The BIGGEST DISASTER in Riverfront Stadium HISTORY

Riverfront Stadium hosted its first Cincinnati Bengals game on Saturday, August 8, 1970, when the Bengals took on the Washington Redskins in a preseason game. The only problem? The first game was a disaster, as there were seats of the stadium that were not ready, and did not exist, meaning that some fans who had tickets to the game were not let in because their seats were imaginary. This is the story behind the awful opening to Riverfront Stadium and the 1970 Bengals
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[@bobscott2429]

There were five Carpenters song references. At 8:28, Rainy Days and Mondays. At 10:18, A Two-fer: We've Only Just Begun followed by It's Gonna Take Some Time. At 13:47, On Top of the World. And at 14:04, Hurting Each Other. Meanwhile, where was Bengals defensive lineman Ron Carpenter?

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following: 1. The strange-looking resolution to a dispute between the Orioles and Colts that same year. 2. The ticketing fiasco at the Bengals first home playoff game at Riverfront in 1981. For that matter, you made a video about a regular season game that year in which the Bengals hosted the Steelers. In that game Bengals Center Bob Johnson found a lucky penny that turned around that game and season. I just wonder if that penny was left by the ironworkers or carpenters.

[@kaleb62patriot]

P h

[@JeffreyTaylor-pk5jc]

I used to go to Reds and Bengals games at Riverfront and I always liked the crowd noise that echoed from the large crowds. I appreciated my trips there coming from Fort Wayne Indiana ❤

[@PioneerPA]

Nearby Miami of Ohio did the same thing for a football game with Marshall in 1997. Sold out with Randy Moss coming to town. They sold 32 rows of tickets in a section with 30 rows. Created a disaster in the bleachers. One of the worst college football experiences I've ever had in a full house environment. Traffic backed up to the interstate (20 miles), no parking within a mile of the 25,000 seat stadium, just a fiasco

[@CTubeMan]

The carpenters took an extra day off of work because they told the ironworkers, “We don’t long to be close to you.”

[@danielbowden6330]

You could just hear the Carpenters sing "We've Only Just begun" when the job wasn't finished in time.

[@jgolden1399]

😂

[@tigercap100]

Unions are a cancer

[@JayTemple]

Remember, the name Smith is short for blacksmith, so this was a contest between the Carpenters and the Smiths.

[@Boggs1993]

Riverfront Stadium was renamed to Cinergy Field in the late 1990's before it was torn down in 2000 for Paul Brown Stadium.

[@thomash.schwed3662]

Frankly, that was a logistical nightmare, with all those seats taken out to remove the backfield wall and with the removal of the Astroturf and replacement with natural grass. Granted, Riverfront Stadium had to be reconfigured to accommodate the construction of the new baseball stadium following the referendum. However, in retrospect, I would have proposed simply growing Riverfront Stadium vertically by adding two or three more levels in the full circle. That may have increased the seating capacity to at least 65,000-in line with the two new stadiums. The removal of the luxury boxes could have aided in that regard. Besides, the case can be made that the two new stadiums have not aided either the Bengals or the Redlegs. The City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County would have been better served leaving well enough alone by keeping Riverfront Stadium and authorizing the vertical expansion.

[@harrymann5523]

Regardless how good the Bengals are. Cincinnati will always be a baseball city first.

[@joemeehan9329]

Just have to convince the Castellinis of that.

[@jgolden1399]

The Big Red Machine

[@Venom3254]

@@jgolden1399 Kane

[@lwriderjr]

@@joemeehan9329 They seriously don't give AF about the city, the organizations history or the Fan Base

[@lwriderjr]

At the present time the Red's couldn't carrry the Bengals Jock Straps

[@bobscott2429]

Fun fact: The Reds' 1970 opener at Riverfront occurred on June 30, roughly five weeks before the Bengals' debut. Due to delays in final construction of Riverfront, the Reds began the season playing their home schedule at Crosley Field, remaining there until June 24. (In between the two tenants' openers, Riverfront hosted the MLB All-Star Game on July 13.)

[@mdit21]

Those shots of the stadium with the sun and shadows make the footage look eerie (and 70s-ish).

[@jgolden1399]

Your channel is a welcome respite from the Clown World in which we currently reside. Keep the videos coming my man!

[@chicagojeff]

I counted four Carpenter puns. Outstanding work sir. You are a 'Superstar'

[@Rossturnerphoto]

You always do a good job of including a pun or pop-culture reference in your videos, but today was one of the best with all the Carpenters song references. Also the subject matter is intriguing and how someone could celebrate coming oh so close but not quite finishing the job that they should’ve had completed days earlier, is baffling.

[@darreljones8645]

The puns were also well in line with the period, as this game was played while "Close to You" was the #1 song in the country.

[@lsmftymf]

Reminds me of when The Beatles first played Maple Leaf Gardens and the hockey team's publicist Stan Obodiac issued a press release promoting the event using the titles of the rock band's songs where appropriate.

[@donaldpaluga]

At least they got paid!-Alex Trebek #pitfall

[@markgraham2312]

That was excellent!

[@glennlittle1580]

ESPN went Woke, it's a Mickey Mouse Company

[@mackenziezimmerer7926]

The great sparky Anderson would give Johnny bench a breather by sparatically playing him at third. This in fact probably shortened his career. That surface was granite hard

[@chrisb7528]

With that being said WHO DEY!!

[@dannyyork3742]

Don't think you can put this on Bengals. More of city, and the cry baby ass unions in Cincinnati. More to this story if u dig deeper, goes back to contracts by unions on offical work done on stadium originally. Carpenter's union was butt hurt before this even happened, and this was a " we'll show them" type B's. When judge orders them back to work, they all had to to burn so they used it, after judge orders them back to work. Keep digging my boy, you will find the truth and reasons.

[@matthewdaley746]

Proves that even in the 1970s, unions, were, a, sword, not, a, shield, also, explains why the national average of, non-union, employees, is, 93%, and, in Southern States, they're pretty much nonexistent.

[@tragiksituation]

This Riverfront stadium dysfunction is basically symbolic of the Bengals franchise

[@donaldpaluga]

That being said, no Bengals fan was killed because of that fiasco in Cincinnati. You can more about that tragedy by clicking on the upper right corner

[@tragiksituation]

@@donaldpaluga 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@charliesmith8466]

Really enjoyed the video, but MY GOD THERE ARE SO MANY COMMERCIALS! Make your money, dude. I get it. But this was a tough watch with ads every 30 seconds

[@joezegers]

Remember: the Bengals only exist so that Paul Brown could spite the Browns.

[@sml2k186]

I still say the worst thing to happen at riverfront is The Who concert disaster. It was so bad the band didn’t even come back to the city until a few years ago on the anniversary of the disaster

[@racecarsandconvections1991]

That didn't happen at Riverfront Stadium, it happened next door at the then named Riverfront Coliseum.

[@jaywmeinen]

Thanks for the numerous Carpenters references! LOL!! Thanks for the nice videos.

[@jmed412]

Of course, this would not be the worst seating fiasco in the city's history

[@craigslater2321]

The Who Concert at Riverfront Coliseum

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

I am a maintainer of a housing complex. I knew of coworkers that claimed that apartments were completed and it turned out that it wasn’t true.

[@JayTemple]

This has nothing to do with the controversy, but it's sad to see a cookie-cutter stadium and have to remind myself which one I'm looking at. (I grew up going to Busch Stadium.)

[@matthewdaley746]

Not, as, sad, as, how, Keith Hernandez, was, part of two teams that should have been, Dynasties, and, was, left out of, the, HOF, because, a, 1B, needs to, hit, at least, 400, HRs, really bad.

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

You had too much fun with those Carpenters references 😂😂😂

[@chrisguardiano6143]

As someone who lives in Seattle, we had the Kingdome from 1976-2000 as our multipurpose stadium. At one point in the late 70's & early 80's the Kingdome was home to 4 teams & 4 different sports as the Seahawks, Mariners, Sonics & Sounders all played there. One of my uncles worked on the field/seat conversion at the Kingdome at that time and he told me that it was quite easy to transition the field from football to soccer. However transitioning the field from football to baseball and transitioning any of the 3 sports to a basketball arena was super difficult because it required all of the seats along what was the 3rd & 1st base lines to be folded in so that basketball bleachers could be wheeled in & it also required the majority of seats in the upper deck to tarped off, although in 1979 & 1980 the Sonics left those seats open so that they could set the all time NBA playoff attendance record.

[@matthewdaley746]

Alas, Dennis Johnson left, later, Olden Polynice, was, chosen, over, Scottie Pippen, finally, a man, by the name, of, Clay Bennett, strolled into town, ultimately, they had no chance to turn the tide of history, tragic.

[@Schneltor]

Out of curiosity, why did they tarp over the upper deck seats, as opposed to just selling tickets to them?

[@chrisguardiano6143]

@@Schneltor because they feared that people wouldn't buy tickets up there due to the view being so far away from the court (this was before the Jumbotron was invented) . It also wouldn't look good to have empty seats if the Sonics were on national TV, even though the majority of nationally televised games on CBS were shown on tape delay at the time. My uncle said the only reason why those seats were left open for the 1979 & 1980 playoff runs besides to break the all time NBA playoff attendance record was because there was so much demand for tickets that people would pay anything to watch the Sonics.

[@stephenbuus7535]

Funniest story ever! And RIP Karen.

[@richarddefortuna2252]

I'm pretty sure that the biggest disaster in Riverfront Stadium history was when eleven fans were crushed to death and another twenty-six fans suffered non-fatal injuries, when stadium employees left everyone out in the frigid cold until shortly before the show was to start and then only opened two glass doors to let everyone in, including the general admission, first-come, first-seated, ticket holders for The Who's December 23, 1979, concert - the band's first American tour since 1976, and its first without original drummer Keith Moon, who passed away that September.

[@panowa8319]

I remember that incident. They re-enacted thst story on an episode of WKRP IN CINCINNATI.

[@davidallen8528]

That happened at Riverfront Coliseum.

[@richarddefortuna2252]

@@davidallen8528 my bad. I hadn't realized Cincinnati used the same naming convention for multiple venues. I take back my earlier statement, then. Thank you for the correction!

[@Jdwify]

​@@panowa8319 the WKRP episode is called In Concert.

[@Jdwify]

The date of The Who Concert is December 3, 1979. That was a very cold Monday night.

[@mkepioneet]

"Sell tickets for seats that don't exist? Why didn't I think of that?"

[@matthewdaley746]

Perhaps, decency, located, within.

[@donaldpaluga]

I swear as God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly

[@matthewdaley746]

@@donaldpaluga Not, for, long, distances.

[@donaldpaluga]

@@matthewdaley746 I almost forgot, babies, BOOGER!!!!!

[@matthewdaley746]

@@donaldpaluga Poults, increasingly obscure name.

[@mikenoodle100]

I wish it was Yesterday Once More. A time before I was subjected to your bad Carpenters puns!!!

[@donaldpaluga]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!-Roger Daltrey #meetthenewboss #SAMEASTHEOLDBOSS

[@jasonfischer8946]

Those planes taking the aerial shots were, ahem, on top of the world looking down on creation .

[@waitholdupohok]

Unions. People that want to get paid but don't want to work.

[@matthewdaley746]

Totally, swords, occasionally, shields, really a pain, for, all unalligned, wretched hive.

[@DamonNomad82]

I went to a Reds game at Riverfront Stadium in the early 1990s. Even as a 9-year-old with a VERY limited interest in sports, I could tell just by looking at the field that is was clearly used for football as well, as the yardage markers were clearly visible.

[@JayTemple]

I remember an announcer covering a baseball game at Jack Murphy Stadium saying that an outfielder caught the ball at the 50-yard line.

[@Schneltor]

@@JayTemple This video reminded me that I was watching a Bengals/Niners game and the announcer said something like, "And he's tackled at second base!"

[@robertlevine2827]

Excuse me, but this is the biggest disaster in CINCINNATI BENGALS history. The biggest disaster in RIVERFRONT STADIUM history is, by far, the stampede at The Who's concert in 1979 that killed people.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

That was Riverfront Coliseum

[@robertlevine2827]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 D'oh! I sit corrected.

[@Rockhound6165]

The way the old Vet in Philly worked was the extra seats were in the outfield from right to left which were folded up during baseball. They worked like your typical high school gym bleachers. In fact, when they removed the scoreboards from the outfield and relied on "Phanavision" which was all the way at the top in center field, they pulled a few of the football seats out for baseball. I would think that Riverfront and Three Rivers would work the same but apparently not.

[@DougVanDorn]

Hi -- I love your videos, but I have a request. Your audio levels on most all of your videos are such that, in order to understand your speaking voice, the volume has to be turned way up. I'm talking about to the point where, when KZbin inserts a commercial, my window frames start to rattle and I get concerned that people in the other apartments here will call in a noise complaint. It's that big of a source volume difference. Please clean up your source volume and bring it up to a level where the commercials we are forced to endure don't boom out at illegal and unwarranted levels. It just seems to me that you should be able to hear the content, and not be forced to listen in a room that's soundproofed to the outside, or need to ride the volume control while watching a video to the extent that you can't let your attention wander from the screen for even a moment, lest you miss the warning that an ad is coming and rush to mute it. Thanks! 🙂 Beyond that, your videos are always very well made and enjoyable! Keep them coming, please? Again, thanks!

[@alricdark]

Seconded, really frustrating.

[@mfm4205]

didn't know that about riverfront stadium, in terms of the infield (guess that explains not seeing football players getting as dirty on that field as they did in the other cookie cutter stadiums).

[@CTubeMan]

The city of Cincinnati: You got a ticket to watch and we don’t care.

[@matthewdaley746]

Playoffs, aren't, protected, either.

[@donaldpaluga]

I blame Herb Tarlek

[@matthewdaley746]

@@donaldpaluga Mike Brown's responsibility, permanent.

[@WaltGekko]

The Super Bowl XLV disaster noted at the beginning was mainly the result of the Dallas-Fort Worth area the week before the game being hit with the worst ice storm in 50+ years and DFW not having the proper equipment to get everything up and running quickly. That likely resulted in workers doing construction on seat expansion being unable to get to work in many cases, causing the disaster that happened.

[@ShawnieMac]

I've been doing reading on Riverfront's history...from what I understand, the football seating was always at reduced capacity in preseason and the first month of the season, because of the baseball-to-football conversion. If you seen old Bengals games at Riverfront pre-mid 1990s, the field had no midfield logo nor logos/colors in the end zones.

[@craigslater2321]

Because Paul Brown refused to spend money on painting the logo to have it erased for baseball and would have to repeat it again. When Mike Brown took over in the 90's the NFL forced him to paint the logo and the endzones.

[@HeritageWealthPlanning]

To this day I’ve always wondered why some stadiums kept grass , RFK , Mile High, Candlestick, even Cleveland when everyone else went to turf

[@matthewdaley746]

Just question Curt Warner.

[@kevinramsey417]

Because Astroturf was crap. The intention was that artificial turf would make the game faster and more exciting but many careers were shortened or ended because of injuries caused by astroturf. You were basically playing on concrete covered in a layer of carpet. Veterans Stadium became infamous for its terrible, dangerous playing surface. FieldTurf which replaced Astroturf is actually pretty nice, but it will never replace real grass.

[@bobscott2429]

JG9 did a video on the Veterans Stadium Astroturf. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWnIY5qhqbKsgNU

[@aboriginalbrotha9947]

@@kevinramsey417 Riverfront was as bad as the Vet. The Vet didn't get complaints until Wendell Davis got hurt in '93. The surface that he got hurt on was the fourth turf that the Vet installed in 1988 and it was poorly installed. It was 3x more harder than the three previous surfaces that the Vet had. The fifth turf that was installed back in 1996 was bad as the fourth one. The first three surfaces was just like any other turf in the league. No wonder why Ron Jaworski played consecutive games with the Eagles and Herman Edwards never missed a game during his time with the Eagles. It was mainly because the surface they played on wasn't bad as the 1988 and 1996 turfs. The Vet reinstalled the turf in 1977 and during the 1982 strike. The Vet reinstalled the third turf during the strike because it gotten worn out too quickly due to the Eagles and Phillies being in the postseason during the turf lifetime from 1977-1982.

[@CTubeMan]

In Super Bowl 45 the Packers beat the Steelers after taking a 21-3 lead in the first half. If there’s anything we know about Super Bowls in Texas, it’s that 21-3 first half leads are always safe.

[@matthewdaley746]

Just barely, by only, six points, the thought of Ben Roethlisberger making, the, talk-show, circuit, over, the, Summer, doing, "The, Redemption, Tour," made me physically ill.

[@BadgerFromOz]

I feel so bad for the people who paid for a seat that didn't exist. Did they at least get a refund?

[@williamhild1793]

Just this channel has SO MANY ADS compared to literally every other channel I follow. In this 15 minute video alone, there were 9 banner ads and 3 video ad breaks. Why is just this channel so inundated with ads when others are not?

[@onenationunderground2360]

I played in a little league football game at Riverfront. We might as well have played on concrete.

[@caseyjazz7256]

I come here for the lore and stay for the context.

[@scottfarmer8758]

In 1990 the Cincinnati Reds made the World Series so the Bengals were forced to swap home games with the Houston Oilers. Because of that the Bengals ended up playing five straight games on the road that season.

[@matthewdaley746]

Those Reds, were, the, worst, team the Athletics played, in, three, World Series, and, they, not, only, lost, they, were, swept, they promptly went, 74-88, the following season, the Dodgers, weren't, much, better, they, won, exactly one Game, they, were, an earthquake away from, never, winning.

[@AdmiralPureBlood]

@@matthewdaley746 Brother you think way to highly of those A's teams and way to low of that Reds team. Of I'm not mistaken that team went wire to wire and smoked the A's. The Reds also had quite a few HOF players that didn't juice to get to the WS where the A's were sweating steroids. maybe you just played too much RBI baseball growing up little man. it's cool little guy but you have a lot to learn about baseball

[@matthewdaley746]

@@AdmiralPureBlood Yeah, and, you have a lot, more, to learn about civility, little guy, their only, HOFer, was, Barry Larkin, the 1990 NL West, was, almost, as, weak, as the 1987 AL West, winning, it, was, hardly an accomplishment, and, Lou Piniella would only need two, more, years to completely wear out his welcome, while, simultaneously, losing, the locker room, and, the organization's respect, I never, was, a fan of, RBI Baseball, but, to each their own.

[@marcdaley]

It seems that you were trying to get to the "top of the world" of Carpenters references

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

And this unofficial JG9 historian will bring up the time not too long ago when he did a video about Michael Jackson- not the pop icon but the wide receiver for the Ravens. The MJJ references were off the wall!

[@jonniez62]

Overnight to reconfigure a stadium? Try less that four hours from the Mets Astros to the University of Houston Texas A&M football game. Might be a worth a video.

[@Tubewings]

When did that happen?

[@jonniez62]

@@Tubewings 1980

[@Tubewings]

@@jonniez62 If it was 1980, then the Astros would have been facing the Phillies in the NLCS.

[@jonniez62]

@Tubewings it was Philly, not sure why I wrote that at the time. It was a while ago.

[@CTubeMan]

The moment at 12:05 is brought to you by Golden Corral.

[@loganmosher5935]

I'm Sorry WHAT

[@mfm4205]

still can't get over the fact an all you can eat buffet place has delivery (they really do, if you see the ads. umm... doesn't that defeat the point of a place like that).

[@bobscott2429]

The Golden Corral commercial. (JG9, you need to use this from now on, to save your sanity.) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWi4q6R_ftB6d9U

[@franandwood14]

First comment

[@altfactor]

The Boston/New England Patriots got a one year waiver on the 50,000 seat capacity rule for the 1970 season because the old Foxboro Stadium (capacity 61,000) was still being built and wouldn't be open until 1971.

[@bobscott2429]

And when it "opened" for the first exhibition (sorry, pre-season) game vs. the Giants, then-Schaefer Stadium still had some bugs to be worked out, mainly with parking and traffic flow (major backups on U.S. Route 1 that left thousands sitting in traffic for hours) and the bathrooms (toilets that couldn't flush or overflowed; a "super flush" had to be done at a later time).

[@altfactor]

That would be a GREAT subject for a future Jaguar Gator 9 video!

[@zagnorch1336]

Man, this whole Thing led to nothing but Big Trouble in Little Cincy! It was like there was a Dark Star hovering over the deal, or a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong! And the people who were responsible for this screwup, how could They Live with themselves afterwards?! I half-expected them to make an Escape to New York, L.A., or anywhere else to avoid facing up to their failure! I tell ya, I would have fallen right into The Mouth of Madness if I were a Bengals fan who lost my seat as a result of this!

[@teen_laqueefa]

I see what you did

[@zagnorch1336]

​@@teen_laqueefa I would have put in more John Carpenter movie references, but I was too distracted by Starman and Christine, who were leading an army of Vampires, Princes of Darkness, Ghosts of Mars, and a gaggle of platinum-blond adolescents with psychic powers through The Fog in all-out Assault on the Precinct I was hanging out in when I was typing it. It's times like those where I wish I was Invisible, you know what I mean?

[@houstonrebel4449]

I'm sure 360 people would disagree with this being a win. They didn't even MEET expectations much less excel them. Kind of reminds me of some people I've worked with before. Lol. "Well we didn't do too bad. We had a 90% production rate. Could've been worse. At least we're not a half-ass crew. 90% is still an A-". Lol. Yea, but you had a week to do it. OK so you're a 1/10 ass crew.

[@DamonNomad82]

10:53 One of my old bosses from many years ago had a similarly fitting last name for his profession. His last name was Moneymaker, and he was the top manager at a Walmart, specifically the most profitable Walmart in a large region of the Midwest!

[@donaldpaluga]

Chris Moneymaker worked for Wal*Mart?????

[@theawesomer8587]

One would think the biggest disaster at Riverfront Stadium would be the awful Bengals teams that played there in the 90s.

[@matthewdaley746]

Maybe, it's me, but, I think that, The, Who, concert, where multiple fatalities, occurred, was, slightly, bigger, and, at least, they had, The, Big Red Machine.

[@Tubewings]

@@matthewdaley746 The Who concert was held at the nearby Riverfront Coliseum, not the stadium.

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

The Bungles, as Myron Cope (longtime Steeler announcer) dubbed them.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@Tubewings Whoops, seriously, tragic, anyway.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@andrewpadaetz5549 OT, but, Myron Cope, was, just, like, Mike Lange, an insufferable commentator, who only lasted as long as he did, because, the teams that he broadcasted, won, several, Championships, pathetic.

[@lafeelabriel]

Guess this is one of the reasons why the Bengals are still occasionally called the Bungals..

[@elvangulley3210]

Wow an nfl team was second fiddle to a baseball team pathetic

[@nicoleknight9412]

And they definitely were not "Superman"!

[@michaelkearns7352]

I've got a name for you, that matches his job description. I'm not sure if he is still around, but there used to be a gynecologist in northern Virginia, named Dr Harry Beaver. That is the honest to God truth.

[@matthewdaley746]

Horrific, and, yet, hilarious.

[@mfm4205]

kinda makes you wonder how many times people suggested going by harold instead.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@mfm4205 An absurdly exorbitant number.

[@matthewdaley746]

My, Great, Uncle, lived in Hyattsville, also, Maryland, has to be the, worst, state to die in, whenever, your will isn't ironed out, my Mom had to go there, multiple, times, it really, was, slow, torture to get things, finalized.

[@michaelkearns7352]

@@matthewdaley746 fortunately, I live in Virginia. I can't stand Maryland.

[@stevegroening6700]

They went on hurting the fans, making those fans cry. Did they stop hurting those fans?

[@blacksheep25251]

I can watch crews change the fields up all day. Quite impressive to do in one night, most at the same time AND protect the field.

[@gregb6469]

To call a ticker snafu a disaster is an insult to all real disasters.

[@lsmftymf]

Field level boxes on first-base side at Riverfront Stadium were stationary. The ones on third base side moved to left field and were parallel to its counterpart for tackle football. The stands that probably weren't set up were at each end (right field and third base side) that connected both boxes and were stored under back rows of lower deck. Third base camera on Reds telecasts always showed those stands in right field that were never used for baseball games.

[@JeffreyTaylor-pk5jc]

I wonder why they never used those seats as they were so close to the playing field

[@lsmftymf]

@@JeffreyTaylor-pk5jc Your guess is as good as mine.

[@panowa8319]

Kind of reminds of the 1969 Seattle Pilots inaugural home opener (and only season) at Sicks Seattle Stadium, which was supposed to temporary venue. At the home opener many seat were not completed due to Seattle rain and construction costs, and fans would not enter until the middle of the game. The seats were completed near the middle of the season and attendance was not that satisfactory, and most of those "completed" seats were not filled.

[@KWCline91]

4:55 - Those seats are now used for baseball, unless you want right field to be 150 feet from home plate. Builder of new Yankee Stadium: That sounds like a good idea. Let's build right field 150 feet away from home plate and make it shorter. Then, we can have an unfair advantage with a 6'7 right fielder in line for MVP.

[@matthewdaley746]

The Yankees' woes, in, starting pitching, and, bullpen, likely, mean, they fall short, in, the, Playoffs, again, so, don't worry, fait accompli.

[@nicoleknight9412]

The original Yankee Stadium han an insanely short right field fence to accommodate Babe Ruth (265 feet, I think).

[@matthewdaley746]

@@nicoleknight9412 George Herman Ruth needed few accommodations to get baseballs to find their way out of stadiums, that's a relative certainty, no doubt.

[@stevenbauer4799]

@@matthewdaley746 beer and hot dogs is all the babe needed to hit hr's.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@stevenbauer4799 True, absolutely no steroids.

[@altfactor]

Supposedly, the Dallas Cowboys stadium will host the championship game of the 2026 FIFA men's World Cup soccer tournament.

[@TimmyTickle]

I thought it was MetLife?

[@redmustangredmustang]

1970 was a good year for Cincinnati sports. The Bengals won their division for the first time. The Reds made to the World Series where they would lose to the Orioles.

[@ericalbright4943]

The Royals weren’t that good

[@bobscott2429]

Both Cincy teams lost to Baltimore teams. Reds to Orioles, Bengals to Colts. Thus, 1970 was a great year for Baltimore sports as they won the World Series and Super Bowl.

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

@@bobscott2429 that’s pretty eerie

[@e93sports80]

Hey!

[@Texpantego]

That Super Bowl week in Arlington was a result of the worst ice storm in the history of North Texas. I've lived here my whole life and it was by far the worst ice storm we've ever had. The whole area was just a sheet of ice.

[@matthewdaley746]

SB 34, terrifying, also.

[@sirstewartwallace3917]

Interestingly, Dallas almost got the Super Bowl this year as they were the next option if Los Angeles hadn't lifted the capacity mandate caused by Omicron before the game was played.

[@justinmaybach6388]

If there was a mandate instated I don’t think it ever ended up applying to any sporting events in Los Angeles.

[@zuozhen4758]

Wasn’t a really big deal since it was a preseason game. A regular season game would have been a big deal.

[@Rockhound6165]

It's a big deal when you're charging for a pre-season game the same price as a regular season game.

[@stevenbauer4799]

ahh the wonderful days of the look alike cookie cutter multi use stadiums of nfl/mlb. riverfront, three rivers, the vet, kingdome was one under a roof. and the god forsaken carpet over cement turf in them.

[@bobscott2429]

The Pittsburgh Pirates' Richie Hebner probably said it best: "“I stand at the plate in Philadelphia (as he probably tugged at the back of the neck of his uniform shirt), and I honestly don’t know whether I’m in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis or Philly.” (At least, Buschhhhh Stadium (couldn't resist) - originally named Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium - distinguished itself from the others with all those arches on top.)

[@stevenbauer4799]

@@bobscott2429 yep. all ugly carbon copies of each other.

[@Staceyatkinson4496]

Do the reds still share Paul brown stadium with bengals

[@mfm4205]

not since 2003, when the reds opened their current stadium (which is close enough to the river players can and have hit home runs into it).

[@bobscott2429]

The Reds have their own stadium, Great American Ball Park.

[@DMS-pq8]

Jerry Jones and his massive ego could ruin a wet dream

[@matthewdaley746]

Totally a disturbing sentence.

[@bobscott2429]

Ooooooh, I had to take a shower after that one.

[@matthewdaley746]

@Bob Scott Wasn't, enough, for, cleansing.

[@mdoerty13]

Do we know what happened to those who didn’t have seats?

[@donaldpaluga]

My guess-they didn't die that day

[@CTubeMan]

Sat on wooden folding chairs?

[@matismf]

Yep, unions are unions!

[@matthewdaley746]

93%, employees, aren't, unionized.

[@rowdycmoore]

I actually bought a ticket to Game 1 on the 2011 ALCS between the Rangers and Tigers and could not sit in the seat I purchased because - GET THIS - there were two other people in that row who were so... BIG that they took up three spots on that bleacher bench. I still think it wasn't a coincidence that the Rangers took out all the bleacher seats after that season.

[@matthewdaley746]

Too bad Nelson Cruz, was, too gutless to go, after, that final out in, Game Six, he'll, probably, become a, career-DH, and, try to compile his way into, the, HOF, at least, Ron Washington, got, a, Ring, with, the Braves.

[@eagebeazthawk290]

I am first

[@donaldpaluga]

OK, Les.....

[@thomascrowley9122]

But you're really last

[@eagebeazthawk290]

Let’s go I’m firstl

[@CTubeMan]

You think you’re a Superstar, eh?

[@eagebeazthawk290]

Sorry

[@eagebeazthawk290]

No one ever replies to me

[@teen_laqueefa]

Congratulations, to see what you've won click the card in the upper right corner

[@AmericanDadAss]

You can defy a court order and not go to work. The court order was in violaton of the 13th amendment of the constitution and if enforced would be a breach of the workers civil rights. Now the company could fire the workers for not working but none would be in trouble with the law.

[@wokemagakilluminati5558]

This blunder was indicative of the Cincinnati Bengals entire franchise history.