Football at the Stadium -- how will this work?
by Ed Valentine on Oct 1, 2009 11:23 AM EDT
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PrintI asked it before, but I have to ask again in light of the recent news that Yankee Stadium will host a college football bowl game.
Look at the diagram of the Stadium and how the football field would be laid out. How is that going to work? The corners of the end zone on one side go through the dugouts and into the stands. On the other side they are in the bullpens.
If Yankee officials had planned to host football games there, which I think is fabulous, don't you think the Stadium should have been designed to accommodate it?
As it is, I am going to love to see how the Yankees pull this off without ripping out some luxury seats and creating more foul territory behind home plate.
Your thoughts?
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I don't think that poster is correct...
100 yard is 300 feet. So, from home plate to CF, it’s 408 feet. That leaves 108 feet of space on either side of the end zones. The end zones are 10 yards each…so that’s 60 more feet. That leaves 48 feet more of space after the end zones come to an end.
Sounds like it should fit. Unless my math is off…which it could be, because I suck at math!!! LOL!
what if..
You turned the field the other way. Going from left to right field.
by justinxyankeesfan on Oct 1, 2009 11:40 AM EDT reply actions
It's clearly not to scale.
Unless it’s only 360 feet to CF, the field depicted is way too long, and possibly too wide.
People say that about me all the time, by the way.
by New York Sports Jerk on Oct 1, 2009 11:54 AM EDT reply actions
real seating chart will tell the story...
Once tix go on sale they will have to show the seating, then we’ll know which way they’ll put it. I’d go see football in the Bronx!
So would I
This diagram just leads you to believe they have some things to figure out.
by Ed Valentine on Oct 1, 2009 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I think they're trying for some kind of artsy layering effect on the poster,
where the background shows a photo of the stadium, then layered in front of that is a seating chart, and layered in front of THAT (and not to scale, apparently) is a quick mockup of a football field. They may be trying for some weird perspective effect on the layers, where the football field is floating above the seating chart and is scaled larger because it is visually supposed to be “closer” to the viewer’s eyes. Looks like a quick Photoshop creation cranked out shortly before the press conference, when somebody decided they needed a visual to go next to the podium.
I think
that they never really considered playing football games when they designed and built the Stadium. But judging from all those overpriced empty seats, I suspect that they’re pretty desperate to generate revenue anyway they can – even a bowl game in the Bronx.
It's probably to scale.
I believe a football field is 40 yards wide, so 60 feet off of center field has to be 360 feet and that is why the corners don’t fit. It fits in dead center, but when you head out to meet the corner of the field you run out of ground.
The field is 408 feet deep besides at dead center, so when you start heading into the corners you lose that 360 feet of clearance.
Could be right
It will be interesting to see how this works, if there really isn’t room without modifications.
The field is to scale ... but not with the Stadium
The near endzone appears to begin around home plate, and the far endzone extends into Monument Park.
That would be around 410 feet, which is 50 feet too long for the field and both endzones.
And football fields are 160 feet wide. It’s impossible to tell from the drawing where the field will begin and end, lengthwise. Given the dimensions of a football field, I think the near endzone would have to start midway between the mound and homeplate, which would put the back of the far endzone about 10-20 feet short of the CF wall.
I measured the length of the football field to 2.25 inches. The width is 1 inch. This is a perfect scale of an actual football field of 360×160. They used a simple measurement for the field’s width to scale the field without considering its relationship to the Stadium.
By rough estimate, the depiction of the field is about 410 yards long, or roughly 13% too large. Since the field is to scale, that means it’s also 13% too wide.
If you rescale the field using the rough estimate to create a new diagram, the field would actually be 1.95 inches long and .87 inches wide.
The field should fit with those dimensions.
by New York Sports Jerk on Oct 1, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
SJ, my man
I’m no math whiz, and I appreciate the help here. But, I think you worked way too hard on this one. By the way, I do hope you’re right.
It's actually pretty simple...
…and I had some time to kill this afternoon.
And I may not be EXACTLY right, but as long as we agree that the actual field they show is about 410 feet long, I’m pretty close.
by New York Sports Jerk on Oct 1, 2009 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
maybe this will force them
to do something better with centerfield/monument park
Or maybe...
…they won’t have to do anything, as I just explained in detail.
by New York Sports Jerk on Oct 1, 2009 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Hmmm ...
They could blow out the right field wall and push it back 15-20 feet that would actually fix a couple of problems … Oh, wait. We can’t do that because it would reduce our homers and cut down our come-from-behind victories.
Ah, screw it. We don’t need football in Yankee Stadium anyway.
"Baseball is the background music of my life." -George Will
Hate the idea of the way the stadium looks like on the map
The angle of the map looks bad. I don’t see how it will work. Yeah maybe it will look nice on the field
Its gonna fit.
Im sure that people who are actually going through with the plan have figured out how to do it, so its gonna fit.
What the f$%k is the internet?
College football?
Who really even cares about college football in a market like NYC? I would bet you the four year contract is a one and done type thing, but money makes the bees make honey.
i would go from homeplate out to RF
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