(03-06-2019, 10:10 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Just curious, what warrants an overhaul to an updated stadium anyway? Would it be when the suites and club seats are at maximum capacity and there is a wait list? I mean, in 15 years, people will say Mercedes Benz Field needs to be updated. What about it will need to be updated?

I have often wondered about that.

It is a mystery to me, not being in the NFL ownership business.  I DO know, however, that stadiums have traditionally driven franchise relocation, and as a rule of thumb, 25-30 years is the typical shelf life of an NFL stadium.

That said, the team and city have collaborated to make so many substantial upgrades to the stadium over the past quarter century-from the cupholders (LOL) to the Bud zone and south end zone escalators to the ribbons and video boards to Daily's place-I'm not sure from my vantage point how TIAA Bank field hovers near obsolescence, aside from age.

Sometimes I think some of it is ego driven, though I've little basis for that suspicion.

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