riggofan wrote:I'm not sure I agree that fan support can really improve all that much at Fedex. I don't doubt if we get a playoff game there sometime that it will be a really good atmosphere. "Fans" will snap up the tickets and be noisy as hell. When I saw Skins v. Lions at Fedex in the playoffs a few years back, it was great.
Other than those special big time occasions though I kinda think Fedex is going to be what it is. Its a huge stadium where anybody can get tickets pretty easily in an era where a lot of people would rather watch the game on their 60" HD and not pay $10 for a beer.
I was at the Lions/Skins game in 2000. Stadium exploded when Brad Johnson chucked Porcher to the ground. Never heard the stadium like that since, but there have been some loud games.
Bishop Hammer wrote:One of the biggest factors for low attendance has been the mediocre product on the field the past decade. Save for the Gibbs years the team has been the Cubs of the NFL.
If the team becomes a perrenial playoff contender fans will flood the stadium no matter how "cruddy" it is.
Let's not forget the Skins lost eight straight home games. Who wants to spend their, hard earned, money to watch their team lose. Its much cheaper and easier to watch it at the comfort of your home and not deal with some drunk knucklehead and hectic parking.
RFK certainly wasn't intimidating under the Richie or Norv days!
JKC had Fedex designed to mimic the Giants old stadium at the meadowlands.
Seattle's stadium design was intended to acoustically amplify the crowd noise and because of that they can get away with electronically amplifying the crowd noise.
There is no way those tree hugging, hemp wearing, Starbucks drinking, 55 MPH driving pacifist get that stadium that loud without artificial help.
"Dovie'andi se tovya sagain"
(It is time to roll the dice) Tai'shar Manetheren
"Duty is heavier than a Mountain, Death is lighter than a feather" Tai'shar Malkier
Bishop Hammer wrote:One of the biggest factors for low attendance has been the mediocre product on the field the past decade. Save for the Gibbs years the team has been the Cubs of the NFL.
If the team becomes a perrenial playoff contender fans will flood the stadium no matter how "cruddy" it is.
Let's not forget the Skins lost eight straight home games. Who wants to spend their, hard earned, money to watch their team lose. Its much cheaper and easier to watch it at the comfort of your home and not deal with some drunk knucklehead and hectic parking.
RFK certainly wasn't intimidating under the Richie or Norv days!
JKC had Fedex designed to mimic the Giants old stadium at the meadowlands.
Seattle's stadium design was intended to acoustically amplify the crowd noise and because of that they can get away with electronically amplifying the crowd noise.
There is no way those tree hugging, hemp wearing, Starbucks drinking, 55 MPH driving pacifist get that stadium that loud without artificial help.
"Dovie'andi se tovya sagain"
(It is time to roll the dice) Tai'shar Manetheren
"Duty is heavier than a Mountain, Death is lighter than a feather" Tai'shar Malkier
