Yankee Stadium Obstructed Views (Original)

The original Yankee Stadium may have been iconic, but its steel column supports created thousands of obstructed-view seats where fans watched through iron pillars for nearly 80 years. Approximately 22% of the 57,000 seats had partial or full line-of-sight blocks, a flaw that persisted until the stadium's closure in 2008. This obstruction rate is 5% higher than the worst section at Wembley Stadium's distant seating, proving that even a beloved landmark can be fundamentally flawed for spectatorship.