I was down at BMO Field Friday night, and they had it lit up doing work for the women's soccer game on Saturday. It looks spectacular. The Argo players and we the fans are going to love going down there for games. It is going to be the best environment for football in Toronto since before Exhibition Stadium was reconfigured for baseball in 1977. Home field advantage is about to mean something in Toronto.
GO ARGOS!!!
I really wish I had been to a game at the Ex before the rebuild. My seats were usually on the covered side which was changed only slightly, but still ...
BMO is going to be the first time in 41 (!) years we have had a home stadium where the stands are equidistant from the field all along each sideline. It's a miracle!
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Our seats were on the covered side too. When I look at that and where we were in Skydome, we have been so far away from the action. I cannot wait to see the game Saturday from close up for the first time since I had season seats in Ottawa in the mid 1970s.
GO ARGOS!!!
I never went to a game pre 1977, but it looks like it was very well constructed for football.
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Argo locker rooms were on the south side at about the 20-30 yard line. Player parking was right where you see it in the post 1977 picture. I don't think that white building in the end zones was there in the 80's. At least it wasn't there in the early 80's when I saw Bob Seger!
The concert stage (post renos) would've usually been left on the E side of the stadium whenever the Jays or Argos were playing. The structures look similar enough to be the same structure.
TORONTO ARGONAUTS FOOTBALL CLUB
GREY CUP CHAMPIONS: 1914, 1921, 1933, 1937, 1938, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1983, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2012, 2017, 2022
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Here's the Exhibition Stadium stage thing in action - The Who playing in front of 68,000 fans in 1980
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