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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.They were. They were built by the same company, but I think a bit more was spent on, then, Rich Stadium and its since been renovated and improved as well.RE THe stadium: I'm pretty sure that stadium was constructed around the same time and designed by the same architect...I can't remember exactly, but I've been under that impression for all these years.
blue collar v. white collar crowds.
That's simply not true.
How is it not true? Boston is a wealthier area than Buffalo and the tickets are the most expensive in the league. The Pats success means that the hot ticket for casual fans in NE is the Pats. Almost everyone I know who is a non-season ticket holder that goes to games is someone whose connections got them tickets.
I'm not saying that ALL of the fans are white collar, I'm saying that the difference between Buffalo and NE games is the percentage of white collar crowd members that tend to be less passionate.
How is it not true? Boston is a wealthier area than Buffalo and the tickets are the most expensive in the league. The Pats success means that the hot ticket for casual fans in NE is the Pats. Almost everyone I know who is a non-season ticket holder that goes to games is someone whose connections got them tickets.
I'm not saying that ALL of the fans are white collar, I'm saying that the difference between Buffalo and NE games is the percentage of white collar crowd members that tend to be less passionate.
There are plenty of tickets to be had for Pats game on ticketmaster, stubhub and the ticketexchange. The only "white collar" people at Gillette sit in the boxes and club seats. The remaining 60,000 fans are in the stands.
As much as I loved the old place it was a dump with a capital D. Is there another stadium in the world that had a chain link fence (like an airline check in) outside of the bathrooms with a couple of State Troopers at the exit?
Ralph Wilson stadium has the lower bowl below ground level. That helps keep in the noise.
If Kraft just filled in the 200 bowl Gillette would be an awesome stadium and I think it would hold in noise awesome. instead so many would be great seats are wasted as open space and in many ways it is a terrible stadium because of it. If they added say 7000 seats by filling in the lower bowl then around 60000 of the 75000 seats would be right on the field and both ends would be filled and it would be really loud with many seats up close.
But The whole concept of Gillette is dumb. Who the frig wants open spaces in a stadium? Like it is somehow special that you can order fries and still see the game. What a stupid idea. There are all these akward open spaces in the 200 bowl meanwhile the 300 level is so high.
I have no problem with the 300 level being high if you want a 75000+ seat stadium, but when you build that high in a 69000 seat stadium and then leave all these potentially great seats as empty spaces it just makes no sense.
Then they leave one end completely open so they can have a dumb light house, again wasting thousands of good seats while putting other seats way too high up.
I love the Krafts but my honest opinion is they did an awful job designign Gillette. How do you design a stadium in this day and age and not consider acoustics? I still dont think Gillette is terrible for acoustics but it should have been one of the focal points of the design. WHen they finish the job and add the 5000-7000 seats they should have put in but left out of the 200 bowl it wil be a great stadium. Until then it is just a poor failed concept.
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Based on my conversations with her I think the game day experience there is much like the old Foxboro Stadium experience. The new stadium here is obviously much nicer, but there are things I miss about the old place. In fact quite a bit.
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