Hypothetical NC scenario

Post by **SonomaCat** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:40 pm

Now I am certainly not one to look ahead and assume that either MSU or UM are going to win any more games at all (although of course I hope they do), but can you imagine the pandemonium that would result if they did meet in TN for the NC?

First, is there ANY way at all that the game could be moved someplace closer? I know the answer ... I'm sure it's "no!"

So that leaves us with about 40,000 fans in MT that would love to go to the game, but have about 4 days notice to make their travel plans.

How many different chartered flights do you suppose would leave various MT airports?

How many chartered buses would make the marathon trip (with a full bar, of course)?

And how full would every flight out of MT be late that week?

And then can you imagine that many displaced Montanans in Chatty for a weekend? It would be something else.

That being said, I am far from assuming this would happen, but it sure would be a crazy scenario.

Grizlaw · Post by **Grizlaw** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:27 pm

I wonder how close we could come to selling out the stadium in Chatty if it were an all-Montana final. If memory serves me correctly, the Griz usually get about 7,000 fans or so to show up for title games, but I have to think if it was an all-Montana final, people who haven't gone to past Griz title games would probably go (including me, possibly -- I've never gone before, but an all-Montana title game would be a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so I'd probably have to go).

It would be pretty sweet if we could out-draw past championship games, even though most games feature at least one team within driving distance of Chatty...

Post by **SonomaCat** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:32 pm

It's wouldn't shock me if it did draw at least 15K or so. It might also make for a lot of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" type adventures.

torrybruce · Post by **torrybruce** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:40 pm

Wait a minute...THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!!

HelenaCat95 · Post by **HelenaCat95** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:40 pm

torrybruce wrote:Wait a minute...THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!!!

How bout those Bears.

bobcatbob · Post by **bobcatbob** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:17 pm

Chattanoga coudn't handle tha many Montanans! They would have every still working overtime for days in advance and still come up short. They would have to call up the National Guard! That town would never be the same! I know I will be there!

T-Dog · Post by **T-Dog** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:27 pm

Chatty was a couple hundred short of a sell out last year. We brought 13,000 and N. Iowa brought 6,000 and then throw in 2,000ish other people. It was the most people ever at the FCS NC game. (20,500 I believe)

I can gurantee if App makes it, we'll sell it out. More people will for sure come this year as we're expected to be there. Chattanooga is in our conference and we played at Finley Stadium back in October and won big. It's a VERY NICE stadium right in the middle of downtown. It's right on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone.

And they do have National Guard units at the game to form a human wall around the goalpost (which they can pull to the ground without breaking). It must have been at least 100 of them.

It'd be some trip for y'all, not as far as Boone, but still. I imagine there'd be peopel mortagaging their houses to make the trip.

Cat Grad · Post by **Cat Grad** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:35 pm

T-Dog wrote:Chatty was a couple hundred short of a sell out last year. We brought 13,000 and N. Iowa brought 6,000 and then throw in 2,000ish other people. It was the most people ever at the FCS NC game. (20,500 I believe)

I can gurantee if App makes it, we'll sell it out. More people will for sure come this year as we're expected to be there. Chattanooga is in our conference and we played at Finley Stadium back in October and won big. It's a VERY NICE stadium right in the middle of downtown. It's right on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone.

And they do have National Guard units at the game to form a human wall around the goalpost (which they can pull to the ground without breaking). It must have been at least 100 of them.

It'd be some trip for y'all, not as far as Boone, but still. I imagine there'd be peopel mortagaging their houses to make the trip.

Not to pick but last years attendance was: 19,219, 99 GSU v Youngstown was 20,052, 96 Marshall v dUMb in WV was 30,052, 95 dUMb v Marshall in WV was 32,106, 94 Youngstown v Boise was 27,674, 93 Youngstown v Marshall was 29,218, 92 Marshall v Youngstown was 31,304, 90 GSU v Nevada was 23, 204 and 89 GSU v SF Austin was 25,725. That's a few championship games with larger attendance figures.

T-Dog · Post by **T-Dog** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:45 pm

Cat Grad wrote:
T-Dog wrote:Chatty was a couple hundred short of a sell out last year. We brought 13,000 and N. Iowa brought 6,000 and then throw in 2,000ish other people. It was the most people ever at the FCS NC game. (20,500 I believe)

I can gurantee if App makes it, we'll sell it out. More people will for sure come this year as we're expected to be there. Chattanooga is in our conference and we played at Finley Stadium back in October and won big. It's a VERY NICE stadium right in the middle of downtown. It's right on the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone.

And they do have National Guard units at the game to form a human wall around the goalpost (which they can pull to the ground without breaking). It must have been at least 100 of them.

It'd be some trip for y'all, not as far as Boone, but still. I imagine there'd be peopel mortagaging their houses to make the trip.
Not to pick but last years attendance was: 19,219, 99 GSU v Youngstown was 20,052, 96 Marshall v dUMb in WV was 30,052, 95 dUMb v Marshall in WV was 32,106, 94 Youngstown v Boise was 27,674, 93 Youngstown v Marshall was 29,218, 92 Marshall v Youngstown was 31,304, 90 GSU v Nevada was 23, 204 and 89 GSU v SF Austin was 25,725. That's a few championship games with larger attendance figures.

I meant "largest NC attendance in Chattanooga" and the attendance was 20,236 (according to wiki and NCAA), not 19,219 and that's highes than any NC game there.

Cat Grad · Post by **Cat Grad** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:50 pm

Okay. I was pretty lucky to see four of the first five in Findley Stadium. There was never a problem getting good seats, but geezzz does it ever get cold and the rain! Miserable is the only way for me to describe it there. Reminds me of...ah, that's another story

T-Dog · Post by **T-Dog** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:58 pm

Cat Grad wrote:Okay. I was pretty lucky to see four of the first five in Findley Stadium. There was never a problem getting good seats, but geezzz does it ever get cold and the rain! Miserable is the only way for me to describe it there. Reminds me of...ah, that's another story

Not a cloud in the sky last year. A wee bit cold, but nothing we and I'm sure you are use to. I remember having to dig my tires out of the ice in Boone that morning and getting stuck in the mud at the makeshift parking lot across the street (at the small church) from Finley just hours later. Good times...

Cat Grad · Post by **Cat Grad** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:08 pm

T-Dog wrote:
Cat Grad wrote:Okay. I was pretty lucky to see four of the first five in Findley Stadium. There was never a problem getting good seats, but geezzz does it ever get cold and the rain! Miserable is the only way for me to describe it there. Reminds me of...ah, that's another story
Not a cloud in the sky last year. A wee bit cold, but nothing we and I'm sure you are use to. I remember having to dig my tires out of the ice in Boone that morning and getting stuck in the mud at the makeshift parking lot across the street (at the small church) from Finley just hours later. Good times...

Must confess, I really want to go back this year just to hang out with my old buds for a while, watch the championship game, go to a few bowl games and spend a bunch of time on Sanibel!!!!! I am ready to catch some BIG fish after spending the last five years back in Montana. I guess more than anything, I need some sunny beach time. Would love to send some Lee County Florida kids back up to Bozo after the combines this spring

ChiOCat · Post by **ChiOCat** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:10 am

It would be really hard NOT to go. I have one cousin that has said if they meet, he's going. And my dad is considering it too.

I can't imagine how much fun it would be! Whole hotels taken over by "Eat $hit Grizzlies, GO CATS GO!

MAGOO · Post by **MAGOO** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:08 am

There's only one classy way to get us all down to the BIG GAME, CATS/GRIZ, for all the marbles --- we need to get BNSF / MRL to put together a 200 car unit train, start in Missoula with passenger stops in Butte, Logan (to pick up the Sidetrack Tap bunch from Helena), Bozeman, Livingston, Billings, Forsyth, Miles City, Glendive, and Baker, and take on beer cars every 300 miles. That would be the real CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO !!!

HelenaCat95 · Post by **HelenaCat95** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:11 am

MAGOO wrote:There's only one classy way to get us all down to the BIG GAME, CATS/GRIZ, for all the marbles --- we need to get BNSF / MRL to put together a 200 car unit train, start in Missoula with passenger stops in Butte, Logan (to pick up the Sidetrack Tap bunch from Helena), Bozeman, Livingston, Billings, Forsyth, Miles City, Glendive, and Baker, and take on beer cars every 300 miles. That would be the real CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO !!!

THAT IS AWESOME (except for the Denny Washington owning MRL part, but that doesn't really matter.

GREAT IDEA.

Sportin' Life · Post by **Sportin' Life** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:37 am

MAGOO wrote:There's only one classy way to get us all down to the BIG GAME, CATS/GRIZ, for all the marbles --- we need to get BNSF / MRL to put together a 200 car unit train, start in Missoula with passenger stops in Butte, Logan (to pick up the Sidetrack Tap bunch from Helena), Bozeman, Livingston, Billings, Forsyth, Miles City, Glendive, and Baker, and take on beer cars every 300 miles. That would be the real CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO !!!

LOL, the year before I rode the Montana Rocky Rail Tours Cat-Griz charter train they told me they had to stop the train to pick up more beer. Only in Montana.

083190 · Post by **083190** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:50 am

MAGOO, You da' man!

orsalak · Post by **orsalak** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:51 pm

I am going to be in Summerville SC starting on the 13th. That puts me less then 400 miles away!!!!! If the Cats are there I am there!!!!