With new Fenway Bowl

[ratking17]

And from the AAC: UCONN, Temple and Navy. How about the BC vs UCONN bowl matchup in 2020?

Navy will always go bowling in the military, but uconn, temple would be a given. Maybe the Fenway bowl organizers see a great matchup of former big east foes and send south Florida up to battle Pitt or cuse.

 

[Delpanther]

My origin for asking goes back to reading the following last year.

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports...ame-heinz-field-pnc-park/stories/201806210020

I personally wasnt as intrigued by a bowl game at PNC Park (but hey why not), but perhaps Pitt playing one of its early season 'cupcake' games there, totally as a novelty, since there is typically so very little fan interest for these games normally. A Delaware game for example, might draw 25,000 (actual people, not fabricated numbers from Pitt PR), and less if bad weather. Why not have it down the street, if the Bucs are outta tahn?

Playing games at different sites, a block apart, on the Northside.... strikes me as bush league. What’s next? Mt. Lebo’s Stadium ?

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

How about the BC vs UCONN bowl matchup in 2020?

YouCon in a bowl? In 2020?

 

[SatelliteTailGate]

www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=aZbMXNH_MMqJgge5orTIBQ&q=Fenway+Park+football+configuration&oq=Fenway+Park+football+configuration&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.12..0j0i22i30.6649.9151..11519...7.0..0.133.634.3j3......0....1.......8..35i39j46i39j0i324.01ZCKGkcX9U#imgrc=4Un2Yu7O-48DaM:

PNC probably could, but just barely.

The reason that Fenway can easily fit a field, if you think about the way the stadium lays, is that while Fenway has a very short left field and left center field, it is very deep from just to the right field side of dead center all the way to almost the first base corner. So you could run, indeed you would have to, run the field paralleling the first base line with the end zones by the third base dugout on one end and in right field on the other end.

Notice that that is not the way that a football field fits into Yankee Stadium. They run the field there from home plate to center field, because Yankee Stadium is short down both lines but is relatively larger from left center around to right center. The way a field fits at Yankee Stadium would not work at all in Fenway, and conversely the way a field fits at Fenway wouldn't work in Yankee Stadium.

Based on the dimensions, I think the only way to fit a field at PNC would be to do the opposite of what they do at Fenway and run the field down the third base line, so that one end zone was in front of the first base dugout and the other was in left field.

 

[TIGER-PAUL]

Army? Not that far from Fenway and don't think they have a bowl tie in.

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

Army? Not that far from Fenway and don't think they have a bowl tie in.

Not connected with either conference.

 

[McKee Place]

Playing games at different sites, a block apart, on the Northside.... strikes me as bush league. What’s next? Mt. Lebo’s Stadium ?

Maybe. But look up Bush league in the dictionary and you see a pic of one of our Heinz games, one with 40000 empty seats. The patrons want some variety in the product obviously. Winning 12 or 13 games ain't in the mix, so shouldn't be above trying something a little different.

To me it's no different than the Pens playing the winter classic or such. And they're a SUCCESSFUL franchise. Just mixing things up a bit. What's the harm? Might make a moribund 24-13 game with an FCS team just a little more interesting.

 

[mike412]

Adding the Holiday Bowl, if true, is a great addition. San Diego is a wonderful place to visit. The airport is literally 5 minutes from downtown. There are a lot of nice and not too expensive hotels within walking distance of the stadium. You can take public transportation to Balboa Park and the Zoo. And, if you have kids, Lego Land, the San Diego Wild Animal Park and even Disneyland are within an hour drive.

I’m just shocked they would add an ACC team.

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

Adding the Holiday Bowl, if true, is a great addition. San Diego is a wonderful place to visit. The airport is literally 5 minutes from downtown. There are a lot of nice and not too expensive hotels within walking distance of the stadium. .

Hadn't heard that. I thought that bowl was defunct. Are they reviving it? Your observation on hotels is accurate if they're going to use the baseball stadium. If it's the stadium the Chargers vacated and San Diego State still uses, the pickings are somewhat slimmer in that vicinity (well, bowl goers would still have the option of the downtown hotels closer to Petco).

 

[BFo8]

Hadn't heard that. I thought that bowl was defunct. Are they reviving it? Your observation on hotels is accurate if they're going to use the baseball stadium. If it's the stadium the Chargers vacated and San Diego State still uses, the pickings are somewhat slimmer in that vicinity (well, bowl goers would still have the option of the downtown hotels closer to Petco).

They never stopped playing the Holiday Bowl, has been a yearly event since it’s inception.

 

[jtownknowitall]

What is the fascination of watching football or hockey games in baseball stadiums?

 

[happjack]

They never stopped playing the Holiday Bowl, has been a yearly event since it’s inception.

There was a Poinsettia Bowl that was played at the same stadium and run by the same people, they ended that bowl a few years ago, the OP might have gotten the games mixed up.

 

[NTOP]

My origin for asking goes back to reading the following last year.

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports...ame-heinz-field-pnc-park/stories/201806210020

I personally wasnt as intrigued by a bowl game at PNC Park (but hey why not), but perhaps Pitt playing one of its early season 'cupcake' games there, totally as a novelty, since there is typically so very little fan interest for these games normally. A Delaware game for example, might draw 25,000 (actual people, not fabricated numbers from Pitt PR), and less if bad weather. Why not have it down the street, if the Bucs are outta tahn?

Just great.....tear up the field during baseball season. I'm sure the lease would prohibit it, but it's a horrible idea anyway you cut it.