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The Stadium of the FUTURE...Future...future
Posted by Sean Fallon at 9:00 AM on July 17, 2008
Where will we be going to enjoy our sporting events in the future? What kind of amenities and features will the stadiums have to cater to our needs as fans? PopSci has investigated some of the up-and-coming technologies that we can expect to find in the stadium of tomorrow and compiled all of these innovations into a composite that includes the best design and technology features from a dozen cutting-edge stadium plans.
The Frankenstein stadium of the future is composed of some technology that we have already heard about--like new Cowboys stadium and its gigantic video screen. However, you may not have come across plans for a single-piece steel roof that makes taunts more audible to opposing players in Liverpool F.C.'s new stadium, or the wireless screens set to be built in Oakland's new Cisco field. The interactive screens will allow visitors to order food, pull up stats, and even find the shortest bathroom lines from the comfort of their seat. There are also plans that make stadiums greener, cooler, and more flexible when it comes to configurations. Check out PopSci for more info. [PopSci]
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92BuickLeSabre
Posted 9:28 AM 17/7/08
@bobdobbs: What if you once predicted we'd all have lupus?
92BuickLeSabre
petrarch1611
Posted 9:27 AM 17/7/08
looks kinda like quest field
petrarch1611
bobdobbs
Posted 9:24 AM 17/7/08
How about if we make a new law: If you once predicted we'd all have flying cars by now, you don't get to make any more predictions.
Who's with me???
bobdobbs
Bravocowboy
Posted 9:23 AM 17/7/08
1 Billion dollars of advanced stadium technology and no place to park. The cowboy stadium is our future.
Bravocowboy
frigg
Posted 9:17 AM 17/7/08
The stadium of the future will be fully-immersive virtual reality helmets that will periodically splatter beer on your clothes.
frigg
mildretard
Posted 9:16 AM 17/7/08
Let me know when these things can seal up and shoot into space. Not that I'm apocalyptic or anything, but I would definitely be a season ticket holder.
mildretard
Cordfucious
Posted 9:04 AM 17/7/08
This makes me want to drive up 45 just to see it finished. Too bad there is a Wal-Mart in its shadow.
Cordfucious
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 9:03 AM 17/7/08
As an avid Sooner fan this stadium concerns me. How in the world is a small state like Oklahoma going to afford this and still pay our players competitive wages?
92BuickLeSabre
unspellable
Posted 9:53 AM 17/7/08
@Cordfucious: I just moved from Arlington... used to live in a nice apartment... that's now going to either be landscaping or parking for the stadium.
unspellable
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 9:50 AM 17/7/08
@bung: Eh, you live in the D/FW metro area.
I'm guessing you hate life most of the time.
p.s. I kid!
p.p.s. Okay, not really. Boooo Texas!
92BuickLeSabre
bung
Posted 9:47 AM 17/7/08
I live within a few miles of the new Cowboys stadium and I will be hating life when the Super Bowl comes to town in 2011. Ugh!
bung
Sielle
Posted 9:39 AM 17/7/08
@petrarch1611: Quest, or QWest? (Note I'm typing this from South Lake Union.)
Sielle
lol123
Posted 9:39 AM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: it's never lupis
lol123
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 9:36 AM 17/7/08
@bobdobbs: ...um...*looks around nervously*...nope.
92BuickLeSabre
bobdobbs
Posted 9:34 AM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: Do you have a better prediction than lupus?
bobdobbs
ezman
Posted 10:13 AM 17/7/08
@ezman:
Scrap the last comment:
ezman
ezman
Posted 10:10 AM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: [photos-555.ll.facebook.com]
ezman
bobdobbs
Posted 10:08 AM 17/7/08
@bung: Uh, hello? Clear off the lawn + 25 bucks per car = new HDTV for you
bobdobbs
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 10:50 AM 17/7/08
@CubFan81: Well, obviously that's because Jim doesn't have Lupus!
(Ya know, cause it's not lupus; it's never lupus.)
92BuickLeSabre
CubFan81
Posted 10:46 AM 17/7/08
@ezman: Reminds me of a Mitch Hedberg joke. "Alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for. 'Dammit Jim, you're an alcoholic.' Nobody ever says 'Dammit Jim, you've got Lupus.'"
CubFan81
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 10:45 AM 17/7/08
@leonwestbrook: Ironic for a stadium named "Citi Field."
(Or sadly unironic...either way.)
92BuickLeSabre
leonwestbrook
Posted 10:38 AM 17/7/08
Of course the common fan will be not be able to afford any stadiums of the future.
Soon I will have to offer my first born to see my Mets lose in a shiny corporate field.
leonwestbrook
The Lab
Posted 10:34 AM 17/7/08
Sean, great title.
The Lab
Thrillcekr
Posted 11:47 AM 17/7/08
@ezman: Looks like Mike Rowe. Reading Giz must be a dirty job.
Thrillcekr
=opportunityfanboy
Posted 11:40 AM 17/7/08
@CubFan81: I don't mean to nit pick but his name was Otto. Not Jim. RIP Mitch Hedberg.
=opportunityfanboy
=opportunityfanboy
Posted 11:39 AM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: BOOMER!
=opportunityfanboy
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 12:29 PM 17/7/08
@=opportunityfanboy: SOONER!
92BuickLeSabre
twoeightnine
Posted 12:11 PM 17/7/08
They forgot retractable fields like the one the Arizona Cardinals play on and first used in the Sapporo Dome.
twoeightnine
robinandtami
Posted 12:53 PM 17/7/08
If they can't flood the stadium and have giant naval battles, like the Roman Coliseum; I'm not going!
robinandtami
Cordfucious
Posted 12:33 PM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: So does this mean I will see you for the Red River Shootout???
I will be there (Cotton Bowl) for the PV/Grambling game and will stay over for the RRSO.
BTW.. I want to burn that damn wagon... or atleast tip onto Bob Ooops
Cordfucious
Cordfucious
Posted 12:31 PM 17/7/08
@bung: @unspellable: yeah because I HATE, DESPISE, and utterly DETEST driving on 360, 30 and 183. I love to visit Dallas(Metroplex), but damn the traffic there is BAD. I thought Houston was bad. But there is Blue Mesa's Sunday Buffet to make up for it. (The one at North Park not Plano).
Cordfucious
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 11:05 PM 17/7/08
@Cordfucious: I wish - live back east now. But how dare you threaten the little horsies!
92BuickLeSabre
Curves
Posted 11:00 PM 17/7/08
@robinandtami: Thats probably the best idea I have ever heard. I would SO go to that.
Curves
NightElfMohawk
Posted 11:42 PM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: Yeah, DFW... no kidding about hating life. And no booing Texas overall. Just boo the redneck parts and the dull concrete jungles that are DFW and Houston. ;)
NightElfMohawk
NightElfMohawk
Posted 11:41 PM 17/7/08
@92BuickLeSabre: Well, the problem for you Okies will likely be solved the same way A&M solves their funding issues (College Station is a freakin' cheap city, btw) - by sending their graduates to the big Texas cities to work and then send back Alumnus contributions.
NightElfMohawk
ceilingFANBOY
Posted 1:53 AM 18/7/08
Apparently, the future is retractable. Pretty soon the entire stadium is going to be retractable so that when a game is not in progress they can just have one huge parking lot in the middle of the city and when the game is over the parking lots retract down into the ground to take you to a secret set of roads designed specifically for stadium traffic.
ceilingFANBOY
Fierock
Posted 2:33 AM 18/7/08
My idea of the future Stadium is one that is afloat at sea. Instead of taking up expensive real estate it will be constructed in a shipyard and can be floated to any venue in heavily populated areas (i.e. along the coastlines). The playing field would actually be below the water line, near the keel and the stands would conform nicely to the hull of the vessel. An additional benefit is that the field could be easily flooded and drained for indoor marine motorsports. In case of emergency evacuation, there could be lifeboats all around the perimeter. etc.
Fierock
xtremesniper
Posted 3:36 AM 18/7/08
Honestly, aside from the grand scale of it... The SkyDome (Rogers Centre now...) built in 1989 already has most of these features in one way or another.
Retractable roof? Yep.
Colour changing facade? Well it's currently always one colour, but that's nothing a few LEDs can't change.
A huge video screen.
But still, cool new stadium anyways.
xtremesniper
ninjamurf
Posted 3:25 AM 18/7/08
@Cordfucious: Is there a WalMart in it's shadow? Or is the stadium in the shadow of a WalMart?
ninjamurf
Cordfucious
Posted 4:08 AM 18/7/08
@NightElfMohawk: Can we get a loud boo for the panhandle... I swear Amarillo is the worst place on earth next to Waco... take that back...make that ALL OF WEST TEXAS
Cordfucious
Cordfucious
Posted 4:05 AM 18/7/08
@ninjamurf: nah the f*cker is HUGE. There is this rinky dink walmart RIGHT UNDER IT (literally). No lie.
There is no way in hell Jerry Jones gets over-shadowed in Big D. This stadium makes Reliant look like Reunion Arena.
Cordfucious
JEmlay
Posted 4:24 AM 18/7/08
All this proves is ticket sales and concession stands COST TOO DAMN MUCH!!!!!!!!
Which reminds me...why don't we have movie theaters like this yet?
JEmlay