Obstructed Seats

[kdb209]

That arena cost a billion dollars and was always sold as multi-purpose.

If you build a billion dollar arena, you'd better hope its world class for more things than a single sport.

It was originally planned as a multi purpose arena, but after cost overruns Ratner fired original architect Frank Gehry, and the arena was resigned as a basketball only arena - saving $200M in budget.

 

[fighterfoo]

Small for such a team, and old fashioned. Only now are they trying to modernize it. It's a big concrete rectangle, but at least there are no bad views compared to these. When Tampa Bay of all teams hold what, 20,000? the Bruins should have tried to squeeze in a bit more.

There was absolutely no room to build the TD Garden bigger. They were inches away from the overpass on one side and inches away from the existing Boston Garden on another side. As it is there are 5 levels of seats including the Promenade on floor 9.

 

[hototogisu]

I'm not sure that is a building construction error.

That's a.... I bought a seat behind an NFL lineman (or similarly sized man) obstruction.

Not sure I agree. Hard to tell without knowing the size of everyone involved but it looks like the seats above are not on a high enough grade to allow you to see over the person below you, which is definitely a construction error/oversight.

 

[KingBran]

"Barclay's is by far the best arena I have ever visited" - Wayne Gretzky.

 

[Tom Polakis]

It was originally planned as a multi purpose arena, but after cost overruns Ratner fired original architect Frank Gehry, and the arena was resigned as a basketball only arena - saving $200M in budget.

Whoa, they were going to have Gehry design the arena? Talk about obstructed view!

 

[Spectra]

Wang offered to build a new arena in Long Island, the local government turned down his offer though.

Yeah, with a lot of tax payer money if I recall. If they ever get a real owner, a real arena will be built. Hope that happens, they deserve it.

 

[jiggsawpuzzle35]

Never sit in the second row of the upper deck. The person in row one will always be leaning.

 

[Derrty]

All of these pictures make me happy to have the Joe while we still have it. The worst seats are at the top of the corners, and the worst thing is one of the corner screens blocks off the scoreboard. Thats it.

The seats at the Joe are horrible. Not because of any obstructed viewing, but I am only 6 feet tall and my knees are firmly pressed against the seat in front of me all game. I usually stick to aisle seating only now, otherwise it's far too uncomfortable. And that is anywhere in the arena.

 

[Koonta]

"Barclay's is by far the best arena I have ever visited" - Wayne Gretzky.

"This is by far the best post I have ever read" - Wayne Gretzky.

 

[djpatm]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't see" - Wayne Gretzky

 

[oiler-dude]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't see" - Wayne Gretzky

Fan-freaking-tastic!

 

[Beige Van]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't see - Wayne Gretzky"

-Michael Scott

 

[Stonewall]

"Fire Bettman" - Abraham Lincoln

 

[talkinaway]

TD Garden, for all the renovation that they've been doing, doesn't have an obstructed seat in the arena from what I can tell. At least, not for hockey and basketball - when they do concerts and set up a stage, one end of the arena balc is typically 100% unsold. The seats next to the balcony blackout may be obstructed, and are usually not at a significant discount, but the tickets sometimes say "side view" or "partially obstructed view".

Fenway Park is notorious for grandstand seats that are blocked by poles. Once my mom got tickets via her alma mater, and I went with. Had one of those big metal poles between the pitcher and batter, so the ball would disappear for a few seconds during every pitch. That seat would not be marked as obstructed - you typically have to have two "elements" (pitcher, catcher, bases) blocked to be marked as obstructed.

(FYI, there's a great site for Fenway called "precise seating" - you can put in your seat and it shows you in red what you can't see.)

Never sit in the second row of the upper deck. The person in row one will always be leaning.

This is true. Being on the shorter end of the spectrum, I got a second row balc seat last year for one game - my normal seats were in row 11. It wasn't the easiest to see around the person in front of me.

 

[Bread and Circuses]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"

- Abraham Lincoln