bama_ed
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Back from my morning walk around the neighborhood (the University of Alabama campus). That's one good thing about being retired: I can take my walks in the morning while it's a little cooler.
Anyway the construction fences are starting to come down around Bryant-Denny Stadium as improvement/expansion work concludes. The fence came down on the north side where the Walk of Champions leads into a tunnel now and directly to the Tide locker room entrance.
Previously the cement stairs went all the way across. And to allay the fears of college football fans everywhere, the brick sidewalk pattern shows there is room for six more drop-in Nattie marble mega-plaques in the walkway. That should last us up to about 2030, right?
Head on view of the new entrance:
And at the new doors looking back at the WoC (currently 17 Nattie mega-plaques between here and the street out there):
These guys are puttin' some clean on the windows before they leave (this is one of the mezzanine levels that has been turned into luxury clubs and loge seating):
The new additions do hang out over Wallace Wade Avenue.
The CBS/ESPN production trucks usually park there in the street with all the cables laying in the road (blocked off from auto traffic of course). But the stadium supports are closer to the street now than any part of the stadium used to be. I wonder if the street will become one-way during regular traffic times.
Of course, the thing I am MOST excited about is the new elevator shaft they added to this corner of the stadium. A stairwell (down only I am sure) and two elevators (one for the club level no doubt and one to the top level where my seats are).
The good thing is the elevator door at the top is RIGHT IN FRONT of my season ticket section. Before it was a 15-minute walk leaving my seat at the end of the game down the spiral walkway to the ground level to get to my living room couch. Between the elevator or stairwell, I could shave 5 minutes off my time, don't ya think? I've used the stairwells on the north side of the stadium in year past when I tailgated and going down is not bad at all.
Took a peek at StubHub for the first Bama home game against the Aggies end of the month. While the get-in price is currently $149 and bound to come down (upper deck north end zone row 31 for a 230pm sunny kick-off: sure
) everybody's ticket listing is for a PAIR of tickets. In the old days, you could buy a single and sit next to a stranger. In these covid times, nobody knows who might sit next to them (there is social distancing between the pairs of seats because we are limited to 20% capacity). So it's likely if you sell one ticket of a pair, the second ticket will likely go unsold. Oh there are singles available from the fat cats who got four so their listing shows they will sell 1-4 of that set but the get-in price for those is nearly $500. Also not happening.
So I'm gonna watch the ticket situation on SH and see if anybody gets desperate enough to break their pair up and sell a single. Living as close as I do, I can afford to wait till right before kick-off. (I was offered a choice of games for season tickets and took those games at the end of the season - so this first game has me looking at the secondary market).
We shall see.
Bama Ed
Anyway the construction fences are starting to come down around Bryant-Denny Stadium as improvement/expansion work concludes. The fence came down on the north side where the Walk of Champions leads into a tunnel now and directly to the Tide locker room entrance.
Previously the cement stairs went all the way across. And to allay the fears of college football fans everywhere, the brick sidewalk pattern shows there is room for six more drop-in Nattie marble mega-plaques in the walkway. That should last us up to about 2030, right?
Head on view of the new entrance:
And at the new doors looking back at the WoC (currently 17 Nattie mega-plaques between here and the street out there):
These guys are puttin' some clean on the windows before they leave (this is one of the mezzanine levels that has been turned into luxury clubs and loge seating):
The new additions do hang out over Wallace Wade Avenue.
The CBS/ESPN production trucks usually park there in the street with all the cables laying in the road (blocked off from auto traffic of course). But the stadium supports are closer to the street now than any part of the stadium used to be. I wonder if the street will become one-way during regular traffic times.
Of course, the thing I am MOST excited about is the new elevator shaft they added to this corner of the stadium. A stairwell (down only I am sure) and two elevators (one for the club level no doubt and one to the top level where my seats are).
The good thing is the elevator door at the top is RIGHT IN FRONT of my season ticket section. Before it was a 15-minute walk leaving my seat at the end of the game down the spiral walkway to the ground level to get to my living room couch. Between the elevator or stairwell, I could shave 5 minutes off my time, don't ya think? I've used the stairwells on the north side of the stadium in year past when I tailgated and going down is not bad at all.
Took a peek at StubHub for the first Bama home game against the Aggies end of the month. While the get-in price is currently $149 and bound to come down (upper deck north end zone row 31 for a 230pm sunny kick-off: sure
) everybody's ticket listing is for a PAIR of tickets. In the old days, you could buy a single and sit next to a stranger. In these covid times, nobody knows who might sit next to them (there is social distancing between the pairs of seats because we are limited to 20% capacity). So it's likely if you sell one ticket of a pair, the second ticket will likely go unsold. Oh there are singles available from the fat cats who got four so their listing shows they will sell 1-4 of that set but the get-in price for those is nearly $500. Also not happening.So I'm gonna watch the ticket situation on SH and see if anybody gets desperate enough to break their pair up and sell a single. Living as close as I do, I can afford to wait till right before kick-off. (I was offered a choice of games for season tickets and took those games at the end of the season - so this first game has me looking at the secondary market).
We shall see.
Bama Ed
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