While flipping through the channels yesterday I stumbled across the NFL network, which was running some sort of Football Follies marathon or something. I haven't thought of Football Follies for quite some time, but tuned in for awhile. I watched the 1987-88 edition. It was pretty hilarious, but the thing I saw that I had forgotten about was the multi-purpose stadium.
Now, if you google multipurpose stadium, you'll get lots of pictures of fancy stadiums that host concerts, etc. but the kind I'm talking about is the football/baseball type. The kind where, while watching football, you can know that a player is tackled somewhere in the vicinity of second base.
I thought that Oakland was the only place that still had one, but Marlins/Dolphins share a stadium at least until next year and the Blue Jays share a stadium with a CFL team.
So whatever happened to those days, before stadiums had to have retractable roofs and giant score boards and cost $1 billion dollars? Doesn't it get more high tech than Mile High stadium, which featured and entire side that could be moved back and forth depending on what sport was being played. Apparently, having lots and lots of luxury suites has something to do with it. Seems like it would be more economical to have one of these, but then again, probably no one wants to go back to playing football on dirt.
