In praise of Thunderdome of a fall Saturday

‘Tis the season for stadium news, and while we’re on the topic, Steven Godfrey has a point to consider:

I don't like the new Kyle Field renderings. It just loses that homey air of "post apocalyptic gang fight container."—
Steven Godfrey (@38Godfrey) February 20, 2013

That's what I love about Kyle Field now – it looks like 60 percent of a former stadium, just the parts that survived a nuclear bomb.—
Steven Godfrey (@38Godfrey) February 20, 2013

"Scariness" is an ignored aesthetic in stadium design. LSU looks like a patchwork concrete Voltron from hell, and we all love that place.—
Steven Godfrey (@38Godfrey) February 20, 2013

He’s not wrong. We have never felt more welcomed at a sporting event than when we pulled out a chair at Legion Field to discover a four-inch bolt, origins unknown, already occupying our seat. The spice of possible structural doom can liven up even the most pedestrian of games.