As there is seating all around Coors Field, in order to allow everybody to view the fireworks properly, people in the rockpile and bleacher seats are allowed onto the outfield grass to watch the display. However, this procedure took over 30 minutes! People were required to walk all the way around the warning track to first base and then to cross the outfield (no idea why they had to go all that way around!) At the other displays I've been too, the fireworks have been only 5 minutes or so after the game ended.
Teams are usually extremely protective of the grass. When you go on a stadium tour, you are usually only ever allowed on the warning track, if anywhere, so if you want to go on a major league field, go to a Rockies game, on a fireworks night, and have a seat in the pavilion sections or rockpile!
To keep the rest of us entertained during this half hour wait, a large number of T-shirts were distributed into the stands by throwing, or by catapult. They must have given away several hundred of them!
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