ZB Game of the Week: Dolphins at Saints

by | Sep 28, 2013 | 2013 season, Football Stadiums

Heading into the season I would not have expected to be looking forward to this game as much as I am. The Saints were clearly going to be better than in 2012, but undefeated and dominant, particularly on defense, is unexpected. The Dolphins were also going to be better. But so far the fish have stuck right with New England for tops in the AFC East.

Monday Night Football does not get many of the prime games anymore, but they lucked in to a dual between two 3-0 teams this week. It should be a good one to watch. Brian Miller, editor of PhinPhanatic.com, and Bill Stephens, a writer for SaintsGab.com, have both shared some thoughts on how this game will play out. (more…)

Zoneblitz Visits “Hallowed” Ground

by | Aug 7, 2009 | Football Road Trips, Football Stadiums

Our road trip to Canton for Saturday’s Pro Football Hall of Fame induction has thus far been mostly baseball focused–hence our posting updates primarily over on our baseball blog.

But yesterday, while cruising through Indiana, we took a brief stop in South Bend to visit the beautiful campus of the alma mater of a friend of Andy’s.

And, while we were there, we took a quick jaunt through Notre Dame to check out their football stadium too.

Last time we were in this part of the country, we visited THE Ohio State University to check out their stadium-and I have to admit, I was a lot more impressed by theirs.  Although Notre Dame’s stadium appeared to allow better close up access (although we chose not to park and walk around, as we were a bit behind schedule thanks to traffic in Chicago), it wasn’t nearly as impressive in size, and it really appeared to be just a basic bowl from the outside.

We were able to see just a little bit of the field through the open tunnel that the players make their famed walk through on game days, but the whole area, including Touchdown Jesus looking down from above, just wasn’t that impressive to me.  Granted, it’s probably a lot better atmosphere on game day, rather than a random Thursday afternoon during summer.

Other than that, South Bend seemed like a quaint little college town-we didn’t nearly explore it to it’s fullest, in part because we were looking for a place for lunch-and from the highway to downtown, all we found was McDonalds and Burger King (although, we finally found a little restaurant/bar right by campus called Mulligans that had some decent  stacked sandwiches with fries in the sandwich.

Today we’re off to Cleveland-it was our original intent to tour Cleveland Browns Stadium today, but when we called last week to make reservations (per the instructions on the Browns’ Web site), we found out that they are not doing tours any more “this season.”  Thanks for keeping that part of the site up to date, Browns-although, I guess that’s the way your organization has been run since you got back in the league.