Smart Space

I concede that I don't much mind the fact that the NFL and MLB aren't playing in the same spaces anymore.  It started with Camden Yard in Baltimore.  It started a beautiful revival to help us all get a little more Wrigleyville.  Oakland Coliseum is the last big league football-baseball stadium standing.  And it is a wedge of contention that drove the Raiders to Las Vegas.

How much it has done for taxpayers and the environment is probably another thing altogether.  It happened easily with baseball and football.  And though the square size barely changes with both kinds of football, a league is insisting upon soccer-only venues. FC Cincinnati at Nippert or Paul Brown Stadium is fine.  But it is what it is.

 As multipurpose stadiums were rarely ideal for both sports usually housed in them, they had fallen out of favor by the 1990s. With the completion of the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City in 1973, a model for purpose-built stadiums was laid down. Since Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992, most major league sports stadiums have been built specifically for one sport.   -wikipedia below

Back in my boyhood, the Reds and Bengals played at the same stadium.  The Pirates and Steelers did the same.  Cards-Football Cards.  Mariners-Seahawks. Astros-Oilers.  You get the picture.  A lot of the big league cities did.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-purpose_stadium

Get some idea of how converting arenas and fields is done:  core77.com/posts/22530/how-do-they-change-stadiums-from-hockey-rinks-to-basketball-courts-in-90-minutes-and-move-an-entire-football-field

Yankee Stadium is used by NYCFC.

NHL-NBA space collaboration:

Take a look at some of these figures from a few years back of the 10 arenas touting these Big 2:
denverpost.com/avs/2015/11/29..10-buildings-with-both-teams/22718/

So, my questions:

Can we play soccer and football at the same stadiums ?   And, can we do indoor (arena) football, basketball and hockey in the same ones? -insert pic of Native American crying

For that matter, can we share the away game time with another team in "our" stadium, amounting to baseball about every day and football/futbol each week?  Check out my posts about sharing minor league (and independent league) and major league parks.


A parking area could be a sportsplex of 3 stadiums (2 stadiums and one arena).  Sure, in America, baseball stands alone indeed.  The Big Five could be housed in one area.  Imagine the Seattle tripleplex

In one fell swoop of arena dealing, Seattle stands to doubletap into the Big Five.

click:  MLB/MiLB growth could foot the Bill for Independent League Stadiums

American Attitude Change for Sports Facilities. The Environment !!!