Ballparks in Configuration for Football, Hockey, Boxing, etc.

[HollandsComet]

Perhaps this has been posted here before, maybe not (probably yes). Good footage of the stadium in football config in 1973, the Giants last season in the Bronx.

Love the Ray Scott narration, but they puffed things up a bit here. In spite of the significance of the '58 title game with Baltimore and the powerful Giants teams through the early '60s, people tend to forget that the Giants only played at Yankee Stadium for a relatively short time--16 years--beginning in 1956. They played nearly twice as long at the Polo Grounds from 1925 to 1955 prior to moving to OYS. Still, I love the old NFL Films highlight reels of the post-merger games played at OYS. Too bad not all of the former AFL teams got to play there before the Giants moved out...

[Lpeters199]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1952-4x5-ORI...ht_2155wt_1014

[ericlc129]

The Friendly Confines Lpeters? Nice pics!

[RfkFedEx]

Surprised they left the screen up for football at Wrigley. It would be rather annoying to watch the game through mesh from your corner endzone perch behind home plate.

[WEB]

I'm guessing once the Marlins open in a new park come April that leaves Oakland and San Diego as the only facilities hosting both MLB baseball and NFL football?

[OBomb]

I'm guessing once the Marlins open in a new park come April that leaves Oakland and San Diego as the only facilities hosting both MLB baseball and NFL football?

The Padres don't play at Qualcomm Stadium anymore. Oakland will be the only multipurpose facility in MLB in the United States, while Rogers Centre in Toronto will be the only one in Canada.

[mjrbaseball]

I'm guessing once the Marlins open in a new park come April that leaves Oakland and San Diego as the only facilities hosting both MLB baseball and NFL football?

No, only Oakland - since the Padres moved to Petco.

[Paul W]

Surprised they left the screen up for football at Wrigley. It would be rather annoying to watch the game through mesh from your corner endzone perch behind home plate.

this was common in many mlb parks, nfl tenants were accommodated to minimum levels.
removing and re-erecting home-plate fouls screens was a labor intensive effort and doubt that the football teams
would spring for the cost.

[Paul W]

'75 ny jets video yearbook (not '77) with several interesting angles of shea thru the first minute...

[Lpeters199]

Worth Point picture:

[Lpeters199]

Giants and Jets:

[JOVE23]

I still can't believe freakin Felix Potvin outdueled Belfour.

Were you there for this, JE?

[J.E.Fullerton]

Actually a few days before, game 4, Gary Suter had a hat trick and the hats went a-flying. I had started driving from central NYS at 7pm or so the night before and made it into Chicago sometime the next morning, caught a Sox game in the afternoon and Hockey that night without having gotten any sleep in between. I was dreading a lengthy OT, but Roenick finished it just a minute or so in. A complete stranger hugged me while stumbling out and that roar really and truly was deafening.

So I guess those photos of League were from 98, since I would been in Cleveland while it was still dark in 94, and didn't take pictures that time.

Sorry for the sidetrack!

[Lpeters199]

http://life.time.com/culture/rare-un...d=lf|related#3

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What are those covered areas on the right and left sides of the field? Are those only covered during Bills games? Why do they do that?

Also, in the football configuration, do they roll out extra seats into the end zone on the side opposite the scoreboard (i.e. the side closest to the camera in the second picture), like they used to do at Shea?

And some questions for a Yank tourist like myself (I plan on visiting Rogers Centre next year):

- Has anyone here stayed at the hotels inside the stadium? Assuming I don't plan on actually watching the game from the hotel (which I would not), would it be worth anything to actually get a room there? I'm assuming there's a bit of a premium attached to the room rates in there.

- Failing that, what are other good hotels near the stadium?

[gmtobehere]

If I had to guess, I would say that the covered seats are too low to the field and has a result have poor sight lines, similar to the Rose Bowl.

[PadreHomer]

What's Rogers' capacity for football?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ According to Wikipedia:

- Canadian football: 31,074 (expandable to 52,230)
- American football: 54,000

If I had to guess, I would say that the covered seats are too low to the field and has a result have poor sight lines

They don't cover those same seats for Argos games, do they?

[go_leafs_go02]

^ According to Wikipedia:

- Canadian football: 31,074 (expandable to 52,230)
- American football: 54,000



They don't cover those same seats for Argos games, do they?

They actually do. Apparently the teams, coaches, etc block view of the field. Argonauts (CFL) also do not use the upper deck, and tend to tarp it off with their "wall of fame"

[Chevy114]

Here is a quick google image of what it looks like for CFL

CFL.jpg

[chip]

WOW!
Big crowd

[gmtobehere]

That's a pretty bad design flaw. I mean they only started to cover the close seats at the Rose Bowl up after the renovations that widened the field for soccer.

[Chevy114]

What did other cookie cutters do: have high seats for football views and screwed over baseball or have low seats for baseball views that screwed over football crowds?

[JohnCropp]

I don't think that the low seats at football stadiums became an issue until the team posses grew over the past decade or so.

You can see that it's not all of the lower level seats that are tarped off, but just the lower level seats behind the sidelines.

Note the smaller blocked off area for the CFL Argos than the NFL Bills.

[go_leafs_go02]

That's a pretty bad design flaw. I mean they only started to cover the close seats at the Rose Bowl up after the renovations that widened the field for soccer.

81 games of baseball, or 8 games of football. Who do you try to accommodate more? It's a no brainer. The CFL isn't really big in Toronto anyways, it's more popular in Western Canada than Eastern Canada.