Awesome. The spectator experience is still awful. Being inside the Big Owe made pre-reno Skydome feel like Camden Yards. That thing needs a complete gut job at this point.
And it'll still be better to see a game at BMO.
I've seen half a dozen soccer games at the Big O over the past 15 years and several hundred at BMO.
$950 million spent in renos and they'll still keep the ridiculous seating layout for baseball. But at least the roof will be nice 50 years later.
You really don't see multipurpose venues like that anymore. The Skydome transforming into a 'ballpark' rather than a multipurpose facility has been a pretty strong success I'd say (as someone who goes to a lot of games every year). And the dome actually kind of did have a little moment of post reno recognition last October in the World Series. I saw a good amount of reaction from American media that hadn't been to a game in years really raving about the changes. I do think a city of Toronto's size should have a larger NFL type stadium for larger events though, especially now that the Dome is basically baseball specific.
This is a very active conversation in soccer circles but runs into two issues:
I dont think he was specifically implying it has to be a national soccer stadium. Just that we need one, but yes only way would be with a Nfl team. Unless argos and toronto fc decide to build brand new, but 50k would be too much even. This is canada in the end.
Why I prefaced my post saying that the idea of a larger stadium in Toronto is discussed outside of just NFL circles.
This attitude does us no good and is a good reason why we've ended up where we have.