Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...why?
Trick-or-treating should always occur on Oct 31, without exception.
If you ring my doorbell, uninvited, on any other day of the year, you're liable to get shot.
Fail by Athl. Dept.
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Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...why?
Trick-or-treating should always occur on Oct 31, without exception.
If you ring my doorbell, uninvited, on any other day of the year, you're liable to get shot.
I am in shock that someone (the OP) would think the Iowa Athletic Department should or would get involved in trick or treat times/days. This is not something an Athletic Department should be concerned/involved with. If Halloween Trick or Treating cuts into the overall attendance for the game, perhaps the fans are to blame for not showing up. For those parents that had to take children trick or treating, they could have given their tickets to someone else (and I'm sure some did). To blame, or claim "Fail" to the Athletic Dept. is a joke, and completely ridiculous. Besides, the attendance may have been very similar without the game falling on 10-31-15. A few anecdotal examples does not mean Halloween is to blame for the empty seats. The original post is way off and misguided. In fact, "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Then why did other departments around the country correspond with communities to move the time if I am so off the mark?
I think you might be crazy AND annoyed. Why does it have to be one or the other??
What were those schools and were their games sellouts? The last I knew and I traveled it Saturday NL is a 10 minute drive from IC. How long do you really need to get your tricks on?
Houston was 7-0 playing Vandy and they were 10K short of capacity. People bitched because it was at 6 PM on Halloween. Anyplace there is going to be bitching.
hexumhawk: "Then why did other departments around the country correspond with communities to move the time if I am so off the mark?"
Because your post was titled Fail by Athl. Dept. and you posted
"I still cant for the life of me figure out why UI didn't reach out to neighboring towns to see if they could have had trick or treating on Friday night instead of Saturday."
--That is what the responses are in reference to.
Iowa's Athletic Department couldn't be bothered with worrying about getting local towns to change trick or treating for fear of empty seats. Then someone would bitch that their town had to change the day of trick or treating because a total of a few thousand fans across several communities had a football game? That could be an even worse P.R. move. Change the day of trick or treating for entire communities because a few thousand might skip a football game?
Because your post was titled Fail by Athl. Dept. and you posted
"I still cant for the life of me figure out why UI didn't reach out to neighboring towns to see if they could have had trick or treating on Friday night instead of Saturday."
--That is what the responses are in reference to.
Iowa's Athletic Department couldn't be bothered with worrying about getting local towns to change trick or treating for fear of empty seats. Then someone would bitch that their town had to change the day of trick or treating because a total of a few thousand fans across several communities had a football game? That could be an even worse P.R. move. Change the day of trick or treating for entire communities because a few thousand might skip a football game?
You want kids out and about when older "kids" have an opportunity for a Saturday Halloween (teen vandals, drunken twenties, drunken thirties trying to be drunken twenties)? Halloween is not sacred. Only Thanksgiving is sacred (among holidays my employer observes).
Are you just turning your kids loose to run the neighborhoods on their own? How late are they out trick or treating that they can be exposed to all this? For that matter have you been around some of the drunken people at Hawks games? Not sure that having your kids around them is a better option.
