Hosting Games In a Stadium Under Renovation

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[Photos by Zachary Bland, courtesy of the University of Missouri]
[Photos by Zachary Bland, courtesy of the University of Missouri]

Among the parking attendants, ticket scanners, concessions workers and security professionals working Memorial Stadium at the University of Missouri this fall, one individual holds an atypical football game-day job title: crane operator. As the Tigers and their opponents toil on Faurot Field, a giant boom looming beyond the stadium's south end zone has required someone to sit at the controls every home Saturday and keep it still.

"Normally, whenever they close down the job site at the end of a day, the crane is like a big weather vane. It just blows. It spins around. But you can't let it do that on game day," says Scott Radecic, founder and senior principal at Populous, the sports architecture firm behind the in-progress $99 million overhaul of the stadium's south end zone. "You have two choices: you either have to secure it, or you put an operator in it and he just sits up in the crane the whole game and makes sure that at no point would it ever blow and be over the field of play, and that's what Missouri chose to do."

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