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I haven't watched 5 minutes of regular season hockey all year but am watching the Caps playoff game tonight. I know the NHL has all these stadium series games now. The Caps have fans in Baltimore and it would be great way to market the team in Baltimore to have a game at Camden Yards. Of course they would not want to tick off their D.C fans in the process. The arena is a dump and I think they had some issues for a pre season game a couple of years ago.

Some people may not realize it but when Angelos was taking about bringing the Tampa Bay Bucs here the talk was they would play at Camden Yards a couple of years until the football stadium was built. Either way I think it would be cool if Camden Yards hosted some different events. 

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Looks like someone already had this idea. Maybe I heard about it then and was thinking about it tonight. 

http://baltimoresportsreport.com/capitals-2015-winter-classic-camden-yards-44543.html

 

Here is an article about Angelos playing football at Camden Yards. 

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-04-12/sports/1994102119_1_camden-yards-memorial-stadium-oriole-park

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38 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

I haven't watched 5 minutes of regular season hockey all year but am watching the Caps playoff game tonight. I know the NHL has all these stadium series games now. The Caps have fans in Baltimore and it would be great way to market the team in Baltimore to have a game at Camden Yards. Of course they would not want to tick off their D.C fans in the process. The arena is a dump and I think they had some issues for a pre season game a couple of years ago.

Some people may not realize it but when Angelos was taking about bringing the Tampa Bay Bucs here the talk was they would play at Camden Yards a couple of years until the football stadium was built. Either way I think it would be cool if Camden Yards hosted some different events. 

Hockey, maybe, but football would be a horrible idea at Camden. 

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Just now, ORIOLE33 said:

Hockey, maybe, but football would be a horrible idea at Camden. 

Football would never happen unless it's the Old Bay Crab Bowl game. The 9th place team in the Big 10 and 8th from the ACC. I mean me just saying that makes me think they should do it. What is one more bowl game......

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