M&T Upgrades

[bawlmer_fan]

Love the concourse LEDs!
There's a link above the photos that will take you to the more detailed article:

http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore...=image_gallery

[babylinux]

OK, I am not seeing any escalator upgrade

[Fang]

OK, I am not seeing any escalator upgrade

You beat me to it. C'mon Steve Bisciotti, put some escalators in to the 500 level!

[rgh]

I don't see anything that will upgrade my experience. How about more bathrooms or TVs in the bathrooms. How about fixing the cracked speakers in my section. The soundsystem was great but is showing its age. Looking at the pictures of the proposed upgrades I would prefer to keep my roughly $100 per year in ticket increases.

[Ravens2006]

I'd love to see bigger / better flat screens throughout the concourses. Granted, I literally never leave my seat during game action (except maybe when the Ravens are up BIG in the final 2 or 3 minutes), but the monitors they have up right now aren't exactly the best...

[can you hear me now!]

what's wrong with walking up 196 steps to the 500 level? I do it and I'm in my 50's....escalators come with unnecessary overhead expenses...don't like the steps? use the ramps. This damn country is getting too soft....

[AFKAR7]

what's wrong with walking up 196 steps to the 500 level? I do it and I'm in my 50's....escalators come with unnecessary overhead expenses...don't like the steps? use the ramps. This damn country is getting too soft....

I'm an elevator mechanic and have worked on escalators over the past 23 years and there are nothing but a pain. Especially ones that are always in contact with the outside and weather.

[CajunRaven]

You beat me to it. C'mon Steve Bisciotti, put some escalators in to the 500 level!

I'll second that. Or third it.

[Fang]

what's wrong with walking up 196 steps to the 500 level? I do it and I'm in my 50's....escalators come with unnecessary overhead expenses...don't like the steps? use the ramps. This damn country is getting too soft....

The need for an escalator at a football game is a completely separate thing than the need to stay in shape. It's not our issue that this is the only way you get your exercise.

[Fang]

I'll second that. Or third it.

1) More restrooms
2) Escalators
3) More and better big screen TVs on the concourses.
4) All the hotdogs in my section were cold during the Colts playoff game. Can we get better concession stands?

I'd rather upgrade the above than what is being proposed.

[babylinux]

what's wrong with walking up 196 steps to the 500 level? .

I don't like it

I do it and I'm in my 50's....

So am I

....escalators come with unnecessary overhead expenses....

I don't care

[jessup270]

OK, I am not seeing any escalator upgrade

It amazes me that the Ravens moved from a 1950s era stadium WITH two efficient escalators to a brand new stadium with NO escalators.

Heres the deal, the folks who sit upstairs in the 500 sections are not high profit crowd, cheapest tickets, likely not big spenders, like the downstairs fans and club level folks.

Just a guess on my part, I would say the number of restrooms per fan on the 500 level, is way less than the lower bowl.

Always remember in life, that money follows money.

If the MD stadium authority has to sign off these improvements, they should disapprove them without escalators in the plan.

[rutkis]

Designers continue to lose revenue opportunities year round. The old standard of building under the stands works for space saving but the stadium should have two or three anchor outlets that can be accessed all season. Look at Camden yards they have a store in the warehouse open to public most of the year. IN Seattle they have a massive store that is accessable from inside the stadium and outside the stadium as they do in Houston. Obviously you can not enter the satdium side without a ticket or you can close off the outside entrance on game days.I suggest they place at least one restaurant, a store and Ravens museum that can be accessed year round. That would mean going to the opposite side of where the concessions currently are.

[middle river terp]

The problem is the location. Not much draws the public past the MLK overpass except for game days. I am excited to see how the Ravens use the LED boards on the side of the big HD boards. Hope the upgrade looks as good as OPaCY's did last year. I think the Ravens should hang big Super Bowl banners where they show up on TV as another addition.

[Nightman]

I'm an elevator mechanic and have worked on escalators over the past 23 years and there are nothing but a pain. Especially ones that are always in contact with the outside and weather.

I remember going to see the Ravens play the Redskins last year at FedEx and one of the escalators that went to the top level was broken. I joked that they were maintained by the same people who fix the ones on the Washington Metro which is even worse than Baltimore's MTA.

[Marchetti]

Escalators. Not a fan, especially the long one at OPACY.


http://articles.baltimoresun.com/199...lator-accident

[can you hear me now!]

The need for an escalator at a football game is a completely separate thing than the need to stay in shape. It's not our issue that this is the only way you get your exercise.

it's not, if it was I'd collapse on the way up...hell my bother (also in his 50's) runs the damn things.......sounds like the couch potato in you would do well to hike up Mt Raven......

[Fang]

I don't like it



So am I



I don't care

My feeling as well. Lol

[Pickle20]

The stadium could definitely use more bathroom stalls. I prefer not to piss standing next to some drunken slob who is yelling about how Flacco sucks.

[SNAFU]

Well, one of them upgrades will probably be a Ray Lewis statue!