Exiting MBS

I liked the parking lot exit being blocked by a train for 25 minutes.
 
I hate, hate, hate that stadium. From my seats in the lower part of the upper deck (near the big window) you couldn't see all of the stats board. They would do QB comparisons and such and I couldn't see the board that had the GT player - other than the very bottom. As for the seating, it looks just like any other stadium seating, only they built a large erector set contraption with a "sunroof" in it. That stadium will be no where NEAR open air with the roof open. It is about like if you opened the sunroof in your car and called it a convertible. The walkpaths down near 304 were nearly impossible to navigate because of how they narrow and funnel the crowd.

It seems as if the stadium were built to look "gee whiz, neat" from the outside. Ugly as hell on the inside. That roof is an erector set Frankenstein monster roof. The video boards are fairly useless at the bottom of the upper deck, I imagine they were absolutely useless for those in the top rows - especially those in the "temporary" seating at the top.

As for exiting. It was at least better than trying to navigate my way to 304. There were actually folks coming up the first portal of the upper deck, going up into the seating, and getting in the damn way of everyone trying to cross the stadium down rows to avoid the crush.

I cannot impress on you guys how much I hate that stadium. What a waste of a a billion dollars. BDS > Neyland > dozens of other stadiums >>>>>> MBS. I wish we would have built another regular dome and made better walk space. I was not impressed one single bit with MBS.

I was impressed with the traffic exit plan from the Gulch. I got in my car and exited the lot and didn't have to stop until I dropped dad off in Marietta. The police did a good job with that.
 
We got ööööed on the way out when they closed the staircase outside that everyone was moving toward. That forced us onto Marta and we ended up on the train that stopped in the tunnel.

It was a shit show and took us an hour and a half to get to our hotel.
 
I agree with everything said except the traffic plan out of the gulch. ööööing train!! I didn't see a cop anywhere exiting the building. Stadium is a huge disappointment. No mention of concessions? They were horrible. Half the coke machines didn't have coke, the other half didn't have ice. Each concession stand had like 2 of 10 things on the menu. Better right that ship quickly. I have tickets to a couple united games coming up. Looking to sell them now.
 
Man. I thought the stadium was incredible; one of the best I've ever been to. The end of the game was definitely a total clusterfuck but everything else was awesome.

I can't believe you are complaining about the concessions. They were cheap, good, and ubiquitous.
 
andrew said:
Man. I thought the stadium was incredible; one of the best I've ever been to. The end of the game was definitely a total clusterfuck but everything else was awesome.

I can't believe you are complaining about the concessions. They were cheap, good, and ubiquitous.
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Wouldn't really know. They barely existed around section 315. Demand far exceeded supply. Probably some volturd running the procurement dept there.
 
Concessions were genuinely cheap.

I hated the video board placement — way too high to see comfortably.

Weirdest thing, though, was the fact that they provided video coverage from both sides of the field simultaneously. Never seen anything like that before. Very disconcerting to see replays of your team moving left-to-right and right-to-left simultaneously.

On the whole, I prefer Grant Field and the Georgia Dome.
 
There was enough red lighting in some of the message board stuff that at times it made the GT sections of yellow look orange for the TV cameras.
 
Exiting MB Stadium wasn't the problem -preface that I stayed at the Westin, so we were back at the hotel 15 minutes after the game ended.

The problem was arriving an hour prior to kickoff and getting stuck in a mass logjam of fans in the cooridor between sections 301-309 -people going both directions literally couldn't move. When we got through that mess I realized that the issue was the concession areas had taken up a third of the cooridor by roping off space for patrons to stand in line. Horrible design flaw for such a "state-of-the-art" venue.

My seats were in the top row of sec. 306, so I couldn't barely see half of the video boards, which would have helped since I felt like I was watching the game from the vantage point of the top of the players helmets.

The "retractable" roof is a joke. If that thing is open during an afternoon game there will be some idiotic sun-to-shade spots on the field. The seats themselves are small, and cheaply made. Overall not impressed -would much rather played UT at BDS.
 
travgt01 said:
Wouldn't really know. They barely existed around section 315. Demand far exceeded supply. Probably some volturd running the procurement dept there.
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Yea, I thought the food was about what you'd get anywhere else.
Perhaps the lower decks were better, but I will never sit in the upper deck at that place again.
That video board is moronic.

If you removed the top of the stadium and made it open air or just made it like the GA Dome, nobody would be slobbering all over the place over it. That roof, from the inside, looks ööööing stupid. The video boards are ööööing stupid.
Carolina Panthers stadium and video boards >>> MBS. Panthers stadium in the upper deck has WIDE concourses.
Plus, did they decide to cut down on the size of the bathrooms to save money on that ööööing roof? BDS' upper north concourse is how you design for bathrooms.
I fail to see, outside that erector set roof, where the billion dollars was spent.
 
18in32 said:
Concessions were genuinely cheap.

I hated the video board placement — way too high to see comfortably.

Weirdest thing, though, was the fact that they provided video coverage from both sides of the field simultaneously. Never seen anything like that before. Very disconcerting to see replays of your team moving left-to-right and right-to-left simultaneously.

On the whole, I prefer Grant Field and the Georgia Dome.
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Me too. The Dome did it right. Easy to get around in.
The crush of folks in the upper deck concourse, near 304, was absolutely a design flaw. Way too narrow
 
Thought that the lower level concessions were good (fox bros bbq) and the drink areas had everything (I sat lower level). Main issue was a major chokepoint around 102-103 where people where trying, but not moving in either direction.

Video boards were fine and easy to see. Good sight lines of the field.
 
cbee said:
Acoustics were terrible. Egress in and out were a joke.
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Forgot about that. Couldn't hear the bands. Couldn't hear the announcer. And I was near the bottom of the upper deck.
 
GT98 said:
Thought that the lower level concessions were good (fox bros bbq) and the drink areas had everything (I sat lower level). Main issue was a major chokepoint around 102-103 where people where trying, but not moving in either direction.

Video boards were fine and easy to see. Good sight lines of the field.
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In the lower deck, I suppose the boards are easy to see. I guess they could just put tarps over parts of the upper deck that get half or less of a board. We were pretty low in the upper and couldn't see it real well. I suppose those at the top were just ööööed.
 
JJacket said:
In the lower deck, I suppose the boards are easy to see. I guess they could just put tarps over parts of the upper deck that get half or less of a board. We were pretty low in the upper and couldn't see it real well. I suppose those at the top were just ööööed.
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My biggest issue as others have said is the egress in/out is way too narrow. We also wondered about the light and shadows for when the roof is open. Concessions were better than average and Blank is smart to have typical stadium fare--hot dogs, hamburgers priced cheaply. Drink refills were nice.

Isn't some of the seating up there just temporary? Ahhh, makes sense that the angle from there for the video boards would be much tougher to see.
 
JJacket said:
In the lower deck, I suppose the boards are easy to see. I guess they could just put tarps over parts of the upper deck that get half or less of a board. We were pretty low in the upper and couldn't see it real well. I suppose those at the top were just ööööed.
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I was row 19 on the 30 yard line of the upper deck and had no issues seeing the board.
 
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