POLL: BHGP Road Trip 2010

I don’t know how many of you feel but I was one of the people on the field tearing down the goal posts. So yeah, needless to say I vote for the new Kinnick North and I can’t wait for Iowa to own the bank.

due to his SB Nation weekend editor obligations, Jacobi likely won’t be making the road trip, regardless of location

Look at The Man, keeping Jacobi down rolling in blogger money.

I’m likely going to both and there are definite pros and cons to both. From a ticket acquisition standpoint, I can pretty well guarantee that there will be no other Iowa game this fall that it will be easy (or cheap) to acquire tickets to than jNW. And we can almost certainly have an entire BHGP section there, which may or may not lead to Ryan Field getting burned down. (Which would be an improvement, really.)

Minnesota tix were not hard to come by at the Hump Dump, but it’s unclear how hard they’re going to be get now that they’ve downsized to The Bank. I still have faith that there will be plenty available by November when their season is (as always) in the toilet, but that’s not guaranteed.

I also haven’t been to a game at The Bank yet so I can’t speak for the tailgating scene there, although it almost has to be better than what Evanston has going for it. On the bright side: Evanston’s just a metro transit ride away from being in Chicago. And Chicago’s fun.

Would be more expensive, but an unforgettable experience.

I’m too cheap to go, but maybe others aren’t.

I’m voting for jNW, so you’ll have to go to both.

Of course, with the BHGP population in both MN and Chicago, I imagine that you’ll likely end up with road tailgates at both locations.

I’d like to think that the wife can’t keep me away from either trip, but she’ll likely shoot down any ideas I’ve got of going to the Bank. A trip to Chicago is an easy sell, though. Party at Rittenberg’s!

I live in Chicago, not Minneapolis! And won’t somebody pleeeease think of the children!! Also.

But tickets will be much easier to get at jNW earlier in the season than at the Bank. However, the Bank was also nearly half-empty halfway through last season due to their predictable slide down the conference standings, so you might find disgruntled Gopher fans dumping their tickets to avoid witnessing another assbeating.

Either way, some lucky locale is going to get flip turned upside down.

Chicago is awesome (and I know tons of people there, so its an entire weekend shit show!)

just because the Bank is about half as far as Kinnick for me.

…but I voted Minny cause I want to break The Bank in the right way.

I actually had plans to do both of these (with occasional reader friends), but due to my financial state either would have to be at the right price. How would this all work?

1. At Northwestern looks like caddy day in ’Caddyshack". Add that to what should be easy ticket availability and maybe a little extra motivation by the team to win that game, and the concept of overrunning and pillaging Evanston is very appealing.

2. At Minneapolis has the possible appeal of being Brew’s last game at Minnesota, (it’s the final game again, isn’t it?)with the general low team morale and disarray which comes with it. I don’t know if Minnesota will make some concerted effort this year to prevent the whole Kinnick North phenomenon, but if Iowa has a good season ( I think they will) and Minnesota doesn’t (ditto), any such effort could fall apart. If we are doing well, it could be a game to cement bowl or conference position.

I’m in Arizona, so it doesn’t have an effect on me one way or another. I have my ticket to Tucson. For this group, at Northwestern looks like the game to attend.

1) This will be an opportunity to shut out the Gophers for a third consecutive time in a third different stadium.
2) Minnesota fans will be practically giving their tickets away at that point in the season.
3) It’s 20 minutes from my house.
4) I will personally supply HS with beer.

There were no two previous events. I searched for hours for both of them last fall and spring to no avail. The “Stanzi is the Manzi” shirt was nowhere to be seen.

I wouldn’t know based on the tailgating I did there last time. But yes, the lots they use are nowhere near the stadium.

While I would pick Chicago over The Cities, I have to pick Goldie over jNWU. Last game of the season, and whether it’s for 12-0 or bowl eligibility there is a goddamn bronze pig on the line. Forget the shutout streak, hatred of Brewster, “who hates Iowa?”, a new stadium (and bathrooms) to christen, easy exit for goalposts, or a reason to ditch your extended family for a day of debauchery, it’s all about Floyd. Ok, that other stuff is pretty good too.

To me, this choice is more about history than simply choosing the better bar scene, any other year jNWU might get my vote, but it has to be Minny this year. Not only is it the first post-Thanksgiving Big Ten game in which Iowa will play, but it could be our last time ending the year with Minnesota (Alvarez be damned). So if you live in Chicago, fly, drive, or take the Amtrak and get over your lazy selves, this is bigger than you.

B/c the plan is to make the trek from KC, minor stop in SE IA to pick up my nephew, to Evanston for the weekend. I figure that will be the easier game to get tix to and more rewarding to win after the last couple of years. While repeatedly beating the shit out of a crap team is fun, revenge is so much sweeter.

and go to BOTH. I’m for sure going to be at the NWU game but I voted for Minnesota because that game is so much more fun. Plus the picture you painted of tailgating in Evanston sounds pretty lame.

Ryan always looks so forlorn, all the NW fans sitting in existential aloneness, if Antonioni had made a football movie, it would happen in Ryan. Even if we could beat jNWU, and let’s be honest, they seem to peak for us each year, I would still wonder, “What did we just win? Why does it feel so empty? Does it matter?”

So Minnesota. I think it’s important to maintain control of the home and their-home-is-our-home series, and so I’m going to be in the Cities.

Is the home tailgate going to be OSU?

HMB bringing me to Ryan High School Field
My girlfriend using her Gopher Band contacts to score me a pair of student tickets. I hope I receive many asshole chants.

Probably won’t be able to swing a quick trip back up there. I’m the one who scheduled the fucker, too. Grrrrr…. at myself. Oh well.

I wanna go there.