Word: stadiumitis
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Jerry Jones, Texas billionaire, hands-on owner of the Dallas Cowboys and prime mover behind his team's massive, glittery and very expensive new stadium, can tell you exactly the words he wants people to think when they first get a good look at it: the future...
That sounds about right, because the future may well be what his stadium represents - and not just because it has lots of glass and exposed steel and none of the corny nostalgic touches that baseball parks go in for these days. Jones didn't want a stadium that would just look like the future. He wanted one that would shape it, or at least shape the future of football, a game that for most people is something seen only on television. Jones thinks more of those people should be coming out to games - preferably the ones his team is playing...
...thing is, when you look around the new Cowboys Stadium, with its multitude of private clubs and bars and what you might call its presiding deity (a massive, 600-ton JumboTron hovering 90 ft. above the field), you can't help suspecting that a good part of his vision is to make the stadium experience even more like the home experience - centered on television, food and drink - but bigger. Much, much bigger. So at 3 million sq. ft., the Cowboys' new home in Arlington, Texas, is three times the size of Texas Stadium, where they used to play...
...surprising that "people find an escape in [sport]," says Richard Crepeau, a history professor specializing in sport at the University of Central Florida. It offers the means "to get away from the difficulties of the moment." (See pictures of the last night at the old Yankee Stadium...
Imagine, for a second, that instead of traveling to Holy Cross tomorrow to watch Harvard take on the Crusaders, you were one of over 30,000 fans packing into a maximum-capacity Harvard Stadium as the Crimson kicked off its season against a major-conference team, say, Boston College. It’s a pleasant thought, but the reality is far more complex.Fordham’s decision in June to begin awarding football scholarships starting with this year’s recruiting class piqued the interest of a lot of people in the Ivy League football community. The move...