Husky Stadium recently ranked as one of the top 11 venues in college football according to Ivan Maisel, one of the games’ great writers. In a post on on3.com the analyst ranked the top venues in alphabetical order. It may or may not be in the top ten. But it is on a list that includes home fields for Alabama, Army, Notre Dame, Ohio State and others.
What’s Not to Like?
“I’m a sucker for Husky Stadium,” Maisel wrote. “The setting, with a view beyond one end zone of Lake Washington and, on a clear day, the Cascade Mountains, is sublime. The roofs that jut over the grandstands not only provide protection from the rain but reverberate the decibel level produced by those often damp but never shy fans. Washington is the rare college football program that thrives in a pro sports market, which means you get a college football experience while enjoying a major American city. The fate of the Huskies is uncertain in this unsettling new age, but they have a solid program in an ideal venue in a great city. What’s not to like?”
Maisel is a Hall-of-Fame football writer, honored so by the Football Writers Association of America. He has been covering college football since the 1980s.
Husky Stadium was constructed in 1920. It’s first covered grandstand was built in 1950 and the covered grandstand on the north side was added in 1987. Modern reconstruction took place beginning in November 2011 and the team returned to Montlake for the 2013 season after playing at then Century Link Stadium (now Lumen Field), the home of the Seattle Seahawks. Among other changes the reconstruction took out the track that circled the playing surface, allowing fans to be closer to the field.
“I’m a sucker for Husky Stadium. The setting, with a view beyond one end zone of Lake Washington and, on a clear day, the Cascade Mountains, is sublime. The roofs that jut over the grandstands not only provide protection from the rain but reverberate the decibel level produced by those often damp but never shy fans. Washington is the rare college football program that thrives in a pro sports market, which means you get a college football experience while enjoying a major American city. The fate of the Huskies is uncertain in this unsettling new age, but they have a solid program in an ideal venue in a great city. What’s not to like?”
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