The Eagles announced they’ll be making some upgrades to Lincoln Financial Field.
Upon completion prior to the start of the 2014 season, the stadium will have improved amenities for all fans including new HD video boards, Wi-Fi installation, and bridges that will connect both sides of the upper concourse. In addition, the stadium will expand by 1,600 seats to accommodate nearly 70,000 fans.
This is cool, although I’ve got mixed feelings on the Wi-Fi part of it. People now live and die with their cellphones. At a football game, you’d like fans to focus on the game itself and not be checking their phones.
The Eagles are just listening to the fans and this is something they want.
Wish they would close up some of the giant openings in the stadium. The Linc is a fantastic stadium, but it doesn’t get anywhere close to being as loud as other stadiums since the noise easily escapes. Closing those gaps with more sections would give us more of an edge at home and allow more people to attend games (and possibly decrease my waiting time for season tickets from 30 years to 15 years lol)
They are closing one of the gaps with 1600 new seats
Re: Skulman7
I don’t know if you saw this or not:
http://www.phillymag.com/eagles/2013/06/09/eagles-unveil-125-million-plan-for-the-linc/
It looks like they are closing in at least part of those openings with added seats so you should get your wish.
Re: Wi-Fi
I understand your thinking, but fans already are looking at their cell phones just using their wireless networks rather than Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi will just make it faster. So I’m not sure you end up making a huge difference, positive or negative with added Wi-Fi.
Mustve missed that. Thanks