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[redbuck]

Thanks for starting this forum.

I guess to start off and guage interest in this area, I'll pose a few questions:

Favorite NFL stadium?

Least favorite NFL stadium?

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium?

Best tailgating experience you've had?

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?

[Snake]

Favorite NFL stadium? Hmm...I think just for the sheer history, and the enormous homefield advantage it generates during the playoffs..The Frozen Tundra, Lambeau Field

Least favorite NFL stadium? Arrowhead Stadium, hey I am a Raiders fan, what did you expect?

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Is this a trick question? Notre Dame Stadium, the mecca of any upstanding Irish boy who happens to love football. A close second to me may seem weird as I am no Tennessee fan, but seeing a game at Neyland Stadium is very impressive. A huge crowd wearing nothing but Orange screaming out "Rocky Top"...does it get any better than that?

Best tailgating experience you've had? As an original Upstate New Yorker, I still get together with friends once a year and go to a Bills game. Those tailgating adventures are the stuff of legends, lol.

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad? Bad

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska? Going with Nebraska, in a close one.

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium? Hmm...2 very good stadiums. To me, The Big House edges out The Horseshoe by a very small margin.

[tdk1984]

Favorite NFL stadium? Metrodome (only one I've ever been to, plus I'm a Vikes fan- although I really dislike domes)

Least favorite NFL stadium? Lambeau (I hate the Pack, and can't pick on Sun Devil anymore)

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Notre Dame (I'm a diehard ND fan and worship Knute Rockne who designed the entire stadium though he only got to coach there for one year prior to his untimely death in that plane crash in March of '31 and it's been renovated since), but if you want conference...I'd have to agree with Snake and take Neyland (at least the Vols aren't an arch-rival of ND)

Best tailgating experience you've had? Sad to say I've never been tailgating

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad? Bad

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska? PSU

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium? Ohio. No self-respecting ND fan can ever say anything good about Michigan Stadium.

[boomer]

Thanks for starting this forum.

I guess to start off and guage interest in this area, I'll pose a few questions:

Favorite NFL stadium?

Least favorite NFL stadium?

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium?

Best tailgating experience you've had?

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?

Favorite NFL Stadium? Arrowhead

Least Favorite? The Ed Dome in St. Louis, an ugly, dark warehouse

Favorite college stadium? Notre dame

Best Tailgating? Arrowhead

Soldier Field Renovations? They suck, but it beats having an ugly dome in the 'burbs.

Ohio or Michigan? I'd go w/OSU, 106K is too many people.

[ATLFalcons]

Favorite NFL stadium? Lambeau Field

Least favorite NFL stadium? Dolphins Stadium

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Lane Stadium

Best tailgating experience you've had? Never been

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad? Bad

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska? Nebraska

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium? Michigan

[brady_branch]

Favorite NFL stadium? Lambeau Field

Least favorite NFL stadium? The Coliseum in Oakland (unless there's no more baseball diamond showing around the 20-yard line)

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Notre Dame

Best tailgating experience you've had? Never been

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Thanks for starting this forum.

I guess to start off and guage interest in this area, I'll pose a few questions:

Favorite NFL stadium?

Least favorite NFL stadium?

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium?

Best tailgating experience you've had?

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?

Favorite NFL stadium: None

Least favorite NFL stadium: St. Louis

Favorite college stadium: Jordan-Hare

Best tailgating experience: Never been

Soldier Field renovations-good or bad: Horrible!:mad:

Stranger looking stadium: Nebraska, Ohio State

OswaldTheOsprey:D

[RedSoxVT92]

Favorite NFL stadium? Gillette Stadium :D

Least favorite NFL stadium? Edward Jones Dome

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Notre dame

Best tailgating experience you've had? Never Been

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad? Bad

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska? Penn State

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium? Michigan

[efin98]

Thanks for starting this forum.

I guess to start off and guage interest in this area, I'll pose a few questions:

Favorite NFL stadium?

Gillette Stadium- can't beat the local themed additions to the exterior.

Least favorite NFL stadium?

McAfee Colliseum- Mt. Davis just doesn't look right.

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium?

Harvard Stadium, home of the Harvard Crimsom.

Best tailgating experience you've had?

Never been, closest would be missing the start of a BC vs. Rutgers game due to not being able to find a parking spot(was in a passenger van)...

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?

Good in that it keeps football going there, bad that it overshaddows the old structure...

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?

Nebraska. Sometimes adding onto the same level is not as good as adding on a new level...just doesn't look right.

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?

Michigan Stadium- can't beat the bowl.

[Giants/Jets Legend]

Favorite NFL stadium?

That's a tough one. It has to be Lambeu Field. it has that football essence to it. (Of corse, looking at the new Arizona stadium, I think we may have a new winner).

Least favorite NFL stadium?

I'm not too excited about Reliant Stadium in Houston

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium?

The only college stadium I know of is that dome thing in Syracuse. Oh and there's the Memorial Coliseum in LA.

Best tailgating experience you've had?

Skip

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?

Renovations are always good. We need to renovate Giants stadium.

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?

Skip

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?

I'm sorry. I know as much about college football as I do about astro physics.

[redbuck]

Ohio or Michigan? I'd go w/OSU, 106K is too many people.[/QUOTE]

Well, Ohio State averaged 105,000+ last year and Michigan around 110, so I think you're in bad shape with both of them.

[redbuck]

Based on these results I think a little education on Ohio Stadium and Michigan Stadium is in order. This isn't because I personally feel Ohio Stadium's history, comfort, noise production, architecture and revolutionary features are superior (I do) but because of comments like the one above that "you can't beat the bowl."

In fact, Michigan Stadium opened in 1927, a near copy of the historic Yale Bowl, slightly altered to have straight sides, something that puzzles me as it reduces the quality of sightlines, although it does move seats near midfield closer to the field, important in a large bowl where the back rows can be several hundred yards from the field.

Ohio Stadium (1922) was originally also supposed to be a bowl, but designer Howard Dwight Smith opted instead to double deck the seats to prevent the back rows from being so far from the field.

1921 through 1923 were big years for college football stadia.

In 1921 60,000 seat Stanford Stadium was built, a unique stadium built with one open corner to allow for the popular 220-yard track race to be ran down a straight line. The same issue caused Ohio State to build one of the most revolutionary stadiums in history.

The Buckeyes' Horseshoe was revolutionary in many respects. It was built of concrete, the first successful implementation of this new material in a college football stadium. It was built on the flood plane of the Olentangy River and use of a revolutionary slurry wall was necessary to keep the water out – the classic excavation technique was not possible in Columbus. The stadium was horseshoe shaped, the first three sided stadium to round its sides. And because the stadium was to have 66,000 seats it was double decked to avoid bad sightlines like appear at the Yale Bowl. This was the first time that was done at a college football stadium. Designers lived by the idea that it was best to go as big as possible (despite university outcry) without losing fan comfort.

Ohio Stadium included ramps, double columns to hold the upper deck which allowed for half the number of columns and thus created better sightlines. It also was the first to have arches with entrances all the way around the outside of the stadium. The north towers are designed based on the Rotunda of the Pantheon in Rome. It is truly a remarkable stadium and unlike so many others has had only minor renovations since its opening, all to improve fan comfort more than adding seats although current capacity has been raised to over 102,000. In 2002 it was voted the most modern stadium in the Big Ten, on its 80th birthday.

In 1927 another famous stadium opened in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan Stadium was another revolutionary stadium. Only 16 rows sit above ground level of a 100,000+ seat stadium. It goes deeply underground to avoid sinking into the ground where a spring once stood causing the ground to be like quicksand. In fact a crane sunk into the dirt during construction and remains there even now. The stadium is unique for having the first electronic scoreboards in football, tunnels at midfield and all seats part of the same squared bowl. Outcry over recent renovations has been much over the loss of the communal spirit of everyone being in the same type of seat.

Michigan Stadium is the nation's largest but is now undergoing renovations that will allow it to retain that title but at the same time improve on the facilities and concourses it has lacked for so many years. Plans are wide-ranging and include simply adding more rows to the already large bowl with many seats as many as 300 or 400 feet from the playing field, or adding small upper decks to the ends of the stadium.

[redbuck]

Another puzzler is the plethora of responses of Lambeau Field to favorite NFL stadium. It certainly is a historic venue, and its recent renovations have added to the stadium's allure, but I guess we see the same phenomenon as in baseball stadia - for some reason people like the old ones the best because they are old. I'm not saying Lambeau's not a great stadium - it certainly is - but as a fan who mght attend all 10 home games, I would prefer a more comfortable stadium with better sightlines that still is an intimidating venue.

[Argonaut Fan]

For some massive shots of PSU's Beaver Stadium, check out this site. Great pictures!

Penn State Media Archive -> Beaver Stadium (http://imagearchive.psu.edu/displayimage.php?album=topn&cat=0&pos=0)

I like this stadium. It just looks really cool. It's a cool design. I like it much better than Nebraska's.

[Seattle1]

Favorite NFL stadium? Qwest Field

Least favorite NFL stadium? Pick any one of the domes.

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Husky Stadium

Best tailgating experience you've had? Michigan (free beer for breakfast!)

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad? Both, made some improvements, but also sanitized and lost some tradition, imo. At least they kept the grass field.

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska? Neither strike me as particularly "strange" I guess.

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium? Michigan

[Seattle1]

I would prefer a more comfortable stadium with better sightlines that still is an intimidating venue.


You've just described Qwest Field! ;)

:applaud:

[Seattle1]

Harvard Stadium, home of the Harvard Crimsom.


Good choice.....

[Altitude]

Favorite NFL stadium? Invesco Field

Least favorite NFL stadium? Qualcomm Stadium

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium? Rose Bowl

Best tailgating experience you've had? Tailgating for a UCLA game on a golf course in Pasadena before a game at the Rose Bowl.

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad? Good, at least Bears fans kept Soldier Field, unlike what happened with Mile High Stadium.

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska? Nebraska

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium? The Horseshoe

[Chevy114]

Favorite NFL stadium?
Qwest is so cool, because it looks so revolutionary. Im shocked an american football stadium took so many risks! Lucas oil should be nice too when it opens.

Least favorite NFL stadium?
Oakland, serious it was a horrible decision for both baseball and football purposes! I still look down at al davis for that stupid decision!

Favorite college (major conferences) stadium?
Im byist so florida state. Auburn was nice, so was ole miss and tenn, but fsu has the size and beauty for me!

Best tailgating experience you've had?
I met JD Drew at an fsu tailgate.

Soldier Field renovations - good or bad?
Looks stupid on the outside, but is amazing on the inside! great job with the angles and seats!

What's a stranger looking stadium - Penn State or Nebraska?
Penn State

Ohio Stadium or Michigan Stadium?
I hate the overrrated big 10, but Ohio is louder.

[jslone]

Favorite pro stadium:RFK,it was small loud crazy and rocking,especially when the boys came to town.
Least favorite:Fedex Field,yes I have tickets,but were we are the sun is on you all game and your too damned hot,too big and traffic sucks
Best College Stadium;Byrd Stadium,only college one I have been to.
Best Tailgaiting experience;Fedex,yeah its too big,bt all those people grilling,need I say more.
Sorry but for the others,I dont see much of the teams,but I liked the old Soldier field.