Yeah, when you look at how small the places are the stadiums become a lot bigger. Also there’s the whole “catchment zone” issue. Like yes the Tuscaloosa stadium can fit almost the entire city, but how far away do the draw fans from. Lambeau field has more capacity than the city of Green Bay, but the Packers’ catchment is basically all of Wisconsin. In England a lot of these stadiums are within site of each other, heck Liverpool has 2 60,000+ seat stadiums less than a mile apart, there’s more than 1 team within 20 miles of almost every team in the country. Their catchment zones are smaller than the average work commute.
Not saying 100,000 seat stadiums aren’t pretty spectacular. Just that it’s not the be all end all.
I hate the stadiums that Arsenal, West Ham and Tottenham play in.
My favorite EPL stadium is Fulham’s Craven Cottage.