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So J. Kraft was at some innovation conference in Boston recently. He spoke largely about being innovative with the game experience at Gillette. He talks about how Marc Cuban told him he was crazy to think they could install a wifi network in the entire stadium for all 70k fans. He then goes on to say:
Jonathan Kraft speaks on ways innovation is essential to the NFL, and how he beat Mark Cuban - Boston Business Journal
Couple of interesting nuggets here. He seems to have confirmed that they are going forward with the removal of 15 rows of the endzone in favor of "a sports bar and lounge". To my knowledge, the Krafts haven't publicly commented on that previously.
Also, the comments on the players being mic'd up to me is nothing ground-breakingly new but interesting nonetheless. So now we can look forward to a stadium full of people watching the games on their phones while listening to the players cuss each other out. And if they get bored of that, they can just walk over to the sports bar in the endzone. Should make for an excellent home-field advantage.
Jonathan Kraft speaks on ways innovation is essential to the NFL, and how he beat Mark Cuban - Boston Business Journal
To this day, the New England Patriots business is still on an innovation streak, with plans in the works for gutting out some seats at Gillette Stadium to build a lounge and sports bar, plans for launching new features on mobile apps, and — perhaps most important — plans for using technology to make the game safer for players.
In the future, Kraft says leveraging technology will help to deliver a vastly different experience for fans in Gillette Stadium.
"I believe we'll get to the point where each game, we'll mic-up a half dozen players, and audio streams will come unfiltered to the (fans) in the stadium, that they won't get at home," he said.
Couple of interesting nuggets here. He seems to have confirmed that they are going forward with the removal of 15 rows of the endzone in favor of "a sports bar and lounge". To my knowledge, the Krafts haven't publicly commented on that previously.
Also, the comments on the players being mic'd up to me is nothing ground-breakingly new but interesting nonetheless. So now we can look forward to a stadium full of people watching the games on their phones while listening to the players cuss each other out. And if they get bored of that, they can just walk over to the sports bar in the endzone. Should make for an excellent home-field advantage.