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70k seats moves the Bears to the middle of the pack for NFL capacity, from dead last right now. I have previously stated that any capacity less than 75k is an insult to the Bears fanbase.
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I hope the stadium is a lot better than the 22 year old POS that was built in 2002 ago. Decent bathrooms would be nice. Escalators to reach the nosebleed seats would be nice.
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Getting there is still a real real pain in the ass. There is nowhere near enough parking down there at the south lake shore. The Metra trains are miles away. My last playoff game was about a 12 hour time commitment from the suburbs to commute there, park far, far away, wait for a bus to the stadium, walk from the bus stop to our seats, see the game (including the double doink), then reverse the commute.
Ahhh⌠so YOUâRE the reason for the double doink!
Iâm sure the sledding hill is toast. It looks to be in the south east end zone.
I am not sure why they chose to pivot the field away from a North/South direction.
And it could be pretty fâing hot in that stadium in June, July, and August. Iâm not so sure that summer concerts will be pleasant.
I was way on the other side of the stadium from that kick. I was high over the south end zone where the Eagles took the lead late in the game. The double doink was kicked into the north uprights. You canât blame me!
How was Parkey supposed to know where to aim, if he couldnât see you?!
Of course it was your fault!
But I yelled at himâŚ
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He couldnât hear you all the way back there, silly!
Chicago will definitely earn second city name with the second Allegiant Stadium. Looks like a replica of Vegas.
Pretty sure itâs nowhere near finalized. Just the general concept at this point.
Thatâs no concept. The architect has already been paid a bundle and believe it is the same one as Vegas.
âConceptâ as in, âHey, Race Track area, maybe weâll just stay in townâŚâ
Need competing interests to make the most money from them.
Iâm reading that itâs actually 65k seats but increased to 70k with expanded standing room only.
Being on the lake is awesome but agree that itâs a major pain to get to. Last game we went to, we found a parking garage a mile away on spot hero for $40.
If thatâs true, I am very, very disappointed. 65k seats is a joke, a cruel joke on the fans of Chicago.
However, can you identify the source?
Channel 7âs website is saying 70k seats.
cribbed from the ABC7 websiteâŚ
why? NE is 65K. in the 50âs seems like it would be artificially low. but 65K is a lot of asses in seats. Vikings play at 65K too and that place is awesome.
i would think 65K-70K is the target everywhere bc the count above that level is in a different zip code than the game I bet
The seats have to be bigger, so their asses will fit. So, fewer seats. Simple physics.
They want to host a Super Bowl, so more seats. Nothing at all to do with fat-ass Da Bears fans.
New York sells 1,402,500 seats per year (82,500 * 17)
LA sells 1,194,080 (70240 * 17)
Chicago is the 3rd biggest market and we fans are to be satisfied with 552,500 (65,000 * 8.5) ? 65,000 moves them from smallest NFL stadium to a tie for 3rd smallest. Thatâs an insult, Virginia.
Freakinâ Lambeau sells 692,249 and thatâs up near Santa Clauseâs house at the north pole. There are more people in Cook & collar counties than in the whole state of Wisconsin.
And DTNF, that would be funny if it wasnât actually true, so it hits a little hard. But the Packers fans are in the same boat, and they get 81k plus every game squeezed in.
Well if Soldier Field is no longer going to be hosting games then at 65,000 youâd be moving from smallest to a tie for second smallest actually. Only State Farm Stadium in Arizona would be smaller.
Ok, Twigster⌠remember, there are 3 kinds of actuaries. Those who can count and those who canât.
70,000, however, is slightly above average.
I saw it in a tweet from Jason Lieser who is a Bears reporter at the Chicago Sun Times.
âWell, perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist in Green Bay. Were these magic asses?â
Also, do note that this will likely be one of those, âwe can expandâ stadia. Lots of SRO, gadding-about attendees.