Plenty of stadiums considered "good" by many are asymmetrical. St James Park is an incredibly ugly stadium but people don't complain about it in this way.
This is incredibly common throughout the world. You can watch Belgian top flight in literal farm fields.
I would not say zero, the NFL would love to be in this market. but very low yes
Not sure about your Toronto connection. My Understanding is that McGill played Harvard in one of the earliest games.
It would have happened by now if that were true, and there have been many attempts by local groups since the 1960s. The NFL has learned from baseball and basketball that Canadian teams, especially when they have playoff success, depress U.S. ad revenue, and nothing is more sacrosanct to the NFL than its domestic media deals. Notice that the Montreal Expos and the Vancouver Grizzlies have not been replaced. Neither would the Jays or Raptors if they ever left.
You have to search for it. American football historians are keen to promote Princeton vs Rutgers in 1869 as football's origin, but accounts of that game make it sound more like soccer than football. Both teams basically lined up 15-20 players across from each other and scoring was limited to one point when they kicked a round ball through the opponent's line. McGill's visit down to Harvard in May 1874 changed everything. They played two games using each others rules. Harvard preferred McGill's rules, which featured an oblong ball, running with the ball, tackling, a system of downs, and touching the ball down in the opponent's end, a precursor to the modern touchdown. Walter Camp, known as the father of American football, was a Yale player in the 1870s, and he used many of Harvard's innovations to standardize American football rules in the 1880s. Prior to that, teams had to agree to the rules before games.
Not totally sure I totally agree with your supposition. We have built some pretty big things in this city, think CN Tower, Skydome, our skyline in general, etc etc. But I also agree that BMO Field is by far the worst of the World Cup Stadiums. I wish we had a world class football stadium as well, just not sure there is a need for it.
And one last one, by far the largest transit expansion in North America. I think sometimes we forget how much we are building here. Not all of it perfect but still..........Oh, and I forgot the widest and busiest highway in the world (401), but many on here would not consider that much of an accomplishment
I don't think folks are clamoring for a world class stadium, but upgrading it to something better than a Texas high school football stadium for the World Cup seems like a reasonable expectation. These are some MLS stadiums with similar capacities to BMO in Cincinatti and Nashville:
The stadium's West Stand seems the most micky mouse part of the stadium of to me. A dingy press box on top of the stands and a too-high canopy that's almost useless in shielding fans from the elements.
Not fair to exclude GO and include state/national projects in my opinion. GO once complete, will be transformative to the region. I see a lot of the LA projects are at grade light rail where more of ours is heavy rail and tunnelled LRT. I still hold to my original claim that the GTHA has more transit under construction than any other metro in NA, especially if we include the Hamilton and Hurontario LRT projects.
These stadiums aren't expandable though, are they? As much as we may lament the design of BMO it does allow it to be temporarily expanded for specific events. Unfortunately the World Cup is one of those events for temporary rather than permanent expansion.
