Some may call me weird...

[alpineinc]

Since this thread is revived...Keith Hernandez during a Mets game said the funniest thing I've ever heard about Olympic Stadium..."I feel like I'm sitting inside a toilet"....



Also an interesting link to an "Olympic Stadium disaster timeline" here -

http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2003/0422/1542317.html

[Pere]

I was amazed when I saw the pictures on the Digital Ballparks website showing that the area behind the outfield wall was just empty floor space...

Hmm. Too bad all that space wasn't simply included in the outfield. With all the distance, plus the turf, it would have been a real running game in Montreal.

[stlfan]

Ok, here are two very poor screen captures of the scenes in question. I just took photos of my tv. The first image is the first arial shot I was talking about. I'm not from Baltimore, so I am not sure where in the city this would be located in comparison to the second screen capture. The second shot is the arial view in the movie right before the bomb goes off. In this shot you can clearly see M & T Bank Stadium just on the other side of the highway ramps from Camden Yards. Kind of a movie goof as far as the movie makers go. If you are creating a fictional dome and even goes as far as to digitally create one for a shot, then fix the fact that in another shot you can clearly see an open air football stadium.

[stlfan]

Interesting to note, they showed a brief aerial shot with the Olympic Stadium dome superimposed over where M & T Bank Stadium actually sits.

Actually, they didn't superimpose Olympic Stadium over that site, they digitally created a fictional domed stadium. I believe he says it in the commentary. If you look at that shot, it looks nothing like the exterior or Olympic Stadium.

[PeteU]

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Does anyone remember that this stadium was used in "Sum of All Fears"? It was supposed to be in Baltimore.

Yeah--Montreal doubled for Balmer in that movie. Interesting to note, they showed a brief aerial shot with the Olympic Stadium dome superimposed over where M & T Bank Stadium actually sits.

Tom Clancy is a Maryland native (he actually went to my church!) and he incorporated the Baltimore setting in Sum of All Fears when he wrote the original novel (prior to the Ravens moving to town and an open air stadium being built). I guess the movie makers felt it fit to keep the stadium as a dome....

I saw the Expos play the Cubs and the Dodgers there.

I didn't enjoy being there.

It just didnt feel right.

You just have a dome fobia...

[Astros]

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One thing I have always found interesting about Olympic Stadium is the fact that there are stadium lights along the facade of the upper deck.

Does anyone remember that this stadium was used in "Sum of All Fears"? It was supposed to be in Baltimore.

[Gary Dunaier]

While watching GSN's re-run of The Amazing Race: Season 8 (aka Family Edition), I was surprised to see Olympic Stadium featured on the show.

Teams had to ride on a golf cart to Olympic Stadium and enter it through the one door large enough for them to drive through. From what I could tell, the door was on the right field side. (The show was taped in July 2005, so baseball was no longer being played there; as depicted on Amazing Race, the field was set up for football.) Once there, teams had to search through 56,000 stadium seats for one of three departure times, each leaving five minutes apart the next morning on a charter flight to a mystery destination.

[CrisgoMets]

I can remember there was a phase where it was uncovered and covered. Now its covered completely. I never been to a game there but it just looks like a big flying saucer. Its like that stadium was designed by aliens or inhabited by them. I wanted to see a game there because it just seemed like a rather interesting stadium. I hear the seats were funky.

Sad that the aliens that used to inhabit that place on the field left thier saucer and moved to Washington.

[sturg1dj]

i always wanted to go there since it looked so much different than other stadiums and I never understood why people hated it.


if the roof would have worked and if grass could have been put in it could have been a gem...but oh well

its still better than the Metrodome and Tropicana Field

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

I think that The O would have gotten much better reviews from everyone if the roof had been operational for the length of the stadium's existence. It looks like a pretty good place to watch a game on a sunny afternoon.

[Gary Dunaier]

Here's a photo I found on Flickr.com showing a monster truck rally taking place at Olympic Stadium. The photo was posted by "andrea susann" and was taken on Sat 11-03-07, so it's just a little more than a week old.

[Seattle1]

...But I love olympic stadium.

You're weird!



...just kidding. Thought someonw had to say it since itwas in your thread title, lol.

[sflnyc]

More photos of Olympic Stadium.

First photo is from 4.20.87 against the Phillies on Opening Day (50,482 attendance). Running track behind home plate is still evident.

Second photo is from the 1990's before the retractable roof malfunctioned and was permanently closed. If you look closely, you can see the guy wires that the tarp roof utilized to come down on.

Third photo is from the Closing Ceremonies of the 1976 Olympics. Not baseball of course, but it gives a perspective of the stadium from roughly the same viewpoint of the 1990's picture.

A fascinating technologicial marvel that was before its time (and of course, way over budget). I remember watching games on TV from there in the 1980's wondering, when will the ever finish that tower. I thought then that the tower was just part of the architecture, not the base from where the roof would unfurl.

[l3igrol3]

quoting from Clem's Baseball:

"In addition, (in 1992) a big chunk was carved out of the grandstand in back of home plate and along the foul lines in each corner, so that the diamond and the outfield fences could be moved back by about forty feet. This was done to bring fans closer to the action, but fans right in back of home plate sat 15 feet above the field, like at the Metrodome."