Dynamo Downtown Stadium Thread

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

question, how might one tailgate this event with out getting a ticket for public consumption? besides the standard red cup/flask hassel. also, if you do tail gate, are there laws against grilling? just thinking ahead to 2012. yes, i am thinking about tailgating a ground breaking. i'm that guy

and juve finds something wrong with this stadium announcement in 3.........2........1.......

 

I don't know if this gives anything away about the January 29th (or not?) groundbreaking or not, but at least it's one more piece of evidence from an official source that this whole thing is actually gonna happen.

Saw this road closure sign near my house on Rusk @ Dowling this afternoon for the first time.

 

Haha I asked about player appearances on Glenn Davis' show and he said they would be there!

 

NEWS:

Dynamo CO Chris Canetti was just on radio with Glenn Davis, stated following:

A. Stadium target date opening April 5, 2012
B. Dynamo like play first 2 weeks on road, the open stadium
C. 34 suites, all located a mere 8 rows from field. (As I alluded to earlier, in rendering, suites are sandwiched in between upper & lower decks. This design likely makes lower bowl sideline seats the club seating section. Think Toyota Center seating layout)
D. TRIZ documents, which has already been agreed upon, have to be signed by city & county. Formal agreements should be done by Wednesday afternoon.

 

In regards to EaDo Promenade, Canetti briefly mentioned he is part of a committee pushing to get this project built.

Never knew that ...but I guess it helps.

 

He mentioned this would be a good place for tailgating before games... Not sure what kind of tailgating that would be, but he did specifically mention tailgating.

 

just a bump post to those who haven't bookmarked this webcam a;ready

 

8 rows - Wow. Depending upon how wide the seats are, I can't imagine they can fit 6,000 lower bowl seats (like they put in one of their promo emails) in that space.

The negative is that the with only 8 rows, the downstairs seats are going to be pricey for most compared to Robertson.

The positive is that with only 8 rows plus suites, if they don't stack, the upper deck should be reasonably close to the field.

I would disagree that it is like Toyota Center in design as the Toyota Center has a big lower bowl (about 50% is club seats), stacked suites and then an upper deck which is super nose bleed seats compared to the Summit.

The Dynamo design is a smaller lower bowl.

 

Not talking about design aspects literally ....just the overall concept.

At Toyota Center, the lower level courtside section is the club seating area, with suites, then cheap seats in upper deck.

While not having as many suites as Toyota Center (which is double stacked, the concept is the same at Dynamo Park, the eight rows running length of sideline is likely for club seating. More then likely, club seats and suites area will share a separated lounge from the main concourse too. Again, like Toyota Center, same concept but the design is different for obvious reasons. (it's a soccer pitch)

 

Haha I made that same joke to someone earlier today. You know she'll be there.

 

i agree with this^^^. expect to pay a lot of $$$ for those lower bowl seats peeps.

from the FMF thread. click on '3 de Marzo' link then visualize suites between smal lower bowl and upper bowl:

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=22601475&postcount=27

 

Funny thing is that if you understand just a little about formations, positions, duties, or if you just want to see the options the guy with the ball has, the lower seats may be the worst seats in a stadium.

Obviously if you go to Camp Nou, Santiago Bernabeu, Azteca or Jerry World, those seats way up are the worst tickets, but my point is that as cool as being near to the players and the action is, you miss a lot in those lower seats.

In a 22,000-30,000 capacity stadium, depending on the design, the upper seats may be better than those first rows if you want to know what is happening in the game.

If you are just there for the experience and the feeling you get when your team scores, you don't even know what a formation is, then those first few rows are amazing.

 

Yea, last night when I saw WC's post, I thought that might be the first time I actually agree with him. From the first time I saw how they planned to arrange the lower bowl and the suites I expected to be sitting in the upper section. There is a certain attraction to sitting down low, with cool people like Nigel. You can make comments to Dom and he can cuss back at you, you can chat with the Dynamo and harass the opposition. Being close to the field lets you be nearer post-game celebrations, so you can get the jerseys, gloves, and shoes the guys hand out. And you can be on tv while you wave at the camera and call your friends to tell them to look at you on tv.

But I do like sitting higher, like Eguwhatchacallit says. You can see the plays better, you don't have to worry about people blocking your view, maybe the breeze will be better, and you can throw things down on the rich people. If a little confetti falls into someone's prawn sandwich, I feel like I've had a good day. Plus, maybe the jumping in my seat will keep the fat cats in the luxury suite under me awake and will irritate their call girls and their entourage.

Front row of the upper deck would be fantastic. I used to go to many baseball games in the Astrodome and always sat in the front row of the very top deck. I always thought as long as you were in the front row it didn't matter how high up you were. Well, unless you're at the Azteca....

 

From the plans Cannetti showed us, it looked like the second tier would cover a couple of rows of the lower bowl. He said it may or may not in the end but it certainly is going to cover the concourse.

 

I'm so glad that we're going to be shielded from that kind of abuse in the new stadium.

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Unlike some here, I do love baseball and football, I will watch it on TV and attend games, basketball and hockey not so much, I will catch the random game on tv, but I do love attending basketball and hockey games, I think of those 4 as being the first and second cousins of soccer (except American football, which is the half brother).

I think many soccer fans in the US, still view the sport using basketball, baseball, and football as a reference for everything.

Basketball is played in a field so small (in comparison), that being on the first few rows is the best way to go, you get to smell Scola´s armpits, you hear everything everyone says and even in the first row, you can see the whole field.

Baseball is played in a big field, but no one moves until the batter connects the ball, most of the action is between the pitcher and the batter, and when they hit the ball, pretty much the only players moving are the ones on the path of the ball, and most outs are made in the infield, being on the first few rows of the infield makes sense, those are the seats to be at.

Football may seem very similar to soccer, but because the 2 teams have to regroup for every play, and on every play you assign which team wil be on the defense and which one on the offense, the action will happen in only one side of the field, you know where the play will begin and you always know where the players will move to, you can still be in the first few rows and you will see more than 90% of what is happening and you get to be very close to the action.

Soccer doesn´t work that way, if you are only paying attention to the area near the ball, I´m no talking about onle paying attention to the guy with the ball, but even if you are only looking to the surrounding areas, you are missing more than half oh what´s happening, on both sides of the field.

Not to mention that it is easier to figure out the strategy and formation of both teams if you can see the whole field, I have heard some coaches say that the biggest problem with being on the bench is that you miss so much, ofcourse everyone will say that when they are forced to go to the stands, they lose control over the team.

 

I've seen the webcam before, but I live in Omaha (active duty military) and I am not really sure of the streets that I am lookin at or the direction the camera is looking in. I know we are obviously facing away from downtown, but what intersection is that in the shot? Thanks for the help.

Oh, FYI, I was born and raised in the Houston area, but got interested in MLS around '99. I joined the military at the end of '02 and was promptly sent off to the San Jose area, where I tried to get to as many Earthquake games as I could. I left there in '04 and low-and-behold, they moved to Houston.

The guys that I rooted for in SJ moved to my hometown, it was the best posible situation. Now I hit as many games near where I am stationed as possible, and I always try to get to games when I am on leave.

 

Newtex can chime in if this information is out of date.

 

Uh-oh.

 

Someone's having a light saturday.

 

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Not nice Brahma. I believed it up until "westside". Lol

 

The old info that DrL dug up is still pretty much correct. The webcam is facing almost due east with the intersection of Bastrop and Capitol in the center of the picture.

 

Ponderable: if someone accuses you of plagiarism, do they have to do so under their own novel definition of the word, or can they just steal someone else's idea of "plagiarism" from a student manual, dictionary, or other book?

 

I have to disagree with some of y'all -- as an abstract matter -- about stand height. When I lived in SW London for a while I literally stood behind the signboards in Fulham's terraces, and that was kind of neat. Loose balls and shots come right at you. Ditto Chelsea's seats, which at the lowest rows are at field level.....basically all that's between you and the field are concrete curbs and the security. Watch EPL closely and many stands are like that, maybe even a foot or so drop below the field in some instances. I understand some people like their raised vantage point but there is something to be said for being down at player level and feeling like you are almost in the play.

That being said, the UK gets away with it because they get a little light rain a lot of the time. Keeping the stands water-shedding in rainy Houston probably requires some elevation from field level. But I think they need to keep the stands close down to the field and at a good high grade to maintain the atmosphere and intimacy of the games. None of this FCD Pizza Stand Park cookie cutter stuff where the nature of the edifice almost seems intended to drain the place of all soul. Really ought to be something like the Robertson endstands are now.