My gripe about this deal is they shouldn’t put a seat behind a damn beam and expect somebody to pay for it. That’s truly low.
From The New York Post:
What a bunch of blockheads!
These are the worst seats in the new $1.7 billion Meadowlands football stadium -- so bad the Giants and Jets scrapped selling tickets for them because the only action fans would see is paint peeling on the massive columns in front of them.
Each of the two end-zone mezzanine sections has four pillars supporting the upper deck -- unsightly and archaic steel structures that experts say are routinely avoided in modern stadium design.
Behind each column are rows of seats where views of the gridiron are fully obscured -- 59 seats in total. Some others have limited sightlines.
"The fact that there are columns in there and possibly obstructed-view seating is a joke," said a Jet season-ticket holder and New Jersey resident who spotted the upright eyesores during a walk-through of the stadium last weekend.
The steel curtain affects sections 201, 202B, 203B, 249B and 250B in one end zone and 224B, 225B, 226, 227B and 228B in the other.
The kicker is that fans in those affected sections must pay for a personal seat license -- a $4,000 one-time fee -- and then shell out another $1,200 each season for tickets to eight regular-season and two preseason games.
Some of America's pre-eminent stadium designers were shocked by the architectural oddities.
Famed New York architect Peter Eisenman, who designed the 63,400-seat Phoenix Cardinal stadium that opened in 2006, said his Arizona structure and the 80,000-seat Dallas Cowboy stadium, which debuted last season, don't have columns.
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