FedEx Field

[irish]

Originally Posted by saden1

FedEx is filled with way too many corporate/lobbyists types. They don't really care about the game, it's just something to do on Sunday. It's a shame really.

That's the way Danny likes it. The Skins used to be more of a community team with people knowing who your season ticket neighbors are since forever. Now the Skins are more about selling 90k seats and corporate advertising, & merchandise sales. Its not the same, or as good, anymore but what is.

BTW, if the Skins do get a new stadium it will be a dome or retractable roof so DC can get the Super Bowl and host a yearly college bowl game.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Seahawks_Fan

I like the way FedEx Field has natural turf. I hope that never changes. I love Qwest Field, but I just wish it was a grass field.

How many people does FedEx hold for a Redskins game? Something like 90,000?

Your field would be full of mud all the time with Seattle's frequent rain. The fake stuff is better for drainage and durability.

[SkinDogg]

Originally Posted by saden1

FedEx is filled with way too many corporate/lobbyists types. They don't really care about the game, it's just something to do on Sunday. It's a shame really.

SO TRUE! Especially the Club Level where the wannabes watch the game on the leather sofas! Dudes in blazers, chicks in pumps.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Fed Ex is the largest NFL stadium and it generates the most revenue because so many people with deep pockets go there and pay top-dollar prices for everything.

Anyone who has been to lots of different NFL venues - and has been even marginally sober in the process - will NOT have FedEx anywhere near the top of the list of great venues. FedEx is not the worst place to go in the league. Superdome, Giants Stadium, Alltel and Metrodome are pretty bad. (Never been to Oakland, but have heard it is the worst of the worst.) But FedEx cannot be put in the top half of NFL stadiums in 2008.

It's ugly. It's inconvenient. Its sightlines are mediocre.

As soon as the new Cowboys stadium is ready, FedEx will be the second largest venue in the league because Jerry Jones built it so that it can add seating to hold just over 100,000 folks. And with its retractable roof, it will be the home for lots of Super Bowls...

[Campbell17]

Ours better be damn bigger, i want us to have a retractable roof.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

I feel like I read that the cowboys new place will only be able to hold over 100k for college games.
I don't really know why it would be much different but I could have sworn that I read that somewhere.

[CancunCantinaBartender]

Club level employees have told me that Snyder is planning on moving back to DC in 2014-2015 and has already signed a contract. Most likely site is the old RFK site.

[sancho2613]

I live in Idaho so I've been to the Boise State University field (the blue field) lol that's the only one i've been to... ohh and i drove by the Quest field... lol don't really have too many chances to go watch pro football when you live in Idaho

[coggs]

Originally Posted by T.O.Killa

I wish that Dan Snyder would do something to channell all those peoples voices to the field, the way the Seahawks do. The acoustics of FedEx are not ideal.

Nothing to do with Snyder. It is how the new Kingdom was designed. Sound engineers advised them on how to design the stadium so the sound would travel down towards the field. Other stadiums are designed so the noise travels up into the atmosphere. I read an article about last season, pretty interesting stuff.