Best West Coast Stadium for Finals

[NeutralNovice]

Pick one of the stadiums from the West Coast and say why! Also, if you want, say why one of the stadiums would suck.

If I am missing a stadium, my apologies.

I purposely left out stadiums like Invesco and Arizona because they are technically not on the west coast. Las Vegas isn't either but I thought that would be an interesting choice.

My choice would be between...

1. Oakland Coliseum because of Mt. Davis, mild and ideal weather (for me at least)

Runners Up:

New Stanford Stadium because it's simple and nice

Aloha Stadium because it's Hawai'i

Seahawks Stadium because it's pretty cool

Hopefully this will be possible come 2014!

HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS (ADDED 9/25)

Candlestick Park

Oakland Coliseum (The audience would be on the side of Mt. Davis)

Aloha Stadium

New Stanford Stadium

Spartan Stadium

Memorial Stadium

Qualcomm Stadium

Rose Bowl

LA Coliseum

Husky Stadium

These will be on other post (too many images)

Seahawks Stadium

Martin Stadium (WSU)

Autzen Stadium (U of O)

Reser Stadium (OSU)

Las Vegas

Edited September 25, 2006 by NeutralNovice

[Galen]

Going with Qwest Field in Seattle as the best of the non-California stadiums. The new Stanford one looks interesting (and it's not a Cal/Rose Bowl/LA Coliseum knock-off any more), and the sight lines from inside the stadium look good too- not sure what the parking and warmup spaces would be like though.

Edited September 21, 2006 by Galen

[Wildabeast]

Voted for the Seahawks' Stadium.

Stanford, although nice looking and preferrable (since it's only 20 minutes away from me), is smaller than it used to be.

SJSU's Spartan Stadium is also not sized for Finals-sized crowd. Add the fact that it lies underneath the flight path going into San Jose International, and that rules it out even more for me.

Monster Park (49ers) / Oakland Coliseum? - Meh

[tubawarrior]

Oakland Coliseum (Raiders) - don't you mean McAfee Coliseum??

[Wildabeast]

Oakland Coliseum (Raiders) - don't you mean McAfee Coliseum??

Heh, just refer to it as the "Black Hole". There's no corporate name attached to that. :)

[Carl306]

Seahawk Stadium! Not to mention it's in Seattle where the weather is beautiful, and you can be outside for more than a few minutes without breaking into a sweat.

[gdisney]

I don't think I know enough of these stadiums well enough to make an educated choice...plus several would never be available due to sports schedules in August. I think I would prefer a stadium that was primarily built for football; they tend to offer the best vantage point choices.

[Ben]

voted seahawks stadium. although autzen stadium in eugene would be sweet, constant press box horn lifts since the stands are right on the field, hehe.

[IllianaLancerContra]

Rose Bowl because it is the one the Drum Corps will be in

[bdkappasig]

i always loved performing in autzen stadium during northwest MB championships in hs. and it was always good to us in placement too! :)