Domed Stadium

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(Today, 01:05 AM)puddycat Wrote: Voted NO, b/c retrofitting Paycor seems difficult and you're getting maybe 2 games/yr. below 50F.  The Browns are going to a covered stadium, but the Bengals will still play in Baltimore and/or Pittsburgh late in the season.

In a perfect world, I could see a retractable roof on a stadium with much more fan protection, just cutting down on the wind chill would warm up the field a lot.  Of course, a stadium like that doesn't need a scenic downtown location.

Retractable roof is just a more expensive and failure-prone dome.

Look around the NFL, any stadium with a retractable roof is closed much more than it's ever open. 
-The Cardinals went 76 straight home games without opening their roof. 
-The Texans had at least a 50 home game streak of it being closed at one point, and then a hurricane last year ripped some of the retractable panels off. 
-The Cowboys went to open their retractable roof for a game for the first time in over two years and it failed and a pieces fell off it a couple hours before gametime.
-The Colts had it open just 3 games in the last 2 years.