Has anybody heard about this?

The stadium sideline "scoreboards" (or whatever you call them) getting upgraded? I found this on the Charlotte.com board:


Official News Release from Daktronics. . .

http://www.ledcentral.com/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsId=284&p=0&rid=P&appid=5

5 foot LED screens in the end zones and a couple corners between the suite levels. No upgrade for end zone scoreboards.

Cool look, more stats, more scores, and (like in the Bobcats Arena) more ads.

And

There between the suites near where the small scoreboards are.

>>The two largest digital ProAd® displays will stretch from goal line to goal line, mounted on the concrete fascia between the stadium's two suite levels, along each sideline. These fascia displays will be the tallest in any NFL facility. With a vertical active area of 64 pixels and a horizontal active area of 4,000 pixels, each sideline display will have a total of 256,000 full-color LED pixels. Approximate dimensions of the sideline displays are 5 feet high by 300 feet wide.

Two additional ProAd® displays will be installed on the fascia in the northwest and southeast corners of the stadium on the same level. Dimensions of the corner fascia displays are approximately 5 feet high by 73 feet 6 inches wide. The corner displays will feature an active area of 64 pixels high by 976 pixels wide. The center-to-center pixel spacing for all four fascia displays is 23 mm (.90 inches), with the capability of showing 4.4 trillion colors. More than 1.9 million individual red, green and blue light emitting diodes that populate the displays will be controlled with Daktronics proven Venus® 7000 controller and V-Link® video processor.>>

 

Yeah I started a thread on the huddle about Miami getting new scoreboards and some guy gave us that link and another that said over the next few years they are upgrading alot of things in the stadium including, Sideline LED boards, New Scoreboard, Club level for 500 section, and about 600-800 flat screen tv's throughout the stadium. It was an article written before last season and detailed it as a 5 year plan to make all these things happen( they included updating club section and press area and that has already been done)....

Over the next few years the BOA is going to go over a very fan oriented overhaul.... I think we owe atleast a little of this to the Bobcats. Competition is healthy.

 

How about some fucking upgrades on the cheerleaders. Tampa Bays are awesome and we have a bunch of butt ugly redneck lesbians

 

The only good thing about the Panthers cheerleaders on gamedays is that they rotate every quarter, so theres always hope of getting a better group each quarter. However, the problem is that there are only a few real cute ones in the whole group. Its honestly pathetic. If I wasn't from NC and I attended a game, I would assume that the cheerleaders would be good looking from the PR that they get through songs like 'Carolina Girls' and stuff like that. I would also be wrong on that assumption. And we lost our cheerleader's heart and soul down in a Tampa Bar last year. The organization has got to pay these girls more than $40 dollars per game and get some quality.

 

Sit in the uppers so you can't see........in a perfect world it's really supposed to be about dancing ability not looks but I know that's a female view, not male, so carry on.

 

The Titans are looking for $3.5 million to replace the scoreboards in their stadium. I did see something the other day that mentioned that this 'upgrade' to BofA was part of a 5 year plan that started last year and that the scoreboards might be part of this.

Titans, Predators want $7.1M for scoreboards

Second pro team asks Metro for money to buy new board

By MICHAEL CASS
Staff Writer


Helping fans keep score at Nashville's pro sports venues could be a $7.1 million proposition in a few months.

The Tennessee Titans formally asked Metro yesterday for new end-zone scoreboards that would cost taxpayers $3,535,000 and be installed at the Coliseum in time for the 2006 football season. The NFL team joined the Gaylord Entertainment Center, home of the Nashville Predators hockey team, which requested a $3.6 million scoreboard in February. It would be installed in summer 2007.

The existing boards at both facilities are outdated, and a lack of replacement parts means they're in danger of failing during a game or concert, officials said.

The Metro Sports Authority's Finance and Audit Review Committee responded favorably to the Titans' request, which the full sports authority board will vote on April 21.

"It's very exciting," said Kitty Moon Emery, chairwoman of the sports authority, which oversees the pro sports venues and has already approved the GEC's request.

The Titans also asked the city for $2.18 million in reimbursements for other capital expenses dating back to 2001, including about $960,000 for security upgrades and $635,000 for soft drink "post-mix" equipment.

As a goodwill gesture, the team offered to pay half the cost of the concrete security bollards that they installed in 2002 without consulting the sports authority first, adding to existing tensions with the city at that time. The team's contribution to that expense would be $483,000, said Steve Underwood, executive vice president and general counsel.

Metro is contractually obligated to maintain the GEC and the Coliseum to high standards, but the costs are an irritant to some Metro officials and taxpayers. Former Mayor Phil Bredesen's administration negotiated both deals.

The Titans' scoreboard proposal came in $50,000 below the maximum cost that the team originally suggested in February, when it did not have a final proposal. Underwood said the team would pay the money upfront and proposed that Metro reimburse the Titans between now and the fall of 2008. Metro puts $1 million a year into a fund that pays for the Coliseum's capital costs.

About $3.48 million is in that fund, and $1.3 million would remain after the reimbursements, Underwood said.

Each structure would feature a 24- by 90-foot video board, a 12- by 32-foot, fixed-digit scoreboard and a 12- by 32-foot digital advertising display, according to the proposal the Titans received from Daktronics, the South Dakota-based company that would install the boards. They would be encased in such a way that water couldn't hurt them, said Don MacLachlan, Titans executive vice president for administration and facilities.

The Coliseum's existing scoreboards have been in place since the stadium opened in 1999 and are springing leaks. MacLachlan said they were installed by Display Solutions, which presented the low bid and is now out of business.

Meanwhile, the GEC, responding to a recent directive from Metro Finance Director David Manning, detailed what it would prioritize if it couldn't get the full $7.85 million it's seeking for capital expenses in the upcoming year. Sports authority officials said they would make sure Metro understands the risk if the GEC doesn't get a new scoreboard soon.

"If the scoreboard goes out during a game, we'll be the biggest embarrassment in the United States," said Michael Hobbs, a member of the sports authority's board.

Manning said it was fair to make that case, but he also said the GEC's wishes might not be fulfilled right away.

"I think it's just a fair assessment for someone in my position to ask them to assume for a moment you don't get everything you ask for, because that's usually the way it turns out."

 

Owners are going to selling out now to squeeze every advertising dollar they can out of the league. I wonder what all the extra revenue will do the cap.

 

Go up and they raise the ticket prices