Cliffmark1 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I'm going to say it is stupid. There should be stores and food options, perhaps outdoor screens or a casino bar out front and not a moat. What is the return on a moat? I fail to see it generating anything other than liabilIty. Then when you get looking inside it looks like the walkways are at high gradients. It should have moving walk ways to get to the upper levels. It just doesnt hit me as a destination. And it needs to be because football on tv is just getting bigger and sharper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffmark1 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (not many in DC do Kayak, do they?). . It does hit me like a euro soccer stadium. And unfortunately thats not where american football stadiums have gone recently. Kayaking is huge in dc. Tons of white water kayakers on the potomac including the great falls. Our US white water kayaking team used to train out here. Not sure if they still do. About the noise. It is really important in football because you stop play and call a new play every minute or so. If its loud you get false starts etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vabigpoppa Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 How can you guys hate it already and you've only seen one picture and/or watched a less than 30 sec video? lol  What if there is a retractable roof but its just off for the picture/video so you can see the inside, who knows?  ill wait to hear more about it before I freak out.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffmark1 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Because the cowboys stadium looks a lot better than this and that shouldnt be. We could have just shrank a new stadium design and gotten something better. seriously isnt LA getting disney to help with the stadium. This has a moat and a few picnic bowls. It couldnt be stupider, seriously. None of it works in the real world so you are left with fedex part 2. Just a stadium not a destination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Kayaking is huge in dc.  Location matters. The impossible, it's on Roosevelt Island, then that would mesh logistically with folks already on the Potomac. Of course it's not going to be there. Nothing quite says bike shorts and fanny packs like kayaking in the middle of Ashburn, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vabigpoppa Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 This article says if the stadium is in DC, the moat would connect to the Anacostia  http://www.citylab.com/design/2016/03/why-the-bjarke-ingels-group-is-designing-a-moat-around-a-football-stadium/473508/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 There should be stores and food options, perhaps outdoor screens or a casino bar out front and not a moat.  ​What I want is decadence. I want a Ruth's Chris or Morton's embedded right inside the stadium. Sell gameday tickets to that mother. Limited occupancy. Keep it clean like any of those steakhouses would be outside in the real world.  Screw standing room, give me steak house tickets where I'll recline in leather and eat leather and watch the game on big bright leather TVs.  Or line an entire wall of the restaurant with huge glass bay windows, or have a patio option to the restaurant. Literally eat high-end steak while watching the real game inside the stadium from a nobility level perch.   I want padded leather chairs in the stadium. Heat and cool them. I want to sit like a normal human being, not squishing my nads in some narrow, hard plastic, grade school chair. You want to limit the seating? Make the seats bigger and better and more comfortable. Bring the living room fieldside.  I want to leather recline inside the bowl. Give me a built-in fridge to my chair, keep my beers cold. I'll pay for it if it's actually innovative. The seat infront of me should have a TV embedded in the back of it so that if I want watch the game while watching the game, I could. Because America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 ​What I want is decadence. Because America.I can't wait to push you into the moat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Skins Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Nothing about this design has any association to "Redskins" in my mind. Seems super bland with nothing that fits our team motif. Makes me wonder if they're preemptively designing something that will be relevant after a name change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I can't wait to push you into the moat.  I guess we'll have to build a sand island right in the middle of the moat all for you, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I guess we'll have to build a sand island right in the middle of the moat all for you, huh?nah, I'll be in the standing room section losing my voice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 The Ingels design does look like the field itself is cradled by the superstructure. Like it's suspended above ground level.  It looks like folks could walk underneath it. If only the field was translucent and you could watch the game through glass, like in an aquarium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 The Ingels design does look like the field itself is cradled by the superstructure. Like it's suspended above ground level. It looks like folks could walk underneath it. If only the field was translucent and you could watch the game through glass, like in an aquarium. be cool seeing under a pile up after a loose ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 nah, I'll be in the standing room section losing my voice  I'd rather you tend a caribbean style floating bar that I could swim up to and drink loads of rum from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Harris Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Well, it can't be worse than fed ex, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I'd rather you tend a caribbean style floating bar that I could swim up to and drink loads of rum from.ha-ha fair enough.Not in that weather though. It's crazy to think that a stadium holds almost twice as many people as my island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Not in that weather though.  You just answered your own question. Bio-dome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbit Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 instead of moat I want ring of fame. statues of our greatest standing guard  nobody wants to paddle in a concrete circle while being targeted by drunks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 You just answered your own question. Bio-dome.doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Could we enclose and climate control everything but the field? Â LOL. Â #unifiedtheory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Could we enclose and climate control everything but the field? LOL. #unifiedtheory NO ols Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemoveSnyder Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 NO ols  Ok then. Individual climate controlled biosuits. I'm thinking outloud for Momma, obviously. I can handle the elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffmark1 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I'm coming to the realization that the only thing that could save this stadium is if we get nicer bigger seats (per Monk) that bounce like RFK, the moat is turned into a lazy river and the picnic bowls become swim up bars. Maybe oxygen bars on the 20% incline walkways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I'm coming to the realization that the only thing that could save this stadium is if we get nicer bigger seats (per Monk) that bounce like RFK, the moat is turned into a lazy river and the picnic bowls become swim up bars. Maybe oxygen bars on the 20% incline walkways. There was an article when this new stadium design was first announced that Snyder definitely wanted bouncing seats to be included in the new stadium. The lazy river and swim up bars aren't practical for that area. So the thing to do would be make it a park like environment so it can be used throughout the year, which isn't a bad idea Nothing about this design has any association to "Redskins" in my mind. Seems super bland with nothing that fits our team motif. Makes me wonder if they're preemptively designing something that will be relevant after a name change. How do you mean? What other stadium designs incorporate the name or team motif into the stadium design? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Help us, we need a stadium to make our noise for us. Help us stadium, help us. I felt a drizzle, please close the roof. I'd rather stay dry and warm. Does my chair have an iPhone charger and a warmer in it? Bunch a wine and cheesers, with your sit down and shush game experience. The purpose of the roof/partial enclosure is because everybody wants a stadium where they don't sit down and shush. As a huge college football fan, there is something really fun and a large source of pride about being part of a crazy stadium experience or a place other teams hate to play at (for me VT). That's all we want, sure we can make the noise on our own and will but why not add things that can make it even louder and a real **** for the opposing team. Also, it's crazy the guy that lives in the carribean is the one criticizing others that complain about the weather iPhone charger in each seat, that's a nice idea actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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