I know we went over the kinda-bland Tennessee Titans stadium renderings two weeks ago, but now the Tennessean has more of them, and this is what I’m here for:
So, let’s see, what do we have going on here? There are a bunch of young people eating and drinking … or, well, sitting and standing around in the vicinity of food and drink, anyway. There’s a man with feet half the length of his arms, and another man sitting an enormously tall stool who has somehow wrapped his feet around a table in the reverse direction that feet usually go, and a woman wearing striped pants whose torso seems not to line up with her legs. At least they’re clearly football fans, because, um, they’re American, and Americans love football? At least the sun is sort of in the right place to cast those shadows, gotta be thankful for small favors.
We jump from an extreme closeup of nothing in particular to an extreme distance shot of, well, that looks like some kind of concert, if concert stages were set up in the middle of a stadium field. Very occasionally a stadium show will be “in the round,” sure, but not many — the closest example I can come up with is this Garth Brooks concert, which looked like it gave Brooks lots of exercise trying to show his face to all four sides of the stage, if nothing else. Brooks also doesn’t look like he was performing beneath a stage setup that was held aloft by magic spells or possibly upsidaisium, but maybe that’s just what the state of the art looks like?
Neither of these images really screams “this is worth $1.2 billion in public money from Tennessee taxpayers,” since the first one could just be any outdoor patio anywhere, and the second one would look the same at virtually any stadium. But if you like sitting in tall, topologically unlikely stools or seeing Garth Brooks, I guess maybe this will make you ooh and ahh?
We saw Garth Brooks this summer at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte. The stage was down near one end of the field, but seats were sold all around the stadium. He does get a workout running around the stage from one side to the other, front and back. Quite impressive, and a great show!
The selling point for the food venue is “we do NOT face the football field”!
Maybe it’s boxing, but boxing couldn’t fill a football stadium anymore. It could be wrestling, or most likely, the band Yes has decided to revive their Roundabout tour with the rotating stage.
I almost mentioned Yes (it was actually the In The Round tour), but 1) didn’t want to date myself and 2) that was actually a round stage, not square.
Well there are still tickets available for tomorrow night’s show at the Hard Rock Casino in Gary IN, so I’m guessing Yes are not quite stadium fillers anymore.
It would be wrestling. WWE held a PPV at Nissan Stadium this summer and a dome would make Nashville a prime site for a Wrestlemania down the road.