( Alum ) brothers were there
I wonder how they estimate something like that without tickets or anything
I counted.
They used to do it here in DC to estimate crowd sizes at events on the mall, and got quite good at it.
Then they had to stop because every interest group would claim a million people for their rally and get pissed off when the National Park Service published that it was only 15,000.
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1! 2! 3!
THEY'RE NOT READY!
I BLEED MAIZE AND BLUE!
LOL that guy was great.
I'm about to post a couple of videos of the crowd. It was amazing to me how many there were. Blew 2009 away.
The west side was completely full. Amazing turnout for an intersquad scrimmage. HARBAUGH!
Interesting to see what an actual game impact was made vs just HARBAUGHHH
just look around like everybody else. Nobody knows where it came from in a crowd.
amusing that the Debbie downers and trolls kept saying there would be way less than 40k attendance. So what happens? Record attendance for a spring game. Now they want to nitpick the performance of the team. I say shut up, sit down, it's going to be a fun ride!
There were 80,000 there.
Crowd
First play. Wish Maize had more plays like these.
Did they come out of the tunnel and touch the banner to "The Victors"?
BTN just pretty much started with the first play, so you did not see anything before that.
They did not. The Blue team was warming up first and then Maize cam out shortly after.
They both had separate locker rooms, warmed up on different sides of the field.
This is certainly an accurate, if not conservative, estimate. With everyone pushed together the crowd certainly would have filled the original lower bowl, which is 72k.
That seems low. I thought it would be more like 70K. In between the endzones, the rows were as packed as for a regular game.
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The off ramp from the highways (ex Ann Saline road) was backed up on to the highway 2 hours before the game. I was on the way to ZIngerman's roadhouse and was looping round I-94.
Parked at Pioneer High School and while it was not a typical football saturday, all of the standard lots were full and there were 4 rows of cars on the grass.
In the end I'm glad both Harbaugh and Hackett seem to realize that the key is the quality of the team on the field and not the add-ons.
It was run like an actual game except there was no punting or kickoff. There were offsides and a full set of referees.
One thing I noticed - without TV timeouts the game goes pretty fast!
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