DDP: Approx 8 sections of seating removed in upper deck endzone - more removed as of 2012 DDP, LL Endzone in 2013

[MarkB452]

Anybody else at the draft day party notice all the seats ripped out of the upper deck endzone above the tunnels where the teams come out? Anybody hear of any plans for these seats? Heck, if they were going to rip out seats, I wish they would start with some of the worst of the worst obstructed view seats.

[hail2skins]

Damn.......anyone have any pics of this? If they are reducing seating capacity at FedEx that would be pretty big news.

Edit: Check out this video on Redskins.com

http://www.redskins.com/media-galler...4-02dab946b931

At about the 1:20 mark when they are interviewing a fan if you look in the background you can see pretty much the whole sections in the upper deck behind the end zone have no seats. Hard to tell from the video if the seats had been ripped out or if it was a tarp covering (and I would doubt that....what would be the purpose?) but......WOW! Other shots in the video show showed seats remained in the end zone at the other end of the field.

Can we be getting more PARTY DECKS?????

[RFKFedEx]

A member of the premium seating sales staff told me that a "major announcement" will be made in the next couple of weeks.


Click on the link in the post below for a pic.


I suspect it's an effort to reduce GA seating in the upper deck, due to a lack of demand for endzone seats. (despite a waiting list of 200,000 names.)

[RFKFedEx]

FedEx Seat removal.jpg


Click on this to see the seats removed.

[SkinsFTW]

Wow, thats crazy. Don't they supposedly sell out every game? Maybe they are putting in new seats or something.

[No_Pressure]

I would guess they're simply re-painting them.

[RFKFedEx]

Wow, thats crazy. Don't they supposedly sell out every game? Maybe they are putting in new seats or something.

If they are in fact reducing seating, I'm sure they'll spin it as some sort of upgrade for the fans. I'm thinking wider seats with table tops between, or perhaps large signs for ads and honors of Redskins legends, etc.

[hail2skins]

A while back they took out about 6,000 or so seats from US Cellular Field (former Comiskey Park) in Chicago, and as part of that they added a new roof to the place. Is it possible that part of the "major annoucement" that RFKFedEx is citing might include the construction of some sort of cover at the top? Although I would think that you'd have to eliminate seats in almost all areas of the upper deck to make that work. I'd like to see a before and after shots of the renovations at Comiskey.

It is pretty interesting timing, particularly given the labor strife, etc. It was funny hearing Ryan Kerrigan on the radio the other day saying all the right things, including how the Skins "constantly sell out a 90,000 seat stadium." Guess it might not be 90K much longer...............

---------- Post added May-1st-2011 at 12:54 AM ----------

I would guess they're simply re-painting them.

If that were the case, I don't know how that would qualify as a "major annoucement," as the guy the other poster talked to suggested. If anything, they might be putting in new seats up there. As part of the Comiskey renovations, they did replace all of the seats and make them a different color (green instead of blue).

In another thread recently I said that if the Skins should do anything with the seating bowl, they should bite the bullet and make all of the seats in the club level padded and burgundy, instead of the stupid checkerboard effect you have now as a result of some contract holders opting for the padded burgundy upgrade.

[TK]

Already had it confirmed. They removed seats to make an upper deck party deck.

[downbeat87]

Already had it confirmed. They removed seats to make an upper deck party deck.

sweeeet

[psu2008]

When I saw that yesterday, I was like ???? But that's cool to hear. I guess this kind of shows that they are admitting they cannot fill FedEx and are using other ways to create revenue.

[Mark The Homer]

Several people at Draft Day yesterday noticed that seats had been removed in the upper level west endzone.



When asked, a representative of the team had no comment, except to say an announcement would probably be made in a couple weeks.

*Photo courtesy of RFKFedEx

[MLSKINS]

Party Deck?? Going to be interesting to see how that will look after it is completed.

[tds]

Already had it confirmed. They removed seats to make an upper deck party deck.

This would explain why season tix for upper level endzone sold out so quickly. I wonder where they're going to put all of the displaced season ticket holders with these seats. Is it only going to take 4 months to finish this construction? Seems like they would have started it over the winter.

[SkinsTerpsFan]

In another thread recently I said that if the Skins should do anything with the seating bowl, they should bite the bullet and make all of the seats in the club level padded and burgundy, instead of the stupid checkerboard effect you have now as a result of some contract holders opting for the padded burgundy upgrade.

I see what you're saying, but wouldn't it be a better fix to replace those burgundy padded seats with gold ones? I think it looks much nicer with the gold club level seating in between the burgundy upper and lower decks.