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NGT: Fedex Field

RinR : 6/22/2017 10:58 am
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.
It's a hellhole.  
TheManUpstairs : 6/22/2017 11:15 am : link
The game experience is dreadful. They play LOUD music and announcement ALL THE TIME when the ball actually isn't in play. The parking sucks. The beer selection sucks. It's just not an enjoyable experience.
Yea  
NoPeanutz : 6/22/2017 11:15 am : link
you might have been able to park for cheaper on private land near the stadium, but Landover banned it beacause it is a safety hazard. Fan safety comes first for Landover and the Snyder family!
Accessibility  
davek3698 : 6/22/2017 11:19 am : link
is the biggest issue. Nightmare on game days.
It does suck  
Frank in Silver Spring : 6/22/2017 11:34 am : link
But when Cousins threw that pick on New Year's Day and I walked out of the place with my two daughters with huge smiles on our faces, that dump might've well have been Paris.
Was also at U2  
djstat : 6/22/2017 12:17 pm : link
Fed Ex Field is a shit hole. They have holes in the upper deck of stadium from seats being removed. Acoustics are awful.
Location location  
bradshaw44 : 6/22/2017 12:25 pm : link
Location. It's terrible. Parking sucks. No good mass transit options. $60 parking. Everything about RalJon sucks.
Is it really $60 to park at Redskins games?  
kinard : 6/22/2017 1:31 pm : link
Holy shit - that's outrageous. makes the $30 to park at MetLife for Giants games pale in comparison.

These teams just piss all over their fans. So sad.
I was also at the U2 concert  
Someguy1978 : 6/22/2017 1:35 pm : link
We had floor GA tickets. The concert was awesome, but the stadium sucks. I've been to FedEx for both football games and concerts. One problem is that it is not really metro accessible. The acoustics there are horrible and the concessions suck. When JKC built the stadium over 20 years ago, he built the cheapest stadium and put it in the worst location for DC, MD and VA.
Stadium Tanking  
teso56 : 6/22/2017 2:55 pm : link
I went to a Giants game there once like 10 years ago. I didn't think the stadium was awful - it was a typical new stadium - but i had good seats. The parking situation is dreadful though.

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"
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26.2 : 6/22/2017 3:04 pm : link
I've been to several FB games there, but the worst experience I've ever had there was when the Brazilian soccer team came for a match against USNT. It was in June or July and packed. We took the metro (the metro is well more than a mile from the station to the stadium.

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.
RE: Is it really $60 to park at Redskins games?  
Someguy1978 : 6/22/2017 6:43 pm : link
In comment 13507733 kinard said:
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Holy shit - that's outrageous. makes the $30 to park at MetLife for Giants games pale in comparison.

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.
went to a Giants-Redskiins  
ep in md : 6/25/2017 8:11 pm : link
game there and fights were breaking out in the 3rd quarter on the way to the concession stand. Getting back to the car in the lot was dicey. Sounds like Philadelphia? It's just Prince George's county, MD.
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