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Olympic Stadium
The Montreal Expos play the majority of their
home games in Olympic Stadium, located at 4549 Pierre-de-Coubertin
Ave. Montreal, QC H1V 3N7. The Expos actually played
their first few seasons at Jarry Park, but after Olympic Stadium
helped host the 1976 Olympics, the Montreal Alouettes of the
Canadian Football League christened the new stadium. The stadium
was not quite ready for the Olympics in part because of a worker’s
strike just months before the planned opening ceremonies. Although
it was considered quite hazardous to do so, the ceremonies went
on as scheduled because the citizens wanted to see what their
taxes had helped build.
The following year, the Expos moved in
and have been there ever since. The attendance record
at Olympic Stadium belongs to a Pink Floyd concert, and five
Grey Cups (The Super Bowl of the CFL) have been played at the
stadium, with the most recent contest being decided in 2001.
Olympic Stadium has an incredible surface area and plays host
to the city’s
largest traders when the Expos are no longer in season. In 1995, the stadium
brought in more than 2.4 million people, many of them Expos fans, but many just
interested in seeing a good concert or other large-scale entertainment event.
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