10-18-2024, 06:53 PM
(10-18-2024, 12:57 PM)Au165 Wrote: Football fans can be weird sometimes. Imagine any other business where the customers want a worst experience for a fake sense of toughness. The games are worse in bad weather, the viewing experience for those in the crowd is worse in bad weather, and when it's really bad the viewing experience at home can even be worse.
I saw someone mentioning it's weird because of the AFCN, the Browns are currently proposing a covered stadium as well. This is where the league is heading because as others have said these massive assets need to be used year round to make sense.
I imagine there will be more domes built as the years go by. The game is a made-for-tv entertainment event, and having an indoor, climate-controlled situation is conducive to a good tv production. When we were growing up the Super Bowl was usually played outside and the dome games were the exception. Now it's been reversed.
Outdoor games have an ambiance to them that you just can't get in the indoor experience, and I get that. But as far as fan comfort goes, I challenge anyone to sit out for three-plus hours in 42 degree rain and then tell me with a straight face you wouldn't prefer a dome. Nonsense.
