Talk:Michigan Stadium/Archive 3

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1990s renovations

This article needs to provide treatment of the controversial renovations that occurred in the late 1990s where they added 5 rows and then decked it out in some sort of urban sprawl motif. There was some famous architect that wrote some famous book about architecture and he experiemnted on the Big House using oversized footballs on the section entries and ugly letters for Michigan Stadium. I don' tknow anything about it but I remember it was awful. MPS 22:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, the "halo?" Ugh . . . I'd rather forget that. It was put up in 1998; don't recall when it was removed (2000? 2001?). Funnyhat 02:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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Why is the proposed renovation called "Approved" in the article? I don't believe the Board of Regents has yet approved any plan.

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Has anyone else noticed that the origional capacity is stated as 84,401 in the opening and as 72,000 in the History section? If anybody knows which is right, would they please correct the article.--Srwm4 07:13, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

==Big House NAme Origin== According to the Michigan Alumni Association Yost coined the phrase "Big House" two years after after Michigan Stadium's construction.[[1]] I don't think the nick name origin belongs on this page, but that's my opinion.

Terryfoster 20:32, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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The wooden benches have only partially been replaced by metal. They are still in the process of changing some of them over.

Weather Delay

The "editing for bias" that was done: "The last weather delay at the University of Michigan was 79 years ago." Strikes me as being a bit too creative: to the best of my knowledge, there has never -- in the history of the stadium -- been a prior delay. As far as I know, the edit cited isn't based on research but a desire to introduce some degree of linguistic polish that is at variance with the known facts. Might I respectfully suggest that the author research and amend if/as necessary? 66.65.76.15 15:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

You are correct in the history of the stadium there has never been a weather delay my change reflected that, but I inferred from the game's broadcast there was a delay 79 years ago (which would be the 1926 season). I will admit that seems to be very convenient so the TV broadcast was probably wrong. Terryfoster 16:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the color, and thanks for making the change. Good work. 66.65.76.15 01:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Gallery

Is the gallery needed? Isn't the picture in the infobox suitable enough? The gallery really doesn't add to the article. ThatsHowIRoll 21:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

While I completely agree, it might encourage others to take and post pictures of Michigan Stadium. So if we remove it then that reminder goes away. In fact i'll try to add some today. Terryfoster 12:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

aww, no fun. I took the photo for Wikipedia and if there's no gallery, the photo will be forgotten __earth ^(Talk) 12:18, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Big Ten Conference football category

All Big Ten football team categories already fall under this one. Please stop adding this page to it.Football79 04:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Cost

The cost is listed as under US $1M. Is this possible?

--1000Faces 03:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Assuming you're asking about the original building cost, then yes it is possible. Since the stadium was "built down" instead of "up" there was little structural work necessary other than to pour lots of concrete (with some reinforcements) into a big hole in the ground. In other words they dug a big hole to make a stadium instead of building a free standing stadium on flat land. It was also built in 1927 when things, like labor, cost less. Look at the Rubber Bowl as a good example, it opened with about half the capacity of Michigan Stadium and also at about half the cost because it is built into a hill. --Terryfoster 13:45, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Contradictory

The seating capacity when it was built is listed both as 84,401 (in the header) and 72,000 (in the History section). It cannot be both. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matthew Proctor (talk • contribs) 07:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC).

Record attendence?

The article cites the 2003 OSU game as the largest North American stadium crowd with 112,118 in attendance. Yet the college football page lists the largest crowd as that at the Army-Navy game at Soldier Field in 1926. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.188.7 (talk) 02:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

This has to be incorrect. The seating capacity for Azteca Stadium in Mexico City is 115,000 and surely they have sold it out for at least one of the big soccer matches that have occurred there. Please remember that Mexico is in North America.

Further research shows that it wasn't even the largest North American stadium crown to witness a football game. Check this out: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2108918&CMP=OTC-DT9705204233 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.140.100.6 (talk) 00:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)