I would also like if we moved the seats in towards the field. That way I can yell Kirk Ferentz and call him a racist...I don't believe he is a racist but I hate em...so I'm probably going to do it anyway.
Oh, I almost forgot. I'm also going to yell at Brian Ferentz because he looks like a giant gerber baby with a stupid haircut.I would also like if we moved the seats in towards the field. That way I can yell Kirk Ferentz and call him a racist...I don't believe he is a racist but I hate em...so I'm probably going to do it anyway.
I didn't say a new one wasn't necessary. It would certainly be useful for, and welcomed by, a variety of groups. I just don't think it's necessary right now. There's a whole bunch of stuff at Hilton that needs to be explored first, IMO, both back of house and front of house.
Additionally, "because the press box looks bad/small" isn't a valid reason to bring in the backhoes -- especially not for how much it'd cost. Yet, that's the primary argument of many people on this board.
Just curious. These days with robotic cameras, what would the need be for a 'high' press box? Couldn't they just supplement lower level space as a 'control center' for cameras mounted on the existing box? My ignorance of the press' needs may be showing through, but it just seems technology should be able to supplement current and developing needs from that perspective.It also seems like a huge proposition to expand the existing box.
The existing box appears to be supported by two 'legs'. I doubt they engineered that to a level you could just go wider and hang more weight off that. So you'd need more structure to support more press box. But the concession stands\restrooms are in the way of that.
It appears to me any project to increase the size of the press box then becomes a project to redo the concessions\restrooms (there are certainly merits to this as well). It might even be easier to tear down the existing box and put up something entirely new. But when you start looking at everything it looks like it'd get super expensive in a hurry.
Wow! Two pumpers! And yes, that one to the west looks like the crane they have been using to build the forms. Edit: one of the pumpers just left.Whoa, three pumps are setting up this morning. Trucks will be rolling. Edit: two, the boom to the west is the crane folding down to be moved.
Whoa, three pumps are setting up this morning. Trucks will be rolling. Edit: two, the boom to the west is the crane folding down to be moved.
Looking at the the webcam’s video archive, the pumper that left got there at 5:30 am. The other one arrived a little before 7:00 am. That first one must have been having issues.Wow! Two pumpers! And yes, that one to the west looks like the crane they have been using to build the forms. Edit: one of the pumpers just left.
I just assumed we were giving Chris Fallica his own lawn party for home games.Don’t you love autocorrect?
Hot tubs at the back of the other.
The goal of every sports venue should be to sell every single available seat as a season ticket. As soon as the buzz around a team fades and single game tickets become available the demand for season tickets can plummet. It's for this same reason that any expansion to seating capacity should be very carefully weighed. Just look at the large tarped off sections in NFL stadiums that got ahead of themselves.You have to think, if we continue to have the success we're having, season ticket sales will continue to increase each season and you'll have to find more room for non season ticket holders...which would result in probably expanding the stadium again. I think 65k is a reasonable expectation in the next 5-10 years for Jack Trice.
I'm going to get soap-boxy.I would also like if we moved the seats in towards the field. That way I can yell Kirk Ferentz and call him a racist...I don't believe he is a racist but I hate em...so I'm probably going to do it anyway.
I'd be stunned if we have a capacity increase in the next decade.The goal of every sports venue should be to sell every single available seat as a season ticket. As soon as the buzz around a team fades and single game tickets become available the demand for season tickets can plummet. It's for this same reason that any expansion to seating capacity should be very carefully weighed. Just look at the large tarped off sections in NFL stadiums that got ahead of themselves.
The Berkshire Hathaway Press Tower at Mid American Energy Field in Jack Trice Stadium does have a nice ring to it.Maybe the new CEO of Berkshire Hathaway wants a new press/vip box, since we have mid-america energy field, he is the former ceo of Mid-America energy, upgrade his investment.
The "press box" at Arrowhead definitely has revenue generating space. There's a large high-end "Tower Club" in it.If we did go for pressbox only -- with no suites (no idea why we would do this if we could create revenue generating suites too) something similar to arrowhead would look really cool.