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Stadiums are big form designs. People design bad stadiums because they try to be "inovative" rather than stick to conservative designs that have worked elsewhere.
Let us review:
DC Stadium (later RFK) : First of the "ashtray" stadiums that featured the lower seating section moving to form a shape acceptable for both baseball and football. Costs of moving the stands cost $50K per trip in 1960s money. Later versions had stands that could move for less than $4K.
Aloha Stadium: Entire stadium moved to form a football, baseball, or concert shape. Building was thus made of very lightweight materials, and has now rotted to the point that the place will have to be replaced within the next 10 years, despite being less than 35 years old. Permanently locked in football shape, due to fear it will get stuck in another.
Olympic Stadium, Montreal: The worst archetectual malpractice in sports history. Removable roof not finished for years and three versions of it never worked, now just permanently closed. Roof panels fell to the field. Currently too big for anything in the town, other than CFL playoffs (and that may change as the regular season stadium is expanded) and unusuable in winter due to roof colapse fears.
New Comisky Park: Described as "the last bad ballpark". Field at street level, making the nosebleed sections miles from the field. Renovated 9 times to mask problems. Still far from acceptable.
HHH Dome: The first, and hopefully only, stadium designed to be a football stadium that can also host baseball, rather than v-v (Dolphin Stadium was never designed for baseball at all). Leading to the heftybag wall. A dump.
Minute Maid Park: Designed to be too cute by half. Pointless weird dimentions and wall height varriances, the "grassy knoll", flagpole in play, and other stupidity that make it the only place where instant replay is needed.
Candlestick Park: A study commissioned by a newspaper for less than $500 and done by an assistant professor at a small college showed that if the place had been built 250 yards away, it would have had ordinary weather, rather than getting wind from the "gap" in the mountains. Enclosed to accomodate football, this ended the bay view and made the wind swirl.
Texas Stadium: The reason for the hole in the roof was that as they were building it, they discovered that their math was off and the roof could not support itself. This made the place a home for mold and mildew and cost millions in extra cleanup costs.
Memorial Stadium (Nebraska football): 80K seats, with less than 25K between the 20s, the worst such statistic in the sport. Just a result of haphazard expansion over the years.
Silverdome: Aside from being 1000 miles from town, the air supported roof meant that there was a 30 MPH outdraft when the door were open, and it fell in under the snow weight.
Edwards Stadium (Marshall football): Built below the water level and thus a water catch basin in a heavy rain (same defect as Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh), this precludes a natural grass field. And a whopping 3 yards between the end of the end zone and the wall, which resulted in a massive injury to a Houston player who ran into a band cart placed there.
Let us review:
DC Stadium (later RFK) : First of the "ashtray" stadiums that featured the lower seating section moving to form a shape acceptable for both baseball and football. Costs of moving the stands cost $50K per trip in 1960s money. Later versions had stands that could move for less than $4K.
Aloha Stadium: Entire stadium moved to form a football, baseball, or concert shape. Building was thus made of very lightweight materials, and has now rotted to the point that the place will have to be replaced within the next 10 years, despite being less than 35 years old. Permanently locked in football shape, due to fear it will get stuck in another.
Olympic Stadium, Montreal: The worst archetectual malpractice in sports history. Removable roof not finished for years and three versions of it never worked, now just permanently closed. Roof panels fell to the field. Currently too big for anything in the town, other than CFL playoffs (and that may change as the regular season stadium is expanded) and unusuable in winter due to roof colapse fears.
New Comisky Park: Described as "the last bad ballpark". Field at street level, making the nosebleed sections miles from the field. Renovated 9 times to mask problems. Still far from acceptable.
HHH Dome: The first, and hopefully only, stadium designed to be a football stadium that can also host baseball, rather than v-v (Dolphin Stadium was never designed for baseball at all). Leading to the heftybag wall. A dump.
Minute Maid Park: Designed to be too cute by half. Pointless weird dimentions and wall height varriances, the "grassy knoll", flagpole in play, and other stupidity that make it the only place where instant replay is needed.
Candlestick Park: A study commissioned by a newspaper for less than $500 and done by an assistant professor at a small college showed that if the place had been built 250 yards away, it would have had ordinary weather, rather than getting wind from the "gap" in the mountains. Enclosed to accomodate football, this ended the bay view and made the wind swirl.
Texas Stadium: The reason for the hole in the roof was that as they were building it, they discovered that their math was off and the roof could not support itself. This made the place a home for mold and mildew and cost millions in extra cleanup costs.
Memorial Stadium (Nebraska football): 80K seats, with less than 25K between the 20s, the worst such statistic in the sport. Just a result of haphazard expansion over the years.
Silverdome: Aside from being 1000 miles from town, the air supported roof meant that there was a 30 MPH outdraft when the door were open, and it fell in under the snow weight.
Edwards Stadium (Marshall football): Built below the water level and thus a water catch basin in a heavy rain (same defect as Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh), this precludes a natural grass field. And a whopping 3 yards between the end of the end zone and the wall, which resulted in a massive injury to a Houston player who ran into a band cart placed there.
When the Louisiana Superdome was built everyone raved over the 6-sided video replay screen (state of the art at the time) hanging over the center of the field. At the 1976 Pro Bowl a Ray Guy punt hit the thing causing officials to eventually raise it from 90 feet to 200 feet. Today it's gone.
Highly unlikely that the Al's will stay in Percival Molson Stadium all year.
Molson holds about 20K and Olympic can hold 60K+...The Al's like to have the playoff games and one regular season game at the Big O to get more fans there.
actually the hefty bag wasn't put in until 84 if I remember correctly
But the dome is done after this year so no worries from this Twins fan
