Stadium Upgrades...

My thoughts on this...

The ticket gates have been expanded. We got in extremely fast but the check-down now includes a hand-held metal protector which may slow things back down when the large crowds start coming in. There's still too many gates for women.

The video boards are awesome as are the ribbons. It's amazing how much it improves the game. I really wonder how they don't distract the players. I too kept looking the wrong direction for down and distance. Maybe that gets better in time but it was annoying.

The live music before the game and at the half is a nice addition. I hope they occasionally do some unique things at the half but I could live the rest of my life without seeing a field full of aerobic dancers.

The sound system is great and the music selections better. However, it began to get repetitive. I don't get needing to play some of the tunes multiple times and hope this is corrected. I also think the BLAST of music between plays was often annoying. Some of the music seemed to be at higher volumes which was so loud, I couldn't hear the radio broadcast without turning it up. Then, when the music stopped (often abruptly), the radio has to be turned back down. It's a matter of fading in and out the music a little better and leveling out the volumes.

As for the new graphics for things like "Defense", "Third-Down", "We Are Titans" etc. the cool mass of shields with the storm clouds was pretty cool but much of it got very repetitive. I can appreciate the team wanting to create some new things they hope the fans will embrace and participate but they were overused and more variety needs to be added and used less. The Preds do a great job of blending this kind of thing in with movie clips and other things which add variety.

Bud now wants $10 for a 24oz. import. I think it was only $8-$8.50 last season. KFC has been replaced by Bojangles (big whoop).

Cheerleaders went into the stands for a while to cheer in the aisles and had photos with fans.

Overall, I applaud the Titans for making the effort to improve the game day experience. It isn't as good as it could be but tons better than what it was.

 

Flair is gone. No more Pain Train though they play the song. One cool thing was the "Ring of Fire" (which is what I wanted the stadium to be nicknamed) because they ran fire graphics around the videos as they played Cash.

 

How hard is it to mix in different music for that? It got real old, real fast.

 

Even some sound effects would be nice. Just more variety and don't overuse it. They don't need to play the "third down" graphic on every third down. It seemed like they did last night.

One thing I did appreciate is not seeing the Charlie or Copier commercials they used to play on the jumbo trons. They have changed all of the contests in some way. I think all were improved.