11/8/10 Monday Night Football Steelers @ Bengals

Sometimes people think I am a bit crazy..I drove seven hours from Richmond Virginia to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, took a five hour nap then drove five hours to Cincinnati for this game. If you know what traffic is like in the Queen City then you realize I spent two hours to drive the last 40 miles! The Bengals managed to blow the game late..

After the game I drove back to Pittsburgh took a 4 hour nap and headed back to Richmond, arriving home around 8 pm on Tuesday. Total driving time of almost 20 hours in a two day stretch just for a 4 hour Football game.. that's how I love spending my days off!

Old Yankee Stadium

I do not really endorse the New York Yankees in any way but I really wish I would have seen a game at the original version of this park, I saw two games at the remodeled park. 20 years apart but I was there, the first trip was September 10ht 1988 and it was completely unplanned. Just started driving north on a Friday night and ended up at the stadium Saturday morning. Of course now the 9/10 date sort of weirds me out a bit..Saw the Yankees and the Tigers play that day, Yankees win 5-3. The second trip was September 14 2008, a planned visit this time. I had never been to Shea Stadium and since both parks were closing, we did a Mets game on Saturday and a Yankees game on Sunday. I always feel a little twing of sadness when Ballparks close down, why I don't know but I think it relates to some of the events that are associated with each park. For me Yankee Stadium always makes me thing of Lou Gehrig..always has, even as a kid in the 1970s he was the Yankees. So I thought of his life when they tore down this park, it wasn't the same place he played in but you really could feel the ghosts there. It was a bit of a dump but a dump I whish was still around..

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.

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.