ESPN won't need to bring in their lights ever again. We don't need them for the next playoff games we play at Washington Grizzly Stadium. We finally got our own!
In the past week part of Campus Drive has been closed while workers hoisted up eight banks of lights with cranes. The new lights to the stadium offer the possibility of late afternoon or evening games next season. Any north end zoners ready to freeze their butts off when the sun goes down next season? I know this season ticket holder is! I say let there be lights!
www.NBCMontana.com resports that "it takes four workers about three hours just to put one pole together and there are eight light posts that will surround the football stadium." Each of the eight light posts consists of between 18-22 lights facing the stadium, where some of the poles have some lights that face the opposite direction to help the tailgate area to get some light too.
Private dollars were raised to complete the $1 million project says Associate Athletic Director, Chuck Maes.
The lighting system is a pretty sophisticated system that actually can be managed, to a point, from a smart phone. The lights will be put on a timing system and will turn off by 10pm each evening unless the stadium is full of 25,000 screaming Griz fans. Then the lights will turn off when the game is over and all have filed out.
Next weekend, April 14th, the Grizzly athletic department’s goal is to set a Football Championship Subdivision record for attendance at the annual spring scrimmage. Come on down and you can see the "debut" of the lights in action. See you there?? Go Griz!
http://www.egriz.com/2012/03/griz-football-to-play-under-the-lights-spring-game-style/
BYRON DONZIS
ReplyDeleteGot you again, didn't I?
Going into a game against the New Orleans Saints in 1978, Houston Oiler quarterback Dan Pastorini's ribs were so cracked and broken that he had to have Novocain injections in between each of his ribs on each side of his chest, before the game and again at the half. On returning to Houston, he checked into a hospital for treatment before the next week's first round playoff game.
As he lay in his bed in a painkiller-induced stupor, he looked up to see a grizzly man at his bedside, wearing a trench coat and holding a baseball bat.
"Oh, god," Pastorini thought, "Somebody lost money on the game and they're gonna kill me."
Instead, the man handed the baseball bat to his assistant and said, "watch."
The assistant swung as hard as he could, hitting the man squarely in the chest. The man didn't even flinch. He opened his trench coat and showed Pastorini what was the prototype for the quarterback "flak jacket," now standard football issue.
"I want one of those!" Pastorini said.
He wore it the next week, and Byron Donzis, the man in the trenchcoat, went on to become one of the most important inventors in NFL history, designing dozens of pieces of equipment that have reduced, or prevented, countless injuries
Mark from Electrical Engineering