In less than a year, at Notre Dame's football stadium, the Blackhawks will take on the Bruins - the NHL in Indiana. College football has hosted before in Michigan. Where else could you see or would you like to see such a game played? Ohio State? ECHL's Cyclones at Nippert. The NHL is doing a good job with it, particularly the Stadium Series. All the New York met teams got to play at Yankee Stadium over the series of two dates.
We can really screw around with the thought, and do baseball inside of football stadiums. MLB's Rangers occasionally play in San Antonio's Alamodome, which was built to lure football, and landed the Spurs for years. So, whatcha' thinkin'?
Brewers at Green Bay ? Take on the Sox or Cubbies. Would they do astroturf-like basepadding, as in just having sand near the bases? Cubs at Soldier Field? I bet it'd be too tough to do Reds baseball at Nippert.
Basketball has to do outdoor NBA sometime soon, right? Bulls at Wrigley. The Pacers could go with the old field that hosted the minors, as well as Negro League ball. Now it's a neat apartment complex.
Celtics and Lakers at Wimbledon or the Nets-Knicks at the New York Open ? Maybe the NFL can do something coy with the preseason. Think like the Browns and Bengals playing at the Ohio State Fairgrounds at the Columbus Crew.
NCAA-wise, my Bearcats need to play the hardwood on the football field. Xavier and UC could do Great American Ball Park for the Crosstown Showdown Crosstown Shootout deal. It would plainly be awesome as even as exhibition in the Summer. The Aircraft Carrier stuff done in college bball is aesthetic as hell. click:
The Bears @Wrigley. The Bulls there too. Etc and so forth.
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