Nippert Stadium

[tlotharw]

(08-24-2016, 10:48 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: Anyone old enough here, to say they saw the Bengals, and Greg Cook, play at Nippert Stadium?

Anybody old enough here, that was a Browns fan, the only Ohio team back then, BEFORE the Bengals came to town in 1968?

(08-25-2016, 08:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: In 1983 I went to Chapel Hill to watch my Tennessee-Chattanooga Mocs (coming off a season where they were ranked as high as #15 in the country) play UNC (with Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, and Brad Daugherty).  This was before UNC built the Dean Dome and they played in Carmichael Arena that was supposed to seat about 11,000.  When we arrived we were amazed at how small the place was.  It did not look like it would hold anything close to 11,000.  then we saw thatall the bleachers were benches and the seat nunbers were about 10 inches apart.  It didn't matter because almost everyone stood up for the entire game.

When they put seats into Carmichael the capacity dropped to 8,000.

Off topic much?

To the first post.

I was at Nippert as a 12 year old for the inaugural 1968 season and saw the dust rise from the sack that ended Greg Cook's career the following year.


I was a big Browns fan before that.  That was Ohio's team.  I had no reason to dislike the team from Cleveland until I was confronted with the northern Ohio vitriol when the Reds were playing for the World Series title in 1975 in my second year at Ohio State - a northern Ohio school.  I thought, foolishly, that we were all going to pull for Ohio's team.  I underestimated the jealously of Cleveland fans. 


I have hated that city and their teams ever since.