Ohio Stadium aka THE Horseshoe (Official Thread)

[UpNorth_Buckeye]

I like it. Looks like the same color as the Buckeye leaf...

My screen at work isn't that great. Is it green or black?

 

[VBSJ]

My screen at work isn't that great. Is it green or black?

When I first saw it, it looked black.

Both the Value City Arena logos (in the Schott) face the press box too.

Personally, I can't recall a time where there were Big Ten logos on the Ohio Stadium field (not in my lifetime). I guess it's branding.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

When I first saw it, it looked black.

Both the Value City Arena logos (in the Schott) face the press box too.

Personally, I can't recall a time where there were Big Ten logos on the Ohio Stadium field (not in my lifetime). I guess it's branding.

Way back (I mean WAYYYY) back , the old turf had 'Big 10' incorporated with the block 'O' at the 50. The 'O' was the zero in 10.

 

[Nicknam4]

Now I can finally know what conference we're in. Yay.

 

[OSU_D/]

When I first saw it, it looked black.

Both the Value City Arena logos (in the Schott) face the press box too.

Personally, I can't recall a time where there were Big Ten logos on the Ohio Stadium field (not in my lifetime). I guess it's branding.

I hope Indiana's field doesn't have the Big 10 logo. I don't want to cheapen the brand.

 

[Onebuckfan]

I hope Indiana's field doesn't have the Big 10 logo. I don't want to cheapen the brand.

They could leave it off Beaver Stadium..Joe and Jerry's playground

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

I hope State Penn's field doesn't have the Big 10 logo. I don't want to cheapen the brand.

FIFY

 

[knapplc]

B1G logos added to the field today...

I cannot believe you guys copied our field like that. First you steal our idea for the groovy architectural half-dome, then you copy our parti-colored field turf design, now you take our idea for a Big Ten logo.

Wow.

 

[Buckeye86]

I cannot believe you guys copied our field like that. First you steal our idea for the groovy architectural half-dome, then you copy our parti-colored field turf design, now you take our idea for a Big Ten logo.

Wow.

I realize you are just kidding but Ohio Stadium was opened in 1922 and Memorial Stadium was opened in 1923 so nah nah na boo boo. You aren't in the Big 12 anymore. :tongue2:

 

[svrnblk]

Does anyone know if the new scoreboard has been completed yet?

 

[CleveBucks]

Does anyone know if the new scoreboard has been completed yet?

Not yet. Still missing the OSU logo on top where they used to hide the speakers. I can't see the other side but we should find out tomorrow night.

 

[BigWoof31]

This new scoreboard looks to be about twice as long as the one UGA installed a couple of years ago. If memory serves, there were some initial bugs that had to be worked out at the beginning and some of the different sections would occasionally "go black" as an error occured.

The new screen looks great and I'm sure you'll love your new screen too. Especially during highlights when the entire screen can be used for replays.

However, I saw this picture of the old UGA scoreboard from the 70's and early 80's and wish we kept the bulldog at the top. Just glaring at you with a nail through a bat, ready to hand out an ass-whipping as needed.

 

[BUCKYLE]

This new scoreboard looks to be about twice as long as the one UGA installed a couple of years ago. If memory serves, there were some initial bugs that had to be worked out at the beginning and some of the different sections would occasionally "go black" as an error occured.

The new screen looks great and I'm sure you'll love your new screen too. Especially during highlights when the entire screen can be used for replays.

However, I saw this picture of the old UGA scoreboard from the 70's and early 80's and wish we kept the bulldog at the top. Just glaring at you with a nail through a bat, ready to hand out an ass-whipping as needed.

Looks like a pig with a shitty hammer. Can you remember the name of the special needs child that submitted that design or was that before your time?

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio Stadium after 90 years of Buckeyes' tradition and memories
Sun Aug 12, 2012.
By JIM NAVEAU

COLUMBUS ? Ohio Stadium celebrates its 90th birthday as the home of Ohio State football this season, and thanks to renovations and updates, doesn?t act its age.

It looks like it could still be around for another 90 years of legendary players, coaches and games. Another 90 years of traditions and memories.

Nearly 40 million fans have shared their Saturday afternoons ? and in recent years, some of their Saturday nights ? with the Buckeyes at the stadium.

The first game at Ohio Stadium was on Oct. 7, 1922, when Ohio State won its season opener 5-0 over Ohio Wesleyan. Interestingly, five years later Michigan?s first game at Michigan Stadium was a 33-0 win over Ohio Wesleyan.

While today?s games are regularly sellouts, a crowd of only around 25,000, less than half of capacity, was there for the opener, leading critics to say OSU had built too much stadium and that it would never be filled.

The Buckeyes averaged 32,500 fans in their five home games in 1922, with almost half of that season?s attendance coming in the Michigan game when more than 70,000 packed into the stadium.

Discussions about building a new stadium began almost a decade before Ohio Stadium opened in 1922 when Ohio State realized the increasing popularity of Buckeyes football had made its old stadium, Ohio Field (14,000 capacity), too small.

A fund-raising campaign brought in more than $1 milllion of the nearly $1.5 million required to build the horseshoe-shaped stadium, designed by architect Howard Dwight Smith, an OSU graduate who would later design St. John Arena.

Ohio Stadium?s original capacity was 66,210. Listed capacity topped 80,000 in 1960, went over 90,000 in 1991 and now is 103,329.

The Horseshoe currently is the fourth largest college football stadium behind only Michigan Stadium, Penn State?s Beaver Stadium and Tennessee?s Neyland Stadium.

A massive renovation project from 1999-2001 that cost $194 million got Ohio Stadium ready for the 21st Century.

The continual tweaking of the stadium continues this season with the installation of a new video screen and new speakers on the scoreboard and the installation of more than 200 high definition televisions in concourses and public areas.

But the stadium?s familiar look, its history and its memories remain the same.

http://www.limaohio.com/sports/buckeyes/article_d1557f64-e46e-11e1-9e51-0019bb30f31a.html

 

[MD Buckeye]

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