Fattys website shows they open at 11:30 on Saturdays. Does anyone know if they will open earlier this Saturday with the 12:30 game time?

(09-09-2021 05:20 PM)HuskieDave Wrote:  Fattys website shows they open at 11:30 on Saturdays. Does anyone know if they will open earlier this Saturday with the 12:30 game time?

Call them and post the reply

I'm also curious. I want to grab a couple pounds of potato salad to bring to my tailgate that morning.

Edit: I just called them. They do not open earlier for gamedays. So if you want your fix you will have to go after the game with the huge crowd!

i would be floored if they're not going to open early on saturday.

https://twitter.com/FattysDeKalb/status/...97058?s=20

10 am, kitchen at 11

(09-09-2021 07:08 PM)7 Wrote:  https://twitter.com/FattysDeKalb/status/...97058?s=20

10 am, kitchen at 11

Excellent work 7……thanks.

I will be at tailgating in west lot at 7:30 am. I’m guessing most tailgating will start at 11am. There is no doubt that a 6pm start to the game would get a much bigger crowd than this 12:30 start time. I don’t understand the start time especially at the beginning of September when we know it will be warm out. You want people to have a great experience at a NIU football game that isn’t possible when they may only tailgate for a hour and a half.

(09-09-2021 08:46 PM)dc1 Wrote:  I will be at tailgating in west lot at 7:30 am. I’m guessing most tailgating will start at 11am. There is no doubt that a 6pm start to the game would get a much bigger crowd than this 12:30 start time. I don’t understand the start time especially at the beginning of September when we know it will be warm out. You want people to have a great experience at a NIU football game that isn’t possible when they may only tailgate for a hour and a half.

+1 Who determines start time - NIU or ESPN? And why is every Saturday start at 12:30? Horrible for tailgating.

(09-09-2021 10:09 PM)HuskieBowWow Wrote:  

(09-09-2021 08:46 PM)dc1 Wrote:  I will be at tailgating in west lot at 7:30 am. I’m guessing most tailgating will start at 11am. There is no doubt that a 6pm start to the game would get a much bigger crowd than this 12:30 start time. I don’t understand the start time especially at the beginning of September when we know it will be warm out. You want people to have a great experience at a NIU football game that isn’t possible when they may only tailgate for a hour and a half.

+1 Who determines start time - NIU or ESPN? And why is every Saturday start at 12:30? Horrible for tailgating.

It is ESPN. Money talks. NIU will make more money off the TV contract than ticket sales.

I don’t know why ESPN would care what time NIU vs Wyoming starts when it’s played on ESPN plus

Every home opener I can remember was at 630, including a few against P5 teams, and we still had ****** attendance. Seems silly to blame the start time for anything.

(09-09-2021 11:29 PM)NIU75 Wrote:  

(09-09-2021 10:09 PM)HuskieBowWow Wrote:  

(09-09-2021 08:46 PM)dc1 Wrote:  I will be at tailgating in west lot at 7:30 am. I’m guessing most tailgating will start at 11am. There is no doubt that a 6pm start to the game would get a much bigger crowd than this 12:30 start time. I don’t understand the start time especially at the beginning of September when we know it will be warm out. You want people to have a great experience at a NIU football game that isn’t possible when they may only tailgate for a hour and a half.

+1 Who determines start time - NIU or ESPN? And why is every Saturday start at 12:30? Horrible for tailgating.

It is ESPN. Money talks. NIU will make more money off the TV contract than ticket sales.

I don't really know but it looks to me like the early start time is NIUs decision. At this point, we might as well get whatever competitive advantage we can and start the game early after a long road trip for the visitors from a later time zone. The fan experience is important of course, but there are bigger factors and fans will or won't show up regardless of start times.

I prefer odd times like the Sox does. 12:37 pm would be just perfect for me.

Except for us hardcore fans I doubt casual fans were interested in our old boring offenses where we looked at the sideline for 20 seconds between each play and ran QB power into a pile of defenders for 2 yard gain.

(09-10-2021 11:05 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  Except for us hardcore fans I doubt casual fans were interested in our old boring offenses where we looked at the sideline for 20 seconds between each play and ran QB power into a pile of defenders for 2 yard gain.

Ah yes because we broke out the ole fun and gun last week

I liked when we sped things up, especially after a 1st down. It's less boring, and seemed to throw the defense off a little. It is pretty boring watching the hurry up and wait offense, after having seen the hurry up used more. Even the wishbone was more interesting.

I suppose, to make the game more interesting to the casual fan, you'd need to install an air raid offense or something like that. Or find another superstar RB or QB. I don't know anything else that would have any real impact on attendance.

(09-10-2021 11:04 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  I prefer odd times like the Sox does. 12:37 pm would be just perfect for me.

I likes it when the Sox were 7:11 starts.

(09-10-2021 11:49 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  I liked when we sped things up, especially after a 1st down. It's less boring, and seemed to throw the defense off a little. It is pretty boring watching the hurry up and wait offense, after having seen the hurry up used more. Even the wishbone was more interesting.

I suppose, to make the game more interesting to the casual fan, you'd need to install an air raid offense or something like that. Or find another superstar RB or QB. I don't know anything else that would have any real impact on attendance.

I think it comes down to an O-line that can handle it and a QB that can organize it. Carey used to do it with Lynch but it didn't work so well with other QBs.

Clearly, Lombardi can do it and the line, having a year of experience, is able to handle it and identify blocking assignments.

The GT D-Line was sucking wind at the end of one of those drives and then they had like 14 guys on the field once for penalty so it has it's benefits if you have the personnel to pull it off.