It's really gonna look like a new stadium: notice how the white paint around the seats pops, plus the color of the lighting structures went from white to aqua.
Once the remodel is complete and starting with this year I hope that we can turn our stadium in a rocking mad house rooting all Dolphins and having the crowds be as good as we had in the Orange Bowl.
If I remember correctly, was that game even sold out? Or was that the Baltimore game the following season that wasn't a sellout? The Indy game was really exciting though. Of course, almost all of our playoff wins the past few decade have been down to the wire. Seattle in 99, Buffalo in 98, KC in 94 all were too.
It was blacked out as it didn't sell out in time. That made everyone show up to the game and the stands were packed.
There is no need to make it so difficult for me to post pictures here. Worst site to load pics, bar none...
lol they should just leave the Georgia Tech word-mark in the end zone. Play dumb whenever someone asks about it.
I was at the KC 94 game in the East end zone...Marino vs Montana...really good game to watch and what a winning drive by Marino....my claim to fame..I made it on TV during the game. My wife recorded the game so I have it on vhs lol. A lot of my family and friends were calling my house and telling my wife they thought they just saw me on TV...Lol..she told them all I was at the game and she was also watching at the time...it was a fun experience anyways.
In case anyone is interested, Tom Garfinkle posted a couple of new stadium pics a few days ago on his Instagram page. They don't show much, but you can see they have started installing the seats in the new lower bowl sections. https://instagram.com/garfinkeltom/
interesting that the Canes admin is gonna try to get out of their stadium lease, they hope ross doesn't give them a hard time while the focus their efforts and money i presume, on a joint venture with an MLS team.. ill have to get the details and how much money the university is williing to contribute but if its in the 200 million dollar range I'm gonna be livid.
I really like the stadium renovation a great deal. Though I wish the seats were still closer to the field. But, I like the look. It will be an improvement (especially next year when the 'roof' goes on). But, one thing I really love about it is the color scheme / contrast. Love the green seats over orange. And, the white background is a huge improvement. Creates a great contrast (much more in line with the core team colors of aqua / white). That imagery just walking in or playing on the field gives off a much better vibe. Here's to hoping this really coincides with a long term change in the fortunes of Miami to become a winning, successful franchise:
so your saying that the land that we are on with sunlife is not likely for us to move if a joint venture was a possibility.?
Love seeing those aqua seats in the stadium. Looks so much nicer. Wow. Things look to be coming along nicely.
I would have to think that with all of the money that's been poured into JRS, that we won't be getting an entirely new stadium for a few decades, like it or not.
I cannot believe that UM has not built an on stadium campus by now. I am sure the funding would have been easy to come by when they were winning championships. I am so disappointed at how long that we have been down..Golden should have been forced to get rid of our DC or both go. Anyway, I wish the Orange Bowl would have been there forever for the Dolphins and the Canes.But I love what Ross is doing to the stadium now..it is going to be a winner I do believe...JRS at The Ross.
I wonder why they chose orange seats to begin with. I love orange as a secondary color, but not as a showcase color like the seats were in such a big stadium. It looks soooooo much better with aqua seats.
heres what I'm saying, if the university was willing to say invest 2 to 300 million for their new digs, and they wanted it closer to miami, why wouldn't we of did a joint venture with them and go closer to miami?
they made so many mistakes with that building they had a bunch of clowns making decisions..thats where they got the orange, clowns like orange.
I give it no more than 10 years before the NFL takes us out of the Super Bowl rotation, and a new stadium is sought out.
Not just the aqua - but the aqua and white contrast is great. So much better than the old stadium color (U-G-L-Y).
Can't speak on behalf of either the U or the Dolphins, but just from going to a private university myself, I doubt they'd be willing to pony up anywhere near $300M for a joint-venture stadium. As far as the Dolphins are concerned, they'd be footing the majority of the bill (i.e. probably more than than whatever Ross has put into Sun Life renovations already, and still without public support and not much coming from the U); and you'd be moving locations. Is there a viable location closer to the city? Last I remember, I thought the Dolphins had actually looked further north to potentially find a new site. In short, it just doesn't seem like a good mix and if you force them together, both sides would be too far apart to compromise all that much. That said, my alma-mater being a private university isn't anywhere close to the clout that the University of Miami has in football. They're FCS non-scholarship (i.e. they don't make the playoffs...they were Jim Harbaugh's last loss while he was at the University of San Diego though!) and are currently trying to build a multi-purpose, on-campus football/soccer/track stadium; I'm told their budget is no more than $40-$50M max. They draw about 7,000 fans a game, which is just short of the total number of the undergrad population. It's also a basketball school.
''We so need those sections being moved closer to have an impact, its been to long to have to deal with a passive environment because of how far away the seats are to the field, this isn't rocket science just simple science, So excited about those sections being moved closer, the same foe the roof, both will help fans become more engaged, wish we could get more seats closer, our team and culture needs it. ''Im so grateful that someone actually recognized that something drastic had to be done to the infrastructure of that venue, its been a slow debilitating process of the culture and the home field advantage since we moved from the orange bowl, when fans are that far away, when the sun is beating on them, its only natural for fans to be totally passive and become a spectator. This is not the type of energy or behavior you want when your competing in the NFL..Home field advantages thru architectural design is very real and completely underutilized, Seattle's fan culture, the money making machine that is their 12th man, the fame and publicity it gets, is not a coincidence, it is thru design.'' lol, I wrote that on that page you posted Ro...not sure if he can see it.
Best I can tell, as I don't use Instagram, is that your comment is the first one under his caption. If he checks back, he should see it.
how did they get those cranes inside? Would think those tunnels are too small to simply drive through. Maybe another crane on the outside lifted them in or a big heli?