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Huge news. No more shoreway? Team playing in Columbus multiple seasons? Woof, better be worth it
Under 30 k attendance for2- 3 years just so you can recreate an outdoor stadium on the lake that won’t be used for the vast majority of the year . This sounds too stupid even for the city of Cleveland . Which had had a lack of vision for all our lifetimes.Why wouldn’t they play in Canton at the HOF stadium?
If they change the entire structure of the stadium there is no way they can play there. That takes years not months. Plus you have to deal with extreme weather during rebuild.The two or three seasons in Columbus sounds like some BS the Haslams are pushing out to try to get a new stadium. Renovations probably can be taken out in phases during the offseason.
Also it could all just be poor reporting since WKYC pulled the article and it all came from neotrans blog. Some of the article talks about renovations to Berea and my guess is that could mean 2-3 offseasons or preseasons away for training camp/mini camps. They have wanted to do training camp and a preseason game in Columbus before.
It’s a tear down of a structure that is falling apart . It’s not like the last remodel where they just changed the end zones. Plus they are changing the areas around it in terms of highway acesss. It’s a major major project. Two years is likely not enough time . Three is actually way more realistic.There is no chance in hell renovations would prevent games being played at the existing stadium for three whole years. I’d be surprised if it’s even one.
The Guardians have managed to do their constant renovations without having to play games somewhere else, and that’s much harder logistically.
If the plan is to tear down the actual structure of the existing stadium and rebuild it, how is that fundamentally different than building “a new stadium”? Just because the location is the same?It’s a tear down of a structure that is falling apart . It’s not like the last remodel where they just changed the end zones. Plus they are changing the areas around it in terms of highway acesss. It’s a major major project. Two years is likely not enough time . No way you Three is actually way more realistic.
Another outdoor stadium that has limited use that will breakdown over the next 20 years. Another stupid plan .If the plan is to tear down the actual structure of the existing stadium and rebuild it, how is that fundamentally different than building “a new stadium”? Just because the location is the same?
Let's hope this is in fact the case.Basically WKYC says there is no merit to the claim that the Browns would play in Columbus during renovations.