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« on: March 27, 2014, 01:51:40 pm »
In Tampa Bay's stadium, a giant pirate ship is integral to the visual experience, shooting canons and housing partying guests.

It's become tradition to kiss the bricks after winning the Brickyard 400, started by Dale Jarrett in 1996.
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« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2014, 02:24:16 pm »


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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2014, 09:53:36 am »
I love the pirate ship and think it's one of the coolest stadium traits in all of sports.  It'd be a shame to see it lose this early.
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« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2014, 10:13:58 am »
I feel that there is no way I want to watch a game from the ship.
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« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2014, 02:22:00 pm »
Kissing the bricks is a hallowed tradition.  People who visit Indy have their pictures taken kissing bricks.

The pirate ship is really cool, but after all, its just a pirate ship.  I love it when stadiums feature things like that.  The bricks goes back so far, though.
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« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2014, 03:27:26 pm »
Quote from: Brian Fein on March 28, 2014, 02:22:00 pm
The bricks goes back so far, though.

I thought so, too, but the thing I read said that it started in 1996.  That's also when Raymond James Stadium begun construction.
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« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2014, 04:14:22 pm »
The Brickyard 400 didn't exist until 1994 so it couldn't go back very far.
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« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2014, 04:37:34 pm »
They use the same track for the Indy 500.  I think the brick-kissing thing is related to the track, not the race itself.  I could be wrong.  The bricks at the starting line are left from before they paved the track in 1961.  I always thought the kissing of the bricks was something racers did at that speedway, and not necessarily tied to that particular race.

Edit to add - I stand corrected...

"1996: Dale Jarrett and his Robert Yates Racing crew began the tradition of the winning driver and crew kissing the row of bricks at the start-finish line,[9] which has carried over to the Indianapolis 500."
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« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2014, 04:51:00 pm »

Even though I am not really a racing fan at all, kissing the bricks seems like a much more reverent tradition than sitting on a fake pirate ship inside a football stadium.


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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2014, 02:12:47 pm »
Quote from: Sunstroke on March 28, 2014, 04:51:00 pm
Even though I am not really a racing fan at all, kissing the bricks seems like a much more reverent tradition than sitting on a fake pirate ship inside a football stadium.

I guess that's what I was trying to say.  Reverent.  Good word.
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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2014, 12:15:39 pm »
Pirate ship making a comeback.  ...one more vote will clear this up.
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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2014, 12:23:55 pm »
Pirate ship sucks.  Go bricks!
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« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2014, 01:09:35 pm »
^ What was all that in the other thread about unique stadium features?  A firing pirate ship built into the stands is pretty unique.
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« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2014, 01:32:13 pm »
...over a song being sung, yes.

Kissing bricks isn't a song, is it?

I have a mental hierarchy of validity and, with a few exceptions, singing songs is very low on the list.
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