Dolphins, move back to the Orange Bowl.
Written: Dec 26 '01
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Pros: Not many
Cons: Very difficult to get to, bad parking, poor sight lines, inedible food
The Bottom Line: The worst parking nightmare of any stadium.
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| hoyafb's Full Review: Pro Player Stadium |
Having grown up in Miami, my family had Dolphins tickets for more than a decade. We enjoyed our experience at the Orange Bowl, but hated when they moved to what was then Joe Robbie Stadium.
I have very few compliments for Pro Player, a.k.a. JRS. When I used to go to the Orange Bowl, there was not much official parking. However, the local Cuban neighborhood made it very easy and inexpensive to park in their driveways and yards. Also, the Orange Bowl is near downtown. If they could only put a baseball stadium downtown!
Getting to JRS requires a long drive, but it is right off an expressway. The long drive is the easy part. Getting into the stadium parking lot is a nightmare that can take up to an hour to go a half mile or less. The staff has little control over who parks where, despite colored passes. They have only about 14,000 spaces for 73,000 people. I was very irritated to learn that despite having nine season tickets, I needed ten to get two passes.
Once inside you go to your seats. When we were in the OB, we had seats on the 35 yardline lower level, but due to Joe Robbie's arbitrary seating policy, we were now in the corner of the end zone, but thankfully in row 3 in front of the cheerleaders! You really do not have any good sightlines in this stadium. Even sitting on the sidelines, you are very far back from even the team's sidelines. Plus, the sun creates bad shadows during certain times of the day, leaving you with bad sunburns.
The food is atrocious and pricey, enough said. This is true even in the club seating area. Would you like a $5 mini-Perrier bottle? However, if you sit in the club seating area, you have cover from the rain, and cold or hot air blowing down on you depending on the time of year.
Since the Dolphins play in basically a stone stadium, the Dolphins crowed cannot drown out the QB like they did in the OB. I like to think of JRS as a crappy country club, if that is possible.
I still love the Dolphins, but I hate JRS, now Pro Player.
Recommended:
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Parking Availability: What A Nightmare
Seat Location: Lower Level
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