As you're watching the New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons Monday Night Football game at The Georgia Dome, it's a good time to point out one thing: The Georgia Dome's an excellent place to watch a football game.
This blogger's watching the contest in Suburban Atlanta, but elected not to go to the game because of the ice patched streets. But the last Falcons home game, against the Green Bay Packers, I did attend and what an incredible experience. Here's the video:
As the video shows, the seats for my long time friend Keith Johnson and I were excellent and provided a great place to watch the Falcons win 20 to 17. (thanks to his wife for giving Keith his hall pass!) Section 129, row 33, seats 7 and 8. That's the north end zone corner.
What's great about watching football at the Georgia Dome is it's a theater for the game. Everything, from the seats to the structure, to the roof itself, focuses on the field of play. Of the seven Super Bowl's I've attended, the Georgia Dome was the second best stadium host to the game, with the best one being Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
A New Falcons Stadium?
Reports have it that Falcons owner Arthur Blank wants a new stadium so the team can move out of the 18-year-old Georgia Dome. The Georgia Dome itself should be that new stadium. It needs wider club level corridors, meeting rooms and second level "terrace club zones" to fill in the vast amounts of empty space between the curtain walls and the stadium seat structure, a large central entrance atrium, more and upgraded luxury boxes, and all-new giant screens.
Blank reportedly wants an outdoor stadium, but given his desire to gain more overall revenue, that's not a good idea. A dome stadium's ability to host more events means more money than a comparable outdoor stadium.
Keep the Georgia Dome. It's a winner. Like the Falcons.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas 2010: Atlanta (Snow!), San Francisco, and Justin Bieber
Wow. As long as it took Christmas 2010 to get here - 2010 seemed like two years instead of one year, considering all that has happened - it's almost over.
Hard to believe.
Here, in the vlog above, are some of the great times this blogger had with friends and family in Atlanta and in San Francisco.
A lot of food and drink was consumed by all.
And to end the Christmas day, it's started snowing here in Atlanta. It's a rare happening here. So much so that many churches are closed for Sunday. And for churches to close in the South, you know conditions have to be bad.
Temperatures have dropped from 55 degrees on Wednesday to below 20 as this is written: a 35 degree drop in just three days.
It makes me think twice about going to the Saints - Falcons Monday Night Football game at The Georgia Dome. The comfort of the big screen is suddenly more desirable than the dome.
Not that I'm complaining about the snow. What would Christmas be without it?
Well. OK. It would be a Christmas without snow.
Remember to take time to call friends and family this weekend. And remember that Christmas is the day of the birth of Jesus Christ, who eventually died in sacrifice for all of us.
And on that note, here's Justin Bieber wishing you a Merry Christmas:
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