OT: How about playing a November game at PNC Park?

[Sean Miller Fan]

When the weather gets colder, Pitt fans stop attending.

We've seen games at Wrigley and Fenway. It might be an interesting idea to add a little sizzle to an otherwise ho-hum Pitt Nov home game (against an opponent who isnt a big draw like Syr, Duke, UVa).

It would probably only hold around 35K for football but that's all we are getting for those games. Might be neat to see the place packed for a Pitt football game. It would give people a reason to attend I think.

 

[UPitt '89]

When the weather gets colder, Pitt fans stop attending.

We've seen games at Wrigley and Fenway. It might be an interesting idea to add a little sizzle to an otherwise ho-hum Pitt Nov home game (against an opponent who isnt a big draw like Syr, Duke, UVa).

It would probably only hold around 35K for football but that's all we are getting for those games. Might be neat to see the place packed for a Pitt football game. It would give people a reason to attend I think.

PNC Park, unlike Yankee Stadium, has a foul ground area that is too small to allow for a football field to be placed on it. at least not in the configuration that Yankee Stadium is using.

you need 120 yards end line to end line (360 feet) and at least 65-70 yards wide to account for field and benches (200+ feet).

the dimensions dont work.

 

[ClarkLotTgate]

while it might be somewhat novel, it would also scream "we are pathetic" with Heinz literally next door.
-it's "cool" to play at an alternate venue as a neutral site game, or somewhere that's in the city, when the school is in the countryside, or when the alternate venue is a larger one.
-Northwestern playing Illinois at Soldier Field would be an example.
-they also played a mess at Wrigley and the field dimensions didn't work and they had to play to only 1 side of the field.

If pitt will only ever draw mid 30's then we should just tarp off the upper levels and then change the name back to PITTSBURGH with the Seal mascot and book trips to Birmingham.

 

[OriginalEther]

No.
I want to watch football in a football stadium, not a baseball.

 

[Las Panteras]

Even if it could work physically . ....why would yinzers go?

I mean.....absent the pitt and northwestern fans.....how many new yorkers will spend a day in the city....at Christmas . ....and go to a crap bowl game?

It seems the idea of playing in a baseball stadium has become a big MEH.....

 

[Pitt79]

They should really have an outdoor Penguins game there, that would work way better than at Heinz Field.

 

[ClarkLotTgate]

I'm not a huge hockey fan, but they did that out in LA a few years ago right? Wonder how that went in terms of sight lines etc

 

[Pitt79]

I'm not a huge hockey fan, but they did that out in LA a few years ago right? Wonder how that went in terms of sight lines etc

They've also done it at Fenway Park and Nationals Park in DC, the sight lines aren't exactly a fit for hockey, but IMO the smaller size is better rather than a football stadium, you are more on top of the action. You might even be better being in the upper deck as far as viewing the game.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

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[Delpanther]

Dumbest idea I'd ever heard. If you go to the Pinstripe bowl you'll see why BB stadiums aren't constructed to hold the footprint of a FB field.

 

[CorsosRevenge]

Like the Nuttings would permit this. They pitched a bitch over WPIAL games being played there

 

[Panther Holla]

One home stadium, period.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

Dumbest idea I'd ever heard. If you go to the Pinstripe bowl you'll see why BB stadiums aren't constructed to hold the footprint of a FB field.

 

[Pitt79]

We could return to Highmark Stadium, probably won't need tarp any seats there unless it's cold.

 

[goalieman]

They should really have an outdoor Penguins game there, that would work way better than at Heinz Field.

The Pens played the Caps at Heinz Field in 2011 (Heinz Field held 65,000 then) and drew 68,111 ...... the Pens are playing the Flyers at Heinz Field this season in February and will probably draw 70,000 + (Heinz Field holds 68,400 now) ...... they probably couldn't draw much more then 40,000 at PNC Park .... Pens will generate significantly more revenue playing at Heinz Field then PNC Park.

 

[Pitt1995]

The dimensions would actually work if you ran the sideline parallel to the third base line, about 10 yards away from it. The one end zone would be parallel with the bleachers, which would be a nice student section. The one back corner of that end zone would be tight up against the bullpen corner where CF juts back towards the bleachers though. The other back of the end zone on that sideline would be close to where the seats turn towards the field in RF too, but it would work.

Aligning the field that way also gets it closer to most of the seating, and provides good views from just about the entire 3B line and 1B line seats, along with the bleachers.

It might not be a great idea insofar as there is a perfectly fine football stadium next door, but it would fit.

 

[JD1976]

The games at Yankee Stadium, Fenway and Wrigley worked for 2 reasons.

1. Those are historic venues stepped in tradition. The opposite of PNC Park.
2. The host schools were Army, BC and Northwestern. I know Pitt has attendance issues, but not like those schools who are starving for attention in big markets.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

The dimensions would actually work if you ran the sideline parallel to the third base line, about 10 yards away from it. The one end zone would be parallel with the bleachers, which would be a nice student section. The one back corner of that end zone would be tight up against the bullpen corner where CF juts back towards the bleachers though. The other back of the end zone on that sideline would be close to where the seats turn towards the field in RF too, but it would work.

Aligning the field that way also gets it closer to most of the seating, and provides good views from just about the entire 3B line and 1B line seats, along with the bleachers.

It might not be a great idea insofar as there is a perfectly fine football stadium next door, but it would fit.

That is how the Insight Bowl we used to play in set their field up. They ran it from home plate to left field along the 3rd baseline and put portable bleachers on the other side (where CF and RF is). So they used like 75% of seats. As you got too far down the 3rd base line the site lines were too bad.

I don't think this will happen but just an idea to create a little interest around a sparsely attended game. Perhaps they could work an agreement with the Pirates that the Pirates can play 1-2 1PM Sep Saturday afternoon games (so we dont always have to play at noon) if we rent their field in Nov.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

The games at Yankee Stadium, Fenway and Wrigley worked for 2 reasons.

1. Those are historic venues stepped in tradition. The opposite of PNC Park.
2. The host schools were Army, BC and Northwestern. I know Pitt has attendance issues, but not like those schools who are starving for attention in big markets.

I agree. But to be clear, the ND/BC gsme game at Fenway was an ND home game and part of their Shamrock Series.

 

[JoseLind13]

How about Arena rules game at the Paint Can?

 

[Pitt79]

The Pens played the Caps at Heinz Field in 2011 (Heinz Field held 65,000 then) and drew 68,111 ...... the Pens are playing the Flyers at Heinz Field this season in February and will probably draw 70,000 + (Heinz Field holds 68,400 now) ...... they probably couldn't draw much more then 40,000 at PNC Park .... Pens will generate significantly more revenue playing at Heinz Field then PNC Park.

I was talking more about the view, meaning it would be more "cozy", closer to the ice probably in PNC, I wasn't thinking as much about the attendance. Of course I get it, everything is for money 1st. Except for SMF who is mostly worried about random people seeing empty seats on TV.

 

[upj87]

When the weather gets colder, Pitt fans stop attending.

We've seen games at Wrigley and Fenway. It might be an interesting idea to add a little sizzle to an otherwise ho-hum Pitt Nov home game (against an opponent who isnt a big draw like Syr, Duke, UVa).

It would probably only hold around 35K for football but that's all we are getting for those games. Might be neat to see the place packed for a Pitt football game. It would give people a reason to attend I think.

Do we need to dig up George Carlin to explain why your dumb idea (#278, I believe) in regards to playing in a "park" is well, dumb?