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freddyg12 · 10-08-2007, 12:51 PM

glad for this thread, w/JLC's article last week about us losing halftime leads, I posted that it seems at the beginning of games & the 2nd half, you can see a lot of empty seats. I figure this is just people coming & going in the rat race of fedex. It hurts us though when we don't have all the fans in it at the beginning of the 2nd half. that's when we need noise.

I'm a historic preservation advocate & sentimental by nature, so I'll always give RFK props, but so did Troy Aikman last week during the g-men game. He said in RFK the fans were right on top of you, and that's the way I remember it there. He said we "lost" some advantage moving to fedex.

Some of what people are complaining about here I haven't experienced personally, though I did have an older man at the 05 Dallas game tell me to sit down (was kinda ridiculous since by the 2nd qtr. the whole place was standing). I agree that a lot of it must be due to the corporate ticket sales, box seats & all else that the danny has done to maximize profit. I go to Va. Tech games regularly & I've seen a great difference over the last 8 years since I was in grad school. As the team has gotten better & more publicity prices have gone up & the AD has kicked a lot of old season ticket holders to the curb, in favor of new boosters that donate big $ to the school. This seems to have also resulted in less students & a less rowdy atmosphere. People never used to leave early, even in a blowout, but not people will leave in the 3rd qtr. if we're behind by 14.

Seems much the same w/Fedex. The common man that made RFK a special place is no longer the avg. fan, or at least there arent' as many of him around. It's all a product of the Danny's financial success & the popularity of football in general. I wish he would've renovated RFK, but I don't know if that was feasible or an option to begin with.

As a few here pointed out, the best we can hope for is for this team to keep winning. The crowd was a factor in the Dallas game in 05. We win next week the crowd noise should definitely increase when we come back to fedex vs. the cards.

10-08-2007, 12:51 PM	#30
freddyg12 Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540	Re: Whats wrong with FedEx glad for this thread, w/JLC's article last week about us losing halftime leads, I posted that it seems at the beginning of games & the 2nd half, you can see a lot of empty seats. I figure this is just people coming & going in the rat race of fedex. It hurts us though when we don't have all the fans in it at the beginning of the 2nd half. that's when we need noise. I'm a historic preservation advocate & sentimental by nature, so I'll always give RFK props, but so did Troy Aikman last week during the g-men game. He said in RFK the fans were right on top of you, and that's the way I remember it there. He said we "lost" some advantage moving to fedex. Some of what people are complaining about here I haven't experienced personally, though I did have an older man at the 05 Dallas game tell me to sit down (was kinda ridiculous since by the 2nd qtr. the whole place was standing). I agree that a lot of it must be due to the corporate ticket sales, box seats & all else that the danny has done to maximize profit. I go to Va. Tech games regularly & I've seen a great difference over the last 8 years since I was in grad school. As the team has gotten better & more publicity prices have gone up & the AD has kicked a lot of old season ticket holders to the curb, in favor of new boosters that donate big $ to the school. This seems to have also resulted in less students & a less rowdy atmosphere. People never used to leave early, even in a blowout, but not people will leave in the 3rd qtr. if we're behind by 14. Seems much the same w/Fedex. The common man that made RFK a special place is no longer the avg. fan, or at least there arent' as many of him around. It's all a product of the Danny's financial success & the popularity of football in general. I wish he would've renovated RFK, but I don't know if that was feasible or an option to begin with. As a few here pointed out, the best we can hope for is for this team to keep winning. The crowd was a factor in the Dallas game in 05. We win next week the crowd noise should definitely increase when we come back to fedex vs. the cards.