Jags @ Dallas Roadtrip Pics

02roadking · November 03, 2010, 11:33:45 AM

02roadking · November 03, 2010, 11:38:39 AM

second_pancake · November 03, 2010, 11:38:41 AM

Well, I hope you have more pics than just the stadium. You could've shot me an email and I'd have shown you the TRUE sights;-) Oh, and technically, the stadium is NOT in Dallas, it's in Arlington which is also where the Rangers ballpark is...a BEAUTIFUL park.

Did you get out to Ft. Worth? They will be hosting all the Superbowl festivities there instead of in Dallas (Arlington sits right smack inbetween the 2 cities). The mayor of Ft. Worth really rallied with all the sports stations to check things out there and won out in the end because they (the stations) couldn't believe how active the downtown area was on any given day at any given time...and it is. Downtown Ft. Worth on a Wednesday evening is packed with folks going to the movies, out to eat, or shopping, just as much as it is on a weekend and is beautiful in its architecture. Dallas is dead...seriously...especially on a Saturday afternoon. The most excitement you'll see is during the summer at the aquarium or the zoo.

kramer2k · November 03, 2010, 11:54:31 AM

Nice pictures. It shows the scale better than media photos I've seen in the past. The place is just massive.

02roadking · November 03, 2010, 11:56:39 AM

No, strictly a Jags game roadtrip. I'll post some more later. Both the stadium & ballpark look gorgeous.

duvaldude08 · November 03, 2010, 01:15:10 PM

Quote from: second_pancake on November 03, 2010, 11:38:41 AM
Well, I hope you have more pics than just the stadium. You could've shot me an email and I'd have shown you the TRUE sights;-) Oh, and technically, the stadium is NOT in Dallas, it's in Arlington which is also where the Rangers ballpark is...a BEAUTIFUL park.

Did you get out to Ft. Worth? They will be hosting all the Superbowl festivities there instead of in Dallas (Arlington sits right smack inbetween the 2 cities). The mayor of Ft. Worth really rallied with all the sports stations to check things out there and won out in the end because they (the stations) couldn't believe how active the downtown area was on any given day at any given time...and it is. Downtown Ft. Worth on a Wednesday evening is packed with folks going to the movies, out to eat, or shopping, just as much as it is on a weekend and is beautiful in its architecture. Dallas is dead...seriously...especially on a Saturday afternoon. The most excitement you'll see is during the summer at the aquarium or the zoo.

Sounds like to me the new stadium is the only they are having the superbowl there. Someone else told Dallas was a very dead town also. Thats kind of like having the superbowl in Jacksonville and hosting all the festivities in St Augustine ( just as an example, I know st augustine is dead. LOL) That is weird. Atleast Ft Worth is getting a piece of the pie.

Dapperdan · November 03, 2010, 01:22:26 PM

That is the most un-football looking stadium I have ever seen. What is wrong with classic Lambough Field type facilities? I love that look way better than this Area 51 type building they built for the Cowboys.

BridgeTroll · November 03, 2010, 01:46:01 PM

So I gotta know... did you watch the game on the field... or the game on the gigantic hi def screens?

Shwaz · November 03, 2010, 02:01:35 PM

I despise the new stadium and the cowboys and jerry jones... that said I would've loved going to this game.

tufsu1 · November 03, 2010, 02:55:27 PM

Quote from: BridgeTroll on November 03, 2010, 01:46:01 PM
So I gotta know... did you watch the game on the field... or the game on the gigantic hi def screens?

from what I hear, it is hard not to watch the big screen

BridgeTroll · November 03, 2010, 03:06:26 PM

That is the core of my question... Seems you could easily be far enough away from the field that watching the game on the in house hi def would be preferable...

02roadking · November 03, 2010, 03:17:36 PM

02roadking · November 03, 2010, 03:25:15 PM

It was almost like being at a club rather than being at a football game. We had a great time and the fans were pretty cool. We wanted to see what a billion bucks will get you.....and a Jaguar victory.

fsujax · November 03, 2010, 03:27:23 PM

Football should be played in the elements. I hate domed stadiums!

Non-RedNeck Westsider · November 03, 2010, 03:46:58 PM

So it looks like you had seats near the endzone, how did you get the good seats. I paid for some pregame passes to an Astros game and was on the field during bp, but there where no great seats for the game. I'm guessing you got something similar - they give you a tour of the stadium and such.