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A must have for U of L collectors
Memo to the folks over at Prosperity Promotions:
In case you’ve missed it, there have been a few changes over at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. There’s a very impressive new upper deck on the east side, along with luxury boxes and loge seating. Big new video scoreboard above the Crunch Zone, and a broad new terrace on that end of the field as well.
We’ve enjoyed the scale model you produced of the stadium when it first opened in 1998. A treasured find for many University of Louisville football fanatics at the time.
The stadium is even better and bigger now. We built that place, and we like to reminded of it every day. Nothing would be more fitting than having both the “before expansion” and “after expansion” versions of the facility in our Cardinal collections.
If the project is not in the works, somebody needs to get hopping. Louisville fans will snap them up. That’s a promise.
Prosperity Promotions is a Louisville-based company by the way.
Art Of Bench Warming
Anyone who ever warmed the bench for indefinite periods of time, game after game after game as the observer did, can appreciate how far the state of the art has advanced over a few decades. Certainly more glamorous sitting on one of these than the old wooden ones. This is the variety inhabited by subs on the University of Louisville football team at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.
Chair Backs In At Papa John’s
Click To Enlarge - Impressive
Ah, so that’s what it’s going to look like.
Mark the date, July 16th. All but a dozen or so of the chair backs have finally been installed at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. Between 12,000 and 12,500 of them in place on the new second level.
Tough job. Wet spring, scorching all summer not making the job any easier. The iron supports for each unit requiring at least eight bolts, the plastic chair backs the obligatory screws.
The fittings need to be tight because the place is going to be rocking Sept. 4 when the Louisville and Kentucky football teams knock heads.
Here’s the video version:
Free Pizza At Papa John’s
The observer has to admit things are slow when one has to focus on cleanup at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. But, hey, free pizza is free pizza, right?
During a visit to the stadium, one almost stumbled into a neatly arranged stack of boxes of Papa John’s adjacent to one of Papa’s concession stands.
Eighteen boxes, each of them containing full helpings of cheese and pepperoni on crust, no teeth marks anywhere. Hard as bricks. How long they had been there, since the spring game in April perhaps?
Another theory is that Steve Kragthorpe tried to return the tomato pies several months after a going-away party that nobody attended. Stadium rats apparently aren’t attracted to his leftovers either.
Video Scoreboard Update
Inside the Stadium
Actually, the new video scoreboards are up at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. What takes so long is getting the accompanying metal advertising placards in place. They are being added at a rate of panel one per day, early in the morning before the heat and wind make them too difficult to maneuver.
The video board is front and back, but the portion inside the stadium is six to eight times the size of the one on the opposite side facing the Green Lot. Advertisers are obviously having a field day, thanks to the wonders of free enterprise.
Outside The Stadium
Football Ticket Deals
Apparently there’s still room left on the bandwagon.
Two special three-game ticket packages for Louisville football are available in Section 5 of the new upper deck of Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. The packages are $60.
- About 900 seats up are up for grabs, located around the 30 yard line on the north end.
- Package 1: The Sept. 11 game versus Eastern Kentucky, the Big East opener on Oct. 15 versus Cincinnati and Nov. 13 against South Florida.
- Package 2: The Oct. 9 game versus Memphis, Oct. 23 contest against UConn and Nov. 20 game against West Virginia.
Louisville Football Rendering Revisited
A familiar image, even outdated and revised numerous times, this architectural rendering of an expanded Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, serves as a great reminder of where the University of Louisville football program is headed. Less than three months now the place will be packed with 57,000-plus fans. The observer will be headed out there again with the Nikon soon for another update on the progress. Meanwhile, click on the photo to get the full effect.
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