Orange Bowl relocation

jvill12190

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Just found out that there is a Miami Beach Bowl being played at Marlins Stadium this year. Starting next season the Orange Bowl should be played there, being that Marlins Stadium sits on top of where the original Orange Bowl used to be. That would eliminate having to drive 40+ minutes north & bringing in the new year driving back from Miami Gardens.

I guess the only issue would be that Marlins Stadium only seats about 37k since the Marlins have a non-existent fanbase. But hey, beats a half filled Pro Player/Joe Robbie/Landshark/SunLife Stadium.

Just a thought.
 
Makes a lot of sense, especially when the Orange Bowl hosts one of the playoff games next year, and they can only sell 37K tickets.
 
It can be difficult to configure some baseball stadiums for football games, but I guess they will get a chance to try it. I seem to recall a game being played once where only one side of the field had an endzone, and every time a team crossed the 50 yd line they had to face that side.
 
I don't see the location as a big deal. The problem is that Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Land Shark/Sun Life is a crappy place to watch a football game. The closest seats to the field are in the endzones.
 
Miami needs to get rid of Sun Life and build a new stadium similar to the Carolina Panther's stadium.
 
Lambeau is probably the perfect design for a field. Miami should build as close to it as possible. Perhaps with a bit less capacity putting in chairbacks all around.
 
Won't happen, as they will lose out on way too much revenue due to the number of seats.
 
Went to Marlins stadium this summer, complete trash stadium, and their fan was annoying
 
If I remember right, the original Orange Bowl wasn't exactly in the best of neighborhoods.
 
jvill12190 said:
Just found out that there is a Miami Beach Bowl being played at Marlins Stadium this year. Starting next season the Orange Bowl should be played there, being that Marlins Stadium sits on top of where the original Orange Bowl used to be. That would eliminate having to drive 40+ minutes north & bringing in the new year driving back from Miami Gardens.

I guess the only issue would be that Marlins Stadium only seats about 37k since the Marlins have a non-existent fanbase. But hey, beats a half filled Pro Player/Joe Robbie/Landshark/SunLife Stadium.

Just a thought.
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Marlins stadium is a turrible place to see a football game. The issue is it has next to zero outfield seating, and so about half the seats would be in one end zone, with the other half along a single sideline (although facing at an odd angle toward one of the end zones.

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What you want is something like Candlestick, which had a large distribution of seats all around, so that there were a good number of setas on both sidelines.

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Another good example is Oakland's stadium, which has a huge mass of seats in the outfield so that fans would be along the sideline instead of way back in the end zone. Note it also has a relatively even distribution of seats all around.

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They could add a makeshift grandstand, but there still wouldn't be nearly as many seats - and in particular nearly as many high value seats - in the baseball stadium.
 
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