by Mosi on Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:41 pm
ok without the rotting corpse of Campion to chip in I think that I can safely say that I am the only member of the EO' family' that was at the last football game played at Fenway, Dec 1 1968 vs the expansion Cinn Bengals (according to wikepedia, i was one of the 17796 in attendence) and that was a papered house, as i went with about 35 other 8th grade players from irish Riv youth center football.
there is going to be big trouble staging the game here, for reasons mentioned about the Liverpool game that was here last year. In the 60s the field ran from the bullpens to the 3rd base dugout, with not much room before the low 3rd base walls. Since the recent years renovations at least 2 or 4 rows have been added from the dugout to wear the wall juts out and turns down the foul line. Since we dont have an engineering school I cant say for sure, but I'b bet there is no fucking way to squeeze a 120 yard field in there.
Back in the day there were also temp stands up against the Monstah, in face most of us watched little football that day, and sprnt muchof it pretending we were Yaz leaping against the real fucking scoreboard and wall (remember we were 13 years old and this was one year removed from the Impossible Dream)
bottom line is, this will give the program tremndous attention, its not 'our' game its 'their' game and a night game in November? I'll be all for watching it from Remy's or the Baseball Tavern
"Felgie, you Kenmore Kommunity Kollege Eurotrash prettyboy, you're right about one thing, I'm a BC guy and my shit dosen't stink" Mosi on the whiner line 3/23/04