Turning Wrigley's Field Into A Gridiron

The Cubs season came to a end the first week of October and ever since laborers have been hard at work transforming this beautiful baseball field into a football gridiron. All this here effort for one game on November 20th matching the Northwestern Wildcats and the Illinois Illinis.

We here have been documenting the process and figured it was close enough to completion to give all of you a gander. A lot has gone into this event so far but I'll start with the field itself.

They started by bring in sod, you see. Can't have much of a football field with a dirt infield.


They tackled the diamond first,


then they covered the warning track.


The field really transformed when they painted on the numbers and lines. If you look close enough you'll see the Northwestern "N" at the 50 yard line.


Now, as of this afternoon - they have the painted purple around the sidelines, and added the base to the field goals.


I reckon that this is most of what they will have to do for the field, but I'll be back tomorrow to see if they have made any more progress.

Thank you kindly