Where could you put a SOS in Miami that would work?

I know where. The Orange Bowl! Oh, wait...

AT&T Park hosts quite a bit of football - it hosted Cal for an entire season - and soccer. About 2-3 events a year. At least as much as any of the stadiums you mentioned, Frank.

Soldier Field is such a strange stadium. Why would you expound all that effort to savage a historic stadium yet end up with a smaller stadium? The Chicago Bears play in the smallest stadium in the NFL. While they have previous - they only left Wrigley Field because part of Congress's deal to approve the AFL-NFL merger was that all NFL stadiums must have a capacity of 50,000 or more - it makes no sense.

The only baseball stadiums that host non-baseball sports are "iconic" buildings such as Wrigley, Fenway and Yankees Stadium (who I do not think is iconic but whatever).

The thing is, that just isn't true. They had the NHL Winter Classic at Citizens Bank Park a couple of years ago. They play college bowl games at PacBell Park and Tropicana Field every year. People may not be "clamoring" for a basketball game at Chase Field, but they've played several. Perhaps it truly is just a novelty that will wear off, but it has been happening for quite a while now.

Ok - there are definitely more events hosted at baseball stadiums then I thought of. However, is hosting a basketball or hockey game better in a football or baseball stadium? Beyond the novelty I think its a bad idea in either venue. I just think its worse in a baseball stadium. Would Cal rather have been playing at AT&T or Candlestick? I'm guessing it wasn't feasible with the field and the same season as the 49ers.

I fully agree that football games are worse in a baseball stadium. I just think that people are going to get used to them being played there and will be asking for the new stadiums to accomodate them better. Thus swinging the cycle towards the multi-use paradigm.

Cal had no interest in playing in Candlestick or the Oakland Coliseum. They wanted a comfortable stadium that wasn't in the hood.

Also, having seen football at AT&T Park (back when the East-West Shrine Game wasn't blaming San Francisco for its steadily worsening rosters) it's not a bad place to watch football. It's a rectangular stadium, so there aren't too many seats that are especially ill suited for football, unlike Yankee Stadium. It's fun watching football in a modern, urban baseball stadium. I felt like I needed an overcoat and fedora like what my gramps would wear to watch the Giants at the Polo Grounds or Yankee Stadium.

I'd be surprised if New York sprang for a stadium. Aside from the financial reasons; the park issue is very real. The residents of the south Bronx were promised an equivalent amount of park space. The square footage may have been equivalent, but the functionality wasn't and it was years late. The residents, and especially the youth of the neighborhood were shortchanged by the Yankees and New York city. There is a limited amount space in the Flushing area and tennis is weighing in.

Another complication is the gradual realization that the stadium/arena projects don't deliver what they promise. Yankee Stadium has not only the parks, but the debacle of the parking garages. Willets Point is still a good place to break your car's axle; it hasn't been developed since Citi Field opened. Ranter's development of the Atlantic Yards near the Barclay Center has been pushed back years. Actually I think it's decades.

Finally, post-Sandy it's going to be difficult to spend money on another stadium. The infrastructure needs were known, but ignored. Sandy highlighted many of the existing issues and raised new ones.