81. Why would any mayor, when the city is not paying for it, not want a domed stadium downtown to increase tourist business? 82. Without that antitrust exemption, the Giants would be playing in that awful domed stadium in St. Petersburg today. 83. Among the many joys of the game is the lack of domed stadiums, plastic grass, hyperactive scoreboards blaring music and commanding people to cheer. 84. Fans like Andrew Martin had to settle for watching the game on one of the two video screens at each end of the domed stadium. 85. Former New York Yankees great Don Mattingly, who played his last game in the Kingdome, was a little wistful about the old domed stadium. 86. Offensive linemen on both teams wore battery-operated noise-reducing devices in an ongoing experiment aimed at reducing the effect of crowd noise in domed stadiums. 87. The arena has a retractable roof and England would like to acclimitize to indoor conditions since it will play at least one game inside a domed stadium in Japan. 88. The domed stadium competition is thin. 89. The next four Super Bowls are in San Diego, Houston, Jacksonville and Detroit, which is opening its new domed stadium this year. 90. The state Legislature has approved a committee to study plans to build a domed stadium in the suburbs, but no action has been taken. |