11W Chicagofest Call to Arms
11W Chicagofest: 11/07/08 @ Casey Moran’sRoad games at Northwestern have become increasingly popular in recent years, partly because the students are so generous at giving up their seats and partly because Chicago is a fun and easy trip from Columbus. Two years ago, I was amazed at the number of Buckeye fans I saw about town. Downtown on Friday, turning the Red Line scarlet on Saturday and drinking Evanston out of beer before the game — ah, the memories.
With the Wildcats rotating off of the schedule after this season (hello Iowa and Indiana!), this is your last chance to experience the city and watch your beloved Buckeyes in an intimate setting — like high school stadium intimate. Hands-down the most fun of any road destination in the Big Ten.
The game is still three and a half weeks off, but we wanted to get this out there for those of you that do plan on making the trip (or any of you that live in Chicagoland): Friday, November 7th, we will be having a party of sorts at Casey Moran’s in Wrigleyville. Along with McGee’s, Moran’s is one of bigger Buckeye bars in town, but Moran’s has the added luxury of a) being closer to Evanston and b) sitting across the street from third base at Wrigley Field. So there’s the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone if you’re coming in from out of town and you need to get your tourism-on. For those traveling from downtown, the bar (and Ryan Field for that matter) is but a few blocks from a Red Line stop (Addison), so it’s pretty easy to get to.
We’ll have more details soon, but hopefully some of you will be making the trip up and will stop by and enjoy some of the local color with us the night before the game. Besides, we know you’ve dying to meet the debonair cats that run this site.
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Looks like JT and co might finally be ready to make some changes.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2008/10/14/osu-tressel.html?sid=101
Chicago is a great town and both McGees and Moran’s are quality. Also worth checking out Mickey’s in Lincoln Park.
I’ll be at the Northwestern game. The wife bought tix for my b-day…gotta love that. It will be our first away game. Anyone have suggestions for tailgating before the game…
Emac- The first tailgate you need to hit is Moran’s on Friday night, that will get the party started.
Two years ago we went to a bar called the Blue Stone, which is across from the stadium. It was all Buckeyes, but they weren’t expecting such a big crowd and seriously they ran out of beer THREE times for a 3:30 kick. I’m sure someone who lives in Chicago can give you pointers as well.
I’ve been to McGee’s as well, for those that don’t have tickets to the game, I’d recommend getting there well before the kickoff; the place gets packed quick.
I’m actually in graduate school at Northwestern and live about half a mile from Wrigley Field, so I’m game for meeting and partying with people from “the heart of it all” in a couple weeks.
My personal preferences for drinking establishments tend to lean away from the douche-trocity that typically frequent most bars adjacent or near Wrigley Field (but that’s my bias).
We’ll be there Corey. I’ll do my part to drink Wrigleyville out of beer.
E, I feel where you’re coming from. I just figured the Wrigley lure would be a little better for those coming in from Ohio. Glad to have you coming out, at any rate.
At the Browns game Monday night, I learned Braylon Edwards likes Penn State.
I also learned that Steve Young is bald, bald man.
… I thought Edwards was trying to be like McNeal and tell Michigan that he decommeted and was taking an offical visit to Penn State????
First he does O-H-I-O to hang on sloopy, and now this. Maybe he’s finally coming to terms with his poor decision to attend UM.
All joking aside… I really am looking forward to Chris’s Presser Notes this week. I am starting get pretty pissed about the the things I am hearing from the fans and players about benching Pryor (See the Dispatch article) and would love to hear 11W’s point of view on this whole situation.
My take: we already know Todd Boeckman’s finished product performance, and while sometimes it’s good enough, it’s never going to be world-breaking. Pryor’s upside is as big as it gets, and I think it behooves the coaches to show their trust now at this early point in his career, with the Big 10 title on the line. To do otherwise could do lasting damage to his confidence, and I think that this is his team now, for at least the next 3 years. So let’s let him lead them and see where he can take them.
Boeckman is NOT the cure for this offense. Solid line play mixed with a more diverse and effective passing game and the coaching staff empowering TP to throw downfield more is what we need.
Thanks Jason, and I get it, when any of my buddies (from home) come to visit they want to go to bars around Wrigley…and there are a lot of them, I guess I’ve just been over-saturated with that scene.
Jake Ballard is quoted in an AP article at Yahoo! Sports (http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-ohiost-offense&prov=ap&type=lgns) as saying that he thinks Boeckman needs to play more and not just to keep the rust off – he actually uses the words “two-quarterback system”.
Now, I don’t have any inside knowledge of the program or expertise that justifies me saying “yes!” when Beanie criticizes the game-planning/play-calling, and then me saying “STFU!” when Ballard says what he did, but there you have it.
I think (contra Ballard) that despite whatever freshman mistakes LiC has made/will make, with this OL there just cannot be any question which QB gives us the best chance to win. It’s fucking glaringly obvious to most of us, and it must be to Tressel as well, or else we’d have seen a half’s worth of Todd last weekend. And even though Ballard’s not among them, the day this batch of loudmouth, sense-of-entitlement, under-motivated and underachieving seniors is out of here can’t come soon enough. Excepting Malcolm of course. Too bad Hartline can’t join them – maybe he can transfer to UK to drop/fumble balls thrown by his brother?
Amen El Caballo.
Lawrence Wilson…we hardly knew ye.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3643308
Sucks for him.