Bye bye to The Murph

[mdonnelly]

San Diego Stadium (The Murph) is being demolished.

San Diegans left feeling sad as 'The Murph' comes down

The biggest piece of San Diego’s sports history is slowly being knocked down and ground to bits. Every day, heavy equipment obliterates more and more of 70,000-seat SDCCU Stadium in Mission Valley, where Hall of Fame careers were born and most of the city’s biggest sports moments occurred. Dan...

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[Jimbo]

San Diego Stadium (The Murph) is being demolished.

San Diegans left feeling sad as 'The Murph' comes down

The biggest piece of San Diego’s sports history is slowly being knocked down and ground to bits. Every day, heavy equipment obliterates more and more of 70,000-seat SDCCU Stadium in Mission Valley, where Hall of Fame careers were born and most of the city’s biggest sports moments occurred. Dan...

sports.yahoo.com

People are sad about this ?
The team has left the city ... is this a surprise to anyone that they want to get rid of it ?

 

[Ziptied]

I'm nostalgically sad about it. Beginning with their inaugural MLB season in '69, attended countless Padre games as a kid with my Father and then later, many more with my sons. Played there against Marcus Allen in the 1977 CIF Football championship (he single handedly destroyed us). Went to dozens of concerts there over parts of 4 decades as well as Monster trucks, Motocross and even a Billy Graham revival. Many, many Charger games. San Diego Soccer's games in the 80's and SDSU Aztec games. At the end, it was a bit of a dump, but I'll definitely miss the "Murph".

 

[mdonnelly]

I grew up in SD. The city built The Murph on speculation, hoping to get a major league baseball team, and the Padres expansion team landed the next year. I had mini season tickets to the Padres for Sunday and Wednesday home games in the 1970's. I also took in a few Aztecs and Chargers games there. After years of going to Balboa Stadium and Westgate Park for games, that was a great upgrade. The stadium outlived it's time, but it will be missed.

 

[Howard Simmons]

Life goes on!

 

[Don in CT]

It is not a great looking stadium. It would have come down one way or the other.