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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 821565, member: 628"]
All the stuff about parking, the 'atmosphere', the seats, etc. is all such bullsh!t.  If that stuff was such a huge deterrent then we wouldn't draw better than 99.99999% of hoops teams to same the building that football is played in.

I grew up in Massachusetts in the 80s and let me tell you, there was no bigger holy trinity of fan unfriendly, horrible venues than Fenway Park, the Boston Garden and Foxboro Stadium.

For all its "charm" Fenway was a dump with seats built for midgets and sightlines that had half the fans either with an obstructed view or needing to be a circus contortionist to see home plate.  And try navigating traffic and finding a parking spot at 6pm on a workday in Boston.

The Garden was a bigger dump.  20% of the crowd was rats.  Not the kind of Boston fans you guys hate, I mean actual rats, they were everywhere in the building.  There were also tons of obstructed, tiny seats, and parking was impossible.

The Foxboro Stadium experience meant sitting on metal benches, outside, with zero cover anywhere in the building, including the concourses.  Getting out of the parking lots when there was a full house took 2-3 hours.  No exaggeration.

And yet all those places were jam-freakin-packed when the teams were good.

Again, win some games.
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