Farewell to an era: Mosaic Stadium's final season begins
Site will undergo redevelopment after old stadium is torn down
The last football game, the last beer and hotdog, the last outdoor event: The 2016 season at Mosaic Stadium in Regina will be the last for the facility which is being replaced with a new $278-million stadium.
In just a few months, Mosaic Stadium — at Taylor Field — will be a place recalled as a memory.
"My best memory here would've been the 2013 Grey Cup," Jeremy Boutin, a fan of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, said Saturday at a city event for the old stadium. "I always remember the time that Henry Burris missed a snap and the 'Henry' chants after that were the loudest I've ever heard this stadium. It was just great."
Boutin was among several hundred people at Saturday's ceremony to honour the stadium's history, which included a field level barbecue.
"It's great being down here looking up and finding our seats in the crowd," Boutin said of the vantage point. "Seeing what it's like to be Darian [Durant, the Riders' quarterback] or some of the legends that we've had playing here and see what they see, feel what they feel. It's just great."
The stadium site will be developed as a new neighbourhood, to be named after Taylor Field, with an estimated 700 residences.
The Riders play their first pre-season game of the farewell season on June 11.
With files from CBC's Brian Rodgers