Toronto sports arena/stadium

The most famous arena in Toronto history is Maple Leafs Gardens which was

the hallow ground that held sporting events from 1931 to 1999 especially

Toronto Maple Leafs hockey games and it only cost 1.5 million in 1931

while it only took 6-month to build. The new arena which is the Air Canada

Centre aka the acc which is a good looking arena and you can see the game

well in every seat and it cost 265 million and it took 23 month to build.

The Skydome has been the home of the Toronto Blue Jays since June 5 of

1989 and fans loved it a lot until 1994 and surprisingly the Jays were

close to the best if not the best until '94 when they fell back to earth

hard and the fans have never come back since. The fans loved the stadium

when the team was on top of the world and since it has been less than half

full now the fans constantly complain about the stadium's feel and look.

While it cost 600 million and the ontario government sold it for 300

million which means the government was left paying the other 300 million

and it took 33 month (2 3/4 years) to build. While they used to play at

the exhibition stadium that people filled the seats for almost all jays

games and even The Toronto Argos games got packed crowds(canadian football

league) and now they can only dream of selling tickets to the upper level

of the Skydome for a game.

In closing older stadiums/arenas are better because they have a lot more

history and people have more memories from the old stadiums/arenas and

that these new stadiums/arenas may not have because they may not be around

long enough to have people feel the same as they did for the old stadiums/

arenas. Also the biggest blunder of the stadiums/arenas is the Skydome

which the government put up the money for and the bill just kept getting

bigger and bigger so it is better when a person is in control of the

building budget because they would be a little smarter with the use of

money than the government would be.

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Tom Mehegan