Report: Fenway Park Will Host Snowboarding Big Air Competition
BOSTON (CBS) -- From concerts to football games to soccer matches to hockey games to (obviously) baseball games, Fenway Park has played host to a wide variety of contests over the years. But a new event could be on the way.
According to Sports Business Daily, and via Olympic Talk, Fenway Park may host a skiing/snowboarding big air competition in February.
Sports Business Daily reported that Fenway Sports Management and the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association "have agreed in principal to bring a big air snowboarding and freeskiing U.S. Grand Prix tour stop to Fenway on Feb. 11-12." The contract has not yet been finalized, but the report stated that both sides are "enthusiastic."
"Our intentions are to stage the biggest and best big air competition in the history of the sport at Fenway Park," USSA CMO Michael Jaquet said, via Sports Business Daily.
"We think there will be demand for these tickets. Just how much, we honestly don't know right now," FSM president Sam Kennedy told Sports Business Daily. "It's still too early to say. I could see a scenario where there is extremely high demand, considering it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Fenway's been around for 103 years now, and it's never happened."
It should be quite the spectacle to anybody familiar with Fenway Park, as the ramp is expected to be over 100 feet high
Fenway Park has become a sort of winter wonderland in recent years, starting with the Bruins hosting the Flyers for the Winter Classic on New Years' Day 2010. Ice hockey returned to Fenway in 2012 and 2014, with numerous colleges and high schools taking to the infield ice, along with a sledding hill out in center field in the most recent edition of Frozen Fenway.