OT: Doesn't smell like teen spirit

by NorCalRangersFan on Jul 15, 2008 2:25 PM CDT

Up here in the SF Bay Area, John Madden (yes, that John Madden) has a radio bit every morning on KCBS (740 AM), an all-news station. Its a pretty free-form 5-10 minutes where they chat about many topics, but mostly sports or food. When its not football season, they sometimes get into some pretty strange subjects.

So, this morning, they progressed from the All Star Game to the fact that this was the last year for Yankees Stadium. On many previous occasions, Madden has talked fondly about the smells and the dripping ooze that you find in the bowels of the old stadiums like Yankees Stadium and Fenway park, and that is, of course, where the conversation ended up again: stinky stadiums. At this point, the KCBS sports reporter popped in and said that the smelliest stadium he's ever been in, including Yankees Stadium and Fenway Park, is... The Ballpark in Arlington!

Now, having grown up in Washington DC and now living in the SF Bay Area, I have never been to any of these stadiums, but I was wondering if that could be true. Does TBIA smell? I find it hard to believe since its a fairly new stadium. When I eventually get to see a game at TBIA, should I stay away from the "bowels of the stadium"?

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Maybe

he thinks the smell of that footlong chili cheese dog stinks compared to the Turducken.

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by aggierangerfan00 on Jul 15, 2008 2:28 PM CDT 0 recs

I smell nothing

But greatness when I am there.

by SaltyGoesYard on Jul 15, 2008 2:41 PM CDT 0 recs

I didn't know mediocrity

had a smell.

Take Care

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by jparks77 on Jul 15, 2008 2:46 PM CDT 0 recs

Heh!

He wouldn’t say “Take Care” though…I would be something much more smarmy than that…

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by Rodney on Jul 15, 2008 3:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

Somebody must've puked in the outfield seats...

zero percent chance that RBiA is stinkier than the Yank or Fenway. I’d have to say the smelliest stadium I’ve been in was the Orange Bowl… and I’m a Miami grad. It was stinky, but I loved the old dump. Go Canes!

There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.

by SarasotaRanger on Jul 15, 2008 3:07 PM CDT 0 recs

At a game once

the bathrooms were so packed a dude took a piss in the trash dumpster in the bathroom. It was leaking out of the bag though..nasty.

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by Agreen07 on Jul 15, 2008 3:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

If you sat in the lower bowl under the upper bleachers,

you were at risk of having nastiness drip on you from the sewer pipes running overhead.

There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.

by SarasotaRanger on Jul 15, 2008 4:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

i had something drip on me from those pipes last season as i walked by. turns out it was bleach! they were cleaning the floors of the restaurant upstairs or something and the pipes had a leak.

i was pissed, ruined my tshirt

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by rentz on Jul 16, 2008 7:06 AM CDT up 0 recs

at RbiA not orange bowl

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by rentz on Jul 16, 2008 7:07 AM CDT up 0 recs

sounds like starplex in the 90's

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-Miles 6/21/08

.501 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jul 15, 2008 4:17 PM CDT up 0 recs

the KCBS sports reporter didnt note

that we stick the visitors pressbox right next to the port o jons, august is a bitch. heh

"Do they know who I am? Do they know my status? Thats what I thought."
-Miles 6/21/08

.501 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jul 15, 2008 3:23 PM CDT 0 recs

The pitching stinks

does that count?

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by cgolden on Jul 15, 2008 4:08 PM CDT 0 recs

Once went to a game at Fenway

at there was water over ankle high in the bathrooms. I must have been around 12 years old, but I will never forget that. Classic stadium and a great time, but damn I wish I didnt have to go to the bathroom so bad.

I'm sorry my parents never had me sarcamsized.

by rchawk12 on Jul 15, 2008 4:13 PM CDT 0 recs

Stinkiness

If there’s a DFW stadium that stinks it’s by far Cowboy’s Stadium! Never been for a Cowboys game, but I’ve been for plenty of high school football games. I don’t know about the stands, but the field stank! Standing water on the sides and rotten boards at the bottom of the stands. Being football, you don’t say much because it added to the atmosphere, but it was gross.

by altercall on Jul 15, 2008 4:34 PM CDT 0 recs