There are a few that I've been to over the years that I would put on a list - Candlestick Park was a souless concrete nightmare, for example - but one that stands out when I think about this is Exhibition Stadium (actually saw a couple games here growing up), where the Blue Jays played for the first 12-13 years of their existence. Great for the Argonauts, shitty for baseball. In the summer, the searing turf and the constant threat of strafing runs from Lake Ontario's seagulls made it unbearable. The "center field seats" were, at their most distant some 800 feet from home plate and aside from watching a home run roll all the way to the north end zone sometimes, it had nothing going for it.
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Ross-Ade Stadium: There for the Shazor hit game. I thought everything about Purdue was substandard.
Oakland-Alameda County Stadium: It has a new name now, but horrible for baseball. You sit too far away and it is all cement.
Progressive Field: Very dated.
Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium
Places I like that many don't like:
ND Stadium
Tropicana Field
Went there for the Buffalo - Baylor game last fall. It's still got a track there. The sideline stands are decent enough but the endzone bleachers are literally just huge metal bleachers no one sits in. Obvioust that Buffalo just added those so they could have the stadium capacity for D1 football. It's D1 football in name only
By which measure the new place is paradise. Of course I've only been there for two games, a pre-season game that the Browns blew after I left (I think the Brabbs UW game was the next day and we were en route to Ann Arbor) and a Thanksgiving weekend game vs the Bengals where it was 70 degrees (yay) and the Browns lost to the Bengals 30-0 (boo).
i was thinking the same thng. The old stadium had those poles everywhere that seemed to be in the way for most every play. The old stadium had character though, i'll give it that. The new one always seemed nice to me, but keep in mind, these are the only two NFL stadiums I've ever been to. The last game I went to was the one with Tim Couh crying afterward because he felt the crowd was cheering after he got hurt.
Yes. I have gone a few times when Michigan played them. It is very odd to have one of the endzones not closed and standing room only.
to the curling rink!
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Back in the day, once a season, the GB Packers would play a "home" game at Milwaukee County Stadium - home of the Braves and later, the Brewers. (It filled a league loophole that prevented Milwaukee from getting an NFL team.)
Not a single good view of any part of the field from any seat in the entire stadium. Okay place to see a baseball game though.
I went to 4 of the 5 professional rugby teams' stadiums in South Africa this year. Newlands Stadium in Cape Town is supposed to be a great historic venue, but the place was ancient and poorly designed (though a cool setting). The sad thing is that the beautiful new stadium that was built for the World Cup is sitting vacant just across town.
The experience was made worse based on the outcome, sure, but even ignoring the actual game it was pretty bad. Our seats were near the top of the upper level, so it was like watching a game from the top of a skyscraper. They had one tiny, grainy scoreboard that just played fast food ads and clips from 300 over and over. And the flying trash. Oh, the flying trash. It was everywhere. Pretty sure the place is actually supposed to be a wind tunnel, and they just happen to have football games there once in a while.
The Carrier Dome (Michigan at Syracuse in 1999) or Memorial Stadium (Michigan at Illinois 2009) - those stadia are the worst (and I've been to RFK probably 100 times).
Cowboy Stadium. Spent $175 to sit so far from the field that I could barely read the numbers. Not to mention the Bama biaaatch that kept putting her pom pom in my face every time they scored. Everyone around me basically spent money to watch the game on the big screen. I'll never go to a game there again.
in November--at least if you are stuck in the endzone with the open floor, high school stands.
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thank god for safeco.
We won the National Championship there.
It will be forever beautiful to me.
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It has since been torn down, but the old Gator Bowl in Jacksonville was a dump. I went to the 1979 game where Lawrence Taylor took out John Wangler's knee and UNC won 17-15.
I was in college and drove to that game. I thought the score was worse, don't remember the stadium. Didn't LT do the leg twist on Wangler after the tackle?
Toledo Sports Arena. That place was small and no room to move around.
Indiana football-The stadium was not bad but the traffic getting in and out was bad. After the game we sat in our spot for an hour and a half. There is one road in, one road out.
It was full of Notre Dame fans. Yuck!
Raptors used the same type of set up at the Skydome before the Air Canada Center was built.
which surprisingly sucks a good bit. For how good a basketball school they usually are, you'd think they'd build themselves an actual arena sometime instead of playing in that concrete pit with an inflatable roof
The PIstons had a huge home-court advantage with the Silverdome The fans just loaded that place up and the noise was unreal.
In old Tiger Stadium, the upper deck tickets were better for watching football and when the Lions moved to the Silverdome, many season ticket holders bought in the upper deck thinking it would be the same there. My father knew the ticket manager for the Lions pretty well and he told him that the lower deck was raised above the field. My dad got seats on the 25 yard line about 20 rows up. They were fantastic seats for watching football. I was always stunned by how close to the action I was whenever I went to a game. I have a lot of good memories of watching Barry Sanders and Herman Moore with my Dad.