Your Thoughts On The Metrodome

[retailguy]

I've been to a lot of the stadiums, though I've got about 10 more years to hit 'em all.

I don't think the Metrodome is the worst place to watch a game, but facilities are poor. I think the LA Colesium is the worst place I've ever watched a game, and Dolphins Stadium is the second worst.

Was at Raymond James last week, and really enjoyed that place. Well designed, and not a bad seat in the house. I was in row 12, and it was really wonderful.

Seahawks have a nice stadium, but it's nothing special if you ask me. But, there really isn't a "bad" seat in the house, though the seats in the upper deck are pretty steep and far up there.

My favorite venue (besides Lambeau), is Washington Huskies stadium, or Camp Randall...

[MJZiggy]

Was at Raymond James last week, and really enjoyed that place. Well designed, and not a bad seat in the house. I was in row 12, and it was really wonderful.

You'd have loved the sombrero...

[BallHawk]

As RG said, Raymond James is a great stadium. Clean, modern, and most importantly, a good view of the field.

It's funny that two stadiums only 300 miles apart from each other could be so different. Dolphin Stadium is just garbage.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Actually, I can't say Metrodome is the worst. Kingdome was as bad or worse, but they blew the place up.

[Partial]

RG were you in Tampa on vaca or business?

[CaliforniaCheez]

They need to ditch the horn. Really, that is beyond annoying.

The horn is cool. They just do it too often. First down Vikes. Horn! Save it for the big plays. I think it would be cool--if they played in an outdoor stadium befitting their tradition. In the Dome, it just seems ridiculous.

They could do something to vary it. But like everything else there they think volume improves the crowd's enthusiasm. Without variation in the decibel levels, evertything is just noise and things that should be loud are no different from the mundane.

They could have different horns for different plays but that is too complicated for management.

[Zool]

I've been to quite a few venues and the Dome is the worst I've been to. The atmosphere is just bad IMO.

Also I really dont like rubbing my knees on the mullet of the guy in front of me. If I was 5'4 it might be better.

[GBRulz]

Was at Raymond James last week, and really enjoyed that place. Well designed, and not a bad seat in the house. I was in row 12, and it was really wonderful.

You'd have loved the sombrero...

My sis lives in FL and when Tampa was in our division, I went down just about every year to that game. I loved the Sombrero.... we always won there!! I didn't think it was a bad stadium, hence the concrete seats if I remember correctly. Then again, once year I had shorts on and it was a game on Christmas Eve, so you don't exactly have to worry about freezing to the seats!

RG - I take it you have never sat in the upper level at Raymond James. You don't get much more of a nosebleed than that. Sat up there once, but the other times we always sat on the lower level. Once, we sat in the endzone where the ship is and whenever Tampa scored, they shoot the canons but also tossed out beads and shot tshirts out of those air cannon gun thingees. It def is one of the nicest stadiums I've been in. The only thing I didn't like about it was the corporate signage all over the place. I guess I'm used to Lambeau, which is unique in that aspect.

The best thing about Tampa....the tailgating! Florida has an insane amount of people that belong to the Official Tampa Bay or Orlando, etc Packer Backers club, so they were always out in full force tailgating. I sure miss them being in our division.

[the_idle_threat]

I've been to quite a few venues and the Dome is the worst I've been to. The atmosphere is just bad IMO.

Also I really dont like rubbing my knees on the mullet of the guy in front of me. If I was 5'4 it might be better.