With our season ticket renewal in the mail, it is officially time that we can start counting down the days until Eastern Michigan. I don’t care if this team had a bunch of blue chip recruits or high school bench warmers playing — there’s nothing better than spending a Saturday afternoon watching Pitt football.
Except for the occasional Wednesday night game…ugh.
Is anyone else worried about the tailgating situation? Last year they made you park in order, instead of letting you do the usual first come, first served deal. It made it a big pain in the ass for us, since we tailgate with about 4 or 5 different carloads of people. Under the new system, we’d end up in 4 different rows. Complete bullshit. They really make you work hard to enjoy the game.
Right now there’s a ton of construction going on down there under the bridges, and they’re going to build an amphitheater in Gold Lot 2 sometime in the near future. We’re all gonna be pushed back further and further. WTF?
Nevertheless it’s only a matter of time before the city and the Steelers sell off every last lot around Heinz Field for development, save for one or two for the extremely elite. The city doesn’t want the hassle of cleanup and law enforcements during tailgates. And Steelers want the drunks to pay for their $8.00 beers inside. I’m not saying it’s wrong, it’s good business for them.
Hopefully they’ll at least replace them with garages to retain the spots (though I’m sure the city would rather people park downtown in their dream that they can promote downtown dining and carousing). Problem is, I detest parking at a large even in a garage (tailgating is next to impossible if not banned, but mainly for the abhorrent delay getting out of the garage). Not a whine, just reality in a big city.
Which means we’ll be back to the same parking and traffic situation that we had in Oakland in a few years … leading to the question that clearly IS a whine, but a legitimate one: why didn’t we build a new multi-purpose facility like the Carrier Dome near/on campus in the first place then? I’d think students and nostalgic alums would be more likely to attend crapper games like most of our schedules consist of now (not a WHINE, just reality) if they were on campus…
get ’em while they’re hot, fellas
I also agree with the post about the parking. The rules in Gold lot 2 changed every week. Talked to Pitt and they said they have no control over the parking lots. My group is dropping from 28 to 21 season tickets due to the schedule and the tailgating issues that we had last year.
(Whoops, thought I was on a different site…)