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Originally Posted by PostandIn
Went to Hawks / Cowboys and Stars / Sharks last year on Halloween weekend. Couple things about the hockey game. Reunion Arena is a great venue for hockey. The lighting is amazing there. You see how good it is on television and it's that much better in person. Second, the building has wide open concourses and food beverage service is amazing for selection and speed. The game day experience is so much better in a modern arena and the entertainment value is that much better. Those that say the Saddledome is good enough should attend a game at a place like Reunion. A great example is this:
700ml of ice cold goodness that comes from a kiddie pool full of ice for $9. Don't know why Canadian venues can't do this.
Third, ice girls:
The football experience at ATT is a little surreal actually given the sheer size of the building. It is MASSIVE!. Jerry's world is really a marvel to behold. It's incredibly huge and glitzy.
The scoreboard runs from 20 yard line to 20 yard line and is about 60 feet high. The definition it displays is better than your TV. It also tends to overwhelm the viewing experience as you actually end up watching a lot of the game on what amounts to a massive television.
We stayed at a hotel across the highway from ATT that ran a shuttle trolley kind of thing so getting in was easy, they get you fairly close and the walk onto ATT was not bad at all. Getting out was quite a bit longer given the traffic.
The game experience in Dallas is quite a bit different than in places like Green Bay and Seattle and even Arizona to a degree. The best way to describe it would be that it's more a corporate crowd. All around us were kids and young adults that spent the entire game texting and didn't even watch the game. The family next to us disappeared at half time and never returned. The Dallas crowd doesn't make much noise and even critical third downs might bring a quarter of them to their feet - too wealthy to stand and cheer I guess. Seahawks fans were out in force and they were often louder and more engaged than the natives.
There was fight in the second tier end zone that had about a dozen cops and security involved in at one point. Cheap thrills. The Cheerleaders dance to Thunderstruck pre-game and that is.... impressive.
This was the game that Ricardo Lockette got messed up with a career ending injury and that took a lot out of the crowd actually. We were in the lower bowl about the 5 yard line.
Surprisingly the food selection wasn't that great and idiotically expensive (like a beef brisket sandwich for $24 or something similar). Oh, and the Cowboys lost, so it was all good.
Edit: Trying to fix the photos.
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Thanks for all this. Great information.
I've got box seats to the Stars game so I have that covered. Kind of sad I won't get to see everything or experience it but thats ok.
Thanks a lot for the football info!