How University of Michigan's football stadium became The Big House

Stuart Varney takes a closer look into how the University of Michigan built the largest football stadium on ‘American Built’.
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[@joshuabennett5891]

On 11/27/21 one of the greatest moments happened in Michigan stadium history. The Wolverines snapped a decade long drought against BRUTUS and ended a 20 plus consecutive win streak against Big Ten opponents. The offense and defense were absolutely dominant and it finally showed. But what made this day so amazing was the fans and the snow, absolutely the loudest I've ever heard and I've been going since October 23,1993. Seeing everyone running on the field is something that NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET!...... I know I won't because I was there and I got on the field to celebrate with the Wolverines and the fans. As a matter of fact, I had a short conversation with McNamara #12 our starting QB. Simply said, Remember this moment for the rest of your life! You guys deserve this!......GO BLUE.

[@unitedgavin2742]

dnc cope

[@joshuabennett5891]

@@unitedgavin2742.......Do not care......cope......awesome. Is life going good?

[@K2mtp]

I have spent a couple thousand on tickets to that game and only saw them beat Ohio in '99 when I got the tickets for free. Said I will never buy anymore till they win again. So jealous of you and so proud of those boys for doing what hardly anyone said could be done.

[@SR-hf3hx]

You got balls lol I seen them storming I stood right where I was....one of the best days of my life I'll never forget it

[@danmason6116]

@@K2mtp I was there at the 11 game

[@Johnadams20760]

why does this video just cut off at the end. there should be more.

[@ashtonsaber]

Best Stadium in the Universe

[@nmoore1978]

The video gets cut off mid sentence....where's the rest of it?

[@Red-ss5lv]

The Big House is considered like an nth Wonder of World in American football.

[@ericnortan9012]

Go Blue!

[@chrishurlbutt6684]

Now what?

[@aaronrogers5988]

Did they really end it at the best part? Wtf

[@sherwoody14]

Looking for part 2... not finding. What a cliff hanger.

[@Michigan4Life1984]

@@sherwoody14 I can't believe it stopped there! What the Hell!!!

[@tylerbrown8486]

Yost proposed the issuance of 300 tax-exempt, low-interest stadium bonds at $500 a piece to pay for the construction. The bondholders could then purchase season tickets between the 30-yard lines for 10 years.

[@ericscottstevens]

Up until the late 1970s the stadium was open to the public access during the weekdays and you could be on the field. Did it once when a UofM literary professor we knew named WEB Brition advised us to go down to the stadium and have some fun out on the field. When we arrived there already were numerous families playing mini football games, passing the football, kids running pass patterns, or people strolling around or sitting in the stands. You could run around until dusk started setting in (no lights back then). Great memories.

[@Tigersfan829]

It was left open until like the mid 2000s I'm pretty sure

[@goldenrakelawncare6564]

@@Tigersfan829 I know it was at least until the late 90s. You could walk right in.

[@dannyd8625]

@@Tigersfan829 - Correct. Until Dave Brandon had to make a buck off of everything.

[@jtluttermoser]

PART 2 is on fox business. On the series called American built. Titled the struggles with building Michigan's big house.

[@pollyb.4648]

I just searched "Fox business American built struggles with building Michigans big house" (and a couple other wording), but no part 2! Any hints?

[@chuckschaefer9477]

LOVED going to football games there. Tolerated college, but loved going to the games. NOW WHERE'S THE REST?

[@EdGodoyPlana]

Where is the rest of the video?

[@ahyush1]

So proud to be a Michigan alumnus. Go Blue Forever!

[@landont.5400]

Hell yeah!

[@landont.5400]

@GG Rene Lol cap

[@georgiaguardian4696]

Where is the full video?????

[@thenewlife7588]

"The hole that Yost dug, Crisler built, and Schembechler paid for"....Michigan Stadium.... "THE BIG HOUSE".... Bob Uffer

[@Jonathan-gi8kw]

and Moeller puked on.

[@thenewlife7588]

@@Jonathan-gi8kw You're obviously referring to the reason Gary Moeller lost his job. However, Gary Moeller amassed a 30-8-2 record in conference play winning Big Ten Titles in 1990, 1991, and 1992. He was Big Ten Coach of the Year in '91 and '92. His winning percentage was .775 in conference and .758 overall. Moeller was an outstanding coach. Too bad he's remembered for one bad choice.

[@green444]

A. It was a joke. He was an alcoholic. It wasn’t one bad decision.

[@CoondawgPD]

My Uncle was involved in the Stadium somehow. I’m not sure if he owned some land or what but he had lifetime 50 yard line tickets. He took me there when I was young, 9-10 years old or so. He was a farrier.

[@09GunNut]

What a cliffhanger you left us on lol

[@TeeJGoBlue]

Hahaha

[@PapaG603]

Go Blue

[@KGKraetzerMedia]

Enjoyed our visit to Michigan Stadium in 2019 with Army, I had Media pass and after post game walked the length of the tunnel to the field then walked from field to top row, 74 rows I recall.

[@6Glitch]

The rows in the end zone go up to 90 something

[@whyhasgooglemessedwithmych1423]

No part 2??? This cut off right in the middle...

[@CocoKaynn]

Let's go blue baby

[@kych2008]

They will get smoked by osu

[@CocoKaynn]

@@kych2008 ok. Go blue baby

[@TheBHAWK89]

@@kych2008 Now trying saying that😂😂

[@kych2008]

@@TheBHAWK89 they will get smoked by bama

[@TheBHAWK89]

@@kych2008 They are playing against Iowa next Saturday for the big 10 championship

[@Jleed989]

Wish they could have kept the grass

[@Johnadams20760]

i was at a game a few weeks ago on a colder night. where it was probably only upper 30s, but sat in the 30th row. it actaully didn't feel that cold though. i believe because the first 60 rows are all ground level or below, i believe the ground around the stadium kept it feeling warmer

[@timmygressler7468]

113 thousand people producing body heat helps too

[@chrisfeuerhaken396]

Concrete structure not cement structure!

[@ernestkovach3305]

Both ,basically ti be precise...in that cement is the key ingredient in concrete....the other aggregate materials in concrete are sand and rocks. Hope this helps.

[@accessiblenow]

A plan was devised, and approved by the Board in Control to finance stadium construction and the facilities called for in the Day Report through a $1,500,000 issue of 3,000 bonds at a par value of $500 at 3 percent interest. These financial instruments bearing the picture of a wolverine would fund not only the stadium, but all the facilities called for in the Day Committee Report.

[@bjdon99]

Any of the old stadia photos with the goalposts on the goal line were from 1926 or before. Colleges moved them to the back of the end zone in 1927.

[@devynbeckel3742]

Correction it is not the largest stadium in the world but close

[@lokimyers8750]

It's the second. Biggest in America

[@JohnSmith-kv1uo]

​@Loki Myers no it the biggest in America and western side of the world and 3rd biggest in the world but Michigan has room to go 150k 200k if wanted too but never will it just too much

[@ThatGuy-cb3yv]

CLICK BAIT! not one mention of 'the big house'.

[@waynelei6459]

Proud to be a wolverine, Go Blue!

[@BBNTrashtalker]

They need new seats it’ looks like lol those some bleachers for-real though

[@yurielcundangan9090]

LET'S GO BRANDON🎯

[@jant1225]

Ahhh... The infamous Outhouse.

[@williammacauley1858]

where's the rest of the story?

[@gg-ni9xe]

Football is good entertainment

[@fyredragon5270]

Where’s the rest of this documentary?

[@midmichiganprepper1874]

Hail yeah! Go Blue

[@webmoore4353]

Part 2??

[@TheJJboy]

Wait why did it stop???? Who has a link for a follow up? What did Yost do to fund this? That cliffhanger has me messed up? I felt like I was getting a history lesson and then never got a answer

[@DanielEgan313]

Where is part 2?

[@user-nf5zt4kr6p]

2nd part?

[@Mitch3877]

GO BLUE 🎉❤

[@gg-ni9xe]

Football is here to stay.

[@j.m.rhapsody]

where can I watch the rest of this?

[@ronaldruizjr5944]

Where's the rest of the video?

[@dirtcop11]

So, how did he finance it? The world wants to know.

[@SethFisher1]

If you're a Michigan season ticket holder today you'll be very familiar with the answer: He did it with preferred seat licenses! Yost got 10,000 people to buy $500 state tax-exempt bonds "Carrying preferred seat purchase privelege[s]" I hope they show the next part on here. I have a high-res scan of one of the certificates (No. 2999), and they used it in the episode. It's really an incredible document--an official state bond with a Wolverine on top.

[@faviolaornelas1623]

See you soon Sr. I love this report.!!!

[@danielvanhaften5779]

Should've let Yost build it with 150000 seats in the first place. :)

[@TropicanaBanana]

So Yost come up with this crazy idea!!! And in works!!!! THE END 😂 thanks for wasting my time

[@DS-gz1qn]

Greatest stadium in all of football.

[@jtluttermoser]

WHERE IS PART TWO!!!!!!!!!!

[@davidhayes5961]

2:09 I liked the old Horseshoe Looked like 2 watchtowers at the open end

[@toledojeeper2932]

I thought it was the "crack house " ?

[@JosephHarrisArch]

5:32 "the oldest amphitheater in the world"... no it isn't.

[@conqurr]

I've been there several times. Seats are small there's only a few ways in and out. If you got to use the bathroom your in for a walk.

[@babykevinxoxo]

Rest of the video?

[@danmason6116]

I have been to About a 100 games at the big house and it's my favorite place to go it's my fall family best stadium in the world Go Blue !!!!!

[@timsimmons5287]

Go blue

[@jonfavil7034]

GO BLUE!

[@joebidens.u.c.k.s.571]

Joe Biden left his house to go home Let's go Brandon.

[@michelledax4083]

"Why You 📺 needs to Notify When 🔔🛎🎊🔔 on..

[@michelledax4083]

And, Subscribed. "

[@williwilliams5238]

From the outside,it’s the most disappointing stadium you’ll ever see. From the inside, it is the most disappointing stadium you’ll ever see.

[@prodarchangel]

3:50 he was hitting the speed dance on his coach in 1940's 😭😭

[@mvpandrew93]

*How old are you?*

[@marcusmaddox2176]

Let's go Brandon forever !

[@Justhings332]

Lambeau field is better

[@mastershake6292]

Cool story. No one one asked.

[@JohnSmith-kv1uo]

😂😂😂😂🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@jamesleece4175]

Be awesome to watch an international rugby union game

[@wallickjd1992]

Best college football environment was the battle of Bristol at Bristol Motor-speedway. 150,000 screaming Tennessee and Virginia Tech fans

[@justinsmalley4111]

Yes. It’s a huge deal when we beat osu once a decade and MSU only about every other year. And will get DESTROYED by Georgia.

[@benjaminrei1319]

im so glad im not you, because i can actually enjoy this amazing season

[@lanesniffin730]

Up there with Notre Dame as far as one of the most overrated college football programs

[@aldavis2759]

Lol... go home, you're drunk!

[@mastershake6292]

No one cares, geek.

[@justinsmalley4111]

Yes. It’s a huge deal when we beat osu once a decade and MSU only about every other year. And will get DESTROYED by Georgia.

[@slomojoe9395]

Who cares?

[@mastershake6292]

Don't watch the video then, f*ck boy

[@frankbj1152]

You do

[@crashweaverda]

College football is the only thing I watch anymore. Quit watching the NFL due to the politics. It's nice to just sit back and just be able to enjoy a game and forget what going on for a saturday. GO SPARTANS! MI STATE RULES!

[@BrewerUMich91]

👨‍👦

[@PGHammer21A]

@@BrewerUMich91 Amazingly, two of the biggest games to take places there were *losses* - Appalachian State (first nonconference team to beat the Wolverines there) and - this one shocked even me - Maryland (one of the few Big Ten teams that was NOT Ohio State to win there). (Okay - Maryland had a football rep - "Bear" Bryant coached there BEFORE Alabama; but - as any Big Ten fan will tell you, the ACC is NOT the Big Ten.) And you must admit - beating Michigan - in their building - would absatively put you on the map. (Maryland knew that - as the same was true if their rivalry with Penn State - before and since Maryland joined the Big Ten - wins in Happy Valley were rare - and on the basketball side - Penn State had similar bad luck at Cole Field House and Xfinity Center.) That is why I eagerly await coverage of both Cole Field House and Xfinity Center on "American Built".

[@williewest2998]

The politics lol sounds about white to me!!!

[@turkrane12]

One man's opinion, these stadiums are an abomination.

[@nancymcgee4776]

O-H-I-O! 🧡

[@TheBHAWK89]

And Michigan just beat Ohio lol

[@ethansmith5323]

Ohhhh

[@whodat9198]

well that didn't age well, lol

[@TheBHAWK89]

@@whodat9198 Right!! 😂

[@nat3llite]

L

[@johnstonejaxfldoxmebitch7388]

Looks like a junior college stadium from the outside, Neyland is much more impressive.

[@LuckyLefty92]

Because it's built into the ground

[@ethansmith5323]

That’s the point

[@sherwoody14]

All the press boxes added a few years back makes it much more substantial. Problem with Neyland is if you're in that upper deck, you can't see anything. And if the team can't fill the seats, less impressive.

[@sheneedsme]

Most people have never seen or heard of Nyland. The whole world knows the Big House.