GREEN BAY - Lambeau Field (73,128 -> 79,728)

[rantanamo]

Originally Posted by westsidebomber

Please no! That looks awful.

well, everyone seems to gush over how college the stadium is. Why not take it all the way with the ugly college like expansion.

[Spaceman3]

Originally Posted by Darloeye

I love this stadium and the history of the team. Had NO IDEAL where green bay was in the usa had to google it. Would love to have a superbowl in this stadium for 50 years of nfl superbowls.

It would be great to have the Super Bowl in this stadium every year...if they played the Super Bowl in September. Wisconsin is COLD in February!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game

[Benn]

Originally Posted by rantanamo

well, everyone seems to gush over how college the stadium is. Why not take it all the way with the ugly college like expansion.

It kind of has all of the pluses with almost none of the problems associated with college football stadiums, compact has sort of a laid back feel about it, no one is too far from the field. Ad its single level bowl is a big selling point for a lot of people, gives a very unified feel that just does not exist elsewhere in the NFL.

As much as they could use the extra seats and VIP seating for revenue they ought to try something that fits in a little better. This proposal looks garish and painfully unbalanced for such a cleanly done stadium as is.

[ElvisBC]

According to Milwauke Journal Sentinel , Lambeau Field is going to get additional 7.500 seats in a year or so. Few more people to freeze! Cheers!!!

[Jim856796]

Originally Posted by bigbossman

http://www.customintercept.com/surve...uexpansion.htm

The design of this expansion is overexaggerated.

[Jim856796]

I have a feeling that Lambeau Field will never have the feel of a complete bowl again.

[nomarandlee]

Originally Posted by ElvisBC

According to Milwauke Journal Sentinel , Lambeau Field is going to get additional 7.500 seats in a year or so. Few more people to freeze! Cheers!!!

Instead of adding seats they should work on putting in real seat backs as opposed to their bleacher seating. That is the aspect Lambeau needs to have for it to be considered a truly top tier stadium.

[Jim856796]

I talked about this earlier, but several other users said it will reduce capacity and rejected the idea. And their large season ticket waiting list sucks.

[repin]

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[KingmanIII]

Originally Posted by nomarandlee

Instead of adding seats they should work on putting in real seat backs as opposed to their bleacher seating. That is the aspect Lambeau needs to have for it to be considered a truly top tier stadium.

Considering the fact that the season ticket waiting list is larger than the stadium's capacity...

[Darloeye]

Like the fact you used a bear and nomarandlee is a bears fan
Yeah taking the bleachers away from Lambeau Field will never work.

[nomarandlee]

I can be objective when the time calls.

Originally Posted by KingmanIII

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They could probably rip out the bleachers bare and have a waiting list of 100k for standing room only.

That wouldn't change the fact that an NFL facility should have stadium seating when you are asking people to shell out $50-150 dollars per game. Yes it would decrease their attendance some but the number of people you can fit in to a given space isn't everything.

[KingmanIII]

Originally Posted by nomarandlee

an NFL facility should have stadium seating when you are asking people to shell out $50-150 dollars per game.

People have paid more than that to sit on a wooden plank for a college football game...the team is fan-owned anyway so if enough people complained about the bleachers they would've already upgraded to seats.

[Jim856796]

Lambeau Field before the renovation had about 198 private boxes, but now it has about 166. Why the reduction, the stupid season ticket waiting list?

[Pennypacker]

Does anyone know why they didn't complete the bowl of corporate boxes during the last renovation?

[en1044]

Originally Posted by Jim856796

I talked about this earlier, but several other users said it will reduce capacity and rejected the idea. And their large season ticket waiting list sucks.

I notice most of your opinions are devoid of intelligent thought.

[Lord David]

How about building a temporary stadium somewhere in Green Bay, seating at least 60,000, in order to accommodate a proper expansion of the stadium?

An example could be seen in Vancouver. Whilst Vancouver's BC Place Stadium is being upgraded, a temporary stadium has been purposely built at Hasting's Park known as Empire Field. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Field

So we take this: x 3 = (well 27,500 x 3 = 82,500!) Which of course sounds ridiculous, so we make it x 2 and then some to reach that 60,000 capacity minimum.


This temporary stadium will be in a far greater scale than that of Vancouver's solution and will certainly break the record books.

Have the existing private boxes removed in order to accommodate a 2nd tier. Probably remove the Holmgren Way entrance (or modified) to accommodate the expansion and add a new entrance. Modifications could be done to make the stadium truly symmetrical in shape (from a birds-eye point of view).

With expansion, addition of individual seats and far greater private boxes we can easily see the stadium pushing 100,000+ in overall capacity.

Heck, why not go all out and attempt to expand, to become the largest stadium in the world! You take the existing bowl, consider a similar yet expanded bowl for the 2nd tier, or even just an expansion of the bowl period, and say offer a capacity of 140,000!

Car Parking? Not a problem, though ground level car parking will be removed in order to accommodate stadium modifications, you could put in underground parking to help in adding car parking space.

Of course this won't happen for quite some time, given the recent renovations in 2003. If the money is there to do it, then why not? Perhaps the 2020's or 2030's would give better reasons to expand.

[Benn]

Originally Posted by Pennypacker

Does anyone know why they didn't complete the bowl of corporate boxes during the last renovation?

A because they didn't need more premium seats at the time (to this day the only available seats are usually a couple of the suites that sometimes go unsold); B, it gives them flexiblity for future expansion and C for aesthetic reasons.

[en1044]

I just filled out that Lambeau survey in the link as a way to tell the Packer management that those designs look like complete garbage. I hope they read it.

[Lord David]

Hey en1044, could a temporary stadium idea work at some point in the future? I mean obviously not now when you still want to get maximum use out of the existing facilities, but say 20 or 30 years down?