As a longtime fan who likes the elements as much as anyone else.I would have liked to have seen the stadium with a roof on it and a controlled climate.At least there was a possiblity to host a Super Bowl.
A dome would have made a lot of sense. This stadium should have been a lot of things, but it's not. So far it looks like it's going to be exactly what its name implies.. a "new" Meadowlands stadium. How cool is that.
I'm glad there will be no dome. I don't want t he Jets to become one of those teams that do great,and can't get past a certain point in the playoffs cause the games pass through the cold stadiums in the North.
Bingo! You've hit on one of the many reasons we've been talking about for years as to why the new stadium makes little sense. There is basically no substantial difference between sharing the current Giants Stadium (and renaming it, of course) and building a new shared stadium. No substantial increase in seating. No domed roof. Reduced tailgating area. Poorer visability and sightlines. Undertaking immense debt, thereby necessitating totally unaffordable PSLs. But I've long since stopped trying to equate the building of the new stadium to anything that's desireable, cost efficient or fan friendly. Champ is right. The new stadium is only about greed and nothing else. All other considerations have taken a back seat. It's all about using the new stadium as an excuse to gouge the average Jets fan.
You forgot the things that makes this stadium different from the current one: more luxury boxes & club seats. Plus the change allows the team to jack up every ticket price sky high. All of those are huge money makers.
That actually makes sense. They do it for the heat, and I can understand that with the kind of dry heat they get out there. I love the idea of a retractable roof.
No way. I can understand having the fan sections covered somewhat like what they do in Seattle, but no way should our stadium been domed. If anything I'd like natural grass instead of the artificial stuff though.
A dome wouldn;t happen unless the state paid for it. The return on investment was not there for the Giants/Jets. I for one truly believe this stadium will be great. Larger concourses, easier in and out, more bars/lounges. I truly believe it will be a huge success.
Football should only be played outdoors on a grass field...I hate Domes. Outdoor football just adds to to the aura of the game. The same atmosphere can not be replicated indoors on a stinking carpet (or field turf, whatever they call it now)
Then NY-er NJ should have paid for it. They would be the ones getting the money, not the Jets and the Giants. They didn't put up a cent and they deserve what they will get out of this, nothing.
fuck the sb being played in our crib. who wants to sit with 60,000 corporate snobs who haven't watched a game all year 'chear' for the fn pats. plus the sb would only roll through town once every 10-15 years. fk the pats. fk the dome. go jets.
I can't believe the amount of people on this board that wish they were putting a roof on the new stadium. I can maybe understand the argument about it increasing non-football revenue, but coming from football fans I just don't get it. This whole thing sucks enough already, a roof would just be the icing on the cake. Has there ever been a legendary NFL game played on turf in a dome? I really don't think so. Let's keep the football in football.
1999 NFC Championship game ATL-MIN Rams-Titans SB XXXIV Patriots-Rams SB* Colts-Pats AFC Championship in '07 Giants-Pats XLII
Great games for sure, but legendary? It's obvioiusly completely subjective, but I'm not sold. The atmosphere just isn't the same.
They should play football like football was meant to be played. Outside, on the grass. As far as NYJ playing in a dome...I like the idea of home field advantage. You can't tell me come November, teams like the Lions and Rams are playing the same way in cold weather.
