AMERICAN sports are often an exercise in excess: fans consume large quantities of beer and hot dogs, stadiums with giant scoreboards and retractable roofs are surrounded by parking lots filled with thousands of cars.
Chelsea's superstars have experienced plenty of hostile environments in the past, but little will have been able to prepare them for the noise they will encounter at Atletico's red-hot Vicente Calderon stadium.
Not because of stadium hot dogs, although they may be a factor, but because of poor shooting and overall uninspiring play.
Yet it was so hot in the stadium that Charlton, who would usually stand for the duration of games, sought shade in the dugout for a while.
Forget overpriced nachos drenched in curiously orange cheese, and ditch the disappointing stadium hot dogs. .
On bass-driven albums like DJ Shadow's The Outsider and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium, all the individual parts stood out, but it was still clear that the low end is the moneymaker on these recordings.
Recent double albums, such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium and Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics, have been available at about the same price as a single CD, after discounts.
The food could be described as haute stadium — miniature hot dogs topped with sesame pickled-red-cabbage slaw.
A Green Bay native, he said he served hot dogs in the stadium for four years, starting when he was 12.
"I want to travel, I want to leave," she said, tapping at her phone, connected through a new Wi-Fi hot spot outside the stadium.
