ND at Yankee Stadium Official - 2010! - Irish Envy

**NDinL.A.** · 07-08-2009, 07:08 PM

Notre Dame will play Army at Yankee Stadium, but in 2010 as opposed to 2013. The Army AD must have seen the real $$$ that the game would bring his school, because at first he was 'shocked' that Swarbrick had talked about the idea without talking to him first. This is probably why the 2010 schedule was never publicly finalized. Check out the article:

NOTRE DAME AND ARMY AT YANKEE STADIUM OFFICIAL « ROAD TO GAME DAY

**The Polish Irishman** · 07-08-2009, 08:50 PM

Great News to bring back a great tradition

**BGIF** · 07-08-2009, 09:36 PM

I understand the nostalgia of playing at Yankee Stadium but not the economics. The new stadium seats 52,000. ND used to play to 75 -79,000 fans at The House That Ruth Built.

The agrument for playing Rutgers at Giants Stadium versus New Brunswick was the additional 25,000 seats in The Meadowlands. Rutgers Stadium has 2,000 more seats than the New Yankee Stadium.

The same situation exists with Soldier Field in Chicago. 120,000 fans used to pay to watch the Irish play there. The reduced capacity of the current facility is around 60,000 which means 20,000 less ND fans get to watch the game live than they would if the game was played in South Bend.

**jason_h537** · 07-08-2009, 11:11 PM

Yeah but the Yankees cant even sell out the house so they are trying whatever they can to make money.

**Ultimate Penn St. Hater** · 07-08-2009, 11:46 PM

Even though I hate the Yankees, I'll be there. Go Irish!

**BGIF** · 07-09-2009, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jason_h537

Yeah but the Yankees cant even sell out the house so they are trying whatever they can to make money.

It's been common for more than a 100 years for baseball stadiums to be rented out to make money from other activities such as, football games, religious services, concerts, soccer matches, championship fights, and hockey games among others. The Yankees rented out the Old Yankee Stadium for the Pope, Championship Fights, NY Giants Football, U2, and ND football. Most ball parks have done the same over time. The Mets, Indians, Orioles, Tigers, Red Sox, Phillies, Giants, and Dodgers have all rented their facilities to bring in additional revenue via ND football games.

The point was 20,000 - 30,000 fewer ND fans get to see the game in each of these cases, be it Yankee Stadium vs Giants Stadium, Soldier Field vs ND Stadium, Rutgers Stadium vs Giants Stadium, or Rentschler Field vs Gillette Stadium.

**ShamrockOnHelmet** · 07-09-2009, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BGIF

The point was 20,000 - 30,000 fewer ND fans get to see the game in each of these cases, be it Yankee Stadium vs Giants Stadium, Soldier Field vs ND Stadium, Rutgers Stadium vs Giants Stadium, or Rentschler Field vs Gillette Stadium.

I'm sure the Yankees are required to make up the difference in money from the gate a home game would typically bring in. These contracts aren't negotiated by a couple of fourth graders thinking it would be "cool" to see - The Irish aren't going to do this unless they are guaranteed some nice coin.

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