Huntington Park, Columbus (AAA #22 - Why I don't care about football)
Huntington Park, with the view of the Columbus skyline. Nationwide Arena, home of the NHL Blue Jackets, is visible beyond the concourse to the left. In some of the cities where we’ve seen AAA games, minor league baseball is the biggest sport in town. That’s definitely not the case in Columbus, where there are two teams in the top tier professional league of their sport, which both play their home games within a few blocks of the Clippers' stadium. However, the team that draws the most spectators each year is not the AAA Clippers, not the NHL Blue Jackets, not the MLS Crew. It’s the Ohio State Buckeyes, the local university football team (see the table below). But while we go to about 50 professional baseball games per year, I haven’t been to a college football game since sometime in the mid-90s, when I went to the first three quarters of a game in which a friend of our son’s was on a youth team playing at halftime, and I haven’t been to an NFL game since somet...