Sunday, May 3, 2009

Did You Know Why Sport Arenas are called "Garden"?

Did you know why sport arenas are called "garden"?

One of my son's friends asked this question. Pretty good question. I looked up some answers online. Don't know how accurate they are, but they sounded pretty good! Here is what I got from Yahoo Answers:

"The word garden comes from the Latin 'geard' which means open space. Yard and GARDen come from this word.

Thus there all sorts of gardens, not just flower gardens...
For example: beer gardens, etc.

Madison Square refers to to the intersection that the arena is on, and garden is an open-spaced venue."

Another similar answer at the same site:

"The term "garden" in British English refers to an enclosed area of land, usually adjoining a building. Just another term for arena."

And last for fun:

"cause they used to grow championships there!"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Makes sense. I have wondered about that.

silken said...

yeah, don't know if it's accurate, but it sounds good!