I hadn’t heard that it was a dump, but I can’t say that I’ve heard it’s great either.

My most recent stadium experiences have been Darrell K Royal at the University of Texas and M&T Bank Stadium for the Baltimore Ravens. M&T was pretty decent, fairly modern, but was filled with Baltimorons with the class to tell me and the wife to go kill ourselves (we were wearing Vince Young jerseys). To be honest, the stadium is nicer overall than Arrowhead was last time I caught a Chiefs game (I think 2005), but the actual game experience was better at Arrowhead. The biggest part where Arrowhead suffers is the fact that it’s such a pain in the arse to attend a game there, compared to Baltimore, where the stadium is right in the middle of the city. Sports bars all around, train and light rail access all over the place, lots of fun things to do before and after the game in the surrounding neighborhoods, etc. If Arrowhead had that, it’d be almost perfect.

DKR was enormous (over 101K in attendance that night), and even when UT was up five touchdowns, all the fans were still on their feet, screaming and yelling when the Horns were on defense, and the place still had at least 70K in the stadium until over an hour after the game actually ended.

I am lucky enough to go to maybe one game every other year and I expect to stand and cheer the whole game. If I can’t speak and still have a ringing in my ears the morning after, than it was a good game.

On one hand, I’m partially disabled, as my army days resulted in a back problem that makes it hard for me to stand for a long time. I can still do it, but it gets very noticeable after an hour, and it’s pretty painful after three. There are many who have it far worse, and many of us (including me) don’t have access to the handicap seating. What are people like us supposed to do?

I guess I’d be in favor of designated sitting sections, maybe just a few, so those who don’t want to or are unable to stand the whole game could still see.