I want to know where these seats are. These are the cheapest seats currently, the view behind the supporters section. I've also been in "crappy" corners, remember not being in good seats for Man Utd/PSG 7-8 years ago, and the view was honestly great. I think overall, the view is good in most places in SF, so I want to hear where it's bad because I think it's nonsense.
I was sitting in 203 right behind the big Huyndai ad tonight and I did have to stand up to see the nearside corner. It's an annoyance but a pretty minor one. it's a bit worse of a problem in the farther back rows and higher up sections if I remember right.
You remember right. I sat higher up and far left of center circle for a Man U Bayern Munich friendly a few years back and had to stand up and walk down the aisle a bit to see the action down in the corner.
I just got a call from a Fire rep and discussed how much easier Seat Geek was to get to for me. Soldier Field requires a lot more planning for me to get to a game, coming from Iowa.
88 practically turns into 290, which you can take all the way to lakeshore drive. You can get from the quad cities to Soldier Field by making one right turn.
That I can, but it's much further and traffic is much more unpredictable. It could be three hours, it could be four. I've done it before and will again, but it's more painful.
With all due respect, a Chicago Fire stadium shouldn't be located based on the ease of transportation coming from Iowa. Fact remains, Soldier Field is easier to access for your average Chicagoan than SeatGeek is. To me the biggest issue with Soldier Field is parking prices. When people are paying $160+ for the nosebleeds to a Bears game, $30 parking seems tolerable. When people pay $15 for decent seats at a Fire game, parking should not be $30.
Well, it was $20 (or did it go to $25 in 2019?) at Bridgeview to park on puddle-filled gravel. At least at Soldier Field parking is in a garage.
$20 in Bridgeview was already overpriced but at least you could stomach it. Reading about people paying $38 at Soldier Field is sickening.
This was one of the reasons I decided not to renew my season ticket after 18 years. The final season at the Geek I paid $306 for my season ticket with parking. When they moved to Soldier Field I would have had to pay $935 for a season ticket and parking. Why would I want to triple my spending to watch the crap they are putting out there? Just not worth it, so I made a business decision just like the Fire made a business decision to move to Soldier Field. I know people say take the train in it is much cheaper. I did that a few times in 1999 and 2000 and I hated it. Can't bring your own tailgate supplies, have to eat some place before going over to the stadium, etc. It sucks when you miss a train and have to wait over an hour for the next one at Olgivie and run the chance that the train you end up taking may not stop at the stop you parked your car at.
I mean, it's not hard to park for way less in the South Loop or to park and ride via the Metra or CTA SeatGeek was much better for tailgating though
Getting the season ticket holder discount and paying $10 at the Geek and parking on the west side of stadium was worth it.
We have this discussion all the time, and it comes to, for some people Chicago is easier, for some people Bridgeview is easier. I’m just waiting for Chicago House to start playing. I May go to 1-2 fire games this year.
The thing with Soldier Field is you can generally find reasonable parking in the South Loop a pleasant walking distance from the stadium but you have to know where to look. It's not intuitive at all to find, which can be a turnoff to people. My friends who drove in from Brookfield paid 10 bucks near the Roosevelt red line last week IIRC. Going into the city on a game night is still way easier than going out ever was though. I had to get my emissions test down in Bedford Park a couple weeks ago (taking me right past the stadium) and got a nice reminder of that fact.
Eh... My old place was a half block from Reggie's, close enough to see their roof from my window. It's kind of dead down there late, but not unsafe north of Cermak unless things have really disintegrated in the last six months since I moved. You don't see as much foot traffic as up by Roosevelt because it's mostly residential with not much commercial down there. (and actually I still have a residential parking permit until August so that's where I park on gamedays myself).
There seems to be a Metra track (not station) thats a walkable distance away from SeatGeek. If they built a station there would that have made any difference?