Pretty amusing description of having to play in Foxboro

[rochrist]

From one of the Detroit players, pretty damn funny.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2014/11/19/foxboro-new-england-patriots/19288361/

 

[The Brandon Five]

From one of the Detroit players, pretty damn funny.

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2014/11/19/foxboro-new-england-patriots/19288361/

He thinks Foxboro looks like a trailer park and he lives near Detroit?

 

[New England Pride]

Where's that video I saw earlier in the year of what a visiting team sees when going to the stadium. Anyone still have that?

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Where's that video I saw earlier in the year of what a visiting team sees when going to the stadium. Anyone still have that?

 

[rochrist]

So, it's pretty much the way he describes it. it sounds like around 3:14 they pass a sheep or a goat.

 

[The Brandon Five]

41 minutes? Why not just stay at the hotel next to the stadium?

 

[QuantumMechanic]

What the hell route are they taking? Where did they go once they got off I-95 (and what exit did they take off I-95)?

 

[signbabybrady]

Off I-95 at exit 8 as they go in the access road and avoid Rte 1. You literally get off the high take a few turns getting deeper into residential neighborhoods and then bam a stadium.

Stay away from these roads on game day though as only Foxboro residents and those with passes can use the roads.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Can you go that way on non-gamedays to get to Patriots Place, etc.?

 

[KA-]

It reminds me of playing sports growing up and traveling through the suburbs to each high school on the school bus

 

[reflexblue]

He thinks Foxboro looks like a trailer park and he lives near Detroit?

well if he played in texas i could see the trailer park, but he playes in detroit, when i think of detroit i think of wastland

 

[RobertWeathers]

well if he played in texas i could see the trailer park, but he playes in detroit, when i think of detroit i think of wastland

Yep. Watch Robocop and the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop from the 1980s and nothing has changed.

Sad, actually.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Interesting. I wonder if Foxboro is the most "sub-urban" of NFL venues. So many of the others are either in the middle of large or mid-size cities. Can anybody compare it to, for example, Lambeau?

 

[Gravy]

In my younger days I traveled to alot of stadiums -- Green Bay is similar to Buffalo -- certainly on its own, seemingly no-where with houses around (for both GB and Buff we parked in locals back yards in close proximity to the stadium). Both were fairly 'out there' especially compared to in-city stadiums, like Seattle.
I would though say Foxboro, which I dearly love, does have its own unique 'one road in, one road out' cluster all its own. Cant see Super Bowl being viable here with the Route 1 nightmare.

 

[OhExaulted1]

I went to the Superdome with friends years ago, the ride was kind of like this...

 

[Avenger]

I really with we had a city stadium

 

[The Brandon Five]

 

[IcyPatriot]

The bus ride in amazed me ... it looks like a modern version of Zelda and chopping your way in and around.
I drive around the stadium often ... never take any of those roads but the parking pass people know those roads well I think. Love those parties in the houses right near the stadium ... they look way better than any dive bar out there.

 

[Hudson Pats Fan]

Can you go that way on non-gamedays to get to Patriots Place, etc.?

I'm fairly certain that the gate at the back entrance (where the bus and players enter) is closed normally so you wouldn't be able to get in that way. If you keep going on that street it brings you out to route 1 and then you just bang a left and you're at the stadium.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

I really with we had a city stadium

We almost did...in Hartford.