CHICAGO – Northern Illinois grads Zach Pfeiffer and Brian Plotke try to get to as many Huskie games as they can.
When the school announced the team would play at what was then called U.S. Cellular Field in the first football game at the stadium, both jumped at the chance to watch a game closer to their homes.
Then when the stadium changed names and is now Guaranteed Rate Field, making the NIU-Toledo game Wednesday the first game of any sport played at the stadium with that name, that just sweetened the pot.
"This is awesome and I wouldn't miss this," Plotke, of Bolingbrook said of the game, a 31-24 Toledo win that snapped the Rockets' six-game losing streak to NIU.