The Rose Bowl Stadium will hose the annual Rose Bowl on January 2, 2012 in Pasadena, California. The Rose Bowl is the oldest bowl game and matches teams from the Big Ten and the Pacific-12 conferences. The Rose Bowl Stadium sits nestled between the mountains of southern California. The stadium's seating capacity today is over 90,000, making it a large stadium. There are more than 100 different varieties of rose bushes between the stadium and the outer fence. The stadium opened in 1922 and has hosted the Rose Bowl since 1923. It became the home of the UCLA Bruins college football team in 1982, and also hosted the Olympic Soccer Final in 1984, Men's World Cup Final in 1994, and a Women's World Cup Final in 1999. Originally, the Rose Bowl was held at a stadium that could not hold the amount of fans that generally attended the game, and has been expanded multiple times to reach the current capacity. For those attending the Rose Bowl, here is a guide to help find the best seat in the Rose Bowl Stadium.
The stadium's field is made of natural grass and is approximately 79,156 square feet. The fence outside the stadium is a mile long in length. Over the years since opening, many parts of the stadium have been renovated to keep up with current demands. In 1928, the stadium enlarged to seat 76,000 and in 1931, the sections that still were made of wood were replaced with reinforced concrete and capacity reached 83,000. In 1950, the fourth expansion finally resulted in the stadium reaching its current capacity.
The stadium has just one level of seating that is separated into an upper and lower portion with 28 sections in total. The lower portion of seating, lettered A through K, has eleven rows of seating. This lower portion is closest to the field and features the more expensive tickets for the game. The upper portion, farther from the field, has seventy-seven rows, numbered accordingly. For fans wishing to be close the the action of the game, sections 4, 5, 18, and 19 on each side of the stadium are the middle-most sections and are closest to the 50-yard line. Fans should expect to pay top-dollar for a seat in these sections in the lower portion of the stadium. There are sections of premium seating that are unavailable to the general public, but suites, boxes, and club seats can be found in the stadium, as well as press box that sits at the highest point of the stadium, 100 feet in the air.
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