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JOHN'S SPECIAL: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - DEFUNCT FOOTBALL STADIUMS
There's evidence of teams having football teams before that are no longer active. I can prove it too. I may put up some pictures so you can see for yourself. What I learned about some schools is that some schools without current football teams have some stadiums either in great condition or slowly dying out and grassing up. I'll explain some examples courtesy of Google Maps. If you have IE7, you can use that Zoom Level feature to see the picture a bit closer.
* St John's University - Jamaica, NY
St. John's University was part of the MAAC in football and is currently a participant in the Big East for most other sports. This school is based in the greater New York City area in the borough of Queens. The St. John's campus had their last football season in 2002. From what I seen, St. John's seems to have a fairly fresh football field even though there's no more Red Storm football. Even though the school is in the Queens area, I don't think you really get to see the high-rises of lower Manhattan. The football field still stands even with a good array of seats available. I likely think the area is still used for track and field. Take a look below:
* University of Texas-Arlington - Arlington, TX
Now let's return to my home state after a spell in New York state. Texas is a football-rich state. It doesn't matter if you love the NFL, college, high school, middle school, pee-wee... Texas is a football state. But what happens when some of the big-name schools don't have football teams? One of those is Texas-Arlington. This northern Texas school had 1985 as their final year of pigskin tossing. I was two years old then. I saw a satellite view of Texas-Arlington and noticed the still-standing football field. The end zones were blue with "Mavericks" on both end zones. The stadium looked pretty fresh along with the fresh football field. There has been talk of some students of UTA looking to see Texas-Arlington return Mavericks football to the Southland Conference. Here's your top-down look at Texas-Arlington's football field:
* University of the Pacific - Stockton, CA
Let's look at the University of the Pacific. The University of the Pacific used to known as the College of the Pacific. I know it used to be called that because there used to be a logo of a tiger up in the air with a stadium in the background. Unlike the two I discussed earlier, the University of the Pacific has a football stadium that looks pretty dated. The Pacific Tigers used to call their old stadium the home of UotP football. The layout is sort of like a horseshoe. The field itself looks dated considering 1995 was the last year of Tigers football at this stadium. This is your look at UOP's stadium below:
I won't have the luxury of broadband Internet at my house to have more efficient usage of the Google Maps service. So I may try to update my findings in another thread or so. Maybe it's expensive to bring down such stadiums. Either that, or the schools may want them to stand there to maybe keep some memories alive there. I used to be a student of Lamar University. If you've been to Lamar University (Beaumont, TX, USA) and you've looked around Montagne Center, there is an old football field around Montagne Center. I think some high school football was played a lot at that old stadium. Lamar's football program ended either in the 1980s or the early 1990s. But if I find some other colleges and universities that once had football teams and still have hints of their stadium left, I'll share them with you all.
