Not that the crane's enormous steel arm is likely to block a punt or a field goal attempt if left unchecked. 'You have two choices: you either have to secure it, or you put an operator in it and he just sits up in the crane the whole game and makes sure that at no point would it ever blow and be over the field of play, and that's what Missouri chose to do.'Дuring most weekdays, the crane is integral to the assembly of a structure that by fall 2019 will serve as the Tigers' football headquarters - featuring updated locker spaces, athletic training facilities and a weight room tucked underneath a variety of premium seating options. But you can't let it do that on game day,' says Scott Radecic, founder and senior principal at Populous, the sports architecture firm behind the in-progress $99 million overhaul of the stadium's south end zone. 'Normally, whenever they close down the job site at the end of a day, the crane is like a big weather vane. As the Tigers and their opponents toil on Faurot Field, a giant boom looming beyond the stadium's south end zone has required someone to sit at the controls every home Saturday and keep it still. Among the parking attendants, ticket scanners, concessions workers and security professionals working Memorial Stadium at the University of Missouri this fall, one individual holds an atypical football game-day job title: crane operator.

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