In the future, NFL teams won't play in sterile concrete bowls. Instead, they will play in multi-use spaces near the urban core, redefining our idea of what a stadium is. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 CONNECT WITH WIRED Web: http://wired.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/WIRED Facebook: https://facebook.com/WIRED Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/wired Google+: https://plus.google.com/+WIRED Instagram: http://instagram.com/WIRED Tumblr: http://WIRED.tumblr.com Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene ABOUT WIRED WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture. SB100: Check Out a Reimagined NFL Stadium for the Future

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1. It is a shame that teams hold cities and towns hostage when it comes to asking for a NEW STADIUM. Most of the time when level heads prevail mountains are moved and then things happen. Unfortunately that did not happen in San Diego and Oakland. It seems like about 20 years is the life span for an NFL stadium. Although in baseball you have 3 stadiums that are considered ancient, Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Dodgers Stadium. Yet no one wants to tear them down and make parking lots of them. We need to learn from our past.Look at the former home of the Chargers, as recently as 2003, it had refurbishment done to attract SUPER BOWLS and it did but 15 years later it was seen as a losing proposition. Where are peoples heads at. To imagine a stadium venue for SUPER BOWL 100, that will be an interesting idea.
2. maybe just cut unnecessary spending.
3. So you retards want to go to the old third world ideas of just playing in city parks and shit? Liberal gentrification at its finest, take a massive shit on everything and call it "modern, urban, progressive" etc
4. This guy is dreaming. 70k venue stripped down every few weeks to reveal a public park?
   If you're gonna be really nuts, build it at the bottom of a really big business tower or residential tower so you can't even see it as a bowl from the outside. Yes have the bars in there, and also have concerts/theater shows/cirque du soleil/skating events in it. Just soundproof the shit out of it. Imagine it as Madison Sq Gdn or royal Albert hall housed inside the base of a landmark building like empire state/freedom tower etc
5. Yeah NFL ain't gone allow that!
6. Greed
7. True fans just wanna watch some good football and see their teams win games. Unfortunately, those fans have been priced out of the picture. The beautiful game of football is dying a slow death at the hands of NFL greed.
8. How about, since were talking the future... you fill the entire roof of the stadium with glass floor clubs bars and restaurants so ppl can see down to the game thru the floor during game day. then after the game. the entire stadium lowers under ground leaving nothing above ground but the glass floor, roof clubs and bars and restaurants to be used during the week. this stadium could have a normal seating arrangement with 65,000 seats, then just disappear underground till game day. also you could have more room for press boxes and suites if the clubs were on the roof. filling the glass floor with water using a secondary glass plate would obscure the stadium underneath when its on its off days and parts of the restaurants and clubs could have designated areas where the floor is always filled with water to accommodate those with fear of heights. it'd also create a strong tradition with the fan base and community: every week there is an event, there would also be a pre event that invited the town to watch "the raising of the stadium". a spectacle no doubt, lucky millionaires and contest winners could probably even get early access to the clubs and stuff to be in one of the businesses as the stadium arose. of course with future engineering and well crafted safety protocols and emergency protocols
9. So they are gonna build stadium like in europa. yeah.. not really reinventing America every football stadium in Engeland is the main thing of a disrict in the city with food & drinks outside just before the game start and the football club is a really big part of the community in the neighbourhoud. it's just a discussion of maybe the traditioneel way of stadiums in the world is beter than american stadiums, wich are there own centrums. and that discussion or change is intresting becuase American stadiums are really unique and great.
10. bs you can build a nice stadium for way below a billion dollars, it's just that these greedy owners want to build stadiums like hotel suits instead of for sports and tax payers are fed up with it and the  chargers are a prime xample of that. the tax payers in san diego voted no on a tax increase to fund a billon dollar new chargers stadium this past nov.
11. This isn't new, isn't that what Dubia did, building a sports city
12. if you wanted to build a new stadium it would take more than a billion dollars. convincing an investor to loan out that kinda cash for a arena is unlikely. This is a solution to that problem, yes it might not be what every person wants but at least you'll still get new stadiums. Also stadiums should be shown off in the most populated of areas considering their price tag yet most stadiums are in the middle of nowhere off of a highway. I'd like to be able to dine and watch live football at an okay distance for under 3000$. This would make that available.
13. I am actually really against this. There is a certain environment that is unique and good about going to a sports venue. If you take that away and just put it in some public park you will be taking away that experience
14. I am Emilio Lopez and here I come 10/13/2016
15. and eat my shitty asshole out u rich conceded fuckd
16. eat my balls
17. NFL is privately owned this will probably never work bc they bring in so much revenue for the city
18. Maybe the government should completely ignore these people and let them make their own things with their own money and not destroy the economy even more by subsidizing these useless and purely medial plots of land. I like football, but this is actually awful.
19. 49ERS BABY!
20. The only issue I have with the new stadiums around the world is that they are built for how they look while empty. Instead of built to make the home fans have maximum influence over the game.
    
    Old vs New Yankee Stadium is an example of that. Highbury vs The Emirates as well.