OT: Worst sporting venues?

Most stadia are, by virtue of being places large crowds gather to watch sports, pretty awesome. Even a relatively lousy venue is way, way better than none at all, in the same way that a run-down Saturn Ion with cosmetic body damage is vastly superior to no car at all. That said some are more impressive than others. Spartan Stadium, as mentioned, is a pretty dull place for college football. The views are ok and all, but it lacks character and it lacks comfort. One place worth mentioning must be taken out of context to be understood: the Rose Bowl. As an event, bordered by the San Gabriel Mountains in the New Year's Day twilight, the Rose Bowl is spectacular. But as an actual, physical facility, it's kind of a dump. It needs to be renovated in a bad way. The concourses are startlingly narrow, the restrooms woefully inadequate, the seat angles desperately shallow. I treasure my memories do the game I attended there, but let's not pretend everything about the building is magical. The physically dumpiest venue I ever attended was Windsor Arena back when the Spitfires played there, but that place had charm and character bursting out of its seams, and was downright menacing for playoff games. In contrast, newer places like the Hershey Center in Mississauga are soulless, fanless mausoleums that appear to exist only to prove that even GTA Canadians can be indifferent to hockey. Special bad seat notations: the outfield bleachers at Dodger Stadium and the ultra-shallow end zone bleachers at Nebraska's Memorial Stadium are lousy places to watch their respective sports in otherwise adequate facilities.

Just shitty all around and their fans treat you like shit there

The Metrodome sucked really bad for the Twins. Terrible place to watch baseball. Target Field, however, is probably a top 3 stadium in baseball now.

 

Not a fan of the Georgia Dome either.

worst place I've ever been to a game or concert.  Was built as an all purpose arena and it sucks equally at everything.  Has the atmosphere of a funeral home, the baseline seats are 20 yeards away from the court and lower level corner seats are effectively blocked from seeing anything but the backboard.  There's never any need to sit in the upper level because the lower is never full.

For concerts the acoustics blow!  The echo of the lower tones creates a giant bowl of mush.  You cannot make out a single word the singer is singing.

A distant second would the the old Vet in Philly.

Tropicana Field. That place is an insult to baseball. Should've been demolished years ago.

Good god, you could put any sport in that place and kill most of the fun of it.  Sterile, cavernous, ugly.  I don't live in Houston anymore, but thankfully it's just an empty relic now.  I've been to a couple of games in Reliant and it's a huge improvement, although they bring the roof out totally unecessarily, no matter the weather.  Houstonians are terrified of seeing the sky, apparently.

The Carrier Dome (Syracuse) is hell on earth.  I went there for the U-M game 15 years ago or so, and it just sucked.  Thank God we won.  Concrete domed beer-stank shit-stain on our earth.

Penn States Gameday atmosphere is awsome. But the actual stadium itself is load of crap. A bunch of pipes and bleachers. Nothing else.

Home of the Tampa Bay Rays. Awful stadium in a bad location.

The Vet sucked. Three rivers was awful. Shea stadium was turrible. They're all gone now.

The field there has(or had) a giant crown in the middle of the field that ran end zone to end zone.

To date myself Steve Mariucci beat my team that day. 

Was the crown for the snow?  I have no idea, but it was the only field I saw like that in 10 years of football. 

Go Romulus Eagles

Go Saginaw Valley State 

 

Nassau Coliseum is a travesty.

atmosphere out of the picture, the Rose Bowl isn't all that great of a venue.  Low angles, long way from the field.

 

Before the redue of lowering the field and adding seats, Ohio Stadium wasn't all that fantastic either.  B Deck is a travesty.

 

 

In the 80's the place was a pit and unless it was the Seminoles or Gators visiting there were about 25k in the stands. Biggest bunch of fair weather fans eva. 

I attended the Miami blowout of Notre Dame in Gerry Faust's last game at ND. Miami romped 58-7. Prior to the game I stopped to buy a kabob from a street vendor with a hibachi. At the point where I finished the transaction I noticed that his bbq brush had paint stains on the handle. No single purpose tools in his kitchen! Miam is a wretched place all around.

places i got to play - yost #1 (of course), the old olympia, both of NMU's ice rinks, lake view and the new olympic sheet they put in, and lastly munn, which had great ice.

for football, my favorite place was qualcomm, giants stadium which had the nicest piece of artificial turf i ever played on, followed by the LA coliseum which itself was in a gangster infested crud hole for which i was with my armed body guard/investigators who had my back, but the stadium itself is pretty cool. 

Nuff said. Just the worst.

good for football but baseball it was just ok