A sad number really do seem to go to games exclusively to eat in "the club" to get ham off the bone served by some bored usher who drew the short straw and had to put on the white coat and paper chef hat. Whatever floats one's boat though.
ok, fair enough. Honestly, the more i think about it, the more i am accepting Heinz and im starting to relax a tiny bit on my anti - tarp agenda too.. yeah, 25k empty yellow seats suck but a lot to do in north shore area..
I generally don't want to eat in a stadium, it's expensive and generally crap, and I find it an uncomfortable environment to eat in,
our older fanbase like it because it is extremely convenient. I lived in Mt. Lebo and i kid you not, there were times when my buddy would call and say "Get down here" and i told him, i'll be there, beer in hand in 15 minutes. i left door, drove down banksville and was there, in lot, beer cracked, in under 15 minutes. That's from a suburb to beer in hand, in under 15 minutes..
exactly. i'll grab the kids a burger or cheese sticks at a place before game for 7 - 8 bucks. of course they still want a $6 pepsi inside the stadium but kids are kids. i'll take "bar" food over any kind of stadium garbage any day. it's better and 1/3rd of the price..
This and the other distraction threads are brought up PRECISELY because we don't have a QB who is good... and thus no hope for a good season.
i don't think our OC or HC knew that pickett stunk. if they did, they wouldn't have anointed him starter in the spring before they even were allowed to put on a helmet..
i was gonna go there and bring that up but i didn't want to involve politics in a good old fashioned football thread. Leaving souf's hypocrisy aside, i will admit i am anti-socialism unless it's sports, then i love me some shared revenue and salary caps.
Spring? Hell. It was ordained in Dec. Even as national fans were still laughing about the Clemson game. That's not hyperbole. Does anyone not remember that the announcers really WERE laughing?
yes, we remember, no need to refresh our memories. it's still there, in my brain, not going anywhere for a long time.
Not me. I advocate for willing deep pocket playboy boosters to pay under the table for better players and laundered supplements to attract better coaches, so the school itself doesn't have to. Not because I'm blind to the lack of ethics about it. Because THIS IS THE BUSINESS MODEL FOR THE SPORT.
Really? Listen, im the last person to defend Heinz. but logistically speaking, i think it's quite easy to get into, from the south hills at least. west end, get off and wrap around the science center and voila. Cant imagine coming in from parkway east is bad, outside of the squirrel hill tunnels but that's always the case, damn people slowing dahn and all. MAINTAIN SPEED THRU TUNNELS..
Nobody showed up in Oakland, either.
I mean, why the hell even bother getting rid of Watson. Unless he himself chose it. Possibly did.
low hanging fruit. gives the appearance that wholesale changes are being made to appease us faithfuls.
I get from the east end to my parking in red 6 in literally 20 minutes door to door.
Heinz is a dream (comparatively speaking) to access and egress compared to Oakland. Especially for northerners. I see the nostalgia factor for having an Oakland venue but literally no other practical or amenity benefit. Even the good ole college bars most of us might have frequented are gone. Are people yearning to go to Oakland for a game to hit LuLu's Noodles or Legume after? Actually considering some of the other views expressed by some of these cats here, maybe so...
i never disagreed with this. attendance numbers are better at Heinz. we build a brand new stadium in Oakland, in a parallel universe where we find 600 million, land, an extension from 376 into the parking lots, some cool college bars open up around Oakland (like a Zelda's with open roof) i still don't think we get more than 40-45k and that's if all this impossibilities happen.. I think we'd lose a lot of "old heads" and i think it'd be evened out by more younger fans going. not even students but mid 20's types in the eastern part of the city.
my bad. well, cant disagree there. kind of a bottle neck situation for sure. not even in security gates but the damn fences outside that are there for no apparent reason, other than to obstruct you..
plenty of options in Oakland still. Zeldas, Calicos, The Sod, Peters, , the decade.. Also, i heard a rumor that the beehive is getting a liquor license.
I donate and buy tickets and attend most games. What the heck else can be expected? Message board jabronies aren't the problem, or solution. I'm talking the real drivers of college sports success, where the money they drop is like getting guac on the burrito at Chipotle for the rest of us.
what else do you want us to do? bash Pickett? CHeck.
Most of us expect to lose to Ohio. Let that sink in a moment. Is that more fun to discuss?
do you expect to lose? Man, i cant go that far. honestly, if i had to bet all my money, i'd put it on pitt. i'd be up all night but i still think pitt wins. If i was setting the line, i'd say pitt -4.
great question. i don't know squat, im a south hills guy that doesn't like to leave my cul de sac but i think, and this is a guess, i think an Oakland venue could attract a lot of fair weather, walk up crowds in the eastern suburbs.
Why bother to tarp the upper deck, just play all home games at night. Yeah I know that’s not possible but I did notice when at the game last week, from my seat in Section 137 lower level home side, looking across to the opposite side upper deck, it was so dark you couldn’t tell how full or empty it was. You could see the end zone upper deck but not the sideline upper deck.
People like the upper deck cost effective seats, good view of the field and action.
The only time I choose to buy food in any stadium is if I bring my daughter, she will always want the greasy chicken tenders, and I might eat one of them and she'll eat the other 4-5.
