College football games in Major League Baseball stadiums need to go down with college basketball games on aircraft carriers and becomehistory.While Tenne see and Virginia Tech prepare for the next forayin alternative venues with their this September, it's agood time to say goodbye to trying to fit a square game in a narrowlyround peg.MORE: Seeing Northwestern play in Wrigley Field in person was cool the first time, at least forthe first quarter.That was six years ago, a game against Illinois in which both teams had to play offense in the same directionbecause one end of the ill-fitting 120-yard field would have put players in danger of slamming intothe right field wall in the end zone.Regardle s, Northwestern and the Cubsagreed three years agoto the Wildcats playingfive more football games in the stadium. On Thursday,Northwestern athletic director and mega Cubs fan Jim Phillips he hopes the next such game will be played in November 2017.Admittedly, this writer and mega Northwestern fan was all for the 2010 game, making a special trip to Chicago to take Tennessee Titans Jersey in the ballpark atmosphere off our sleepy Evanston, Ill.,campus. For a school that often doesn't come close tofilling its 47,000-plus seats, it was a treat to gofuller, tighter andfriendlier confines.MORE: Then came the wacky configuration. And then trying to follow a game from outfield seats with the scoring plays going in the other direction. It didn't help that the designated home team (Northwestern) gave up 519 rushing yardsin a 48-27 lo s to the Illini in front of a crowd that would have barely sold out its regular stadium.A little more than amonth later, in NFL Tennessee Titans Jersey December 2010,newYankee Stadium hostedits first of sixPinstripe Bowls and counting. It wasthe first college gamein the Bronx since the Army-Notre Dame series ended in old Yankee Stadium in '69.Fast forward to 2015, where Fenway Park ended a 59-year college football drought to have Notre Dame playa Shamrock Series "home"game against aprogram down the street, Boston College. That was nothing on Wrigley, which went 72 years without college football before the Northwesterngame in 2010.These sacred baseball grounds weren't touched by college footballforso long for a reason: Theyweren't practical places to play college football, especiallywhen there were means to provide other, more appropriately apportioned venues through themultimillion palatial facilities big-time schools enjoy now.It got ridiculous when the Cardinals let regional FCS rivals Southern Illinois and Southeast Mi souri play atBusch Stadium in September,during the most critical time of the 2013 MLBseason. The sparsely attended game came at the cost of a torn-apart turf. It didn't thrillthe Cardinals players to see their gra s destroyed while they were gone.Its something you think about the condition of the field, how its going to play and what a football game would do to that," outfielder Matt Holliday at the time. "And you think about at this point of the season, being Bruce Matthews Jersey in a pennant chase and the timing of it. You dont want anything to keep the field from being at its best.MORE: Now we have the Miami Beach Bowl in Marlins Park. The St. Petersburg Bowl continues to be a thing at Tropicana Field, which would be aesthetically unpleasing for a monster truck rally. Thankfully, the ever name-changing San Francisco bowl game is about to be three years removed from ATT Park. Unfortunately, Chase Field gotback into action for what's now called the Cactus Bowl.There's nothing special about those Florida and Arizona monstrosities. They arehosts out of conveniencebecause their cities needed somewhere to play the bowls.Wrigley, Fenway and Yankee at least offered thenovelty of playing somewhere historic. As a one-time deal, that's fine. When you start doing it over and over, it loses its luster and logistics. Given how much work grounds crews need to do after the grind of a full MLB season, it has to be no fun having their field takeon extra wear in late fall or early winter when, you know, gra s isn't supposed to grow. College football ripping up a differentsurface needs to be seen more like basketball players slipping on condensation not the best look.For the fans, after the "Hey, we're in a ballpark" excitementwears off, it's still just a college football Wesley Woodyard Jersey game, except withno real good seat in the house. On television, after seeing a few cool things like a hand-operated scoreboard or the remnants of ivy, it's the same old viewing experience.We get why the notion exists. It's another way to brand a program, and of course, another way to profit from a program.But why would the Cubs, in position to soon end their World Series drought, want their local college team to me s with their field again, even with alterations that might prevent the one-way debacle of '10? They should want Wrigley to remain in the best po sible condition to regain the glory of their long past, instead of catering to Northwestern's marketing future. From aWildcats' perspective,it shouldbe much LeShaun Sims Jersey preferred to work on filling seats at Ryan Field first.HAYES: The NHL Winter Cla sic and other outdoor hockey gamesstill workbecause, well, ice is a naturally occurring outdoor thing in frigid weather, and everything's bigger than an arena rink. The Volunteers andHokies will be fine because.There's not much appealing, however,about mashing up college football and MLB two sports leaning so much on tradition, or what's left of it.Mauling a fieldmeant for pitch-and-hit with block-and-tackle isa most untraditional combination.The experiment is no longer worth the cutene s, is no longer uniqueand doesn't fit in every which way. Unfortunately, it's here to stay in some way. Let's hope the speedway game does well, because that may be the only way to knock college football out of the ballpark and on to better and at least bigger things.