00:04we're talking about the debacle that is the new buffalo bills stadium that's been constructed
00:10look at first glance it's beautiful right brand new stadium bells and whistles everybody's happy
00:17bright shiny things here we go and then you start to look closer at the details
00:23and you're like what what happened here just minor details can't see the can't see the field
00:28yeah just minor i mean who needs to see the field if you're at a football stadium you're you're paying
00:33200 for a ticket who needs just minor inconveniences here somebody if you go online
00:41and just search for you know buffalo bill stadium problems you'll see tons of pictures that come up
00:48tons of videos that come up the obstructed views are incredible and we're asking people 248-539-9797
00:57what are some of the amazingly bad obstructed view seats that you've had in your lifetime this is
01:04the worst i've ever seen i didn't understand what you were talking about when you said the plexiglass
01:08because you can see through plexiglass except this plexiglass because they have bars holding the
01:16plexiglass up and you can't you can't see through it well right because they have seats in front of it
01:22too it's that's the point it's like at comerica park they have the same plexiglass and the same
01:27bars however there aren't seats right there that that's like just at the end of you know when you
01:33it's like the landing area when you come out of the concourse and you stand there to look around and
01:39see where's my seat and then you go up an aisle either right or left of said plexiglass it's not
01:45the
01:45obstruction it's crazy i'm having a hard time not laughing my ass off at these poor buffalo bills fans who
01:51have already sunk uh what 10 000 into season tickets my goodness for what uh some text coming
01:57in this sat behind a massive round concrete pillar at the masonic theater for james taylor concert
02:02it wasn't that big of a deal but why do they even have a seat behind it
02:08begs the question or something because you will pay for the seat and you won't realize what you've
02:14bought until you're there i mean king you're right that makes all the sense in the world you have a
02:18seat
02:18the face is backwards as security guards seats there looking at the crowd i get that
02:23uh at the masonic temple in detroit which is a venue i love and i've been for concerts and wrestling
02:28events i once got a seat for a metal concert with a full view of the back of a huge
02:33pillar
02:34liam and ipsalanti sounds like it's the same view you didn't go to see the pillar really that's not
02:39what you friends of mine went to the uh final four last year in san antonio they do the final
02:46four now
02:47in uh in a football stadium massive football stadiums i said could you see the action not at
02:52all but we were there yeah i mean we'll see that this year at uh at fort field we we've
02:58been through
02:58it before and it it's you know it is what it is i think having a basketball game at a
03:04football stadium
03:04is is both great and awful at the same time and it's not my preferred way to watch a basketball
03:12game
03:13in a football stadium but is it a lot of time gator like even if you don't have obstructive view
03:18in
03:18those of those football stadiums for the basketball game you just end up watching the scoreboard
03:22anyways because it's just yes so again which begs the question why are you there just to be there
03:26just to say you went to the final four he said this was a direct quote i think we could
03:30hear the
03:31basketball bounce there is something different about being at a live sporting event even if you
03:35can't see it there's there's a vibe there's an energy there's people are you really there if you
03:39can't see some people just want to be they want to say that they were at the event but i
03:43mean
03:43i've said before you know i'm a big professional wrestling fan when wrestlemania 3 came to the
03:49silver dome when i was a kid uh i i like i don't want to i wanted to go but
03:53at the same time like i'm
03:54not going to go because you in order to really enjoy that you have to have good seats and particularly
04:00back in 1987 if you didn't have good seats it's not it's not worth it to me like oh it's
04:05the event
04:06and it would have been nice to say yeah i was at wrestlemania 3 but i know what it's like
04:10to go
04:10to a live wrestling event at a smaller venue whether it was kobo arena or it was joe lewis arena
04:16back in
04:16the day and if you don't have the good seats it sucks and you're talking about an 82 000 seat
04:23i mean
04:24at that point they had 93 000 fans at that venue i'm like if you weren't right around ringside you
04:29were
04:30screwed so i i get it um let's get some phone calls uh with people if you want to talk
04:36about
04:36the obstructive view want to talk about lions want to talk about the tigers we're here for you
04:39we'll start with matt on a cell phone matt welcome 97 one hey matt what's up gator mark so for
04:46the
04:46lions you know i i i'm confident that they're gonna be in the super bowl and i was telling paul
04:52i'm so
04:52confident i thought i was betting on the championship game but i bet on the conference
04:57um but i just placed a bet on the championship the odds for the lions is 1900 i put 100
05:05bucks down
05:05and it'll win me 1900 bucks that's how confident i am um i don't want to ruin your future topic
05:12gator about ruining the day because i feel like i know what it is but my answer is going to
05:17be no i
05:18don't think they're going to rue the day all right well we'll unveil that in a little bit yeah look
05:23at
05:23behind the curtain well you know i don't think they're going to rule it because of the possibility
05:29of what's still to come yes i agree with you we can we can speak very vaguely about it and
05:34i agree
05:34with your reasoning and i will i will by the way matt let me segue back to your previous point
05:38guess
05:38who had worse odds than the lions to win the championship very recently uh you want here you
05:46go ready bueller fry the new york knicks had 22 to 1 odds to win the championship when the playoffs
05:52began how about that well yeah as far as the obstructed view uh michigan state there's there's
06:00a section i actually like to sit in where there's a giant concrete pillar and you can't really see that
06:06well but i just go to hang out with the friends at the game well matt at michigan state the
06:11obstructive
06:12view is actually a better seat because you don't have to see that oh stop it stop it that's thanks
06:16for the call how dare you as i'm wearing my spartan shirt too how dare you completely unnecessary
06:23uh jake is on a cell next year on 971 hey jake hey so as far as instructed views go
06:30i don't know
06:30like you guys remember bishkin stadium before the big renovation like with both sides now have like
06:37sweet seats and stuff because prior to that i went to a game and we were right in the back
06:42row right
06:43next to the press box you don't see half the field jut out yep and you couldn't even see the
06:51m on the 50
06:52yard line so whenever they were on the other side you had to look i did they have a jumbotron
06:57back then
06:57i don't know if they had one on both sides and even if you did it's you're you're at an
07:01angle on it
07:02where it's not an ideal angle there were some bad seats yeah for sure yeah so i'm and all in
07:10all i
07:11approve of the renovation of michigan stadium that's all i'm going to say about that well it's
07:14definitely worked out better now that they've smoothed out that this section that jutted out
07:18is now all the way across the uh the sideline so it's not obstructed anymore absolutely all right
07:24thanks jake i appreciate it uh if you're high up in the upper deck in uh lca the view is
07:31disrespectful
07:31looking down through the halo um i can see why that would be i it's such a a unique construction
07:41up there and if from the standpoint of uh me going to red wing games and sitting in the press
07:48box where
07:48we're we're in our own gondola area there that terrifies me by the way i love i i think it's
07:53a
07:53great view for us in the media you're looking straight down um and you are way up there is seven
07:59flights up there but it's it's a great view however if you turn around in the press box
08:0750 feet behind you you're seeing seats i've looked at those fans in the stands and i'm like are they
08:15able to see up there and and they are but yes there is a little obstruction you've got to look
08:21through
08:21some wires occasionally if you're way up in in those in those seats it's tough like i said the view
08:28is disrespectful looking down through the halo and the old tiger stadium being in the uh lower bowl
08:34behind one of the columns that support the upper bowl was always a problem yep yep you knew that
08:40going into the old stadiums are going to be like that that's why uh you know there aren't many what
08:45there's two left that's it because everybody knew how is this legal how are there not lawsuits
08:51listen we're not getting what you paid for well those those stadiums were built in the
08:56early 1900s not this one well no not this one not the buffalo bills one no no this was built
09:02in the
09:03early 2000s you bought tickets to a movie you didn't get to see you're in the building
09:10access to a seat in the building what do you really need it's like right what if someone tall sits
09:15in
09:16front of you they can't control that either well i'll tell you my obstructed view coming up in five
09:20minutes here at 97.1
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