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The guy who showed up on Halloween 1999 in a Pukes helmet, a Michael Irvin Jersey, and a headboard. That, in a nutshell, was the Vet.
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Over the artificial concrete yes absolutely, though that isn’t really “guest experience” thing. It probably falls in the lower third of grass fields in the NFL. It is brown and beat up by September, though I don’t recall it causing any playing issues.
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FWIW I love these threads about the Vet and all the wild stories that go with it. Gold.
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Originally posted by The Duck View PostThe night this happened across the street?
We were listening on the radio during the concert. Our whole section jumped to its feet on Gene's call, and it just spread around the stadium like a slow, roaring wave, until the "Let's Go Flyers" chants drowned out the Phil Collins/Chester Thompson drum duel. What an absolutely amazing night that was.
I was fortunate enough to be at the Bruins game('87) when Hextall became the first goalie in league history to score an unassisted goal. We were around ten rows off the ice and the puck went into the net right in front of us...the place was bedlam. It was just total dumb luck that I was there that night in the first place as my old college roommate was given the tickets by his mom(which was given to her by a doctor she worked with in a local hospital) and I was the first person who he thought would go with him...turned out to be a magical night as the game was fierce and had a playoff vibe to it as Cashman and O'Reilly were still on the Bruins if I remember correctly.
I have waaay many more fond memories of Phillies games at the Vet(than the Eagles). #1 on that last has to be the 14-inning affair during the Sept. '80 stretch run against the defending WS champion Pirates which featured numerous fight in the stands with 53,000 on hand..Pier 9 brawls in the stands as The Bulletin described it. It was one of those games when the Phils kept falling behind and would come back to tie it. Schmidt came up in the bottom of the 8th in a clutch situation and hit one of his trademark towering blasts off the top of the LF fence to drive in two runs to tie the game...the place was going bonkers....never forget how loud it was at that moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe75FnQVrCsLast edited by headknocker; 03-14-2019, 11:43 AM.
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OZZIE SUCKS CHANT WAS A CLASSIC. BUT HE LOVED IT.
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TITS TITS TITS.
AND THEN THERE WAS THE CREW WITH THE.....
EAGLES GAMES
EAGLES GAMES
F**K YOU UP
DA DA DA DA, DA DA DA DA DADA.
HEY
SONG TEN TIMES A GAME.Last edited by DEERSPINE GUY; 03-14-2019, 06:46 AM.
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Originally posted by DEERSPINE GUY View PostI WAS IN SECTION 726 ROW 3. STARTING IN 1981. SMALL ROW NEXT TO THE ENTRANCE WAY. PERFECT SEATS. SECURITY GUARD KNEW WE BROUGHT BEER HOAGIES IN AND NEVER SAID A WORD WHILE WE WERE GETTING HAMMERED, AND SMOKING THE TWISTED FATTIES.
OZZIE WITH HIS SEAGULL PAINTED GREEN DOING THE EAGLES CHANT, AND THE T-I-T-S-TITS CHANTS.
WE HAD A THREAD ABOUT VET BEFORE THAT BLEW UP. THIS WILL TOO. LOVED THAT PLACE.
OZZIE SUCKS!
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Originally posted by DEERSPINE GUY View PostWAS THERE FOR GENESIS ALSO.
We were listening on the radio during the concert. Our whole section jumped to its feet on Gene's call, and it just spread around the stadium like a slow, roaring wave, until the "Let's Go Flyers" chants drowned out the Phil Collins/Chester Thompson drum duel. What an absolutely amazing night that was.
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I caught that Bowie show
I was so high I can't remember if Genesis was RFK or the Vet; prolly the Vet....Floyd in 94 was perfect in the circular venue.
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SAW DAVID BOWIE IN 87, GLASS SPIDER TOUR. SAT RIGHT BEHIND PHILLIES DUGOUT. WAS THERE FOR GENESIS ALSO.
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Originally posted by The Duck View PostI collapsed a lung there. Section 724, 4th & 1 game, December '95. Stayed til the end and then went straight to the ER at Jefferson. One of my happiest Vet memories.
I loved that dump.
OZZIE WITH HIS SEAGULL PAINTED GREEN DOING THE EAGLES CHANT, AND THE T-I-T-S-TITS CHANTS.
WE HAD A THREAD ABOUT VET BEFORE THAT BLEW UP. THIS WILL TOO. LOVED THAT PLACE.
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Originally posted by IronEagle View PostThing is it really wasn't a dump for the first couple of decades it was open. I think at some point they stopped maintaining it and the combination of no maintenance and age caused it to become a dump.
Probably after Camden Yards opened. The design became functionally obsolete at that time. It was still good enough to host the MLB All Star game in 1996.
The fact that it had rats the size of coyotes and always reeked of piss and Schmidt's only enhances my enduring fondness of the place.
Long live The Vet.
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The scoreboards and the bathroom situation is better at the Linc. That’s it.
In the 100 level the cant of the seating is not steep enough for a child or a short adult to see the field well at all.
Rows are longer. If you are in seat 12 or 13 in the 200 level you have to get past 11 people to get out.
At the Vet I was out of my section and meeting IE at halftime in a minute. It took me three minutes just to get of my 200 level section.Last edited by RSE; 03-13-2019, 08:14 PM.
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Originally posted by IronEagle View PostPS Speaking of All Star games, Philadelphia is due to host one sometime soon, IMO.
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