Northwestern tarps off one or two ends of the northeast stands for games. This is to prevent the shameful appearance of naked bleachers on television, covering them with an aesthetically superior giant banner that says NO ONE IS SITTING HERE (CHICAGO'S BIG TEN TEAM). It was a raw, overcast, two-tarp afternoon in Evanston when Minnesota came to open Big Ten play. Northwestern's grounds crew could very well have tarped off the endzones when the Gophers had the football because they did not cross the plane. They did not kick a field goal. They did not get a safety or a point-after conversion or in fact score in any other way possible in a football game because the Wildcats shut them out, remained undefeated, climbed to #13 in the rankings, and actually I don't think I'm going to make it to the end of this sentence before I pass out.
Week 6: Big Ten Carnival
