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[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Gtripp:

I had been to the old Silverdome in Pontiac but have not seen Ford Field. I presume from your location that you probably also visited the Silverdome.

For its time, I thought the Silverdome was a lot better than most of the other "first generation domes". How is Ford Field better - - other than the fact that it is newer and with advanced tech gadgets?

Grew up near Chicago, and I have never been to the Silverdome. I do live with someone who grew up in Dearborn, and thus has been to the Silverdome multiple times, but it wouldn't help to make a comparsion.

Ford Field blew me away with how a football venue can be built to have state of the art facilities from the bathrooms to the concessions, to the the sightlines, be indoors, be as large as the stadium is, and still not have the game experience ruined by a stadium that is as large and not open-air as Ford Field is. Basically, I was impressed by the gameday experience, even though the Skins-Lions game I went to was in Detroit's 0-16 year.

Arrowhead, by comparison, is a really impressive football atmosphere, but for a football-only stadium, really was kind of a pain. There are "good" kinds of old, and Arrowhead wasn't of that kind. I know they did a really expensive renovation on it recently, but I have a hard team believing the stadium improved in any meaningful way.

(Kauffman Stadium (KC Royals) -- on the other hand -- is a beautiful venue, albiet preposterously limited in # of seats for an MLB park. I suppose though if you're the Royals, that doesn't much matter.)