re: Alleva: Tiger Stadium Expansion Renderings Coming Soon

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If you built a new upper deck to outer space and it held 2.5. Billion people, you wouldn't need a "sprinkler system".

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2.5 Billion people in Tiger Stadium?
Now, THAT'S a home field advantage!

Even with 2.5 billion seats, the bathrooms would stay the same.

What I don't get is, if the other two upper deck's seat in the neighborhood of 12K people each... Then why is the estimated additional seats created by "enclosing," the south end of the upper decks only 7K??? I understand suits are a big part of it but I would expect that total to be much higher. A true "enclosure," connecting the tops of both upper decks should have a similar or greater seating capacity than either existing upper deck.

Then again, I'm not an architect.

Consider the length of a sideline. Now consider the size of an endzone. Does that help you understand?

You do know that the length of the East Upper Deck is roughly 490 linear feet measured from the north side to the south side relative to the back of the lower bowl. Using the exact same line that the expansion would run along the second level of the south endzone it measures roughly 555 linear feet along the outer bowl edge. To spell that out, Tiger Stadium has more length in the south endzone than the previous two expansions have along the sidelines.

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Consider the length of a sideline. Now consider the size of an endzone. Does that help you understand?

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You do know that the length of the East Upper Deck is roughly 490 linear feet measured from the north side to the south side relative to the back of the lower bowl. Using the exact same line that the expansion would run along the second level of the south endzone it measures roughly 555 linear feet along the outer bowl edge. To spell that out, Tiger Stadium has more length in the south endzone than the previous two expansions have along the sidelines.

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This is what I was getting at. I'm afraid that when the design comes out, it's gonna be some little poonanie upperdeck that doesn't litterally "connect" the other two.

For those that can't visualize how a true south endzone "enclosure," should equal to a larger upper deck than the two existing, just google map it in satalite mode. This is a simple observation from directly above the stadium. A new upper deck that connects the other two at the upper most corners and continues the radius or shape of the bowl should equal to waaaay more than 7K of new seating.

Yeah, it's stupid if they only add 7K seats.