As my job takes requires a little more travel than I would often prefer, I try to carve away some time to visit football stadiums and basketball arenas in college towns and professional cities whenever I can. I’ve found that I have always been particularly interested in big stadiums and great venues…even when games are not being played.
If you have never been to a game in College Station, TX then I would certainly encourage you to try to find a way to get there. Whether you find yourself pulling for Texas A&M or pulling against them, the experience of a game at Kyle Field is very unique. Of course, there are a lot of similarities between the land-grant institutions of Texas A&M and North Carolina State University; and, because of the natural similarities in the schools and the people I have always hoped that the Wolfpack and the Aggies would find a way to compete against each other with some kind of regularity. To this point, it hasn’t happened.
Nonetheless, because of all of these factors I thought I’d share this real quickly. From Reuters —
That’s the west side of the football stadium at the heart of Texas A&M … coming down Sunday morning in a controlled explosion. It’s part of major changes at Kyle Field …. a $450 million project to redevelop what fans like to call “The Home of the 12th Man”. It took a couple of thousands pounds of explosions to make it happen.
