These scooters work downtown SJ because of the new protected bike lanes can push these scooters off sidewalk...going to Avaya by bike or scooter continues to be challenging despite having bike lanes. Issues on disparity of speed between vehicular traffic especially on freeway interchanges are a big safety concern.
They also missed by not spelling out EARTHQUAKES with a seat mosaic. What a great opportunity to increase the visibility and branding of the team. All those flights landing with a folks wondering what that stadium is for would have the answer spelled out for them. I wonder if they would ever consider going in a switching out seats to create a seat mosaic. I would think the cost would be manageable and the benefit valuable.
SAN JOSE as one side's seat mosaic and EARTHQUAKES as the other side's seat mosaic. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Certainly a possibility. They had already gone in and replaced the cushions for most, if not all, of the seats since so many of them had gotten pretty ragged in the few years since opening. Assuming they have to do that again in another few years, they could change them to say Earthquakes, if they wanted. I remember they had implemented some binary code or something using the color of the seats originally. Did anybody ever solve that or did it end up being bogus?
I liked Dave, but it doesn't get much lamer than that. Mostly it looks as though they had to replace some seats and couldn't scrounge up any more blue ones.
Agreed, that isn't very exciting, and few people would even be aware of this. I like hidden secrets and that kind of thing, but they shouldn't have ever said anything about it, which would have made its discovery more interesting. Now me, I'd have made an ASCII graphic of Krazy George using the seats instead, though I don't think there are enough seats in the stadium for that.
Some examples...Big teams Small teams... Maybe get a sponsor to pay for it... ...but let's add a seat mosaic to Avaya Stadium!
Beautiful. At some point in the future, teams playing in newer SSS's (Orlando, LAFC, Minnesota, Cinci, DC...) will travel here for away games, look around and simply say "really?.."
Paul Tenorio wrote about the new Pinnacle Training Center for USSoccer and SKC in The Athletic: Vermes "wound through Sporting’s 5,750-square-foot locker room, which includes hot and cold pools and a barber shop, and then turned into the sports medicine wing, which features a cryotherapy chamber, an altitude-adjustment room with a treadmill, multiple motion-capture areas that help the fitness staff reduce the risk of injuries, hyperbaric chambers, recovery rooms, hydrotherapy pools, and a 12,870-square-foot gym that is as big as some MLS teams’ entire training facilities." "Pinnacle—funded primarily by $62 million in Kansas sales tax (STAR) bonds—is a huge, 81,000-square foot facility that includes a state-of-the-art sports medicine clinic run by the local Children’s Mercy hospital, five training fields, and technology aimed specifically at enhancing coaching, player, and referee education. The $75-million facility houses both Sporting Kansas City and U.S. Soccer’s coaching and referee education programs." “We all have to keep striving to be better all the time,” Vermes said. “And if you’re not, I do think you are getting left behind in this league for sure.”
From what I've heard and read, the visiting locker room (and according to @bsman, the referees' locker room as well) was purposely built to resemble, and to have as many amenities as, a high-school level locker room at best. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G