This is exactly it. It is not a great place for simply viewing a game but it is a great place to go to a game if you get me. I can still remember watching my Rams play there on a 70 degree sunny day and never once thought about how crappy the seats were. With newer venues that have way better sight lines and angles, I'm sure a lot of fans won't be impressed. But it is the freaking Coliseum! I absolutely have to go watch my Rams run out onto the grass and look up at the arches, Olympic Rings, and torch. Walking up to the stadium will bring back such memories - I can't wait to go there with my dad and two boys.
In my mind thee are a handful of stadiums that are "timeless".
Even some that aren't what they were like Lambeau and Soldier Field and Fenway and the original Yankee Stadium. Sometimes the venue is bigger than life because of it's legacy and history. I don't look at new stadiums in that fashion because they don't have the background and don't have decades of special moments and plays and generations of players attached to them.
It's not that I'm not a fan of a nice fancy new stadium but there are a handful of the old ones that just have a certain
je ne sais quoi.
The old Cleveland Stadium was a shithole, but when you were there you knew that Paul Brown walked on those sidelines.......... Jim Brown, Otto Graham, Bob Feller, Red Right 88, The Drive, the first televised Monday Night Football game..........yeah the place was a dump but when you looked at the field you knew there were a lot of stories and it was rich with it's own history and stories.
The Coliseum is in the conversation for tops on the list.
