Olympic Stadium

Vacant

On my tour of Olympic Stadium, they were setting up for a rave.

In 2007, the baseball dugouts were still intact.

The Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes take on the Toronto Argonauts.

Firstly, I won't be rating this place, as I haven't seen baseball here, but I will include it, nonetheless.

I went here twice in 2007, the first was on my first day in the city of Montreal, for a tour. The second was for a Canadian Football game. This place was of course famous for hosting the 1976 Olympic games, in which Canada became the first host nation not to win a gold medal, a feat that would be repeated in 1988 in Calgary, before 2010 in Vancouver saw the streak broken.

The Expos moved in shortly thereafter and after having an amazing season stopped in its tracks in 1994, attendance began to drop sharply, from 25 thousand in 1994, to just over 10 thousand in 2000, to the team moving to Washington for 2005. This dome is cavernous, the concourse is dark and the seating is quite confusing. I got directed all over the place by various ushers. I didn't eat anything here, as nothing looked any good...

The stadium gets very limited use without the Expos, as the Montreal Impact use it for the first few home games of the year, and matches where big crowds are expected and the Montreal Alouettes use it for their last home game and playoff games. It is hard to believe that baseball lasted as long as it did here. Still, the Toronto Blue Jays have taken to hosting a pair of exhibition games here the last two seasons and all 4 have been sellouts. The mayor is very vocal of his support for baseball, and has met with the commissioner to discuss this. A new ballpark will be a near requirement. Will Montreal get baseball back, or will the Expos be the only chance? One thing is for sure, besides exhibitions, this stadium has to have seen it's last MLB game.