Mangold Provides a Quick Look Inside
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Nick Mangold is tweeting today. He’s at the iron palace for today’s Turf Ceremony, and sharing some interesting tidbits about the new digs. He snapped the above photo with his trusty BlackBerry while strolling the field.
Only one I could get. I kinda forgot about taking pictures because I was amazed by the place.
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Even though its not done our locker room is amazing. I’m blown away by this place
Keep in mind, The Blond Beard provided this cell phone pic via Twitter (read: Satan), which muddles the quality to an even lower resolution. Regardless, it’s still nice to see the new home taking shape. The video wall looks to be a thing of beauty, but what’s with the aspect ratio?
16 Responses to Mangold Provides a Quick Look Inside
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Jets-Fan-4-Life says:
I wonder if it will be that crowded on game day next season?
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Brendan says:
God I love this man. I wish I could drink beer and play pranks with him all day.
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I took a tour of the new stadium last week. The club seats are truly amazing…. an entire concourse open two hours before and after the game with either a couch or a lazy boy for 2/3′s of the section. It looks like a giant living room. bar stools that pull up and overlook the field, the sight lines were perfect. Had me scrambling for a calculator and I almost committed to a PSL (15 year payment plan)… almost.
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Bent says: Let’s hope Mangold will call “The Slinky” home for many years to come.
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BubbyBrister/shovelpass says:
Let’s hope the stands don’t look like that on game day because of all the PSLs….
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Angel Navedo says:
lol @ “The Slinky.”
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My biggest concern is crowd noise. This stadium is twice the volume with less seats. That’s a lot more open, dead space. A lot of these new “high-tech” stadiums are great for amenities, but leave much to be desired in the actual home-field advantage category. Will this bigger stadium with less people be significantly worse at bottling the noise inside the walls? This has happened with a few teams and I would hate for the Jets (who have one of the few, real home-field advantages left in the NFL) to lose what is becoming more and more a 12th man (screw you Seattle, you can’t be that bad for that long and keep that name).
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SackDance99 says:
Brendan,
The new stadium has more seats. It’s hard to tell whether it will be louder, depends on the acoustics.
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SD, you’re right. I guess I was going off an older figure. They have about 2000 more seats. But it is still much bigger. I’ve been to these modern stadiums or whatever you want to call them and a lot of them have taken the advantage out of home-field.
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My question about the new stadium is whether they have done anything in its design to cut down on the wind problem on the field.
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brian311 says:
it is certain that the place is unfortunatly going to be much more quiet
the typical fan is priced out – most of the lower bowl is going to be corporate types not paying attention to the game (see new yankees stadium for this exemplified). also the new statium has 2x the footprint and sq feet as giants stadium. there is more room for sound to dissapate. with 2x the room, there is more to do. similar to yanks/mets games, a lot of people just walk around all game long eating, shopping, hanging at the bar, etc. even during a big yanks game this year, you could look into the stands and see thousands of empty seats. with the current giants stadium, if you are not in your seat, you are either getting crappy food or going to the bathrooms. there is no other reason to be out of your seat. the new stadium is going to have all these “amenties” designed to keep you in the councourses and spending money.
less people in the seats = less noise
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StvDoe says:
As a season ticket holder for over 20 years I never found the Meadowlands, (or Shea for that matter), to be a place with a pronounced home field advantage. I felt the crowds were never into it as much as they should be. Never loud enough when the D was on the field. (I gave them up a number of years ago, so I can’t speak to the last few years.)
There can be little doubt that the new stadium configuration combined with the proponderance of corporate ticket holders will lessen whatever advantage the Jets held.
BTW, I’m with you Angel, what’s up with that aspect ratio? It’s absurdly wide.
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brian311,
I’m still not so sure. The entire upper level is composed of non-PSL seats and, as I’ve seen this season, many of the season ticket holders who weren’t Jets fans have given up their seats. So, while there might be more “corporate types” there also will be more die-hard Jets fans who are using the new stadium as an opportuntity to get Jets season tickets.
By the way, I’ll be one of the “corporate types’ in the lower level screaming my lungs out. After 17 years in the upper level, row 27 or worse, I had to treat myself to lower level seats and, judging from my wife’s reaction to the PSL cost, I might have to live there, too. LOL.
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SD99 – if your wife lets you do that, then you definately “out-kicked your coverage, dude!” :-)
(thanks Rex!)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!