The other stadium thread. I started this thread to discuss things we would want in a stadium. Those decisions have been made, so no need to hash out any longer.
One more and it isn't hard to accommodate: At Ohio Stadium, there's a seat in their ROTC section which is a black individual seat (as oppose to the normal bleachers) with the POW/MIA logo on it. It won't be filled until all POW/MIA are returned home. Something like this would be very nifty in the new Crew Stadium.
Many stadia have added this. The Reds have one near the steamboat at GABP, and the University of Maryland dedicated one at the game I was at in September.
I was just using theirs as an example, but yeah, they're definitely far from the only one. I'm surprised the CBJ haven't...or if they did, I'm unaware.
It used to be called something like "The best seats in the house", or something like that and some company had a drawing for someone to win tickets to sit in them, I think.
Crew games had the portable house/hut thing sponsored by Value City with the black couch in it. For many years after it stopped being used, it was kept under the south stands.
I always thought that was tacky looking down in the corner of the field. But I also always wanted to win tickets to sit there.
Mainly because it was the only air-conditioned area in the stadium other than the press box and broadcast booth. Remember that the boxes were originally open-air.
My company shared a box way back and I went to a few games. I remember it raining and we had to sit against back wall to stay dry. Water from upper deck dripped down on us.
Haha those were the days. Those black pipes that went down the middle of the seats that made it so the overhang did nothing. Probably the worst suite setup for any sporting in the country. Not great in terms of getting big corporate $$$.
Sat in this for the MLS all-star game one year. It came with free pizza and pepsi. Was awesome. MLS banned it saying they didn't approve of field level seating.... In a typical MLS move, within 2 years they started allowing field seats on the actual grass.
I saw that you posted, and I had a positive flashback to the days you would provide your inside info. I am sure many others around here can relate. Then I sheepishly remembered that you are a person engaging in fan-talk on the message board.
I'll have some inside info shortly, but I'm going to try to keep all of that to the "rumors" thread so I don't murk up a bunch of posts. I'm much happier to just play sheep and complain about our team again.
Or how about the old school hotel room air conditioner for the suites that blow hot air in the summer right on the outdoor seating for the suites. The suite I occasionally have access to was missing a ceiling tile for the entirety of the 2018 season.
Another Dispatch story today trying to make the Crew look bad--full of misdirection about the costs and who is paying for what. What is up with these guys?? Sounds like there is someone at the paper who really, really doesn't like this. Much of the "rise in costs" the Dispatch is talking about is normal development costs which would be happening even if the development was all low-cost housing or items already proposed and voted on long before the stadium issue came up (like the pedestrian bridge). But they act like the Crew demanded all of it.
Honestly, I think this is a bit more negative: Strict, affordable-housing requirements dropped from Crew stadium district project These guys seem to be writing the book on how to throw away a massive amount of community goodwill...
"Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity." And by stupidity, in this case, I mean letting the motherf*cking Dispatch control the f*cking narrative. I can't wait for the Ann Fisher exposé on this.