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(10-08-2013 12:42 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I don't know a ton about the Met. If it is used for football, soccer, and baseball, that is incredible.

It is incredible, in the sense that it's amazing they can pull off three sports in one venue. The quality of the experience, at least for the fans, is not incredible. It's a terrible place to watch even a high school football game. So much of the seating is so far away from the field, and about half of it is behind one endzone. The away seating is pretty much perfect - you can sit on the fifty just above field level a few feet from the sideline if you want to - but it's all portable bleachers.

The last time the soccer world cup was in Hoover, their only complaint was the condition of turf. That's a pretty crucial thing to screw up. They had a certain window of time to get the new turf on the dirt part of the infield to take, and they planted the wrong stuff and had to start over.