{"id":9523,"date":"2017-08-10T04:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2017-08-10T04:16:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T08:16:49","slug":"fcs-style-guide-what-we-are-calling-our-rivals-stadiums-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9523","title":{"rendered":"FCS Style Guide: What We Are Calling Our Rivals&#8217; Stadiums This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5812\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5812\" data-attachment-id=\"5812\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=5812\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JMU_Stadium.jpg?fit=640%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,346\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JMU_Stadium\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JMU_Stadium.jpg?fit=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JMU_Stadium.jpg?fit=640%2C346&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5812\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JMU_Stadium.jpg?resize=300%2C162\" alt=\"Writing this only made us love BFS more!\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JMU_Stadium.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/JMU_Stadium.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writing this only made us love BFS more!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are outright stealing this idea from one of our favorite FBS writers, Spencer Hall of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com\/2017\/7\/11\/15951882\/style-guide-what-we-are-calling-our-rivals-stadiums-this-year\">Every Day Should Be Saturday<\/a>. And we couldn&#8217;t be prouder! And in many ways, some of JMU&#8217;s &#8220;rivals'&#8221; &#8220;stadiums&#8221; make this easier than spotting attractive people at D-Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, this year&#8217;s style guide to how to reference a few our favorites to hate, because, as Spencer reminds us, it&#8217;s important to have the correct immature name ready when needed. And of course feel free to comment with way better things than we can come up with!<\/p>\n<p>William &amp; Mary: Zable Maths Stadium at Nerd Field.<\/p>\n<p>Elon: Rhodes Stadium. Named for Dusty Rhodes! We&#8217;re not even kidding. Of course, <del>a hundred<\/del>\u00a0all three Fightin&#8217; Christians fans are going to comment now that &#8220;we haven&#8217;t been the Fightin&#8217; Christians since the 90&#8217;s&#8221; and that apparently their Trustee that was named Dusty Rhodes is not that The American Dream. Oh well, still, Dusty Rhodes!<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island: Real-grass-remains-the-only-redeeming-quality-Field. (But actually, RhodeI&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorhody.com\/information\/facilities\/meade_stadium\">official page<\/a> for Meade Stadium has an incredibly unvarnished explanation of how it acquired the &#8220;Meade&#8221; moniker and is not to be missed &#8211; it even includes the phrase &#8220;&#8230;a donnybrook that makes Bush-Gore look like a Cub Scout picnic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ECU: We didn&#8217;t even have to come up with this one because this is from EDSBS&#8217; version: We would just like to point out that the real name of ECU\u2019s stadium is \u201cDowdy-Ficklen Stadium,\u201d which is already a parody because we don\u2019t know what \u201cdowdy ficklin\u2019\u201d is but we assume it\u2019s Carolina slang for nothing wholesome or legal or competent-at-DB. (ok, maybe we added that last bit).<\/p>\n<p>Delaware: The Tub &#8211; the Blue Chickens almost take the fun out of this by giving their own stadium it&#8217;s fittingly <em>pissy<\/em> name. And it gives us a chance to repost the actual &#8220;piss wall&#8221; picture from the only men&#8217;s restroom on the &#8220;nicer&#8221; side of this gigantic, ancient dump.<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire: Caps\/Nats Arena. Playoffs every year, first round exit every year.<\/p>\n<p>Villanova: Seriously-We-Have-Football-Too Field sponsored by Kelly&#8217;s Taproom<\/p>\n<p>NDSU: White AARP Member Dome. Seriously, did you see that crowd last year? We kid because we love. In all fairness, while the Dukes may have turned the Fargo Dome into a house of sadness for Bizen fans last year, there&#8217;s no doubt an indoor facility is a must up there and it&#8217;s one of FCS&#8217; best venues (even if the lighting needs some serious help).<\/p>\n<p>Montana: Declawed Cub Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Soft Houston St.: Charmin&#8217; Stadium. No further explanation required.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville St.: Port Authority Field. Simply a transit station between a big FBS program and the CFL for most of the Gamecocks.<\/p>\n<p>Youngstown St.: Eat A Salad Stadium. As we learned in Frisco, this is nearly a universally appropriate thing to yell at the entire &#8216;Guins fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Washington: Ahhhh, my eyes, somebody fix the TV.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond: Hahaha, this shitbox middle-school stadium is unworthy of this column.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh: Built-Too-Big-For-Our-Fanbase Field at Goodman Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Norfolk St.: Charlie King Field at FCS4lyfe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco: Bridegeforth South.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9523&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are outright stealing this idea from one of our favorite FBS writers, Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday. And we couldn&#8217;t be prouder! And in many ways, some of JMU&#8217;s &#8220;rivals&#8217;&#8221; &#8220;stadiums&#8221; make this easier than spotting attractive people at D-Hall. Without further ado, this year&#8217;s style guide to how to reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8759,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8759","url_meta":{"origin":9523,"position":0},"title":"Should We Be Outraged Bridgeforth Isn&#8217;t On This List of FCS Stadiums to Visit Before You Die?","date":"August 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, no. No we realize that we shouldn't be outraged. And honestly, we're not. 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