Stadiums I've Been Toby rmpaq5 - 37 cards (Last updated on Mar 15, 2024) |
Inspired by Gunny's List Here are the Places I Have Seen Something Sport Related. Sorted Alphabetically by Sport and then by Geographical Location of Team Name. Tried my Best to Have an Actual Card of the Stadium.
21. 1998 Press Pass #21 Saddi Washington
Read Field House is just down the road from Waldo Stadium. After seeing the football game against Eastern Michigan the PA announced that anyone who had their ticket stub to the football game could use it as an entrance to see the Woman's volleyball game against Ball State. Took advantage. |
22. 1989 Topps #46 Jim Kelly
Rich Stadium (as it was called my first time going there) is "fantastic" for atmosphere. Almost too fantastic. Myself and 3 friends got tickets to a game and made the 4 hour trip from Windsor to Buffalo. None of us were Bills fans, nor Jets fans who they were playing. Near the end of the game one of my friends and I both needed the facilities. In the bathroom some drunk dingbat (this is a family site) started hassling and hit my friend because...his winter coat had green on it. I have been to a couple of more games since then since moving closer to the Buffalo area, and I have seen the same idiocy every time I have been there. |
23. 2010 Upper Deck NCAA Sweet Spot #85 James Starks
The thing I remember most about UB Stadium is how absolutely empty it was. |
24. 1986 Topps Stickers #157 Boomer Esiason
Saw the Bengals play the Colts at Riverfront. Not much to remember about the game except my friends and I left about 4 in the morning from Windsor to make it to Cincinnati for a 1PM kick off. Fondest memory of the trip was buying copious amounts of booze at the duty free that early for the tail gate. |
25. 1996 Pacific Gridiron - Red #41 Barry Sanders
Gargantuan and rarely full, I must have seen close to 20 games at the Silverdome. Favourite place to sit was in the endzone opposite the Jumbo-tron in the upper deck. Besides Lion's games I also saw England play Germany in an international soccer friendly in 1993 as a test run for the 94 World Cup (plus many concerts, including Pink Floyd during their last major tour after the album 'The Division Bell' was released. That was AWESOME!). |
26. 2011 Panini Threads #51 Matthew Stafford
I've seen a small handful of games at Ford Field. Including a face palm beyond belief. Soooo...the Lions are down 7 under two minutes and Joey Harrington (of all quarterbacks) drives the Lions down the field and throws an incredible pass while being sacked to score a touchdown with no time left on the clock. The entire stadium is actually chanting his name (Joey! Joey! Joey!). Then....bad snap and no extra point the Lions lose. About sums up the franchise...that and getting screwed by bad calls in playoff games in deciding moments. |
27. 1988 Vachon CFL #NNO Lee Knight
Not a big CFL fan, but saw the Ti-Cats/Argos play at Ivor Wynne in 1988. My uncle was a huge Ti-Cats fan and invited me along. |
28. 2015 Panini Michigan Wolverines #8 Michigan Stadium
The Big House! Wow, if you have never been in the same building as 100 000 other people at the same time you really can't picture it! Seriously! Michigan beat Boston College at the game I attended. Weirdest moment...the stadium has (at the time) the "Trough" system in the men's rooms. The sinks are also "Trough" (at the time) system. I kinda walked up to the wrong "Trough." |
29. 1990 Score #294 Joel Smeenge
Waldo Stadium on the campus of Western Michigan University was pretty cool! What I thought was weird was that Eastern Michigan showed up in a bus with the players already dressed and just unloaded and took the field for pre-game warmups. I am thinking that does not happen in the SEC. |
30. 1991-92 Pro Set #334 The Modern Arena
Yes I actually saw a few games at The Olympia. I was very young. I remember the concrete seating in the upper deck behind the goals. I also remember the escalators that brought you to the upper deck. probably because one of the times I was there while on the escalators they broke down and the sudden stop sent me tumbling down a few steps. |
Comments
Cool list. I've been to five of these. | ||
That's a bunch of stadiums/arenas! The only one in your list that I've been inside of was the Jake. Jacobs Field in Cleveland (now Progressive Field) was my first in-person MLB game as I watched the Indians lose to the Detriot Tigers 4-3. That game was delayed one day by the remnants of Hurricane Katrina and Ivan Rodriguez hit a 2-run HR late in the game to take a 4-2 lead. Cleveland added a run in the 9th, but it wasn't enough. I did drive by the original Yankee Stadium on the way from Cooperstown to NYC that same year though (2005) and the HBC Center where the Buffalo Sabres play 2 days earlier. I also saw the Bears and Browns NFL stadiums before I got to the game at the Jake. All my other sports venues are MUCH farther south. | ||
Fantastic list! Enjoyed reading your adventures in these places. As you succinctly put it Hamilton is a nightmare to drive through. | ||
Nice. Only have Yankee and Rich Stadiums in common. | ||
I was also at that England/Germany game in 93. Awesome! | ||
If I did a list like this, it would include a lot of hockey road trips. One of them was with a friend going to Buffalo, Hamilton and Binghamton in 1996. I don't remember any problems going into Hamilton, but I wasn't doing the driving. We also checked out Niagara Falls and dropped by the Niagara Falls Arena. The doors were open so we walked in and looked around. |