Linc renovations aka fixing the fuck ups

[Clemson Foreaker]

Updates to the link

MY main bitch about the place was the access upstairs to the Home side of the stadium. One fucking elevator. Wannamakers had/has 4.

The elevator experience is a total cluster. It would be nice to have elevators outside the stadium up to the upper decks ala Old Gints stadium.

I know some people bitch about the lines to get in the stadium but this year seemed to go easier.

[The Ref]

MY main bitch about the place was the access upstairs to the Home side of the stadium. One fucking elevator. Wannamakers had/has 4.

The elevator experience is a total cluster. It would be nice to have elevators outside the stadium up to the upper decks ala Old Gints stadium.

I know some people bitch about the lines to get in the stadium but this year seemed to go easier.

I've never ridden in an elevator at a stadium or arena. Always walked up the stairs, even to the nosebleed section (which is often all I can afford)

I guess what I'm saying is - 'I don't get it'. If you're handicapped I hope the stadium has the necessary access. But if not, what's preventing you from getting to your seats?

[RSE]

If your tickets in the Linc are in the south end of the 200 level, you have the choice of (1) walking up 14 flights of stairs, which I did four eight years, (2) walking to the middle of the stadium to wait in a pen of people 10 minutes to use the sole escalator, or (3) walking to the other end of the stadium, walking up 200 yards of ramps, and walking back to my seat. If you think I'm exaggerating about any of this, ask anyone who has actually been to the Linc. Now, I think someone who is paying at least $75 a ticket, in some cases on top of a PEL, should have easier access to his seats, but then I'm not a bourgeois dickhead.

[CbEagle]

I know exactly how you feel, that whole level is a design disgrace. I hope the new escalator is an addition and not a replacement since the current one only works every other game. I usually take the steps but that is one fuckin lot of steps even for someone in pretty good shape. They really need the bridge to the East side the fans had no where to go up there and it was just a giant clusterfuck of people milling around.

[Clemson Foreaker]

Access to West Side of the Linc

I got an email today that stated the Eagles are installing additional escalators to the upper tier from the outside.

I should clarify that my bitch was about the ESCALATOR not the elevator. The escalator is a total clusterfuck/lord of the flies situation.

The steps are a bitch and the ramps really suck.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

It's expensive, inconvenient, and uncomfortable to attend games

Watching football at HOME has become TOO attractive. Large screen, high definition television and digital video recording made it that way. Now, the NFL has to find ways to make up the money that they're losing to stay-at-home fans by making stadiums bigger, charging more for sh*t, allowing what amounts to scalping, just to name a few...it's all BS. The whole thing is going to go PPV. I can smell it coming. Now with all of that said, being IN THE STADIUM when the Eagles won the NFC Championship was one of the greatest joys of my life. To be in the stadium and share that jubilation with that many people was awesome. I do love it. Unfortunately, it's a little too expensive to go to games for me. I can't really afford it.

[The Ref]

If your tickets in the Linc are in the south end of the 200 level, you have the choice of (1) walking up 14 flights of stairs, which I did four eight years, (2) walking to the middle of the stadium to wait in a pen of people 10 minutes to use the sole escalator, or (3) walking to the other end of the stadium, walking up 200 yards of ramps, and walking back to my seat. If you think I'm exaggerating about any of this, ask anyone who has actually been to the Linc. Now, I think someone who is paying at least $75 a ticket, in some cases on top of a PEL, should have easier access to his seats, but then I'm not a bourgeois dickhead.

Yes. Well, I'm not a lazy fat ass. All stadiums and arenas have a nosebleed section. They're cheaper tickets. People walk to their seats without complaint except in Philadelphia. Weren't you people voted one of the fattest cities in America a couple of years ago?

I have no sympathy. None.

[Ellsworth]

buying singles on the secondary market has made it a little easier across the board to find bargains. NFL is harder than other sports with more than 8 home games but the longer you wait / closer to kickoff it gets the better prices you're gonna see.

and, i agree on both accounts. watching from home saves thousands over the course of a season, the sunday ticket is a phenomenal product and value. But, there's nothing better than being in the building during a huge game/win. Or, being there to jinx the fuck out of the birds...

[The Ref]

buying singles on the secondary market has made it a little easier across the board to find bargains.

Really?? I have never seen a ticket selling for below face value except in late December for teams that suck. Mostly secondary markets triple or quadruple face value. Sometimes higher.

[Loki]

Exactly

If the NFL could get away with making local games PPV, they would have done that long ago.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

The Eagles suck. Remember?

They're one of the worst, if not THE worst, teams in the league right now.