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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 464246, member: 27"] Yankee Stadium has some nice things going for it...a good replay scoreboard, some cache from the baseball team that plays there, the fact that it is in New York, though the Bronx is not ideal. But... * It has a capacity of less than 45K for football. Unfortunately, athletics are largely about money. It is hard to make money playing in such a small stadium. * It is difficult to tailgate there. Not many lots, most are not as close as they could be to the stadium and they don't allow open flames (though they were tolerated to some degree yesterday). * The sight lines, the closeness of the seats to the field, even the way the seats are aligned to the infield...are all horrendous compared to stadia designed to watch football games. There are no good seats for football in Yankee Stadium. The ones close to the field are in/near the endzone. The ones near the 50 yard line are 30 or 40 yards or more from the playing field. They can't even sell the ones at field level near the 50 yard line because they are so low to the field that the players block the view for fans. MetLife on the other hand... Has a perfect setup for tailgating. Perfect design for watching football games. The best and biggest replay scoreboards I have ever seen. Easy to get in and out of (except from hotels 2 miles away when relying on GPS units). Huge capacity with potential for making enough money to justify playing games there. To make any game at one of these facilities financially feasible, the ticket prices are going to be steep. If I have to pay $100-$150 for a ticket to a football game, I want to have the best possible football experience for my money. That comes from watching games in MetLife. The bowl games in Yankee Stadium have been fun to go to, I have enjoyed the experience. I hope the Pinstripe Bowl continues, the ACC gets it and if SU gets invited to go there, I will attend again. But I don't want to see SU schedule home games there. A 3 game series with Army with games at West Point, Yankee Stadium and the Dome might work for me though. I [B]think[/B] I would prefer to play Army at Yankee Stadium in front of a sold out Yankee Stadium than in front of a half empty MetLife Stadium. Though I am not 100% sure. [/QUOTE]

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