Talk:Stade Olympique

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I have uploaded a picture to illustrate this page, but I do not know how to scale it down to appropriate size. Any help is appreciated. The picture can be found at Image:Stade_Olympique_Mat.jpg Philippe 11:11, 29 Nov 2005 (EST)

Maybe you need to not have spaces in the file name...--Exshpos 12:19, 30 Nov 2005 (EST)

MLBNetwork is showing game 5 of the 1981 NLCS. The turf in Stade Olympique has to be one of the worst surfaces I've ever seen --Jeff 14:43, 15 August 2009 (EDT)

Yes, it was acknowledged to be awful by everyone. Just a thin layer of carpeting over concrete, with seams and blotches all over. It finally was replaced in 2002 or 2003 by a much better surface (it shows up as light green on pictures, rather than the original dark green), but by then the stadium and the franchise were on a death watch. --Philippe 15:13, 15 August 2009 (EDT)

We went to Olympic stadium in the summer of 2004, right after the Expos left. I had never been before. I remember how dated and very 1970's the whole place felt. It was a sad time to visit, the tour guides all seemed indifferent, and the one employee in the Expos team shop didn't really seem to care who came to the store. I was hoping to get some memorabilia, but nothing was on sale, they still wanted 45 bucks for a t-shirt. It was nice to visit, but man what depressing vibe we got just visiting that place... I was never really an Expos fan, but you could tell how sad people were just walking around the Stadium. The few people that visited that day were all pretty quiet, like you were at a funeral.

I remember watching the last home game on TV, and thinking how nice it looked that the stands were pretty full of fans. It was too bad they couldn't draw crowds like that the rest of the year. I still wear my Expos jersey to the occasional Jays game in Toronto, my way of honoring our cross-country rivals. Keeping the hope alive that baseball one day returns to Montreal again... Oaktree_b 22:50, 6 October 2009 (EDT)