Wrigley's Football Configurations Cause for Concern

Chicago's Wrigley Field is lined for Saturday's historic football game between Illinois and Northwestern - the first football played there since the Bears moved out in 1970 - and the pundits are having, well, a field day. "Saturday's clash ... should be entertaining for a variety of reasons, and the end zone of death is just one of them," Chicago Sun-Times blogger Kyle Koster wrote. And NBC Sports' Craig Calcaterra just flat out states that "Wrigley Field looks like a pretty terrible place to play a football game."

The gridiron for the inaugural Allstate Wrigleyville Classic is laid out east to west with some tight squeezes, especially in the east end zone along the right-field bleachers, parts of which are just a foot away from a thickly padded brick wall. Another potential trouble spot, according to the Chicago Tribune, is located in the southwest corner of the field about six feet from another padded brick wall - "a landmarked feature," Cubs President Crane Kenney reminded reporter Teddy Greenstein. "So that's not coming down."

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