Franklin Field is actually a legendary sports venue. Back in the day it was one of the most prestigious venues in college football and in the 1940s-50s IIRC it was the typical field for the Army-Navy game. The Philadelphia Eagles used it as their first venue as well. It's really sad to see how little attention that magnificent stadium gets today, Penn horrifically struggles to get several thousand fans in the stands for some of their games. It deserves so much better.
Fun fact, you can "sit" inside Franklin Field on Google Streetview. I assume you can do that at many stadiums but I've only tried it at Franklin Field.
If Boise did nothing more than just close off the end zone, combobulate their discombobulated seating and changed their seats to the same shades of orange and blue, I'd like their stadium more than some others.
The sporatic orange seats that you see spread throughout most of the stadium are rented seat backs. The metal bleachers don't have seat backs. As a fundraiser, they rent out seat backs that fans can use for their assigned seats. At midfield on the lower level on the west side of the field (press box side) near wear the upper leval overhangs the lower, those are permenant orange plastic seats for season ticket holders. The upperdeck is very steep. In the early 1990's when the southend upperdeck corners were added, they were also hoping to do the same to the northend upper deck, with future hopes of enclosing the upper deck at both ends. However, the initial funds only allowed the southend corners to be built, then it was rumored that new regulations were enacted that prohibited future construction of the northend corners and to have the upper deck endzone completed due to the steepness of the areas. Therefore the southend seating, which started at field level rises about halfway up to the level of the upper deck, but it is not as steep to meet the new regulations. There used to be some archectual drawings showing the upper deck fully enclosed and looked like a large bowl and was really cool looking. But with the indoor practice field and new building at the northend of the field, the upper deck will never be completed as first drawn up.
@@billl1127no you can’t my dad and I were in one of the weird angled north end zone seats this year. It’s was fun to go of course but an awkward seat. If I had wanted food it would have been annoying to get to.
I feel like the Kibbi Dome (Idaho) should be on here instead of the Fargo Dome because it lets in a ton of natural light, to the point of the feild looking like it's outside, all without using any windows and being 100% closed off
Maryland is very limited with what they can do in that one end zone because it's attached to Cole Field House, which is on the National Register of Historic Pllaces. So they now utilize it as the football practice facility. Any major renovation would require major alterations or destruction of Cole
There was no tougher place to play for the away team than Cole Field House. I loved that place. I was there for its last years as Terps home court and had an office in there when I worked at the student union.
For several years in the 2000's Maryland had extra bleachers set up behind the endzone. It was great because you could sit with your entire tailgate party and the view of the game was pretty good. What is pretty cool about Maryland's field is that it is right in the middle of the campus.
Eastern Michigan expanded their stadium in the '70's because the NCAA in its infinite wisdow told MAC scools that if you wanted to stay division 1 you had to expand to 30,000 seats.
Honorable mention to Memorial Stadium at Indiana State. There’s only one side of seating, and it’s really depressing compared to what the original architect plans looked like. If you ever do a part two you should include it (if you include FCS teams)
Thoughts on bridgeforth stadium (JMU)? When I attended we were FCS and it was a lot smaller. They needed to increase capacity for FBS eligibility and I kinda wish they did it more symmetrically. I do love being able to watch games from the road above, but the view may now be obstructed by the end zone seating.
Living in Fargo, the reason for the dome is because it gets very cold late in the season. It’s undeniably a major advantage for NDSU. Hopefully they move up to FBS soon.
Yeah I don’t think they would ever make that jump. It might end up costing a lot of money and prestige. NDSU is well respected and even when I lived in SEC country I heard the same. They would never compete in a Power 5 conference. Maybe G5 but I don’t see the benefit of doing that. I’d love to go to a game there sometime it would be a ton of fun.
Hey I wanted to tell you I know they're an fcs school But Eastern Washington University has a red football field, and it's called the inferno. You should do a video on it.
1:35 I feel like the argument of EMU games looking weird on TV would be valid if people actually watched EMU games on TV. :D 9:10 There was some seating in that area but it got torn down a few years ago. Some honorable mentions I'd include: Colgate University's away seating is pretty oddly shaped, like a smaller version of Cornell's. I'm sure I'll get flak for saying this but I've always found LSU's stadium to be very weirdly cobbled together, like some architect just had a bunch of random pieces and kitbashed them together rather than coming up with a cohesive design. Especially if you look at overhead views where you can really see the different design styles for all of the various sections and how the various levels were added on over the years. Penn State- kinda the same story, especially with the massive gaps between the home and away stands and the end zone seating.
Now I know that you haven't been to many of these places in person; Bill Snyder Family Stadium looks amazing in person. That limestone is really cool, and they used it with their Indoor Practice Facility. 2nd, it's the FARGO Dome, not the fragodome.
I would add Brooks Stadium (Coastal Carolina's stadium). I was watching a Coastal Carolina home game a couple weeks ago and I thought someone had screwed with the color settings on the TV, due to the teal turf.
Have you heard of the "Superior Dome" in Marquette MI? It's basically a high school field with bleachers, covered by a WOODEN DOME. The wood makes it very pretty on the inside but from the outside it looks like a giant igloo. Northern Michigan University is a div II school.
Youngstown State by far the weirdest stadium Ive ever seen. For years they only had seats on one side and then about 20 years ago added a small section on vistiors side. . So weird and similar to San Jose stadium.
Maryland should just cut off both the upper decks and turn the new roof area into like a dining area to watch games from. Maybe some fun activities for kids like a mini field. Also we love our blue field and yeah the seating is awkward on the north end zone. I agree we don’t need more seating for now.
As an Eastern Michigan alum, I will admit our stadium is a bit of an eye sore now. I liked it better how the field looked back around 2011. It sucks because I know they want to have a presentable stadium but it’s hard to attract folks when literally U of M is 10 minutes up the street from us.
I think Kansas State is thinking of Fort Leavenworth to be honest. I mean that is only thing I can think of. FYI yes it is a federal prison but it is also US Army Base and learning center.
Making Harvard even stranger.... both teams going into the locker room have to "duck down" to like 5 feet, slipping into this tiny concrete tunnel. Maybe the football players of 1930 were about 4 feet tall?
I change my tint if I’m watching a full Boise game. Make that field green. Boise becomes green and pink-red uniforms, which is less awful than the blue field.
Schoelkopf Field at Cornell may be weird, but it isn't because of the main seating area. It looks totally normal to me. It's that way partially, I think, because it's on a sloping hill. What makes it weird is the lack of any seating on the other side. There used to be a grandstand on the other side, but that was torn down some years ago. It looks odd on TV because the 'C' at midfield is oriented for the spectators, but on TV it's upside-down.
When Chris Creighton came in he wanted to change the culture. The overall theme he made was to resemble that of a factory, especially given that EMU is about a half hour from Detroit. All the coaches wear mechanic-style shirts, the team comes out from glass garage doors before games, and there's a giant wrench that someone must carry all game. When they needed new turf, the coach said "lets make it gray" to go further into the factory theme. The stadium is now dubbed, "the factory". You can argue it's gimmicky, but it's worked. Completely turned around the trajectory of the program and turned the perennial worst program in FBS into a respectable program
Hey Depressed Ginger, I love the videos. I'm an ex-college player for South Dakota Mines. Check out our stadium online if you get a chance. We have the only stadium in the nation where you can park cars on 3 levels and tailgate on one side and also have stands on the home side.
It would seem like you’ve never been to the stadium in Boulder. It’s always hailed as one of the most beautiful stadiums in the country. It was the first stadium ever in the country with covered private seating in the mid-1960s. Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the Dal Ward center is on the north end of the field. The facility on the north east corner of the stadium provides locker rooms and services for the players. The east suites are absolutely amazing. This post makes me take all of your other postings on CZcams a lot less seriously. It’s apparent you just like to talk and not do the research the information seriously.
Some of these schools like Maryland should just take down the upper deck. Other schools can really use some general upgrades but guess its harder to do when you don't get free tax payer money. Bill Snyder looks like outside of a prison actually.
Franklin Field is actually a legendary sports venue. Back in the day it was one of the most prestigious venues in college football and in the 1940s-50s IIRC it was the typical field for the Army-Navy game. The Philadelphia Eagles used it as their first venue as well. It's really sad to see how little attention that magnificent stadium gets today, Penn horrifically struggles to get several thousand fans in the stands for some of their games. It deserves so much better.
It's the stadium where Eagles fans threw snowballs at Santa
Fun fact, you can "sit" inside Franklin Field on Google Streetview. I assume you can do that at many stadiums but I've only tried it at Franklin Field.
If I'm not mistaken, the Harvard stadium was built in 1887. The Patriots were there in 1970
I love the weird stadiums. It shows that a school has chosen to just upgrade and grow a stadium instead of building a new one.
Better a school spends money on new educational facilities than Astana ft I'm imo.
The 'FRAGODOME' I think is a much more interesting name, honestly. 🙃
If Boise did nothing more than just close off the end zone, combobulate their discombobulated seating and changed their seats to the same shades of orange and blue, I'd like their stadium more than some others.
The sporatic orange seats that you see spread throughout most of the stadium are rented seat backs. The metal bleachers don't have seat backs. As a fundraiser, they rent out seat backs that fans can use for their assigned seats. At midfield on the lower level on the west side of the field (press box side) near wear the upper leval overhangs the lower, those are permenant orange plastic seats for season ticket holders. The upperdeck is very steep. In the early 1990's when the southend upperdeck corners were added, they were also hoping to do the same to the northend upper deck, with future hopes of enclosing the upper deck at both ends. However, the initial funds only allowed the southend corners to be built, then it was rumored that new regulations were enacted that prohibited future construction of the northend corners and to have the upper deck endzone completed due to the steepness of the areas. Therefore the southend seating, which started at field level rises about halfway up to the level of the upper deck, but it is not as steep to meet the new regulations. There used to be some archectual drawings showing the upper deck fully enclosed and looked like a large bowl and was really cool looking. But with the indoor practice field and new building at the northend of the field, the upper deck will never be completed as first drawn up.
@@TahoebroncoIt would be cool if you could get from one side to the other more easily. I'm not sure you can cut thru the end zone area during a game.
Rediscombobulationaryist activity may occur if they did that
@@billl1127no you can’t my dad and I were in one of the weird angled north end zone seats this year. It’s was fun to go of course but an awkward seat. If I had wanted food it would have been annoying to get to.
Don’t forget when we used to have the track around it.
I feel like the Kibbi Dome (Idaho) should be on here instead of the Fargo Dome because it lets in a ton of natural light, to the point of the feild looking like it's outside, all without using any windows and being 100% closed off
Kibbi Can!
Maryland is very limited with what they can do in that one end zone because it's attached to Cole Field House, which is on the National Register of Historic Pllaces. So they now utilize it as the football practice facility. Any major renovation would require major alterations or destruction of Cole
There was no tougher place to play for the away team than Cole Field House. I loved that place. I was there for its last years as Terps home court and had an office in there when I worked at the student union.
For several years in the 2000's Maryland had extra bleachers set up behind the endzone. It was great because you could sit with your entire tailgate party and the view of the game was pretty good. What is pretty cool about Maryland's field is that it is right in the middle of the campus.
Eastern Michigan expanded their stadium in the '70's because the NCAA in its infinite wisdow told MAC scools that if you wanted to stay division 1 you had to expand to 30,000 seats.
Franklin Field is a classic!
Honorable mention to Memorial Stadium at Indiana State. There’s only one side of seating, and it’s really depressing compared to what the original architect plans looked like. If you ever do a part two you should include it (if you include FCS teams)
Thoughts on bridgeforth stadium (JMU)? When I attended we were FCS and it was a lot smaller. They needed to increase capacity for FBS eligibility and I kinda wish they did it more symmetrically. I do love being able to watch games from the road above, but the view may now be obstructed by the end zone seating.
The reason they upgraded the way they did in 2011 is because at the time they only had the money from donors to do one side of the stadium.
The second I opened this video I was like “Lemme guess, Spartan Stadium is gonna be on this list” and of course my school never fails to disappoint
You're school? You own it?
@@mizer9510yes he does actually
@@mizer9510everyone own a school in California.
Unique is one of a kind. Very unique or rather unique is absurd.
I like the grey field a lot better than the blue. I actually think it'd look better if they wore bright uniforms
Gray was the idea of Chris Creighton. Looks better in person. Looking to get rid of the track.
Gray was the idea of Chris Creighton. Looks better in person. Looking to get rid of the track.
10) Albertsons Stadium (Boise State)
9) Rynearson Stadium (Eastern Michigan)
8) SECU Stadium (Maryland)
7) Bill Snyder Family Stadium (Kansas State)
6) Harvard Stadium (Harvard)
5) Fargodome (NDSU)
4) Frankin Field (Penn U)
3) Folsom Field (Colorado)
2) Schoellkopf Field (Cornell)
1) CEFCU Stadium (San Jose St)
Living in Fargo, the reason for the dome is because it gets very cold late in the season.
It’s undeniably a major advantage for NDSU. Hopefully they move up to FBS soon.
It would be smarter for them to stay the biggest fish in a little pond. If they jump up to FBS, they'll never make a bowl game.
Yeah I don’t think they would ever make that jump. It might end up costing a lot of money and prestige. NDSU is well respected and even when I lived in SEC country I heard the same. They would never compete in a Power 5 conference. Maybe G5 but I don’t see the benefit of doing that. I’d love to go to a game there sometime it would be a ton of fun.
Hey I wanted to tell you I know they're an fcs school But Eastern Washington University has a red football field, and it's called the inferno. You should do a video on it.
Kstate’s exterior looks like a penitentiary
1:35 I feel like the argument of EMU games looking weird on TV would be valid if people actually watched EMU games on TV. :D
9:10 There was some seating in that area but it got torn down a few years ago.
Some honorable mentions I'd include:
Colgate University's away seating is pretty oddly shaped, like a smaller version of Cornell's.
I'm sure I'll get flak for saying this but I've always found LSU's stadium to be very weirdly cobbled together, like some architect just had a bunch of random pieces and kitbashed them together rather than coming up with a cohesive design. Especially if you look at overhead views where you can really see the different design styles for all of the various sections and how the various levels were added on over the years.
Penn State- kinda the same story, especially with the massive gaps between the home and away stands and the end zone seating.
FragoDome lol. This cracks me up. Keep it in please.
How handy for the Spartans to have a Walmart that close. Maybe Carl Sagan came up with the Cornell design.
Now I know that you haven't been to many of these places in person; Bill Snyder Family Stadium looks amazing in person. That limestone is really cool, and they used it with their Indoor Practice Facility. 2nd, it's the FARGO Dome, not the fragodome.
Penn is host of the Penn relays…one of the most famous track and field events around
Woah be careful you’re gonna upset all the die-hard Colorado fans. They’ve been filling that Stadium since August.
have you ranked the mac stadiums?
Boise St’s field does that weird patchy, pixelated thing on tv, but it’s actually really cool in person.
I would add Brooks Stadium (Coastal Carolina's stadium). I was watching a Coastal Carolina home game a couple weeks ago and I thought someone had screwed with the color settings on the TV, due to the teal turf.
Could you please ranking every college basketball arena please
Have you heard of the "Superior Dome" in Marquette MI? It's basically a high school field with bleachers, covered by a WOODEN DOME. The wood makes it very pretty on the inside but from the outside it looks like a giant igloo. Northern Michigan University is a div II school.
What’s the Fragodome?
Top ten fcs stadiums please 🙏
I wonder if my school, Tarleton St, would be on the list. It has like 24k seats
i wrestled in the fargo dome for 4 years won myself multiple stop signs there its actually a really cool venue.
Do college FCS stadiums next
Youngstown State by far the weirdest stadium Ive ever seen. For years they only had seats on one side and then about 20 years ago added a small section on vistiors side. . So weird and similar to San Jose stadium.
my dad went on a business trip to boise years ago and he got to walk the turf! he showed me alot of pictures
Maryland should just cut off both the upper decks and turn the new roof area into like a dining area to watch games from. Maybe some fun activities for kids like a mini field.
Also we love our blue field and yeah the seating is awkward on the north end zone. I agree we don’t need more seating for now.
How about gray in the end zone and green on the field
Iowa state vs Boise state there is snow on blue turf
San Jose state has such a weird field. I watched when they player Oregon State and it was so weird
DG needs to donate and provide renderings for all the stadiums he thinks needs to be updated.
As an Eastern Michigan alum, I will admit our stadium is a bit of an eye sore now. I liked it better how the field looked back around 2011. It sucks because I know they want to have a presentable stadium but it’s hard to attract folks when literally U of M is 10 minutes up the street from us.
Having Folsom on this list is an atrocity. And any flaws in the stadium are overshadowed by the amazing backdrop.
The Snyder family stadium looks like a 1920s mental hospital
love the blue field
The Cornell stadium almost looks like the old sombrero in Tampa Bay.
Man said "Frago dome" 😂😂
Rynearson Stadium really does look like its being broadcast from the 40s
How did the Superior Dome not make the cut!?! Worlds largest wooden dome is pretty weird
Boise state stadium is top 10 ugly overall
I'd suggest Montana's stadium deserves to be on this list. It looks like a kid build a stadium with whatever Lego blocks he had on hand at the time.
Could have added Coastal Carolina and their Teal turf.
Bill Snyder looks like the front of one of those old high school in every big city 😂
Cornell Field remindsc me of a 1950s Safeway.
I think Kansas State is thinking of Fort Leavenworth to be honest. I mean that is only thing I can think of. FYI yes it is a federal prison but it is also US Army Base and learning center.
Franklin Field used to be The Eagles’ home stadium
Eastern Michigan should really do away with that track. Can have a grey field, a pink ass track and grey seats
It looks like the entrance to birkineu
Making Harvard even stranger.... both teams going into the locker room have to "duck down" to like 5 feet, slipping into this tiny concrete tunnel. Maybe the football players of 1930 were about 4 feet tall?
University of Iowa with a view of the Health Sciences Campus comes to mind as unique
I love the blue flied
I change my tint if I’m watching a full Boise game. Make that field green. Boise becomes green and pink-red uniforms, which is less awful than the blue field.
You forgot the weirdest of all, Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Stadium. Talk about something that is pieced together and strange.
All stadiums regardless of construction all look better when the seats are full
Your caption is wrong. You're not rating the weirdest. You are telling us which stadium you like the least.
Franklin Feild looks like the Olympic stadium in Stockholm.
Harvard is beautiful, it is maybe the oldest in the country. No modern amenities but great sight lines and has a great soul to it.
Eastern Michigan's field is not PAINTED grey, that is the actually color of the artificial turf, just as Boise State's is blue.
I live close to San Jose. It is super weird to have one side with no seats. Not sure who agreed with this remodel.
As an EMU alum I love our gray turf. It’s the stupid track that pisses me off lol.
The Fragodome haha
Colorado can barely pay Sanders as a coach, I don't see them doing anything to that stadium for a long time.
Why is Kanas St on this list? It’s kind of beautiful
suites on one side is usually due to where the sun glare is going to be less
rich people don't like sun in the eyes
Bill Snyder stadium looks like a prison on the outside
Schoelkopf Field at Cornell may be weird, but it isn't because of the main seating area. It looks totally normal to me. It's that way partially, I think, because it's on a sloping hill. What makes it weird is the lack of any seating on the other side. There used to be a grandstand on the other side, but that was torn down some years ago. It looks odd on TV because the 'C' at midfield is oriented for the spectators, but on TV it's upside-down.
Harvard is probably the oldest stadium is football.
You can see the Washington monument and the Capitol from the upper deck at Maryland.
I love non-green football fields I.e Boise, ccu, Eastern Washington etc
Fragodome?
Frago! 😂
The Maryland stadium looks like you can fall
Should of put Indiana state stadium 🤣
Why would Eastern Michigan have a gray field when their primary color is green?
When Chris Creighton came in he wanted to change the culture. The overall theme he made was to resemble that of a factory, especially given that EMU is about a half hour from Detroit. All the coaches wear mechanic-style shirts, the team comes out from glass garage doors before games, and there's a giant wrench that someone must carry all game. When they needed new turf, the coach said "lets make it gray" to go further into the factory theme. The stadium is now dubbed, "the factory".
You can argue it's gimmicky, but it's worked. Completely turned around the trajectory of the program and turned the perennial worst program in FBS into a respectable program
#HelloPragmaticUniverseOutThere!
Brookhaven Oglethorpe has a baseball stadium that looks like K-state's
Hey Depressed Ginger, I love the videos. I'm an ex-college player for South Dakota Mines. Check out our stadium online if you get a chance. We have the only stadium in the nation where you can park cars on 3 levels and tailgate on one side and also have stands on the home side.
division 2
It would seem like you’ve never been to the stadium in Boulder. It’s always hailed as one of the most beautiful stadiums in the country. It was the first stadium ever in the country with covered private seating in the mid-1960s. Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the Dal Ward center is on the north end of the field. The facility on the north east corner of the stadium provides locker rooms and services for the players. The east suites are absolutely amazing.
This post makes me take all of your other postings on CZcams a lot less seriously. It’s apparent you just like to talk and not do the research the information seriously.
I dont knw what he talking about but i like weird stadiums
Buck the Fison. Go Rabbits!
Some of these schools like Maryland should just take down the upper deck. Other schools can really use some general upgrades but guess its harder to do when you don't get free tax payer money. Bill Snyder looks like outside of a prison actually.
20 thousand for a playoff game How pathetic
Eastern Washington and the 😳 Eye popping Red!!
Fragodome? Really bro? Fargodome. C’mon man!
Dude I think the Harvard stadium looked awesome. I never seen it before. Id play there
It says "Frago"
The soap opera continues in Tampa
1940's. LOL
Absolutely nothing wrong with Albertsons Stadium.
Upside down stadium🏟️