Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
Subject: Re: Stadium sites will and have sucked!
From: eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:54:23 GMT
 <1992Aug17.151520.5102@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Aug17.130855.1@vax1.umkc.edu> <1992Aug18.041719.19698@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Aug18.041719.19698@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, sradeker@nyx.cs.du.edu (scott radeker) writes:
> In article <1992Aug17.130855.1@vax1.umkc.edu> eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>> + the weather was PERFECT marching weather (but cold in the upper deck)
>>
> This WHOLE weather thing is a non-issue.  Perhaps you don't get the weather
> channel in KC, or maybe the local paper in KC doesn't write about global
> weather trends, but last years volcano eruption in the Philipines has
> lowered temperatures across the northern hemishpere.  To give you an example:
> the temperature at night in Atlanta over the last weekend was in the 60's
> daytime highs were in the low 80's.  Gee whiz, what more do you expect.
> 

Well, the ONLY complaint that I have ever heard about KC was the weather, so
unless you know of something else ...  

>>
>>For those of you who haven't realized it yet, I did not like Madison.  The
> 
> However 40,000 other people did.
> 

I am rather curious which polling method you used.  Sure, count the tickets,
but that doesn't mean diddley when you measure stadium quality.  I would be
quite worried if DCI couldn't fill that stadium for their 20th anniv.  EVERY-
ONE I heard at the stadium disliked it.  When I was on the 50 (lower deck)
after scores, I heard a person making a remark about how it was nice "being
squeezed by you."  I heard many other remarks about being squeezed into seats.
And, contrary to the posts by the lucky dogs who got lower deck near 50 ticks,
the echo (if you can call it that) was hideous in the upper deck on the
left side of the field.  Nothing ruins those impact moments worse than a
ZING or two from the backfield.  I am glad that the echo seems to have been
unheard in the lower deck as it will not show up on CD's.

>>I pray that DCI rethinks its position on not using KC as a permanent site.  It
> 
> unfortunately they didn't ask you.  Of course they didn't ask me, or
> I'd have had the 1996 summer music games in Atlanta, in the New
> Olympic Stadium.  Oh well.
> 
>>seems to me that the selection committee considers a seat in KC stadium to be
>>equal to a seat in stadium X.  They are not perfect substitutes!!!  I don't
> 
> perhaps you missed the discussion on WHY cities were selected.  If you 
> are really serious about getting KC to host future champs, bget you local
> govt./chamber of commerce to cough up some cash.  Remember, fans aren't the
> ONLY ones financing this deal.
> 
No, I saw it, and my point is that for the alleged $200,000, DCI should have
taken KC.  The value of the better facilities more than offsets the cost in
my humble opinion.  I heard another 50 yard liner talking about how she was
from Jacksonville and WOULD NOT ATTEND the finals there due to the weather
and stadium.  I agree with the way our committee handled the DCI bids.  KC
does NOT have to cater to the whims of DCI.  We are a big enough city that
with good enough facilities that DCI should want KC and put up with a couple
of extra costs to get in here.