3 rivers held close to 60,000 for baseball but in later years seats were covered in order to “dress the house” make it look like it was more full than it was. they had 59K plus for the all star game in 94. PNC’s largest crowd was 39,392. heinz is stupid in the fact that the season ticket waiting list is over 10,000 but heinz isn’t even 10% bigger than 3 rivers was.
what cracks me up is a fan wrote to the PG about the field at heinz cryin about the H.S. games… of coures his letter starts off “ive been a season ticket hold since blah blah blah” who cares? last time i checked being a season ticket holder is just that…a season ticket holder…not a grounds crew expert… and then he cried well because the steelers let pitt use their field they can’t paint the steelers logo at the 50… well first off the steelers don’t own it… second who cares about a fucken painted logo… its not a game board its a God damn football field, they could paint a giant cock on the field and its not gonna change the game. …and if anyone was taking notes willie parker broke the steelers rushing record on a field that was supposedly sooo horrible… shows you how much the media can over play the condition on heinz field. and the conditon of the field…thats the fucken grounds crew problem… its someones decision to make that a sand base… sand allows for better draining but it make the roots weak. this isn;t miami and sand base is no good. they need a dirt base if they want to continue with grass… you may end up with a mud bath but its football… thats the way football is.