Allianz Field sticks out like a strawberry in a bowl of peas.
I haven’t driven by the stadium for months, not since the exterior was still being pieced together. As I exit Interstate 94 onto Snelling Avenue, I’m surprised to see how strange it looks.
There are an infinite number of ways to describe St. Paul’s soccer-specific stadium. It looks like a spaceship touched down in the narrow space between a freeway and a McDonald’s. It looks like an ultra-modern fortress, a show of confidence in the middle of a major urban area.
However you choose to describe it, it sure as heck ain’t subtle.