I had to tell someone! Man that was exciting! 104,553 people packed the stands to see the Buckeyes beat Washington St. 25-7.
I know Michigan Stadium, Happy Valley and the Rose Bowl are bigger, but I don’t care. The 'shoe is best.
Does anyone else have a similar experience?
P.S. Go Bucks!
I do miss that stadium. Games in there were great. My only bad experiences in there were as a midshipman. We had the privilege of mustering at 0500 Sunday mornings to clean the place up after game day. Definitely not the best way to spend Sunday mornings.
I didn’t realize they could fit so many people in there–I thought the capacity was around 80k. Maybe I’m thinking of how it was before they built those newer stands in the open end.
I wasn’t there, but I was a couple blocks away at work.:mad:
I was at Camp Randall in Madison in '93 when UW beat Michigan(I thought you’d like that Zamboni) and the students rushed the field afterwards, people were crushed, a few ended up in Intensive care and almost died. That wasn’t cool.
flyboy88, they just finished an expansion before last season. Good overall photo here. There are new seats, built outside the former outside walls and higher than the old C deck, in addition to the new south stands. Also, the field was lowered, with the track removed, and new seats were added below the former ground level.
Wow. And I thought that place was huge before. Thanks for the picture, ElvisL1ves. I had no clue they’d done all that work to it. When I left, the south stands were rafters, not the permanent construction there now. And I can’t believe how huge C deck is now.
In the early 1980’s I was in what was at the time the record largest crowd to watch a woman’s college basketball game. It was UCLA vs USC. The record stood for a number of years but has been surpassed many times over with the recent surge in popularity of woman’s sports.
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Go BUCKS!
I’m pretty sure the Rose Bowl doesn’t hold more than Ohio Stadium.
And for the record, nothing beats partying with 108,000 of your closest friends (and about 2,000 putzes) on a Saturday afternoon at the Big House in Ann Arbor. Nothing.
I was at a Michigan-Wisconsin game a few years ago that had 111,000+ in attendance. Un-freakin-believable.
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I was part of two record-breaking crowds at Candlestick Park for baseball…
One was Fireworks night 1999 (I think) vs. the Dodgers. 56,938.
Second was the final game there, again, against the Dodgers- 61,389 fans.
Last night I was part of supposedly 40K+ in San Bernardino, CA, which was supposedly just about the biggest crowd for a punk show ever.
New Found Glory got the finger all over.
Missed the Buzzcocks.
Blink 182 had half the crowd in apathy.
Pennywise was enthusiastically received.
Social Distortion was lustily sung along with.
Offspring had people bouncing and singing all over.
Sex Pistols oddly enough had people just kind of curious. I think the genre has speeded up too much for them to entirely get away with just their old songs any more. Plus, many in the crowd didn’t really know a lot of their numbers.
This was my first trip to the stadium, so needless to say I had never seen it before the renovation, up close anyway. Really impressive.
If it doesn’t, it’s darned close.
This afternoon, I was a member of the largest crowd ever to watch a sporting event in Cincinnati. See my pit thread for the details.
So you saw the Bearcats almost beat the Buckeyes.