Thoughts on LP Field

by jasonkylebates on Jun 9, 2008 12:29 PM CDT Comment 17 comments

Pessimistic Things I Think:

1) For the place known as Music City, the Titans have a god-awful in-stadium sound system. Mr Adams would be good to dismantle the south endzone audio assault weapon and replace it with a remote speaker in every section, but that would cost money so it won't happen.

2) Due to the facility sharing that takes place between the Titans and TSU, the field becomes a disaster area by mid-October every season. The obvious solution would be to replace the field with the nifty rubberized ball turf material, but another would be to refurbish/build a new football facility for TSU. As a TSU student I would prefer the latter, but it is a moot point anyway because both cost money.

3) This really isn't about LP Field but about the fans: despite the fact that we have a nice consecutive sellout streak the stadium appears at best 3/4 full most of the time. Regardless of how the game ends there may be only 2/3 of the fans that came to the game left by the it's over. This is a disgrace. For the "best fans in the NFL" we certainly have lackluster support actually at the game.

These are the things I've noticed at games since 1999. What are your thoughts on the matter? Any other complaints or proposed solutions?

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All valid points

It makes us look bad every late fall/early winter when all of the players end the game covered in mud.

The whole people not showing deal really blows my mind. I will take anyone’s tickets when they aren’t going to use them. I promise to be there before the game starts and stay until it is over.

Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles

by Jimmy on Jun 9, 2008 1:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I have a confession to make...

I have season tickets and sit in the north endzone. I know a guy that left before the kickoff that became the Music City Miracle. I always said that’d never happen to me. Then a couple of years ago, when VY was a rookie. You remember how bad the season began…we stunk! We had a late starting game against the NY Giants and my wife and I sat through a first half that looked like more bs so we left at half time. I’ll never do that again!

But I’d say for the most part, if the game hasn’t been decided most of the people are still there. There’s always going to be some that want to beat the crowd out. But if the game is coming down to the end and we are in it, the fans are there. And that NY Giants game is the only game I’ve left early. We get there for the start and stay till the end.

by Titanfan on Jun 9, 2008 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The TSU situation is untenable...

They have to either get field turf or find some other way to preserve that field from getting so chewed up the day before the game… with CJ and VY being so fast I’d love to see a faster surface be installed.

As for point #3, Nashville is kinda weird. I don’t know how much of it has to do with so few people actually living downtown or what, but people here just don’t show up for anything (except a Blue Collar Comedy gig at the Arena) in the numbers you’d think they would… that goes for concerts and Preds games too.

by August West on Jun 9, 2008 2:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Re: The Preds

The Preds attendance actually goes up dramatically in January and February. I try to make it to as many games as I can, but inevitably I go more after the NFL regular season ends than during it. I got to go to a bunch of games last January, and the Sommet Center was rocking the house.

by jasonkylebates on Jun 9, 2008 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hell yeah it was

I was at the last game of the season, and the crowd was electric. The unprompted 3 minutes of screaming and cheering during the last media time-out had our whole group chocked up… They’d always been supported, but the Preds became a long-term Nashville institution that night, IMO.

by August West on Jun 9, 2008 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was there, too.

It was the second most electric moment I’ve experienced live at a sporting event, the first being the Music City Miracle.

by jasonkylebates on Jun 9, 2008 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

field turf...

Jimmy- Haven’t you said before that Fisher is against it? I personally would love to see it installed. The field is a joke down the stretch. Good point on the speed thing August. I haven’t been for a couple of years, how is the new video system?

by gotitans27 on Jun 9, 2008 5:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You know Fisher's too old-school for Field Turf.

The played for Ditka. He LIKES to see his players get muddy.

He probably also has a slight advantage in the mud in that his guys are used to it and know how to use the longer cleats more effectively.

DannoE

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Go Titans!

by DannoE on Jun 10, 2008 7:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes

I have heard Fisher say multiple times that he doesn’t like the stuff. He says it is too hot in the early part of the season in Tennessee for that stuff. I think it is because in the past he hasn’t built his team around speed like some of the other teams in the NFL, and the field turf makes those fast teams faster.

Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles

by Jimmy on Jun 10, 2008 8:00 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ditka probably doesn't like face-masks either, but we're in the now, now.

We can’t go back to then. Why? Because we passed it. When? Just now. Everything that’s happening now, is happening now… sorry for the Mel Brooks diatribe…

Back on point, I like the mud as well, but I don’t like having to dump sand in spots to fill in holes made by games played the previous night… this is an NFL facility and Bud et al. should realize that they have a duty to make sure the surface is up to snuff.

What we have right now embarrasses the team at least 2-3 times every year. The only upside is it makes Steve Beuerlein complain more when he does our games, and that makes me feel good: I hate when Steve Beuerlein does Titans games because he kinda obviously hates our way of life or something.

by August West on Jun 10, 2008 8:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

When will then be now?

Soon.

by jasonkylebates on Jun 10, 2008 8:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Question:

I don’t live in Nashville and have never e ven set foot on the campus of TSU. How large would they need a stadium to be? I mean, can they really bring in more than 35K fans at a given game?

DannoE

Go read FRIDAY MAD SCIENCE at www.paperbackreader.com
Go Titans!

by DannoE on Jun 10, 2008 10:36 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

They don't bring 15K to games

Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles

by Jimmy on Jun 10, 2008 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Re: TSU

TSU is not a big school by any stretch of the imagination. The stadium we have on campus makes some high school stadiums look good. It’s just metal bleachers and a field.

by jasonkylebates on Jun 10, 2008 11:10 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Weird. The obvious solution is to build a new stadium for TSU.

DannoE

Go read FRIDAY MAD SCIENCE at www.paperbackreader.com
Go Titans!

by DannoE on Jun 10, 2008 11:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The problem is

part of the deal for getting tax money for LP Field is letting TSU play there. Also, TSU doesn’t have a place to build a stadium where they are located. The only real solution is to put in field turf.

Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles

by Jimmy on Jun 10, 2008 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs