Friday, May 27, 2011

The Meadowlands 12/7/2008

Taken before the Philadelphia Eagles- New York Giants game on Pearl Harbor day 2008. Very cramped seating and 30 mile an hour winds made this for a fun day of football! Lots of history in this place though..former of of the New Jersey Generals of the late great USFL!

Soldier Field 2008

I have too much fun in this town! The old Saturday Night Live characters do seem to populate the lakefront during a Bears game..This is from the Minnesota Vikings- Chicago Bears shootout game in 2008.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Cambria County Arena 12/31/2009

This is the former home of the East Coast Hockey Leagues Johnstown Chiefs, it also was the home to the Charleston Chiefs from the movie "Slap Shot". I only went to one game here but I think this was probably my most favorite place to see a hockey game. The visiting teams had to come through the fans in order to reach the locker room, they would pull out an expandable fence and stop fans from moving around. It will be missed as a Hockey venue..

Last Sixers Game at the Spectrum 3/13/2009

Another place I loved to see a game at was the late great Philadelphia Spectrum, it was cramped, had some of the most non existent concourse space ever designed but the place had a soul..not the arena football team but a sense of being lacking in the newer arenas. Funky seats that were added over the years that were entirely behind support columns. It was still a viable arena but Ed Snider decided that there was just not enough money flowing in so they killed the place, the whole time trying to sell every single part of the place. Of course I have a piece of the court from the last Sixers game played there against the Chicago Bulls. God bless the Spectrum indeed!

RFK Stadium 2007

The first time I was here I went to a Washington Federals game..it was 1983 and the USFL had just started play. We saw the Federals lose to the Boston Breakers, I think there was maybe 5,000 people on a rainy May afternoon. It started a long time affection for this crazy old place. I used to love seeing The Greatful Dead play here, it just seemed right.