NFL question


Yeah, it is. If you're in level 3 at Gillette Stadium for a cold weather game you are in trouble.
Went to Met Life to see the Patriots play the Jets at the end of November a few years ago and was on the back row where there is an opening between the top of the stands and the roof that covers the stand. It was bloody freezing with the wind coming in!!
 
Arrowhead in January is the coldest place on earth. Thankfully all the bars have external heaters, and you just have to deal will potential frostbite in the nether regions when releasing all the light beer.
 
The have tail gate parties before the match. Couldn't imagine that at the sOL.
Thats mainly because the grounds are miles from anywhere with massive car parks and they all drive there. This is an aerial view of Metlife which is over in New Jersey but not that far from New York and despite being an 80,000 seat stadium its swamped by the car parks around it!

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Why do most of the stadiums not have a roof? Must be an absolute bugger for the ones located in cold northern areas in the middle of Winter.
A number of things. Tradition. Machismo. But probably most of all, and this is particularly true of the biggest stadiums in the north of the US, for engineering and costs reasons.

Such can be the weight of snow, it was often too expensive – and still is – to construct roofs that wouldn't collapse. You can also make these big roofless bowls bigger too, to fit more in, and, as a result, get more revenue.

Generally, the biggest football stadiums are actually in the college game rather than NFL and they are almost entirely huge, roofless bowls. If you can get 100-120k plus fans inside I guess you will, won't you?

Who cares that fans get snowed on, especially as NFL games are routinely played in very heavy snow?

There's also a chance to use the weather and stadium to your advantage for teams like Green Bay when the likes of the LA Chargers or Miami Dolphins come to town and feel that icy blast as they run out onto the field.

However, it's changing. NFL teams like the Vikings made the decision to build new stadiums that were entirely covered, making them all-year round facilities capable of holding concerts and things like the college basketball play-offs. You'll see less and less open bowls in the northern cities in future, I expect.
 
Generally, the biggest football stadiums are actually in the college game rather than NFL and they are almost entirely huge, roofless bowls. If you can get 100-120k plus fans inside I guess you will, won't you?
Michigan being a prime example of this....think they just started with a bowl and its got bigger and bigger apart from a minor issue recently where they lost some capacity due to have to redesign some bits for disabled access. Saw something on social media once that suggested Michigan held some record of having had consecutive 100,000+ sell outs dating back to the late 70s\early 80s.

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Michigan being a prime example of this....think they just started with a bowl and its got bigger and bigger apart from a minor issue recently where they lost some capacity due to have to redesign some bits for disabled access. Saw something on social media once that suggested Michigan held some record of having had consecutive 100,000+ sell outs dating back to the late 70s\early 80s.

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That stadium is incredible
 
Thats mainly because the grounds are miles from anywhere with massive car parks and they all drive there. This is an aerial view of Metlife which is over in New Jersey but not that far from New York and despite being an 80,000 seat stadium its swamped by the car parks around it!

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I would very much like Newcastle to build something like that on the outskirts of Cramlington.
 

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