Do You See What I See?
Well, it’s good to be back from vacation (okay, we all know it isn’t, but that’s the correct thing to say), but I’m still cranky from jet lag (six hours between here and Poland), so I’m going to do a cranky post today. So here goes.
I know it’s too late to do anything about it (not that they’d listen to me anyway). But am I the only one who thinks Lucas Oil Stadium is ugly? My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t look like a football stadium, which I believe a football stadium should. I’m not sure exactly what I think it does look like. I have three options. 1. an airplane hangar (a really huge one, maybe for the space shuttle) 2. a barn or 3. a basketball arena.
It definitely is impressive as you approach downtown, especially from the airport, maybe a bit too overwhelming. I’ve never seen a stadium (and I’ve seen most of them) that just rises up like the alien spaceship in Independence Day. Of course it has to be big to accommodate all those money-making suites, gift shops, and concessions. Money-making for the Colts, that is, not the people who paid for the stadium. And it has to be big for that roof. And my question is, will that roof be worth all that money and added size in the end? My suspicion is that Colts fans are so used to never having to experience even the slightest discomfort, weather-wise, that the roof will almost always be closed. Maybe it will be open for a couple of games in October, providing it doesn’t rain. But is that really worth all the money it’s costing?
The more I think about it, the more I think it looks more like a basketball arena, which should surprise no one in Indiana. But don’t we already have one of those? Conseco Fieldhouse is one of the country’s best basketball arenas, and it makes you feel like you’re going to a basketball game when you go inside. But what will Lucas Oil Stadium make you feel like? That you’re boarding an aircraft carrier?
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Norm,
We should talk sometime. I appreciate your comment about the “looks” of the new home for the Colts, a/k/a Jim Irsay’s gold mine. The roof is one issue of which the taxpayers are faced with maintaining. The real issue, in my opinion that no one has explored, is “how much is Irsay making off the stadium which we have to maintain?”. Where will the money, in an already unfunded budget, come from for upkeep since Irsay gets all the revenues. Boy, does my blood start to boil when I think of the taxpayer rip-off the Peterson-Glass team perpetrated on Marion County just so they would not be the administration that “lost a football team.”
Let’s talk sometime.
Phil Hinkle
Hey Phil, your governor signed off on the deal. You’re just mad you got beat by Greg Jordan in 2003.
By the way, instead of whining, since you are an elected official at the Statehouse, you could save some taxpayer by STOP blocking government reform/consolidation like you’ve been doing for the past 5 years. That’s in YOUR control. Some Republican you are!
I hope never to see you at the new stadium.