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Plus, You Get To Watch The Excitement Of A Bunch Of FIeld Goals
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Deadspin has what the local L.A. media is ignoring: Going to the first Rams regular season home game was a horrific experience. And I could have predicted it, having been to the Coliseum several times in recent years. The place is decrepit, no longer capable of comfortably handling crowds of 90,000-plus. There's no shade -- the place is a huge bowl with no roof of any kind, steep aisles (no tiers), narrow corridors, and a concourse that gets so packed that there's no moving. And they ran out of water, bad news when someone got heat stroke. The one thing the local media DID cover is that parking is astronomically expensive, from $40 to $200, and the media is acting like this is a GOOD thing, because it'll make people use mass transit (for the record, for most of us in the L.A. area, there IS no mass transit to get from home to the game; we have to drive a long way, find parking near a train station, and then get the train, not exactly quick or easy). The UCLA professor quoted in this story says you can always bike or walk to the game, which is easy if you live in the neighborhood; for me, 30 miles away, those aren't options at all. (Deadspin; Los Angeles Times)
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