A trivia question to challenge family members over Thanksgiving: Which stadium has hosted the most Turkey Day games in National Football League history? (more…)
Author Archive | Jesse Goldberg-Strassler
The History of Football at Fenway Park
Baseball season has ended, hot stove season has begun, and the focus for attention in ballparks across the country has shifted from the field to the front office. The exception: Boston’s Fenway Park. (more…)
Super Bowl Cities: Big Bids for The Big Game
Back when the Super Bowl was not yet the Super Bowl, when it was still the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, choosing the game site was just slightly less organized than it is now. (more…)
The Los Angeles Rams in St. Louis Colors
Imagine if a historic franchise like the Chicago Cubs, in their clean white, blue, and red uniforms, were to relocate. An idea takes hold to modernize their uniforms and sharpen their identity in their new digs – darken the blue, make that red a touch more metallic. (more…)
93 Years Later, LA Coliseum Still Going Strong
A distinction: The Collosseum is in Rome. The Coliseum is in Los Angeles. (more…)
Super Bowl Stadiums: Bowls, Domes and a Coliseum
The Super Bowl has been played in bowls, domes and a coliseum; under the sun and retractable roofs; before 63,000 in Minneapolis and in front of 100,000 in Arlington; in the warmth of Miami, the surprisingly temperate air of New Jersey and the even more surprising cold of New Orleans. The Super Bowl stadium has […]
Here’s to the pre-Super Bowl NFL champions
As we approach Super Bowl 50, it comes as no surprise to the embittered Detroit Lions or Cleveland Browns fan that each team will be left out of any discussions of Super Bowl triumphs, past or present. Neither franchise is known for attaining any real amount of success, right? Not quite. (more…)
Yale Bowl: Beginning of the Bowls
There was a time when enormous sporting venues were called bowls, describing their rounded shape, rather than named “Park” or “Stadium” or “Field.” Ignore the 19th century’s Baker Bowl (a diamond-shaped ballpark in Philadelphia) and give full credit to the trailblazing Yale Bowl, opened for play in 1914 with oval dimensions that fit over 70,000 […]
Stakes are high in college rivalries: trophies, pigs, bacon and more
Floyd of Rosedale, if you have not made his acquaintance, is a traveling pig. A traveling bronze pig. (more…)