09-14-2015, 11:05 AM
I really liked that they moved the status information to the ribbon board. I'm kind of amazed people struggled to find it, I'm in the end zone (the worst place to be distance-wise) and have fading eyesight that I've yet to correct out of laziness, so I am basically the poster child for "shouldn't be able to read anything". But down and distance was perfectly visible in the lower right corner of the jumbotron (at least the north one, I can't see the south one) and all the other information was on the ribbon board, easily visible. I had to look around to find TO information, but once you see it you know where it is and it's easy to find. And it's not like this is that different from last year, since the ribbon board had plenty of status info on it (like yardage totals).
The main reason I liked this change is that it doesn't really matter where you put status information as long as it's visible. But last year they had that stuff taking up like half of the jumbotrons and it made the board essentially useless for live action plays (and whatever replays didn't take up the whole board) for me, the screen was just too small. But now it's pretty good, though the aspect ratio is a little wonky so you miss some stuff that's happening on the top and bottom of the camera's shot. Oh well, baby steps.
One thing I'd really like to know is what they actually did to change the bathrooms behind the main ticket office. That's the one I typically use, and they said they refinished them, but the men's room looked identical. So that's a mystery to me.
The main reason I liked this change is that it doesn't really matter where you put status information as long as it's visible. But last year they had that stuff taking up like half of the jumbotrons and it made the board essentially useless for live action plays (and whatever replays didn't take up the whole board) for me, the screen was just too small. But now it's pretty good, though the aspect ratio is a little wonky so you miss some stuff that's happening on the top and bottom of the camera's shot. Oh well, baby steps.
One thing I'd really like to know is what they actually did to change the bathrooms behind the main ticket office. That's the one I typically use, and they said they refinished them, but the men's room looked identical. So that's a mystery to me.
