The Two Arches

When you open the door, the first thing that hits you is the noise. The stadium would be loud even if it was an open-air stadium, but the dome aspect of it all makes it downright deafening at times. I walked into to an end zone entrance, and you can’t help but grinning from ear to ear and just looking up. It’s just overwhelming.

In an extremely annoying and way too loud childish commercial during a TV timeout on the big screen, it noted that it would fit the Statue of Liberty long, but it would also fit inside if it was standing up. Also if I remember correctly, it would also house the International Space Station, or the arch in St. Louis. It’s big. It’s the modern version of the Coliseum, an incredible feat of engineering that, when you see it for the first time, makes you say, “I didn’t know man could build such things” (Obscure gladiator reference).

If the stadium doesn’t make you say that though, the screen will. Even the “small” screens are ridiculous. As you’re approaching the stadium, if, heaven forbid, you’re late, don’t despair, from about a half a mile out you can watch the game from the end zone screen through the massive windows at each end zone. (Which, by the way, open if they want to let a little air in, but they have to be opened at the same time, otherwise the pressure will destroy the other window). The screens are SO FREAKING CLEAR. It truly is HD, and it is tough to stay tuned into the field because it’s debatable which view is actually better, the screen or the field. As a side note, I feel bad for the cheerleaders, because there was a gratuitous amount of them on screen, and if they have ANY blemish of any kind, the whole of the 100,000 people in the stadium will know.

Finally, when you step in, you realize that the stadium goes a full two levels into the ground. You actually walk in to the highest part of the second level, and you have to go down stairs to the first level. So it’s actually even bigger than it even looks like from the outside. Anyway, I could write for a long time about a lot of different things, but in the interest of your time, because lets face it, this is all for you, I’ll stop and talk about the other aspects of the field tomorrow. Thanks for reading readers, we love you!