_ichigan Stadium (bomb ann arbor now!)

[ScriptOhio]

The "shit house" to get luxury boxes which will increase the stadium's capacity to 108,251.
Luxury addition

Michigan Stadium renovation to add boxes, seats

Posted: Friday May 19, 2006 2:50PM; Updated: Friday May 19, 2006 2:54PM

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<!--endclickprintexclude-->DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor will get luxury boxes and more seats as part of an estimated $226 million renovation to the American sports icon, under a plan given initial approval Friday.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents voted 5-3 in favor of the plan, which would increase the stadium's capacity to 108,251. The final design and construction contracts still require board approval.
The target for completion of work on the home of the Wolverines is 2010. About 83 suites and 3,200 club seats will be added, the university said, while widening seats and aisles will cut seats in some parts.
Details of the plan first were reported Friday by The Ann Arbor News, which obtained details through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Michigan Stadium was built in 1927 at a cost of $950,000. Expanded several times over the years, it is one of the largest football stadiums in the country with a seating capacity of 107,501.
The athletics department proposed that Michigan build private suites like those that many colleges have added in recent years. But the plan had drawn some opposition from Michigan football fans.
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[tedginn05]

I had heard some talk before that widening the seats would decrease the cap. greatly and making it less than it is right now.

I guess that has changed.

 

[aesculus glabra]

I'm glad they are making the seats wider. Everyone is so crammed in I feel like I have to wear a condom every time I go up there.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

... I feel like I have to wear a condom every time I go up there.

Of course you feel that way...you're in a giant fucking toilet.

 

[smith403]

a half a cheek seat toilet

 

[ScriptOhio]

I'm glad they are making the seats wider. Everyone is so crammed in I feel like I have to wear a condom every time I go up there.

Yea, like this one:

and it needs to be lubricated too so you can slip into your seat.

I've always thought that they their stadium had to have less square inches of board to sit on and less knee room than any stadium in the country.

Reading between the lines of "while widening seats and aisles will cut seats in some parts"; I wonder if they are only going to widen the seats in certain areas of the stadium (i. e. where the large contributors sit) and leave the area where the visiting team's fans sit alone. Basically this is what Ohio State did with the Presidents Club "red chair seats" on the home side at the 50 yard line

 

[scooter1369]

It always amazes me how they fit 110,000 people into a stadium built for 77,000.

 

[smith403]

It's the only stadium where you stand for the national anthem and when you sit down you're sitting sideways!

 

[tedginn05]

Yea, like this one:

and it needs to be lubricated too so you can slip into your seat.

I've always thought that they their stadium had to have less square inches of board to sit on and less knee room than any stadium in the country.

Reading between the lines of "while widening seats and aisles will cut seats in some parts"; I wonder if they are only going to widen the seats in certain areas of the stadium (i. e. where the large contributors sit) and leave the area where the visiting team's fans sit alone. Basically this is what Ohio State did with the Presidents Club "red chair seats" on the home side at the 50 yard line

Atleast OSU's seats weren't a foot wide before.

 

[jlb1705]

The cheapest stadium expansion possible: A man with a case of spray paint and a handful of stencils.

 

[aesculus glabra]

Yea, like this one:

and it needs to be lubricated too so you can slip into your seat. ...

Exactly!!!

 

[Muck]

Details of the plan first were reported Friday by The Ann Arbor News, which obtained details through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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WTFH?

Were they trying to keep it a secret from the Hadji's in Detroit?

Of course you feel that way...you're in a giant fucking toilet.

So how's wearing a condom when you go to the toilet working out for ya?

 

[scooter1369]

So how's wearing a condom when you go to the toilet working out for ya?

Water ballons galore.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

So how's wearing a condom when you go to the toilet working out for ya?

What else would you where there to keep from getting any of that nasty shit in your shaboygan?

 

[OhioExile]

I thought they were not widening the seats at all according to the local talk radio in Ann Arbor. Many of the fans are against any changes at all and are quite hostlie about it. The best thing for them to do would be to add more bathrooms. If you go to the bathroom line at half you will be lucky to get back before the 10 minute mark of the 3rd quarter...it's pretty rediculous.

I have driven by the stadium several times in the last few weeks and nothing is going on. Also I heard that the cash has been set aside for years to update the stadium. Every offseason they bring this topic back up in the Ann Arbor news just to have something to talk about.