UConn-ND | The Boneyard

UConn-ND

Status
Not open for further replies.
Joined
Aug 27, 2011
Messages
5,782
Reaction Score
15,762
this guy also has michigan in the fiesta bowl, so i stopped reading at that point.

and the humaitarian bowl is not the famous idaho potato bowl?? wow.
 
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
2,449
Reaction Score
4,489
Pinstripe Bowl... why not call it what it is, Yankee Bowl. Speaking of that..what were they thinking when they didn't put a dome there? The largest sports market on the planet and you can't afford to put a retractable dome up yet they build one in Toronto? Dallas? Phoenix? Come on! NYC ought to be embarrassed that some yahoo from Texas can put up a state of the art retractable dome but you can't. You don't deserve a bowl game.
 

FfldCntyFan

Texas: Property of UConn Men's Basketball program
Joined
Aug 25, 2011
Messages
11,899
Reaction Score
39,533
Pinstripe Bowl... why not call it what it is, Yankee Bowl. Speaking of that..what were they thinking when they didn't put a dome there? The largest sports market on the planet and you can't afford to put a retractable dome up yet they build one in Toronto? Dallas? Phoenix? Come on! NYC ought to be embarrassed that some yahoo from Texas can put up a state of the art retractable dome but you can't. You don't deserve a bowl game.
Baseball is an outdoor game.
 

junglehusky

Molotov Cocktail of Ugliness
Joined
Aug 24, 2011
Messages
7,186
Reaction Score
15,555
Baseball is an outdoor game.
I think he's referring to the new Meadowlands, and the Jets stadium in Manhattan that was not to be. Would have been nice, but a lot more $$$.
 

FfldCntyFan

Texas: Property of UConn Men's Basketball program
Joined
Aug 25, 2011
Messages
11,899
Reaction Score
39,533
I think he's referring to the new Meadowlands, and the Jets stadium in Manhattan that was not to be. Would have been nice, but a lot more $$$.
That was never going to happen. That stadium went more than $1/4 billion over initial construction projections before tehy broke ground. A permanent dome (something the Giants were fully against as they view a large part of their identity as being an elements team) would have been an additional $100 mm. A retractable dome (something Woody Johnson looked into as his west side stadium plan was for a domed stadium) was more than triple the cost of a permanent dome. Johnson was not going to foot the entire bill for the retractable dome and the Giants weren't going to agree to a retractable dome without assurances from the NFL that they would never be forced to close the roof for a Giants home game (the biggest concern was that a playoff home field advantage could be lost if the NFL forced them to close the roof in late December or January).

FWIW, football is also an outdoor game.
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2011
Messages
2,797
Reaction Score
4,910
this guy also has michigan in the fiesta bowl, so i stopped reading at that point.

and the humaitarian bowl is not the famous idaho potato bowl?? wow.

The Idaho/blue turf bonanza was renamed; he is right on that point.
 

IMind

Wildly Inaccurate
Joined
Aug 29, 2011
Messages
1,871
Reaction Score
2,636
The Idaho/blue turf bonanza was renamed; he is right on that point.
Well Famous Idaho Potato Bowl beats Roady's Truck Stop Bowl.... but not by much.
 

CL82

2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions
Joined
Aug 24, 2011
Messages
56,511
Reaction Score
206,273
I'd go.
PinstripeDec. 30New York, N.Y.3:20 p.m.Big 12 No. 7 vs. Big East No. 4Notre Dame* vs. UConn
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Online statistics

Members online
539
Guests online
3,944
Total visitors
4,483

Forum statistics

Threads
155,775
Messages
4,031,226
Members
9,864
Latest member
Sad Tiger


Top Bottom