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Originally Posted by Joborule
I think recent trends in America have shown that teams/owners are very weary to shifting configurations for different playing fields. Reason being the seatings can suck for the non primary configuration (or all of them). The most common being football and baseball, have owners that are in those current setups move into new faculties that's purely intended for one sport only. I don't think Flames ownership would want to do something like that. And with NHL being the only major league here, doesn't make sense for them economically since it would cost A LOT to do that I figure.
Flames are going to make an arena that can be used for hockey, basketball, lacrosse, and conventions/concerts. And they will renovate McMahon for football and soccer I'd imagine.
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I realize that multisport buildings aren't popular anymore but the main issue with buildings like the skydome is that they are simply too big for baseball which is why all the new MLB fields are on the small size compared to football. I am talking about something in the range of 30,000 that isn't really going to be substancially larger than a standard 20,000 seat areana. The only steats that may be compromised is for baseball but we are really only looking at smaller crowds anyway. Soccer, football, and hockey all use the same essential seating patterns.