Brad

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 : 8:07 a.m.

Hmmm... curiously no tickets for railroad tresspassing or consuming alcohol on school property again?

A2D2

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 : 7:26 a.m.

The newest MSU cheer:. Go Green, Go White, in jail all night!

jmac

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 : 7:24 a.m.

So agree with chuck and InsideTheHall. The later the games get, the drunker the crowd gets, the more one risks getting body slammed or vomited on at some point during the game. And so croweded in the Stadium there it's impossible to get away from same. yaayyyy!!!

racerx

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 : 3:08 a.m.

Funny, what the city will put up with. Similar incidents as described in the article were occuring at Studio 4. However, I don't see the rush to close the stadium down. Oh, maybe the clientele is the difference. Either way it's a nuisance. Just one is more tolerated than the other. Umm. I wonder why?

MetricSU

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 10:56 p.m.

Because UM cannot beat MSU at anything meaningful, fans like tater have little to hold onto. So they create a world where they are superior in something: fan behavior in this case. Of course, it's all fiction. If the last three years have shown anything, it is that UM fans can be as petulant as anyone. Anyone objective who watched the MSU players after the game would admit that they acted like they'd been there before. And most of them had. And very well might be again.

Dave66

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 9:51 p.m.

I don't know where tater gets his information, I suspect he just makes it up as he goes along. As a Spartan living in A2 for many years, it didn't take me long to remove all the MSU from my car due to *repeated* vandalism. Not just a one-time event, *repeated* incidents. The statement, "Funny how Michigan fans never vandalize cars of MSU" is just flat out wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And if you doubt me, I enthusiastically invite you to put Sparty on your car and park it for a few days anywhere near student housing. Let me know how that works out for you. UM is the MSU Superbowl? LOL. I suspect you got that opinion from the same place that "Michigan fans never vandalize cars of MSU" came from. It's just as wrong. "When Michigan wins, they act like they have been there before, because they have." Who has been there before? By my count, there are now THREE classes of Michigan students who have never known victory. Misty-eyed remembrance of bygone days of leather helmets must be small consolation to the three classes who have never known anything else.

MetricSU

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 8:59 p.m.

Yes, I wish those MSU students hadn't paid for moving vans to haul those couches to Ann Arbor. I'd like to think tater is joking about that but his track record suggest that he really thinks that MSU students were burning couches in Ann Arbor. I guess the MSU students just stole them out of houses. Certain UM fans can't stand the fact that the MSU players were actually very understated in victory. It was no big deal. Another victory over UM? For many of them they know nothing else. Ho, hum. And an objective observer will note that MSU fans pretty much behaved themselves. It is the UM commentators rewriting history that I find amusing. For example, Sam and Ira on WTKA talked repeatedly about how MSU wouldn't be able to handle the pressure of playing in the Big House. First real road game and all of that. Then, on Monday, they claimed they weren't surprised Denard struggled given his inexperience and the amount of pressure. Some UM fans are not delusional, but many are. Just make it up as you go along to fit whatever has happened lately. tater: Every time I look, the pundits had UM lower and lower. I do remember your projections for each of the last three seasons: 9-3, 9-3, 9-3. In the first two years you were only short 10 wins.

Lokalisierung

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 6:05 p.m.

Oh yes so true. There have never been any incidents involving UM kids and alcohol, fighting, couch burnings, or anything else tater. No poetry to the king anymore?

Lokalisierung

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 4:42 p.m.

"On the other hand letting cops raise revenue (and save their jobs) by writing tickets is too likely to encourage abuse." Oh heavens we wouldn't want the police out there writing tickets or doing their jobs! haha.

InsideTheHall

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 4:31 p.m.

It will be real interesting with night games starting next year. The police in Iowa City have some great stories about night games. Crisler Arena will probably be set up as a holding pen.

Awakened

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 4:12 p.m.

@Jim Paille. The UofM pays the city for the officers assigned to the stadium only and it goes into the general fund. Not to the police budget. The whole detail comes out of AAPD's overtime budget for the year. @Jaime. AAPD makes most of those tickets on overtime detail. They lose money on the tickets. The city's share goes to funding the court and any extra into the general fund. The overtime gets taken from AAPD's budget. In both cases this is part of the shell game that allows the administration to have money for it's project while threatening that the only way to save money is layoff cops. The AAPD would not be struggling to make the cuts if they recieved football, Art Fair or ticket revenue. For those of you who followed the Mayoral Primary this is all old news. On the other hand letting cops raise revenue (and save their jobs) by writing tickets is too likely to encourage abuse.

Lokalisierung

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 4:09 p.m.

"And are the A2 police allowed to ticket on Pioneer property?" Yes.

Donald

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 4:04 p.m.

Oh, so THAT'S why the drinking age is 21! So we can write more tickets! And are the A2 police allowed to ticket on Pioneer property? They can't give parking tickets in the parking structures, nor in the Arborland parking lot, and the District is a government entity of its own that spans more than the city, suggesting that a county sheriff may need to issue such tickets unless the district makes a specific request.

Eric

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:43 p.m.

Some of the most ignorant knuckleheads I've met have been college students. I wish U of M would just disappear.

xmo

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:41 p.m.

For attendance of 113,065 people, it sounds like it was very calm. Only 64 kick out of the game and 125 for open intoxicants. Overall, sounds like it was a good time for Ann Arbor.

Lokalisierung

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:39 p.m.

UM MSU game both ranked and unbeaten this is to be expected. I mean really these are young kids that get a little too into it. I'm all for trash talking and it can be good fun, but I agree with enig that getting up in people's faces and all that is weak sauce. Then again the young drinkers at UM aren't really sure what to do with the last couple seasons and a horrible breat down. Such is life.

David

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:36 p.m.

@Jim Paille I think the U might make up for the extra police cost by doubling the city population 8 days out of the year

gwncb

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:20 p.m.

A 3:30pm kick off allows to much tail gating time. It will be worse if night games are scheduled. There were student aged drunks walking to the game at 2:00pm. This traffic and # drunks was the worst I have experienced. Anywhere.

enigmaingr

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:19 p.m.

I attended the game Saturday and must say that it was the rowdiest crowd that I remember (student in the late '90s; have been to at least one game each season since). By noon, traffic on US-23 was backed up darn near to the I-96 exit. As I walked down South State to Hoover, it smelled like the city just washed the street with Natty Lite. Approaching the stadium some fans of both schools (I'm assuming based on age that they were students) were intentionally provoking each other and others. I'm all for a little rivalry but when people are just walking by and not trying to engage you in trash talk, let them be. Instead, I saw kids get in people's faces and personally insult people wearing opposing team apparel who were just trying to get to the game.

Jaime

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:17 p.m.

Wow! Only 125 tickets for open intoxicants. They could have given out twice that many in 10 minutes in the Pioneer High parking lot on game day. Sounds like a good source of revenue form a city hurting for cash.

Jaime

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 3:15 p.m.

The biggest difference I saw was in the traffic. For most games, even the biggest ones I can leave home an hour before kick off and still make it inside to see the band come on the field. Last Saturday I had to run some errands. I left my house at 11:00 AM and immediately ran into traffic delays.

applehazar

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 2:32 p.m.

Does the university reimburse Ann Arbor for the extra police presence?

Linda Peck

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 : 2:25 p.m.

Maybe we should postpone the freshman year until age 25? Would that help this situation? I have heard it said that are children are maturing more slowly, and yet are we not still giving them the same privileges and responsibilities that children used to have when they would sign up to go to war at age 18 (or younger even, who was checking)?