Considering all factors and not just personal preference what is the most beneficial starting time for our home football games?
Ok lets hear your argument for start times.
- Thread starter SEPATOPTEN
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This needs to be cross referenced with age of said voter and region they are driving from.
Somebody has to play at noon. I think we get pretty lucky w/ the lack of big game noon starts.
The very reason why I don't like noon starts is because I don't think many folks have their act together by 9am. Whether it be your first day off and you are sleeping in or its just too early for many to concentrate on football. At 3:30 the options I believe are much greater for the average
fan.
Noon starts blow. I love 1:00 even though it's been a long time since that's happened. It's amazing how much difference one hour can make.
I like a nice mix. Give me a few noon starts with time to tailgate postgame, a bunch of 3:30s which is ideal to not have to get up ridiculously early and still get to home at a reasonable hour, and a prime time game or two for great atmospheres at the biggest games.
I always enjoyed the quirky start time games. I remember both the home games against Central Florida and ND started at 6PM. I remember having some B10 games that started at 4:30- I think the 2009 Michigan game and one of the road NW games started at 4:30. Wisconsin in 1995 started at either 5:00 or 5:30PM.
I prefer the noon starts because it doesn't turn the game into an entire weekend affair. I'm in Mount Joy, so almost a two hour drive without traffic. Noon start means I'm getting in my car around 3:30 and typically make it home by 6:30 at the latest. That leaves time to unpack and clean up before going to bed. And I can catch the night games on TV.
3:30 starts mean I'm not getting home until 9:00 - 9:30. Usually all I do is unpack and put away anything perishable and leave the rest to do in the morning. I'd rather not have my Saturday football game run into Sunday.
Night games are the worst.
(Full disclosure: I still own season tickets, but another couple has been purchasing and using my tickets for several years because I don't have the time or energy to make it up to so many games and really enjoy the atmosphere. Too much work and too many home games crammed together in September usually.)
3:30 starts mean I'm not getting home until 9:00 - 9:30. Usually all I do is unpack and put away anything perishable and leave the rest to do in the morning. I'd rather not have my Saturday football game run into Sunday.
Night games are the worst.
(Full disclosure: I still own season tickets, but another couple has been purchasing and using my tickets for several years because I don't have the time or energy to make it up to so many games and really enjoy the atmosphere. Too much work and too many home games crammed together in September usually.)
