What an absolute beauty of a stadium. I'll cry the day they finish tearing it down. Somehow, this 16 minute video missed the best thing about RFK: The lower bowl seating bowl was on rails and...
What an absolute beauty of a stadium. I'll cry the day they finish tearing it down.
Somehow, this 16 minute video missed the best thing about RFK: The lower bowl seating bowl was on rails and would be rotated to fit either football or baseball configuration. A pleasant side effect of that was that it would bounce like a trampoline when the crowd went nuts. There's no feeling I've ever experienced like being in a packed RFK and literally feeling it shake as the fans sing and jump in rhythm.
I was lucky enough to be in RFK three times with a capacity crowd: Nationals first game, David Beckhams first game in MLS, and USA vs Germany 100th anniversary game. I wish I could have gone to a racist football team game to experience that atmosphere, but they had moved out before I moved to DC.
Towards the end RFK was a pile crumbling concrete that smelled of stale beer and piss, but it had a soul that modern stadiums don't.
I'm really sad to see it go, it's the last (and first!) of an era of multi-use stadiums that were used by both MLB and NFL teams.
What an absolute beauty of a stadium. I'll cry the day they finish tearing it down.
Somehow, this 16 minute video missed the best thing about RFK: The lower bowl seating bowl was on rails and would be rotated to fit either football or baseball configuration. A pleasant side effect of that was that it would bounce like a trampoline when the crowd went nuts. There's no feeling I've ever experienced like being in a packed RFK and literally feeling it shake as the fans sing and jump in rhythm.
I was lucky enough to be in RFK three times with a capacity crowd: Nationals first game, David Beckhams first game in MLS, and USA vs Germany 100th anniversary game. I wish I could have gone to a racist football team game to experience that atmosphere, but they had moved out before I moved to DC.
Towards the end RFK was a pile crumbling concrete that smelled of stale beer and piss, but it had a soul that modern stadiums don't.
I'm really sad to see it go, it's the last (and first!) of an era of multi-use stadiums that were used by both MLB and NFL teams.