A big play for youth, pro rugby is taking shape near downtown Indianapolis

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2 thoughts on “A big play for youth, pro rugby is taking shape near downtown Indianapolis

  1. Oxymoronic statement: “while the stadium wouldn’t be large enough to host World Cup matches”.
    Yet, $45 million is being targeted to ‘hopefully’ bring USA Soccer’s headquarters from Colorado. An 8,000 seat stadium is pretty much what this was 60 years ago as the CYO football field. Charles Schwab baseball stadium in Omaha replaced Rosenblatt for one purpose, to host the NCAA baseball ‘World Series’. For all intents and purposes, it’s a beautiful ‘ big league’ ballpark, with seating for 26,000 that was designed for symmetrical expansion to 35,000. It’s only used once a year. The AAA Stormchasers play in a 10,000 seat stadium in the same city. The point: Unless it’s big enough. ‘they WON’T come’. This renovation needs to initially seat at least 15,000 or ‘hopes’ of hosting anything on a national basis are nothing more than ‘wishful thinking’. Suppose Carl Fisher and company built IMS with less than the original 80,000 seats in 1908, but with 10,000? Does anyone think what evolved would have? Doubtful. Few know that the Same Fisher and eventual Speedway partners built the finest wooden Velodrome in the country, Newby Stadium, at 30th and Fall Creek that held 20,000 in the early 1890’s before there were cars, only bicycles. Can you say ‘Marshall Major Taylor’. Federal Park (site of the controversial Indy 11 construction site) was a ‘modern’ steel and concrete ballpark opening in 1913. It held 19,686. That’s 5,000 more than Victory Field which opened exactly 28 years ago this month. Why does the CIB think so small?

    1. Um … is the CIB even involved in this project?

      Looks like a private developer can only afford 8000 seats.

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