MSG is the mecca.
Plus the Isles are moving to the Barclays which is nice.
I was at the WV game too, missed Stanford. I guess I try to sit center ice and use work tickets at MSG, so I have never had a bad experience. I can guess they have "obstructed view" seats for the low price of $400. The amount they charge for Knick games given the teams record and Melo being out the last season was rediculous.
It was built for basketball and has a lot of obstructed view seats for hockey. I can't believe the NHL would even allow this, but since it's NY they don't care.
Pheonix internation Speedway. my first and only experience of a live nascar event. parents were in town visiting me and brought me to the race when I was 20. it was HOT (duh its pheonix) but the only place to get water was in the same line for beer and they ran out of beer. I basically passed out from heat stroke trying to buy a bottle of water I was so warm.
Ohio Stadium
When they were the sad losers in the 80s, the bleachers were just a fun place to go watch the game and stretch out a bit as the park was never full. Had a blast there on the 4th - even heard The Victors before the game on the organ.
Mr Rogers you got negged for dissing drinking outdoors - or ANYWHERE! You've been warned
The bleachers can be obnoxious. It's $65 to sit there on a Friday because it's an excuse to leave work a little early and get hammered. The original Bleacher Bums were there because they were cheap shitty seats and now it's more like a cover charge. However, if you sit anywhere else, you'll find excellent, knowledgeable fans. You're close to the field and the players get into the atmosphere. Synopsis: if you're young and willing to spend a LOT to get shitfaced, go to the bleachers. For a great baseball experience (with the Wrigleyville/Lakeview experience afterward), sit in the boxes or reserved seats.
IU's football stadium. It's concrete and ugly and there's no one ever there. Plus the game was delayed two hours because of thunder and the PA guy's voice is incredibly annoying.
OK, I read through this ENTIRE thread, so I guess all the Bay Area Blues are still asleep on a Sunday morning, watching the British Open, or outside... but NOT ONE person thus far has mentioned the late, unlamented Candlestick Park?!
Where legend has it a Giants pitcher was BLOWN OFF the mound attempting a pitch in the '61 All-Star Game...where people actually lost eyes being hit by peanut shells caught up in the frigid swirling dust devils...where this transplanted Michigander had the uneducated foolishness to show up for a mid-week night game in shorts & a T-shirt on his 1st night in his new town those many years ago (Hey, that's what we'd worn to Tiger Stadium just a week or so prior).
And that's just a snapshot of baseball season, the coolest (as in not warm) time of year in SF. In non-drought football seasons the entire parking lot could be submerged by sewage-filled sludge, causing miles long traffic backups of folks trying to park there anyway.
Check out the stories of the poor people who spent the entirety of Paul McCartney's "Farewell to Candlestick" concert stuck in traffic and searching for parking at the incredibly poorly designed, antiquated by 1972, surrounded by a fairly forboding Hood, access & egress roads to the old Stick.
Seriously, after reading this entire post, the only person who even came close to matching the Stick was the 1st poster, with the horror stories of overpriced beer & hillbilly tiddies...
I think the Kingdome was worse.
I went to the Michigan-Ohio State game in Columbus in 1986 (the Harbaugh guarantee game). Only time I've ever been to the horseshoe.
Great game, but as a venue, that place was a dump at the time. And it smelled in the musty old concrete concourses.
Notre Dame Stadium. Took my daughter down there a few years ago, benches were a piece of crap and falling apart. Also, when walking to the stadium, couldn't figure out why EVERYONE tailgating was cooking all kinds of food. Once I got in the stadium I realized why. They basically offered water, pop, peanuts, chips...no real food to speak of. We starved (or fasted) the whole game. For a bunch of high and mighties, I wasn't very impressed.
Indoor arena in St. Louis from 1929 to 1999. Saw the 1978 NCAA men's basketball Final Four and the place was a hole. Not sure how it even got the games. Combined with the crappy fans from Arkansas, ND, Kentucky and Duke. Duke was pre Coach K so they were less obnoxious than the other fans.
If I never hear "Sooie go hogs!" again I'll be a happy man. Never heard as much swearing in an event as from the ND fans.
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Purdue. Under the blaring loudspeaker in the endzone. Unbearable.
Not the worst, but those of you that have yet to go.
1) you may want to bring ear plugs they shot that damn cannon off like every 10 minutes. and MOST importantly
2) DO NOT WAIT until you absolutey have to pee! Their bathrooms are very limited and you will piss your pants.... I hate to say it, but ALL of UofM fans, went in the back way (and got yelled at by the home team fans), because there is no way we could hold it! FYI: look around, found a bathroom right next to said bathroom and there was no wait, yet right around the corner the wait was like 30 minutes.
Had fun and won, but not particularly impressed with Purdue's stadium....
I think Rutgers is remodeling, I sadly was there for the game :(
fleet had the TD called back :(
A guy behind us, in the 1st quarter, left the game to go back to his tailgate....
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And now I hear they're thinking about dropping down a level in football....
that Akron built a replacement stadium on campus (Infocision), so they don't play at the Rubber Bowl anymore.
So with all that debt from a bad football decision, what do they do? Raise fees and tuition, outsource campus dining services, lay off workers, and,
wait for it,
drop the baseball team.
Going down to I-AA might make a bit of sense, but it would probably have even more negatives than slimming down and staying in the MAC.
The answer is easy: Spartan Shitty Somali Stadium.
Anyone who attended the game there the last two years knows what i am talking about.
The gas station next door.
The idiot band that doesn't pick up their feet.
The annoying fight song.
The Mo-Ron mascot.
No bathrooms.
Spartan Bob.
Spartan anyone.
Brady Hoke, Al Borgess and their great offensive line.
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Progressive/Jacobs Field. I'm sure it was great back in the mid-late 90s when the Indians were legit contenders, but every time I've been recently (mom's side of the family is from the area so we usually go to a game or two with them over the summer) it has been a complete bore
Yes the seats were closer to the action (especially the upper deck) but the place was very run down in the 90s. If anyone remembers, when Bo was president of the Tigers he was pushing for a new stadium.