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Old Foxboro
Old Busch Stadium (St Louis Cardinals w/ Jim Hart 1970s)
LA Colliseum
Fed Ex -- A big barn, excellent traffic control , In and Out
Baltimore- New Excellent venue.
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In about an hour the family and i are leaving for our first ever in-person viewing of our Patriots
at The Razor (or anywhere else!)
Only other (3) NFL games i've witnessed were at Yankee Stadium.
Charley Connerly.
Frank Gifford.
Sam Huff.
Andy Robustelli.
Rosey Grier.
I saw those guys play on TV, and some other Giants from that era:
Jim Katcavage
Roosevelt Brown
Y.A. Tittle
Emlen Tunnell
Kyle Rote
Dick Modzelewski
The Giants were the second team to be televised into N.E., because of their proximity to N.E., before the Pats were born. Browns were first because they were perennial champions in the 40s and early 50s. Those were the black and white, often snowy TV days, which I'd bet most of our posters never had to watch.
-Oakland Collesium (fun place unless you are a liver. Those Oakland fans can DRINK)
-RCA (not bad but not good)
A couple college stadiums that were previously used for NFL games: Husky Stadium and Sun Devil Stadium
I know I am forgetting a couple...
Oh yeah, the Titans place in Nashville. Nice stadium. Great crowd. In the south, the people aren't total drunken jerks. They are still drunk, but they are nice. It's un-American.
New England
Dallas
Washington
NY Jets/Giants
New Orleans
Cincinnati (Riverfront)
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Seattle (Kingdome)
Houston (Astrodome)
Minnesota
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-Robert Kraft, 2/3/2002
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I'll probably forget something but... here goes...
Foxboro: Yes it was a dump but I have many fond memories of totally fun times there standing on the bench in front of me banging my feet with my seatmates...
Gillette: yes comfortable and state of the art but definitely not loud enough for my taste...
Don't know the names so I'll say the teams:
Chargers: nothing to write home about... dark in the concourses... reminds me of Fenway under there.
Miami: Go every year.. but have great seats in the endzone so I like it! Also... the weather is right up my alley :-)
Houston: (reg season and SB38) Beautiful and loving the retractable roof depending on the weather.
Minnesota: LOUD! and the stands literally bounce like on springs when the fans jump up and down after a TD while their song plays.
Kansas City: LOUD!! outside but the solid oval keeps in the sound, not to mention the GREAT fans who are Soooo into it. The live band playing the chiefs warcry helps to keep them up.
ATlanta: One of my favorites!!! Yes, another dome so it's LOUD too but they have a live band totally keeping the crowd up at ALL times... Also the cheerleaders do too and they really work the crowd throughout the game...
Tennessee: Some of the nicest fans in the NFL... also loud even though it's outside.
Arizona: Dump! but no matter since they've got a new one now anyway.
St. Louis: Funny to see people coming to a football game on a Sunday straight from church dressed in their Sunday best..hehe
Heading back for a repeat of Miami and Tennessee this year...
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Sun Devil Stadium - awful stadium, but good atmosphere, great tailgating, and a really nice town. Tempe was taken over by Pats fans all weekend long. My first game in the flesh, so will always have good memories.
Bank of America Stadium - excellent location, the best atmosphere of the stadia I've been to. They get a lot of things right here (Carolina climate helps too).
Gillette - expensive, state-of-the art library, and the traffic back to Boston doesn't help. Enough said.
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Other than Gillette and the old Foxboro Stadium...(from best to worst)
Reliant Stadium (Houston) - LOVED this stadium. Great views from the seats. Escalators to the upper levels (what a concept). I wish they could move this stadium to Foxboro.
Heinz Field (Pittsburgh) - I liked the Hall of Heroes (or whatever they call it) where they have in the concourse a little museum of the Steelers past. Pretty cool.
Qwest Field (Seattle) - Not much of a tailgating scene in Seattle. Going to a Seahawks game is more like going to a Red Sox game in Boston. People go to the nearby bars before and after the game. Pretty nice looking stadium with pretty large concourses. 70% of the seats are covered if it does rain. Stadium contains crowd noise pretty good for an open air stadium and they have plenty of enthusiastic fans to generate that noise.
Giants Stadium (NY) - Nothing fancy here but good tailgating crowd. Very easy access from the highway. Views weren't that bad for an old stadium.
Alltel Stadium (Jacksonville) - Biggest dump I've ever stepped foot it. Think of it as a slightly modernized Foxboro Stadium. Why they had a Super Bowl here, I have no idea.
Only 2 places at which I've seen an NFL game: Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxborough Stadium, and the Houston Astrodome- September 1984. Opening Day, Oilers vs. Raiders. I was visiting an ex-Marine Corps bro, who was living in Houston at the time. The Oilers stunk then, so we were able to walk up to the box office that Sunday, buy tickets for the upper deck, then sit at the 50-yard line, halfway up. That also happened to be ground level, which I thought was pretty cool, esp. when one considers the climb to reach ground level at Foxborough Stadium, or ice/court level at the Old Garden. The air conditioning at the Astrodome was cool, too, compared to the 90+ degrees outside that day. Basically, it was like watching a game in a giant living room.
P.S.: My first football game of any kind was Boston Latin vs. Boston English at Harvard Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, 1970.