http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2011/02/06/2011-02-06_super_bowl_xlv_fans_arrive_at_cowboys_stadium_to_find_no_seats_to_watch_packers_.html
"Super Bowl XLV fans arrive at Cowboys Stadium to find no seats to watch Packers and Steelers
ARLINGTON, Tex. - Jerry Jones' dream Super Bowl turned into an even bigger nightmare Sunday when many fans showed up at Cowboys Stadium with tickets, only to find out their seats weren't ready.
Some of them may end up without a seat at all.
According to the NFL, a "limited number of sections in temporary seating areas" were not fully completed by the time the gates opened a few hours before the start of Super Bowl XLV. Fans with tickets to those seats were being held in a "Party Plaza" area while stadium workers continued construction and the NFL attempted to sort the whole mess out.
Tickets to those seats - some of which were in the upper deck behind the west end zone and some of which were built over openings near the corners of the end zones one deck below - had a face value of $900.
According to the NFL about 850 fans were located to "similar or better seats" but 400 other fans could not be relocated to a seat inside the stadium.
"These fans will each receive a refund of triple the cost of the face value of their ticket," the NFL's statement said. "The safety of fans attending the Super Bowl was paramount in making the decision and the NFL, Dallas Cowboys and City of Arlington officials are in agreement with the resolution. We regret the situation and inconvenience that it may have caused. We will conduct a full review of this matter."
The temporary seats were installed as part of a quest by Jones, the flamboyant Cowboys owner, to pack in enough people to set a new Super Bowl attendance record. The old record was 103,985 set at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for Super Bowl XIV.
It was not immediately clear why the seats weren't finished. The Cowboys last played inside the stadium on Dec. 19.
This was just the latest blow to a Super Bowl gone wrong in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It began when temperatures plunged below freezing just as the national media arrived in town and an ice storm blanketed the area early in the week. Despite forecasts warning about the storm, the region seemed to be caught completely unprepared as roads were ice-covered and nearly impassable for days.
That caused several Super Bowl-related events to be cancelled or postponed. It also caused a huge hit for downtown businesses and restaurants expecting a throng of visitors. With Dallas Fort-Worth airport closed for a time early in the week and many flights in cancelled, the twin downtown areas resembled ghost towns during Super Bowl week at times.
Then on Thursday, what was at first an inconvenience nearly turned tragic when chunks of falling ice from the roof of Cowboys Stadium injured six people. Many visitors reported ice chunks falling from buildings in downtown Dallas on Thursday and Friday, too.
The NFL attempted to get all the ice and snow off the stadium roof by game day, but as a precaution they were still forced to close four entrances to the stadium on Sunday. That caused unusually long lines outside the stadium. Some fans said it took more than two hours to get through security and into the building.
Then some of them found their seats covered with a black tarp when they arrived.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2011/02/06/2011-02-06_super_bowl_xlv_fans_arrive_at_cowboys_stadium_to_find_no_seats_to_watch_packers_.html#ixzz1DDu3aKWL"
morons.
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The right is more virtuous than the left. They have twice as many virtues because they have double the standards.
"Super Bowl XLV fans arrive at Cowboys Stadium to find no seats to watch Packers and Steelers
ARLINGTON, Tex. - Jerry Jones' dream Super Bowl turned into an even bigger nightmare Sunday when many fans showed up at Cowboys Stadium with tickets, only to find out their seats weren't ready.
Some of them may end up without a seat at all.
According to the NFL, a "limited number of sections in temporary seating areas" were not fully completed by the time the gates opened a few hours before the start of Super Bowl XLV. Fans with tickets to those seats were being held in a "Party Plaza" area while stadium workers continued construction and the NFL attempted to sort the whole mess out.
Tickets to those seats - some of which were in the upper deck behind the west end zone and some of which were built over openings near the corners of the end zones one deck below - had a face value of $900.
According to the NFL about 850 fans were located to "similar or better seats" but 400 other fans could not be relocated to a seat inside the stadium.
"These fans will each receive a refund of triple the cost of the face value of their ticket," the NFL's statement said. "The safety of fans attending the Super Bowl was paramount in making the decision and the NFL, Dallas Cowboys and City of Arlington officials are in agreement with the resolution. We regret the situation and inconvenience that it may have caused. We will conduct a full review of this matter."
The temporary seats were installed as part of a quest by Jones, the flamboyant Cowboys owner, to pack in enough people to set a new Super Bowl attendance record. The old record was 103,985 set at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for Super Bowl XIV.
It was not immediately clear why the seats weren't finished. The Cowboys last played inside the stadium on Dec. 19.
This was just the latest blow to a Super Bowl gone wrong in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It began when temperatures plunged below freezing just as the national media arrived in town and an ice storm blanketed the area early in the week. Despite forecasts warning about the storm, the region seemed to be caught completely unprepared as roads were ice-covered and nearly impassable for days.
That caused several Super Bowl-related events to be cancelled or postponed. It also caused a huge hit for downtown businesses and restaurants expecting a throng of visitors. With Dallas Fort-Worth airport closed for a time early in the week and many flights in cancelled, the twin downtown areas resembled ghost towns during Super Bowl week at times.
Then on Thursday, what was at first an inconvenience nearly turned tragic when chunks of falling ice from the roof of Cowboys Stadium injured six people. Many visitors reported ice chunks falling from buildings in downtown Dallas on Thursday and Friday, too.
The NFL attempted to get all the ice and snow off the stadium roof by game day, but as a precaution they were still forced to close four entrances to the stadium on Sunday. That caused unusually long lines outside the stadium. Some fans said it took more than two hours to get through security and into the building.
Then some of them found their seats covered with a black tarp when they arrived.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2011/02/06/2011-02-06_super_bowl_xlv_fans_arrive_at_cowboys_stadium_to_find_no_seats_to_watch_packers_.html#ixzz1DDu3aKWL"
morons.
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The right is more virtuous than the left. They have twice as many virtues because they have double the standards.