So, um, anyone know any good bars near this place?
In an effort to embrace and celebrate the traditions of Western Pennsylvania football, Pitt head coach Paul Chrystannounced today he will be taking the annual Pitt Spring Football Festival and Blue-Gold Scrimmage on the road to North Hills High School on April 14.
“I may be new to Pittsburgh, but I’ve respected and known about the traditions of Western Pennsylvania high school football for a long time,” Chryst said. “As a first-year coaching staff, we feel it is important to get out and engage the people and communities who have built that tradition. The spring game is a perfect opportunity to do this and we’re really looking forward to visiting North Hills in April.”
The gates at North Hills’ Martorelli Stadium will open at 11 a.m. The Panthers will host a youth clinic at 11:30 a.m., followed by the playing of the Blue-Gold Scrimmage at 1 p.m.
The stadium is not at the school. Not sure what the capacity actually is. Pre-2000 renovations, the seating was around 5300. I’m guessing it isn’t too different now.
Update: Not seeing any bars nearby, but there is a beer distributor rather close by. Hopefully tailgating will be allowed.
Not much parking or should I tell the truth and say no parking what-so-ever.
Wiegand’s Cafe in West View is just over the hill and a good place to down a few. (Not walking distance though).
That being said, there is more to life than drinking. You should remember that younger kids read your blog as well and not be overly infatuated with alcohol.
I also remember a scrimmage at Gateway High School during Wanny’s 1st or 2nd year.
But it could also be an attempt to cut down on expenses due to how much money Pitt is losing on this CBI deal
Wonder how big the crowd will be. Was it packe back in 2003?
of the stadium
Now, I know that bottle of Glenlivet is somewhere around here!!
I know exactly where that bottle is!!!!!!!!!
The HS move is designed by a first year coach as a sign of respect to the area where most of his recruits will come from. Plus, 55k empty seats at Heinz would look very bad and that experience would kill off any buzz from the tailgate. I’m sure they’ll have Heinz lined up for next year with plenty of tarped seats.
I’ll be there and I’ll buy a couple of cases of beer at the PX and put them on ice for tailgating before the game. Watch out for a tall guy who looks like Tom Selleck.
Hope to see every one of you there…
Get back on there and talk about some real football dammit!
Several good bars are close to NH’s football stadium. Perrysville Tavern on Rt.19 right in Perrysville(go figure) is a good local bar. As is the Rochester Inn on the corner of Babcock & Rochester Rd. This is a real Pittsburgh type bar if you get my drift. Those two are about the closet to NH’s stadium. If I’m picking, Perrysville is better, Rochester Inn is on the way back towards McKnight Rd & all points south when leaving Matorelli.
And then they won’t be subjected it and the language that is in bars.
There are tons are restaurants that cater to families. STay the f*ck out of my bars !
It’s Pitt football, the only way to get through a game is by heavily consuming alcohol.
JD and iron city only way to go.
and dont worry the kids know more swear words
than we do but they should not be used in front of ladys. go PITT.
but i think we will then i will have to get drunk on game day just to get thru the day.
we will, but maybe not forever???
Don’t order too much food, the portions are large.
There, has your head exploded yet?
3.) Please sit down before you read this – I actually thought the quarterbacks had a good day today. I know that we are supposed to criticize the quarterbacks every day, but I’ll be honest, they — and actually more accurately, Tino Sunseri — had as good of a day as I’ve seen in a long time. He completed a lot of passes, looked confident in the pocket, made good decisions – it was a good day for him. He seemed to have a nice rapport with Cam Saddler, who caught a bunch of balls and he made a number of tough throws. Again, I am not saying he is all of the sudden channeling Peyton Manning – I am saying he had a good day. And if he has a good day Saturday, then Sunday and then makes a habit of it, he could actually have people feeling good about that positon by the fall.
In Tino we trust?
Jamie maybe already has Roehrersen promised for all we know
I have to assume the nachos are still pretty good…
we could use ROEHERSEN hope it happens
Wbb you are trying to kill me i know it tino all ways looks good in pratice but when the real game starts he folds up and turns into a putz.
every thing that goes wrong is tinos fault the BB season was tinos fault chas car broke it is tinos fault if you dont belive me ask EMel.
Oh, and the beer distributor pretty much overlooks the field — we’ve bought a case there before and watched from above behind the fence. Does the trick!
Even with Pitt’s “not so successful season,” I’m glad I’m a Pitt fan.
Too bad about Duquesne, it looked like they were turning a corner.
Listened to Bobby Engram on the Fan yesterday. He sounded more like a politician than a coach. Didn’t reveal anything about the players progress or mention many names. Then the idiot interviewers asked him about Hines Ward and the Saints scandal. They asked him about Mason, I don’t think he knew who he is.
@gc Add Mt. Lebo to your list. I believe we have some sort of connection there?
You mentioned rushel shell and the rb situation. Ive said it before that i thought rushel shell would be option 3 or even 4 this year and i got a ton of crap for it. Ray graham is the obvious 1, i said that isaac bennett would be 2 and i said that malcolm crockett and rushel shell would compete for the 3rd spot. The talent and depth at the rb spot will make it very tough for shell to just waltz in during camp and gain the 2nd or 3rd spot.
This is just another sign of the long decline that is Pitt football.
Focus on the things that really matter and the rest will follow.
From all reports Ray Graham and staff expect him to be 100% physically ready to play. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’ll be 100% the RB that he was in 2011 before his injury but I’m confident that he’ll take the lion’s share of carries.
I was really looking forward to see Malcolm Crockett play this season and we still might, but Corey Davis has been getting a lot of reps in the practices.
One thing is that at Wisconsin Chryst used a pretty deep RB rotation – which gave him three 1,000 yards rushers two years ago so we may see the same approach at PITT this season.
