Thursday, August 14, 2008

My Favorite Time of the Year

With football season a little more than two weeks away, preparations are under way on Sun Devil Stadium in order to ready it for the August 30th season opener versus Northern Arizona. Last season's Pac-10 Championship and Holiday Bowl appearance were added to the stadium last week, the grass is getting trimmed, and the goalposts are getting a brand new coat of neon yellow paint. One of the neater projects that is underway to prepare the stadium goes along with celebrating its' 50th anniversary, as ASU legends will greet fans as they enter through the south turnstiles. Images of Frank Kush, Jake Plummer, Danny White, and Pat Tillman (just to name a few) will adourn the large wind whirly-things, replacing last year's images of current football players and Coach Erickson. This will be one of the ways the university will celebrate the Golden Anniversary of Sun Devil Stadium.

My proposal to help celebrate the season and the tradition of Sun Devil football would be to replicate previous field and endzone designs. For example, one game would be a design from say the 10-1 Border Conference champions from 1959. Another game would feature a neat endzone design from the 1960s, etc, etc. Looking through the old Sun Devil football pictures, one can see the many unique endzone designs that ASU used throughout the 50 year time period. Some being rather plain but others being creative and cool, like one design which features a script-like ASU, placed in between two older Sparky logos, where Sparky is positioned inside a gold sun. For the '80s and '90s you could pick endzone designs that honor the Rose Bowl years. For the '70s there is the endzone made famous from "The Catch", a script ASU filled in with the American flag (similar to what Major League Baseball did this year for the Fourth). I believe this would be a fantastic way to celebrate the heritage and tradition of Sun Devil Stadium and Arizona State football and would be a neat "old-school" crowd pleaser.

Later I will add my selections for what endzones I think would be neat to replicate this season.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That would be really, REALLY cool! It would also be sweet if they wore throw back uni's... But I think we all know that both of these things will not happen...