There are a few ancillary reasons why people leave early. They have all been mentioned hear. But the one main reason IS the traffic, and here's why. When we had a 68,000 seat stadium, (before all of the upper decks), traffic was very manageable. When we added the west upper deck, that added 7,500 people. At 2 people per car, that another 3,750 cars. Repeat for east upper deck. Then we added the south upper. I'm not sure what the capacity is there, but it brings the total to roughly 101,000 fans. Subtract the 68,000 original total and you have 33,000 more fans. Thats 16,500 more vehicles crowding on to the same roadways we have always had. You can't put 10 pounds of crap in to a 5 pound bag and not have problems

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Posted by AlwysATgr

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Posted on 10/2/16 at 8:58 pm to damnstrongfan

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There are a few ancillary reasons why people leave early. They have all been mentioned hear. But the one main reason IS the traffic, and here's why. When we had a 68,000 seat stadium, (before all of the upper decks), traffic was very manageable. When we added the west upper deck, that added 7,500 people. At 2 people per car, that another 3,750 cars. Repeat for east upper deck. Then we added the south upper. I'm not sure what the capacity is there, but it brings the total to roughly 101,000 fans. Subtract the 68,000 original total and you have 33,000 more fans. Thats 16,500 more vehicles crowding on to the same roadways we have always had. You can't put 10 pounds of crap in to a 5 pound bag and not have problems

I don't think traffic is the main reason fans leave early but this post brings up a good point. The stadium capacity has increased and tailgating has exploded whereas the infrastructure is largely unchanged since my first game in '70.

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