Apparently the Atlanta Falcons‘ new stadium is going to feature action-movie music, video boards on every available surface, dozens of places to order expensive food, and no one on the field actually playing football. This is truly the NFL’s dream future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SPKP7FaiqEE
“3rd stadium and still no ring lol”
MLS configuration: place vertical tarps over upper level.
When 15K-20K fans spread out over the lower level, it will still look like a sparsely attended game in a cavernous stadium.
MLS has been going in the direction of soccer specific stadiums for the last decade, and now they make an exception for Atlanta! Going to be a mistake. Seattle is the only city that can make it work. Not Atlanta. Going to be like Gillette stadium for the Revolution.
Watching this caused me to spontaneously orgasm.
“When 15K-20K fans spread out over the lower level, it will still look like a sparsely attended game in a cavernous stadium.”
If they get 15,000-20,000 fans, I doubt that anybody will worry too much about how it looks. And why would they have to be spread out? Ticketing systems frequently restrict you from buying seats in empty sections.
C’mon, if you’re going to include a view of how a Final Four would look in a stadium in Atlanta, wouldn’t you at least make Georgia Tech one of the teams playing? Michigan and Louisville fans can make hotel plans now.
Have to admit I thought it’s pretty cool overall, but I’ve always been a sucker for stadium porn. The “video boards on every surface” thing is silly, especially the barely visible ring of ’em up in the iris.
Welcome to New Atlanta Stadium, where the score is always 17-13!!! LOL. When the roof opened, I heard Austin Powers say “does that make you horny” in my ear.
I love how every seat in the stadium is filled but there’s still thousands of people milling about on the concourse and outside.
Can we please kill the word ‘reimagine’. Did you think of something new? Great, you imagined something. Did you tweak something that already existed? Then you revised of altered it.
It’s also amazing how they were able to disguise parking thousands of cars as a grass lot! That’s almost as cool as the dome opening.
And apparently you can just walk right in — well, fly right in — and make your way to the seats. Unless they just forgot to render security checkpoints and ticket takers.