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re: How many venues have you attended to watch a Bama football game?

Posted on 3/9/13 at 7:06 pm to
Posted by Rickety
Vestavia Hills, AL
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 3/9/13 at 7:06 pm to
Off the top of my bald head . . .

all 14 SEC venues(including Mizzeruh last year and A&M in 1988).
Legion Field
Rose Bowl
Joe Robbie/ProPlayer/SunLife or whatever they call the current Orange Bowl venue)
Cotton Bowl (the old one)
Cowboys Stadium
Los Angeles Coliseum
Husky Stadium (University of Washington)
Beaver Stadium (Penn State)
Notre Dame
Sun Devil Stadium
Sun Bowl
Memorial Stadium (Nebraska)
Aloha Stadium (1985)
Liberty Bowl
Independence Stadium (Shreveport)
Mississippi Memorial(? I think) (Jackson)
LP Field (Nashville)
Georgia Dome
Louisiana Superdome
Grant Field (Georgia Tech)
Whatever they call the Gator Bowl these days
Wallace Wade Stadium (Duke)
Carter-Finley Stadium (NC State)
That stadium in Orlando
The Houston Astrodome (they still use it for a church or something, right?)


and those old stadiums that are long ago demolished . . .


Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands
(we played at Rutgers around 1980 and the Kickoff Classic against Ohio State in 1986)
The Vet in Philadelphia (at Temple in the Stallings era)
The Sombrero (Tampa Stadium)
The Orange Bowl
The old Dudley Field at Vanderbilt, before they tore it down and built Vanderbilt Stadium around 1980 or so. I think they still call the field Dudley Field.

and last but not least . . .

Tulane Stadium

I grew up going to both Alabama and LSU games because my best friend since I was 11 was from an LSU family that moved to Birmingham. We still go to games together in our late 50's. I went to several LSU-Tulane games in Tulane Stadium back when Tulane had the largest stadium in Louisiana and the South for that matter. I had the privilege of going to the LSU-Tulane game on December 1, 1973 and thirty days later, the 1973 Sugar Bowl when we lost to Notre Dame. The Sugar Bowl was an incredible atmosphere, but I have to say that when Tulane beat LSU in 1973, that old stadium was rocking and swaying and about 25 years of frustration was coming to an end, it was something I will never forget. I was actually worried it might fall down. The stadium was easily a 60/40 split for LSU crowd-wise, but when the clock wound down (yes they wound down in those days)it was like every Tulane fan had 3 voices. It was the last time LSU played on Tulane's campus.

And yes, before any of you say it, I am old.
Yeah, I know they don't call it Grant Field anymore. When you have called it that for more than half your life, you kind of get set in your ways. I still call the stadium in Gainesville "Florida Field". That's what it was called until Spurrier got to Florida in 1990.
This post was edited on 3/9/13 at 7:13 pm
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