@the-gipper said:

Gip not 1 beer in me but that looks like a parade line and below the bacon claws our the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. let me have a few and double check this analysis with my boys, I have bought quite a few but children experts will be needed.. Till than Cowabunga dude.

@the-gipper said:

I think everything looks like bacon.

Zombo

@kamac19 said:

Honestly, I really never noticed it before. It just looked odd in that photo......but tell me you don't think those flames look like bacon?

@the-gipper said:

OK, that's cool. I don't mind that for getting things revved up.

But my question is this: What the fuck is that statue in the background? I have never seen that. It looks like some gnomes or trolls with flames of bacon coming up behind them. WTF?

Gipper,

Thought you'd know that statue is memorial to Cleveland Firefighters, it's been there for years.

@jcam222 said:

OK, that's cool. I don't mind that for getting things revved up.

But my question is this: What the fuck is that statue in the background? I have never seen that. It looks like some gnomes or trolls with flames of bacon coming up behind them. WTF?

@the-gipper said:

Exactly, that is why you aren't the target of the renovations (not saying that in a bad way). People like us overall fit that mold pretty strongly. It's the families and women who buy in the stadium which has HUGE markups.

This is what we have instead of shorts skirts and boobs. yea us

@poeticg said:

Only $30? What a bargain- not. If you want to talk about extortion- one of my friends (huge OSU fan & alum) got a package deal to go to the National Championship game at the J Jones pleasure Dome. Fortunately, they were bused to the game, because Jerrah was charging $100 for the privilege of parking your car.

PS- My 0.02 is the Drum line is pretty stupid- only topped by the wiener dog races.

Won't see the stadium until the opener- so I reserve judgement on any behind the scenes "improvement".

@jrb12711 said:

On the rare times I have gone to the games, I have generally done my eating and drinking at the tailgate....so I do not have to buy one beer for the price of two six packs that I can consume beforehand....if I choose. Same with food. Eat enough at the tailgate and you shouldn't be hungry during the game. If you do get hungry...wait til afterward.

Of course, they are getting the money from our types from the copious amounts of booze we buy. It's hard to see but attracting this market makes your ticket value go up too.There's actually a lot of cool research out there about the topic.

Here's a pretty interesting article on women specifically and the Ray Rice situation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/women-are-pro-footballs-most-important-market-will-they-forgive-the-nfl/2014/09/12/d5ba8874-3a7f-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html

@poeticg said:

Time management says that mean you leave 3 hours early.

@nickers said:

The only way the stadium will ever be top of the line is to move it somewhere where there's parking space and put a roof on it. Nothing else will matter.

@ballpeen said:

I like the drum line. I think it is a nice addition.

@the-gipper said:

Agreed.. that's why its not called Cleveland Browns Stadium, Anymore

@nickers said:

The money went into the scoreboards simply for the purpose of providing bigger better, more expensive advertising. I never really thought it had much to do for the benefit of the fans.

For those of you who have attended.....please tell me I am wrong.

@jcam222 said:

The drumline is so lame. You can barely hear them and they are ignored when they can be heard.

@usfbrown said:

They didn't have them. They had Kent State vs Bowling Green in rugby at halftime

@jcam222 said:

i saw nothing from a renovation standpoint that made my 35% increase remotely ok lol. The only thing left for them to do is give me cheerleaders to replace the embarrassing drum line. Ok it's off my chest, carry on

What about the Weiner dog races?