Oh, what might have been! Here I could have been sitting in a comfortable (or at least more comfortable) 80,000-seat palace. As it happens, I spent much of my spectating life in three arenas that were built for folks in the early 20th-century and got the minimum refurbishment: Fenway (seats built for people with 1912-sized bodies), the old Boston Garden (razed in 1995 after 65 years of cramped and obstructed-sight viewing) and, of course, the hallowed Stadium. You know what? I wouldn't have traded any of them for today's modern marvels.
I was never in the Garden, but was in Harvard Stadium and Fenway once apiece and enjoyed obstructed seating both times. (Behind a column in the colonnade at HS.) Boston is so welcoming.
Oh, what might have been! Here I could have been sitting in a comfortable (or at least more comfortable) 80,000-seat palace. As it happens, I spent much of my spectating life in three arenas that were built for folks in the early 20th-century and got the minimum refurbishment: Fenway (seats built for people with 1912-sized bodies), the old Boston Garden (razed in 1995 after 65 years of cramped and obstructed-sight viewing) and, of course, the hallowed Stadium. You know what? I wouldn't have traded any of them for today's modern marvels.
I was never in the Garden, but was in Harvard Stadium and Fenway once apiece and enjoyed obstructed seating both times. (Behind a column in the colonnade at HS.) Boston is so welcoming.