re new home for the bosox in article apr scott skidmore edu jrogoff scott skidmore edu jay rogoff writes while we re on the multipurpose subject let s not forget shea which was designed to accommodate both the mets jets it was the first stadium i think to have the box seats on rollers so they could be oriented at right angles for baseball in parallel for football minor point shea stadium was designed as a multi purpose stadium but not with the jets in mind as the tennant the new york football giants had moved to yankee stadium from the polo grounds in and was having problem with stadium management the city did not own yankee stadium until the idea was to get the giants to move into shea when a deal was worked out between the giants and the yankees the new afl franchise the new york titans approached the city about using the new stadium the titans were playing in downing stadium where the cosmos played soccer in the s because shea stadium was tied into the world s fair anyway the city thought it would be a novel idea to promote the new franchise and the world s fair like they were doing with the mets so the deal was worked out of course with the jets gone to jersey and a truly good football stadium the mets are saddled with a multipurpose stadium where because it s circular the seats are almost always too far from the action the mets announcers kiner murphy in particular have always hyped it as beautiful shea stadium a tipoff to how unbeautiful it truly is i m under the impression that when murph says it he means it as a regular goer to shea it is not a bad place since they ve cleaned and renovated the place remember this is its th year scott barman mets mailing list feed the following into your shell scott asd com mail mets request asd com subscribe let s go mets
