Made my first visit to Fedex Field the other night for the U2 concert and I now know why many Redskins fans want a new stadium. For a stadium that is only 20 years old it looks alot older and not a very good design.
Ingress wasn't too bad but egress was terrible. For some reason, and I dont know if this is standard practice for a Redskins game, but there were locked gates that if open, would have gotten folks out much faster. To make matters worse, the exits we had to use then had white barricades with small spaces to pass through to actually get to the service road and parking lots.
Concessions were meh.
Our seats were lower level but the upper deck seats look way far away from the field. I'm guessing more so than MetLife.
And $60 cash to park? Wow
The only thing that was decent was getting out of the parking lot to 495. Much, much faster than trying to get out of MetLife.
These teams just piss all over their fans. So sad.
Some skins fans say that they are essentially making that place even more of a disaster to justify getting a new stadium downtown. They removed upper deck seats for party decks.
"Stadium Tanking"
It was so packed, hot and crowded. I'm not really a soccer guy and I thought the fans were way too annoying for my taste (no ones problem but mine. Plus the brazil team flopped the whole game and made me not like soccer even more). We were sitting in the 200's which had an over hang above us. Every ten seats there was a giant beam where you can't see. They had a bunch of tube TVs everywhere but only a few of them were on (Tube TV's!! This was 2012!). Getting back and on the metro and home took like 3 hours. I bet there were more people at the concert. I can't feel too sorry for them b/c I heard the concert was the tits.
I hate that place so much. I've gotten free tickets to their games and turn them down.
Someone else said that the metro isn't really convenient and thats an under statement. Part of that reason is that Synder really was pushing against it. He even tried to get metro to charge more for parking at other station lots (and kick back to him) or not allow metro parking on game days b/c he would lose parking $. He's really an ass eating fuck face if there ever was one. So is his team.
These teams just piss all over their fans. So sad.
Yup,$60 cash lots. It's a freaking ripoff. A guy next to us was at the Philly show a few days prior and said stadium parking at the Linc was only $20.