I'm sure the game in question influences my feelings - the 2002 Citrus Bowl vs Tennessee.
But the stadium was a dump...lots of dirty concrete and I-beams on the outside, ugly ramps and cheap-looking concession stands. Like a really big high school stadium before they started spending big money on them. The seating area was okay but my first impression was hard to shake.
It was a football version of Tiger Stadium circa late 1990s, albeit in a slightly better neighborhood.
UM/IU hoops at Assembly Hall. Lower bowl tickets, under the overhang, made it impossible to see the scoreboard or, honestly, anything above the rim. Plus, the IU faithful are a pretty "interesting" bunch.
The only answer here is Spartan Stadium.
"But the new scoreboards!" - Every spartan fan
Biggest dump anyone has ever tried to tell me was actually an athletic facility. We need to start whipping them again before they win for enough years to be able to afford nice things.
Candlestick. It was murder to get to the stadium, and for football there were many odd angles. I get that land is scarce in an around SF. But it would be a challenge to build a less inspiring stadium anywhere on the penninsula, which have some of the most breath-taking views in the U.S.
Levi Field is a tremendous upgrade qua the stadium itself, but the logistics are no better. It is lost in a maze of corporate industrial parks that make Southfield look quaint.
Old Tiger Stadium, Summer of 1977, Center Field Bleachers, $2 to get in, $1.00 large beers, hundreds of Homeless bums throwing up and throwing beer at Ron Leflore. Wrigley Field, April 1, 1973, skipped school to go to Opening Day with HS Buds, 25 degrees, 20 foot snow drifts outside Stadium, 30 Mph winds, Cubs as usual sucked but at least they served us beer and did not ask for ID.
My dad sometimes gets nostalgic for those days at TIger Stadium. Those were lean times, but Trammel and Whitaker were called up in September of '77. And Parish and Morris were on the roster. That was a deep porch, straight away center at Tiger Stadium.
Legion Field in Birmingham. Hasn't been touched in decades and it shows.
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