NFL pisses me off with stuff like this

[Guest imajackoff?]

It's a shame that they tore down Memorial Stadium, because every time I passed it, it would evoke a lot of historical images. I would see it looking abandoned and desolate and think, "that's a place that has a lot of history." It seemed like a cozy stadium, if that makes any sense. I would love to have gone to a game there.

The stadium itself was a dump. The memories that the stadium evoked is what made it special.

[Guest DrTom]

It seemed like a cozy stadium, if that makes any sense. I would love to have gone to a game there.

I'm not sure if Memorial Stadium was the "dump" my fellow Baltimorean accused it of being, but it was definitely a "cozy" ballpark. It was a GREAT place to see a football game, and a decent enough place to watch a baseball game. The atmosphere of the Colts games was huge, too -- even when the glory days of the team had passed, the crowd could still get way into things, and Section 34 still ruled.

[Guest imajackoff?]

I'm not sure if Memorial Stadium was the "dump" my fellow Baltimorean accused it of being, but it was definitely a "cozy" ballpark.  

Tom, I just remember those metal bleacher seats being so unbelieveably cold during football season and at the nite games late in the baseball season. I also remember traffic being a bitch because the stadium was in Waverly. With public transportation being non existant compared to similar locales like Boston and Chicago, such a little part of town couldnt handle regular stadium traffic. And lets not even mention the lines at the bathrooms!!

[Guest DrTom]

Cold seats are part of going to a football game. Sure, rows of metal don't exactly help with the heat, but any seat's going to get cold when it'd exposed to 20-degree weather for weeks at a time.

 

By the time I was eight, I knew about a dozen different ways to get away from Memorial Stadium, and most of them involved minimal traffic. Once you were off the parking lot (which was a nightmare, with the rows of parked cars that could leave you blocked in for hours), you were home free.

 

If I wanted to take this bus from where I lived in Baltimore, I walked four blocks, took two buses, and I was there. It took 20-30 minutes and cost about $2.40. MEmorial Stadium was a breeze to get to. I like both of the downtown parks better, but the atmosphere is SO much different (especially at Oriole Park) that it almost feels like I'm in a different city.