Taking out the seats is standard for standing room areas. Safe Standing is simply terraces with rails installed at the edge of each terrace. For what it's worth, I saw my first professional game in the terraces at Highbury Stadium back in the day. We were in the terraces because that was the cheapest ticket Arsenal had available.
I'm having a bit of trouble equating the original decision not to offer safe standing (and removing the seats) with"gentrification." I've stood through many a match, but most of these were youth games with my sons on the pitch. Once I began paying for the privilege of watching pro soccer I rather expected to be able to sit. Common sense, rather than gentrification, seemed to be in play here.
I saw a match there in summer of 1989, not in the terraces though. It was the first pro match I'd seen since the end of NASL. Lots of fun watching TV games over there that summer, with Liverpool winning the league and the Irish National Team playing well.
That's what I thought too, but articles from Pablo and Steve made me think otherwise. I'm not sure. I'm in line for the Defenders open house right now because of course I am...
It may have actually been #LBDD 🥁🥁🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/H4ayPUAorK— La Banda Del Distrito (@LBDD17) January 19, 2020 Many of the bleachers are still under the stands on the west side and one was under the north.
I'll probably post photos eventually, but that safe standing area doesn't feel that safe when leaned on. Obviously bolts are not in all of the way so that's a problem, but I was a little nervous putting some weight on that railing. Maybe it was the extra weight of that was where I was when I saw the news of Kobe Bryant being dead in a helicopter crash.
I'm not sure what was supposed to be off limits during event today. I didn't go inside of the team building, but nobody stopped me from going anywhere else. Although I suppose it makes sense, it was a little strange signs up on bathrooms that they had been weatherized and could not be used. I didn't want to say anything until I looked closer, but the bleachers were bolted to the cement stands and that is the case for the rails now too. There may have been some breaking and repouring of concrete for replacement railings that are shorter, but nothing for the bleacher removal and replacement. I probably won't get around to posting any photos from January 4.
Football stadium La Banda What I believe to be the sports book. It's worth noting the removal of seats.
I don't recall if these seats were a thing during the season. I got to show my dad one of my favorite areas to take photos. It's nice to see half of two of the steel arches up. The new Frederick Douglass Bridge is really coming along. The closings for the traffic oval are starting to look like something. The new hotel can be seen rising in the background of this behind the red uniform mannequin. Peninsula 88 is difficult to see in this photo, but it is nearly ready for move-ins.
Is this supposed to be home-field advantage, only one team can score field goals? Or is this some weird quirk that makes XFL different Or did the field interns just misread the plans? Nice construction pics of the surrounding area, thanx!
These are like 50 player rosters where most guys are making the $27K minimum. Gotta save money somewhere. Just flip ends when the ball turns over. It's not like both teams can make a field goal attempt on the same play, right?
It's strangely difficult to make out the goalposts against the standing room sections. I compressed the images significantly because I couldn't remember the maximum size for images.