Champ Kind

I think I have some great seats!!! I know you all are jealous. I just hope to get these seats for the Super Bowl too.



http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...AL18/807170457

Season tix will offer clear view
Stadium has about 200 seats with obstructions
By Dan McFeely
Some upper-deck ticket holders at Lucas Oil Stadium will have to pardon the interruption when Peyton Manning airs out a long spiral to Marvin Harrison this season.

Thanks to several steel support pillars in each of the four corners of the new $750 million stadium, about 200 seats scattered across those corners will have a partly obstructed view of the playing field.
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A smaller number -- about three-dozen seats -- are considered completely obstructed and will never be sold for a game.

When it comes to counting all the seats needed for the Super Bowl -- a minimum of 73,000 -- the NFL won't count any of the obstructed seats.

So, in that light, why even build them?

Well, to make room for more good seats.

"Originally, there was a wall that existed at those columns, and we determined with the architects to move that wall back," said Pete Ward, senior executive vice president for the Colts. "That move created a critical number of seats for the Super Bowl count. But it also created some of the obstructed-view seats as well."

The obstructed-view seats were noticed by Star reporters during a media tour of the stadium on Tuesday. A photo taken of Section 433, Rows 13-14-15 and Seats 27-28-29 startled some fans who wondered if their season tickets would be obstructed.

"After seeing the Indy Star article, I am now wondering if I've been had," Dave Kauble, a local season ticket holder, wrote in an e-mail to The Star. "Nothing was mentioned to me about obstructed-view seating, and no discount was offered. The seats were sold to me as standard-level seating and pricing."

Colts officials said season-ticket holders can relax.

"No season ticket has any obstruction of any kind," said Larry Hall, vice president of ticket operations.

Bargain-hunting fans who love the atmosphere despite the view will have opportunities to buy those partly obstructed views at a cheaper price -- but only after all other seats are sold out.

And while Ward said every Colts game this season has been sold out, the partly obstructed view seats won't go on sale until at least the week of the game.

"That's because for almost every home game, there might be some tickets that become available that week, such as visiting team returns or tickets held for player purchase," Ward said. "Only after those are gone will we put the obstructed view tickets on sale."

And fans who purchase those tickets will know in advance about the view.

"Absolutely. It is printed on the ticket," Ward said.

The Colts define a partial obstruction as being able to see at least half the field. Any less than half would be a total obstruction.

The stadium will open officially Aug. 16. Without any expansions or temporary seating, it will hold 63,000 fans for a football game, a figure that does not include any seats with obstructed views.

David Sease, a spokesman for the Stadium Authority, said promoters of non-football events at the stadium will have the option whether to sell the obstructed-view seats -- and it will depend on their estimation of the view for things such as concerts or conventions or trade shows.

Ticket broker Renny Harrison, a partner in CircleCityTickets .com, says many venues have partly obstructed views.

"I think for an event of extraordinary demand, like some of the Colts games have been, there is a market for people who just want to be at the game regardless of the view they have," he said.

At the RCA Dome -- where Colts officials said there were up to 600 partly obstructed view seats -- such seats were usually benches, allowing people to move around a bit to get a better view.

Earlier this decade FedEx Stadium in Washington, D.C., installed TV monitors to help those with obstructed views.

Call Star reporter Dan McFeely at (317) 444-6253.
Star reporter John Strauss contributed to this story.

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ideamark

That's stunning that a yet-to-be-opened, state-of-the-art facility would have this problem. You'd expect this with a pre-technology venue, like Wrigley Field. I would've thought today's structural engineering capabilities would've eliminated this problem.

BTW -- when does the RCA Dome -- home to the 2004 US Olympic Wrestling Trials -- go away? Will there be an implosion?

Mark

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Champ Kind

Not sure when the Hoosier Dome(I refuse to call it RCA) goes away. This season will be the first in Lucas Oil Stadium for the Colts. I would venture to say it will be within a few years when the Hoosier Dome is wiped off the planet.

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I will smash your face into a car windshield and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out to a nice seafood dinner and never call her again!

Tell me about it, this morning, I woke up and I shit a squirrel, but what I can't get is the damn thing is still alive. So now, I've got a shit covered squirrel running around my office and I don't know what to name it.

RYou

I can't believe they wasted the chairs for those views. If they sold me tickets to any event that had those seats I'd take to court for intentionally causing duress given they are aware of the situation.

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