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the only church where shouting at strangers is encouraged and beer costs a kidney
means A large enclosed venue, typically open-air with banked seating, built to host sporting events or concerts before big crowds.
from From Latin 'stadium,' borrowed from Greek 'stadion'—which was both a foot-race and the track it was run on, and also a unit of distance (roughly 185 metres, the length of that race). The Greek word may be tied to 'spadion,' from a verb meaning 'to draw' or 'stretch,' fitting for a stretch of ground you sprint across. So the modern bowl of roaring fans descends, fittingly, from an ancient running lane.
- ancient roots
- Greeks raced naked in the very first ones
- the wave
- a crowd ripple travels at 40 feet per second
- acoustic weapon
- Seattle fans once triggered a seismograph
- empty echo
- silent stadiums forced fake crowd noise on broadcasts
- name games
- corporate naming rights flip faster than the scoreboard
old trafford — manchester united's home since 1910, capacity 74,000
camp nou — fc barcelona's stadium since 1957, europe's largest by capacity at 99,354
wembley — england's national stadium, hosted 2012 olympics and euro 2020 final