Stadium
In its later Regionalliga days, the clubs stadium was expanded to hold 16,000 spectators but nowadays it is reduced to a still very oversized 8,000. The stadium is decorated with posters of the 1960s Bundesliga promotion games. The old standing ranks are somewhat overgrown and the grand stand looks rather quaint.
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Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)