The best seat in the house is behind your home TV. - Sun Devil Stadium
Written: Oct 18 '05 (Updated Oct 18 '05)
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Pros: The food and drink prices are relatively inexpensive. You can carry two beers per person.
Cons: Hard to find. Sun shines in your eyes. Dirty and trashy people.
The Bottom Line: I had a difficult time finding the stadium, the crowd is trashy, no individual seat, sit on the wrong side of the stadium and the sun shines in your eyes.
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| quackykrackrz's Full Review: Sun Devil Stadium |
It started out just like any other day. I was 5 minutes late to work, and decided to sneak in the back entrance. Luckily I had left early the day before and left my computer running to it appeared that I was in the office. After some water cooler chit chat, I stopped by my bosses office. We talked about the NFL preseason and the latest trades being made. Since I transferred to Arizona from Dallas, my boss decided to offer me tickets to the Cardinals preseason game versus the Cowboys. I was ecstatic and gladly accepted his offer before he realized I was scheduled to work on Sundays.
Since I am not a Phoenix native I knew I had better look up the stadium on map quest and get directions. I knew they shared a stadium with Arizona State University and figured it should not be too difficult to find. I was wrong. I took my directions from map quest with me, but they were a bit off. So I thought to myself I would just look for signs to the stadium or Arizona State University. I drove around Tempe for a good 30 minutes but never spotted a sign. Well I knew I was in the right area and thought "Hell it seats 73,000 people. I will just look for the lights and the cars and listen for the crowd noise." Well I never heard a peep. It looks like I will have to do something every man hates. I'll have to stop and ask for directions. Upon arriving at Sun Devil Stadium I understood why I was not able to spot a structure that holds 73,000 people. It's built inside a mountain. Well that's unique I thought to myself.
Anytime you have corporate season tickets, you also get season parking passes. The parking was in a 4 story garage and was well lit. I shouldn't have to worry about security here. That's a nice feeling because Phoenix is the stolen car capitol of the nation. I opted to walk down the stairs instead of taking the elevator. After leaving the parking garage I looked for some signs to point me in the correct direction. There were none. Hmmmmmm no signs to the University. No signs to the stadium. I'm starting to feel like the Israelites who wandered around in the desert for 40 years. Okay I'll just walk towards those big poles with the lights on them. Wrong, I just walked over to the general admission parking. Oh well, at least I can follow those people to the stadium because I can not wait to see the Dallas Cowboys play.
On my way though the gates I was frisked for weapons and then allowed to pass. I quickly understood why I was frisked for weapons. Arizona has some of the dirtiest, trashiest, gangster fans I have ever seen. The person I was standing next to was complaining that his bandana was taken because it was gang related, and he would get that security guard after the game. Arizona does possess the most trailer homes per capita, and apparently all the residents showed up to watch the Cardinals play.
At 103 degrees it's always a good idea to get a cold beer. I went ahead and got in line and got served fairly quickly. It was nice to be at a stadium that's offers a 16oz beer in addition to a 12oz. The beer was reasonably priced so I went ahead and got one for myself and my wife. I was actually only expecting to take one beer back, because most venues only allow one beer per person per visit. Actually I bought both beers for myself, but wound up giving my other to the wife for being such a good sport and not complaining on the way here.
I navigated my way through a sea of people to find our seats on the four row. When I got there I was rather shocked to discover that there were no individual seats. All there was a bench with numbers on it, and a sweaty white trash guy eye balling my wife and hoping I would let her sit next to him. Of course my wife took one look at him and decided I was sitting next to him. Of course the fat guy took up his seat number plus half of the number on the bench for my seat. Now I know this is a college stadium, but if I am going to pay NFL prices, I deserve my very own individual seat where I do not have to worry about some fattie taking up half of my seat. So I squeeze in and start to watch the game, when I realized the goals where to the north and to the south. Yep you guessed it my seats on the sidelines had me looking directly west. What that means is that I got to be blinded for the first quarter by an Arizona sunset. During the second quarter I could actually begin to watch the game, the sun had set and my face became a delicious hue of pink. A brief survey of the area uncovered four video boards that displayed the on field events. On top the west side upper deck loomed a three stories of suites and a press box. The general stadium seating encompasses the field in a horseshoe pattern with an additional area of seating in the southern end zone. The stadium would be acceptable for high school or a small college, but any NFL team should be ashamed to play here.
By the end of the game I was ready to go home. I had seen enough of Sun Devil Stadium to decide I did not want to accept free tickets for any Cardinals games in the future. As I reached the house I kissed my T.V. and promised never to betray her for Sun Devil Stadium again.
Recommended:
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Parking Availability: No Problemo
Seat Location: Lower Level
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