Grant and Danny
What Differences Did You Notice At Northwest Stadium?
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Here's what I got for you, Danny. I'd already been to a preseason game. So I had seen a lot of the changes at the stadium. I'd taken a big tour. What's very noticeable for me walking from where I park to where I sit, new floors, almost everywhere, new paint on most walls, new carpets on a lot of floors, and new cool designs and paint jobs and things to decorate and spruce the place up. Like a lot of that controllable. Let's throw some money and then some elbow grease on some things and see where it gets us. But I'm just curious, as a fan, did you get in more efficiently? Was the food warmer? Did it taste better? Like, what did you guys experience as they continue to spend a lot of money? On the TV copy, I would say, it looked better. Everything about it. Obviously, people were in seats at kickoff, which is a rarity around these parts. In terms of fans, people were engaged. It seems excited. The general noise level seemed to be pretty solid. Don't like folks are having a good time. I also think that the audio in stadium was way better in terms of the PA. I'd be curious to hear from people on that because Darris, you were at the game, so maybe you could answer this too. Any seat that you have is going to be a little different than everybody else's vantage point. But my experience now having been there for a concert at the end of the summer and having been there for two football games is that they have largely fixed whatever issues they were having with a lot of the old speakers, which they've replaced so many of. And a lot of the old stuff like the PA. It's a four yard gain bringing up second and six for Philadelphia. Like that sounds way better. What was your experience like you were in the crowd, Darris? Yeah, I agree. The PA definitely was some of the cleanest of the audio situation that we had. There was there was the halftime performance there from Walley that I didn't think the audio was all that clear. I was down behind the Giants bench in the like second third row behind the Giants bench and not that that's a flex or anything and a little bit of a flex a little bit of and um yeah I don't know the the music audio didn't come through very clearly the music itself but not the lyrics. I wonder if that's like a concert thing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean how did the like the stuff that football related through the microphone sound that that's all that mattered to me and all that sounded good. That was a big complaint last year. So that's something I'm actually really curious about. Let's go to Will and Stafford on G&D. Hey Will. Hey guys, thanks. Say my call. You're back. Yeah, we got my buddies. I got season tickets and 132 and end zone about 15 rows up from the goal post, you know, and the audio was great. I could finally hear the referees clearly. That was a big thing last year. You can never hear the refs call. There were audio was excellent. Taking out the end zone bar and opening that area and the end zone cuts down on traffic a little bit down there. Getting into the stadium, the scanners are updated. So going through scanning and everything, it was a much smoother transition. Did they use the new technology where you entered in terms of scanning your ticket or was it the same as last year in terms of how you got in? Now I use new technology on my app. Just, you know, pulled it up scans in. They got new coolers. You walk up there with your gold. You know, if you're a gold member, you just put it on there. You get 50% off food and non-alcoholic drink. You just grab out of cool or you're good to go. So those speak nice shop, so to speak. Thanks for the call. They're everywhere. This is not something they created, but they added a ton of them. That should have been there as far as I'm concerned, like five years ago. Yeah, I mean, you see, if you know it at Capital One, it's, it's almost like a, there's like a small fence or like a little railing with an entrance and you walk in, grab your bill or light and walk out. That's it. Grab and go. Yeah. I've done that at Frednats games for a few years. The idea that that wasn't ubiquitous everywhere in that stadium, just to get people there, you could do food. You could do quick food fair there, like grab and go chicken tenders, fries, whatever, but it's also, it's beer. It's soda. It's water. It's chips. That, that to me is a no brainer, I would say. Are you comfortable with how some people can now get into stadiums? I've done this over at Nat's Park, where it's almost like signing up for cleared an airport or something, but you just walk up through your MLB ballpark app and almost like your phone opening with your face. You don't have to take your phone out of your pocket. You walk up. There's a little camera. It knows you're staying in front of it. It sees your face and it goes, Danny, you and your three guests can walk in. Welcome. Yeah. You cool with that or you're gonna, you're gonna stay away from that for a little while. Well, I mean, yeah, I'm fine with whatever. What I, what I need is for the thing that's supposed to be faster to actually be faster. And I find a lot of times where it's like, all you have to do is download the app with the updated app and then app as long as you're able to log in and what they'll even if the login's not working log in here and show it this way with the QR code. And now it's not faster. Everybody's waiting for people fiddling with their phone. So sometimes it's faster. Sometimes you actually just have a ticket. You could scan it much quicker. I think that parking to that point was more arduous for me this week than it normally is. A lot of weeks in the past, they have not actually scanned the parking. Well, I'm sure some people will just get a screen grab and, you know, park illegally or whatever. They want to cut down on that. So they try to actually scan your QR code when you go into park, but it took me longer to creep down getting to the boulevard to go into the stadium, get a Morgan boulevard took no time at all to creep down like the half mile into the parking lot. Took like 30 minutes. Basically, as long as it took me to get from almost like Learten to that turn in. And so overall, it's tough. But I mean, I was there, you know, right around 11, I was still up in the press box and got to my seat by 11.45 or so. So it wasn't the end of the world. But if I'm closer to kickoff and it's 1225 and I'm not parking till like 104 and I miss kick because of that, I'd have been a salty character. I agree with it. Yeah, that's tough. This episode is brought to you by progressive insurance. 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