Michigan Wolverines football

11.05.2022

Michigan Stadium is one of the few places left in American sports where the home and visiting teams use the same tunnel to enter and exit the field

By Hina

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design popular in venues built in the early 20th century but rare now. In the NFL, stadiums in Buffalo

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Detroit and Kansas City have home and visiting teams use the same tunnel. Michigan State has suspended eight players for their roles

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in the tunnel melee that broke out after fourth-ranked Michigan beat the Spartans, 29-7. It was the second straight game at Michigan that included a tunnel dispute.

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 «If circumstances, either by accident or deliberately, create the confluence of the two teams in the tunnel simultaneously,Simons said,

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 «then it's hard to imagine a set of circumstances where two groups of people who have been battling in an inherently violent sport for three-and-a-half or four hours coming together in a confined space wouldn't lead to some form of energy

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Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said this week that a second tunnel is planned at SHI Stadium but he did not give a timeline. Schiano said he knows of no tunnel incidents in his 14 years over two stints at Rutgers.

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Neither occurred inside the lone tunnel used by both teams until one for the visitors was built in 2017.

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