Snowflake: Stadium experience

So my thoughts from the game. 

1. The students who kept trying to start the wave during the injury to can get fucked. 

2. The sound was fine. No issues for me.

3. The normal game lights don't need to point into the stands. Angle em all on the field so my head doesn't hurt from 8000 watts being beamed directly into my eyeballs.

4. To many stats. Condense into 2 screens, you can have a section that is relevant to the most recent play.

i watched on TV and immediately hated the lights with the fire of a thousand hells 

In the same way that you can’t talk about anything until Michigan beats Ohio State, I can’t talk about the stadium experience until they learn to use the $14M scoreboards effectively.  

• letterboxed replays instead of full screen
• replays are infrequent 
• replays have awful camera angles
• wrong stats are shown at the wrong time
• top 25 scoreboard doesn’t provide the ranking 
• too much time spent on games completed, not enough on active games
• why not show a highlight or two on the video boards from other games around the country, particularly during media timeouts?
• Somebody left a light on inside the jumbotron superstructure, which you could see through the loudspeaker facade. It was annoying.

It was my first game since 2017, lights were cool. It was more crowded than I remember, students were way drunker and more rude than normal. All in all a good experience.

edit: it did seems like they were trying to get a feel for the maize and blue lights, they used them a lot, but it didn’t make sense in some occasions. I still think they’re pretty neat.

The lights were just fine. Nothing to write home about. They flashed… and lit up the stadium blue. That about covers it.

The sound has improved a ton since week one.

The big screens are still super rough. The producer is trying to manage too many things between the replays, stats, side  graphics/videos, social media posts, QR codes (totally worthless in a stadium with awful cell coverage) and more. They need to simplify things and focus on doing the basics really well instead of doing a million things poorly. It’s embarrassing.

Why does every team with this new style of lighting have the stadium go dark after a TD?

Maybe it looks cool in the stadium, but on TV, It just feels like a blackout. Doesn't look cool when Bama does it, still doesn't look good when we copy it.  

Is there an emcee who tells you how the Go Blue chant works still or did they get rid of that?

Next up, a Mick Jagger show! Maybe KISS? 

I kid. I kid. 

Meh.

1. Audio was ok.

2. Scoreboard was OK - reconciled to the stats.Wished the basiic stats would cycle more often. E.g.passing: completions - attempts - yds, rushing: carries - yards, number of first downs.

3. Appreciated that during the night game the stadium event people wanted to show off the lights. BUT the sudden blacking out of the lights and restarting them is probably not ideal for night vision or low light vision, and for people trying to do things on the sideline like tending to the injured or coaching using a whiteboard, this can be very disruptive and annoying. This is NOT a Broadway play, so let's STOP blacking out the lights during game time. Do anything and everything during halftime but NOT during game time.

The dance team danced to AC/DC! Awesome 

With the flashing lights, a very stoned lady next to me was  looked at me and said she was scared 

The flashing lights were fine. I don’t know how other stadiums handle it. So I don’t know if Michigan over did it 

A media timeout with 11 seconds left in the game was fantastic! Just the best thing ever!

Loved the lights, when used correctly they added to the excitement but can understand how they may not be appealing to everyone.

One of my daughters has epilepsy; fortunately she seems to have outgrown the seizures. She is not photosensitive but has a friend who is: flashing lights can cause her to have a seizure. I wasn't in the stadium so don't know what it was like in person, but I do wonder if the lights could lead to photosensitive epileptics having seizures.

Fortunately, photosensitive epilepsy is quite rare, but I wonder if there were any  messages sent to ticket holders to give a heads up about the nature of the light show.

Ended up going to the game at the last minute. The lights were fine but hard to really get excited about anything at this game.  It will be better at a big game. The sound was good.
 

Kind of strange that they went full maga for the game honorary captains. John James definitely approved of the pregame music and was dancing in front of me the sidelines. 
 

Two Simpsons references to describe the stadium experience:

I kept rehashing the Battling Seizure Robots scene whenever the lights started doing their thing.

The scoreboard reminded me of Homer’s web page that was overloaded with wacky animations.

That being said, I had fun overall and my fajitas turned out well at the tailgate, so it was a good day.

That media timeout red LED clock on the field is so deflating.  Just don't have that on the field.  The whole stadium is standing until they see the red sign and then it's like oh.

And seriously man, i spend 75$ a ticket and they still need more money for ads.  

Here's a brilliant idea, get rid of media timeouts and they can broadcast the game slightly delayed with commercials!  It's just total bullshit, it actually changes the sport to have more breaks, physical stamina becomes less of a factor. (Maybe mental stamina becomes more of a factor?)

I attended the game on Saturday night. It was my first Michigan football game since 2008, and only my second one. I brought along my three boys (11,13,16) for their first ever Michigan football game. 

All of the folks around us were friendly and respectful, but the guy in front of us was probably a good 6'4" which made it slightly difficult for my kids to see. I let them stand on their bleacher unless it seemed like they were blocking the view of those behind them. With all of that said, between it being somewhat difficult for the younger two to see the field, and Michigan's poor offensive play in the first half, the sweet-ass light shows definitely helped the boys enjoy the experience and was a really cool thing IMO. 

Not new to many of you guys, but the Mr. Brightside was incredibly cool as well. The frisbee catching dog was really neat. Perhaps they could work in some more diversity, though, on the "media timeout" entertainment.

Overall we had a fantastic time and while I'm sure there are things they could work on, i thought the stadium was electric for 3 quarters and all the "pizzazz" really added to our overall experience. Thanks again to mgoblog user Double-D for the tickets!

Glad I'll never go to a night game.  Looked awful.   Went to Rutgers last year and didn't think any football game at Michigan Stadium would be worse.  I was wrong.