Qualcomm Stadium an insult to dumps everywhere

[CaliforniaChief]

Originally Posted by SanDiego49er

It's in the lower echelon of stadiums in the NFL. It is old and not super IMO. But not as bad as Oakland or the 49ers stadium. Maybe a few others.

Sure they need a new stadium. They have no budget to do it. So it won't happen. It's not really dirty. Just old. What are you finding dirty about it?

First of all, the concourses are as narrow as a balance beam, so you're constantly bumping into other people and never have anywhere to go. So at the end of the night you smell like a conglomerate of every fan you've bumped into.

Hell, Qualcomm should sell the naming rights to Febreze and send a cropduster over 4 or 5 times a game just to give us all a breath of fresh air.

Second, the game experience is a dud. The article summed that up quite well. You might as well have a guy dressed in a foam lightning bolt keeping score on an abacus. I've seen high school stadiums in Texas offer a better experience.

Third, you just get the feeling it's all about to collapse. I went with a friend a couple years ago and was in the top row of the upper deck. When the flyover happened, it just shook. And not in that "Oh, yeah, 'Merica" kind of power way, but in that "Oh crap, we're about to land on the cheerleaders" (which would be about the only positive) kind of way.

Oh yeah, and this: