You though Six Flags parking prices were bad

Thats what you get for going to a NASCAR event. :)

Was waiting for the redneck blast, but that was close enough. I haven't been to a race in years.

Brian Noble said:
Tressel was tOSU's third pick or so, and was not expected to do much. Clearly, conventional wisdom was wrong on that one. Hoke managed to turn around two dead-as-doornail programs. Now he gets a chance with a third. ;-)

I think he'll change the direction of the program. But the meat of college football is getting recruits. Established programs consistently sending 4-star and 5-star kids to the League....are an easier sell. While it's true that not all of the "prized recruits" pan out, and some 2- and 3-star kids will really come on and improve greatly in the next few years...you have to play the percentages. We got hurt pretty badly this year for having a first-year coach in Muschamp...takes time to develop relationships with HS coaches, etc. Of course, Hoke/UM did pull out Bellomy and Poole, and are closing fast. Def. needs to keep shoring up that way-too-porous D.

Oh, and in other news...coasters are still cool. ;)

Neither one of these teams is gonna win a championship anytime soon.

ApolloAndy said:
Here's what I don't really get (living 20 minutes from Arlington). If the stadium has X seats and sells out for Dallas home games and has ample parking, why do they suddenly need way more parking if they still have X seats?

The seats at Cowboys Stadium are literally on rails so they can slide left and right (when unscrewed). This allows them to be compressed together closer to each other to fit more seats on every row. During the regular season, they used something like 80,000 seats but for the Super Bowl, they plan on hosting 111,000 fans... not sure if that's discounting the "standing room only" tickets both inside and outside the building.

Yeah, sports stadiums, both college and pro, can usually accomodate more than what there would normally be for a 'sold out' game on something special like playoffs or the SB. I know I've been to sold out games for WVU, but then was there for the final time they played Virginia Tech, and they sold several thousand more tickets than they had seats and had people sitting on the small knoll that is no longer there (it's been replaced by a new seating section) and standing around.

That was before the 2004 renovations to the stadium that actually took teh capacity to around 60k, from a little over 60k. There were nearly 70k there that nite, with the game shown on ESPN prime time. The stadium's largest crowd was over 70k, and that was several thousand over the stated capacity.

I heard on the radio that up to 100,000 ho's ( can I say that on here?) are heading down to the Dallas to target players and other high paid officials. Heck, they need parking too I guess :-)

^Saw that on MSN today....but the article I read said "strippers". Somebody's trying to protect the young'uns.

Shoot, come to think of it, they might make more money parking cars! ;)

delan said:
I heard on the radio that up to 100,000 ho's ( can I say that on here?) are heading down to the Dallas to target players and other high paid officials. Heck, they need parking too I guess :-)

I read they expect to have 105,000 people in the stadium. So who takes care of the other 5,000? Things that make you go hmmmm....

I paid $40 to park for the Cotton Bowl in 2010. The lot I parked in was by the Ballpark in Arlington, so there was a little bit of a walk. If you wanted next to the stadium it was $75.

There are plenty of places that make SF look like a bargain: I've had to pay $20 a day to park at a hotel in Chicago, $10 just to eat dinner in Bricktown in Oklahoma City, $20 a day for parking at airport parking, etc......

Yes, exactly.

Parks are a STEAL. Entertainment costs money, and the more of it you throw around, the better your experience.

Zingo said:
There are plenty of places that make SF look like a bargain: I've had to pay $20 a day to park at a hotel in Chicago, $10 just to eat dinner in Bricktown in Oklahoma City, $20 a day for parking at airport parking, etc......

Raven-Phile said:
Yes, exactly.

Parks are a STEAL. Entertainment costs money, and the more of it you throw around, the better your experience.

When people first complained about SF's $15 parking 5 years ago this was the sort of reasoning I used and very few agreed.

Good to see more and more people looking at it the same way I do.

Seriously, find some of those old threads. Amazing how 5 years can change perspective.

Nowadays, I'll go ahead and spend the extra money on "preferred" parking. Five years ago, I thought anything over $5 or $10 for parking was robbery.

I am an easily conditioned robot. ;)

You are an easily conditioned q-bot.

Try paying for parking on a regular day at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

This is from their web site:

Parking is available at our facility conveniently located within the museum; enter at 81st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. The hours of operation are 8am – 11pm. Rates are as follows:

Up to 1 hr $15.21
Up to 2 hrs $17.74
2 to 5 hrs $26.18
5 to 10 hrs $34.64
Max to close $38.86

18.375% Tax Extra

OUCH!

OUCH is right, but how actually drives in New York? Buses and the subway is the way to travel in that city. A few of my friends live there and haven't had a car in years.

Corkscrew Follies said:
OUCH is right, but how actually drives in New York? Buses and the subway is the way to travel in that city. A few of my friends live there and haven't had a car in years.

I live right across the Hudson River from NYC. But I haven't driven in Manhattan in many years, and basically refuse to unless it's an emergency or I have no other choice.

ApolloAndy said:
If the stadium has X seats and sells out for Dallas home games and has ample parking, why do they suddenly need way more parking if they still have X seats?

I know we've already covered this, but here's an interesting Wired article that goes into some detail about the preparations for the Super Bowl.

A few numbers:
- 93,000 ticketed fans
- 10,000 credentialed workers (unclear whether that includes 5,000 media below)
- 5,000 media members (versus 200 for normal games)
- 2,000 NFL staff
- 5,000 fans watching outside (at $200/each)

Plus there were some interesting articles about the seats they added that had a clear view to the field, but couldn't see the video screens or score boards. They're going to pack them in for this game...assuming people don't get stranded trying to get there, LOL.

I just want to see the Blue Man Group performance in the parking lot.