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Back in the 80's Dolphin home games seemed wild and a lot of fun. The crowd always seemed loud and really gave Miami a huge home field advantage.

With the new stadium it just seems too far from the field that even when full of fans isn't half as loud as it seemed 20 years ago. Granted the product on the field is much different and winning takes care of most negative things.

Living in Iowa I haven't been able to get out to Miami to catch any games but wondered if there was any info out like studies that were done when the new stadium was built to make the acustics reflect noise back to the field to make it louder and more of an advantage to the home team. One stadium that I know did this and it shows is over in Seattle. Very loud there. Iowa also did this with there renovation.

Watching Miami for the last several years on Direct TV, sad I know, it just doesn't seem loud and I realize most of the stadium is empty but you can acutally hear their PA person loud and clear on tv and find this very sad.
 
well in the 80s there was the coke empidemic and everyone was skeeted and drunk off their ***. partying and being ****ed up hahaha.
 
Its because they played in the Orange Bowl until 1986 when we moved into Joe Robbie Stadium, Here is my 2 cents on this thing...

The Dolphins should have never left the Orange Bowl, they should had instead put the money that they put into Joe Robbie Stadium into a Orange Bowl renovation like they did up in Green Bay with Lambeau.

Ever since we left the Orange Bowl, Miami has not been to a Super Bowl / won the AFC. I don't want to come off as superstitious but I think Joe Robbie / Dolphin Stadium is full of bad mojo and until we leave it we are going to be stuck in that almost great or really bad phase we have been in since 1986 when we moved.

Now I don't live in Miami either, I'm a born and raised Floridian, but have lived in Tampa Bay my whole life. Has the Orange Bowl been torn down yet? I say instead of tearing it down, Wayne, whom wants a new stadium any way, should just buy the Orange Bowl and raise money to restore it and make it better.

Also from what I hear the area around the Orange Bowl is nasty and crime ridden, I think a revamped Orange Bowl and a kind of Miami Dolphins fun zone lined with bars, hotels, parking garages, and crap around the stadium for a few blocks could repair the area.

;)
 
6r3yf0x said:
Its because they played in the Orange Bowl until 1986 when we moved into Joe Robbie Stadium, Here is my 2 cents on this thing...

The Dolphins should have never left the Orange Bowl, they should had instead put the money that they put into Joe Robbie Stadium into a Orange Bowl renovation like they did up in Green Bay with Lambeau.

Ever since we left the Orange Bowl, Miami has not been to a Super Bowl / won the AFC. I don't want to come off as superstitious but I think Joe Robbie / Dolphin Stadium is full of bad mojo and until we leave it we are going to be stuck in that almost great or really bad phase we have been in since 1986 when we moved.

Now I don't live in Miami either, I'm a born and raised Floridian, but have lived in Tampa Bay my whole life. Has the Orange Bowl been torn down yet? I say instead of tearing it down, Wayne, whom wants a new stadium any way, should just buy the Orange Bowl and raise money to restore it and make it better.

Also from what I hear the area around the Orange Bowl is nasty and crime ridden, I think a revamped Orange Bowl and a kind of Miami Dolphins fun zone lined with bars, hotels, parking garages, and crap around the stadium for a few blocks could repair the area.

;)
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I agree.....a move back down to the Orange Bowl site would be great.....the area is not nasty and crime ridden...it is just not a neighborhood that has alot of money......I think the place is great......it may be a bit intimdating to some....but we need that.....keep some of the visitng fans away......and get more Dolfans to the games......it will never happen tho.....not enough room to expand down there......and Wayne wnats to add an amusement park in the parking lot basically......
 
Knowing Wayne, he could buy up some of the property around the stadium and make it happen. I seriously doubt that a move back to the OB would happen. The Hurricanes just signed a deal to play in Dolphins Stadium for the next few years.
 
777 said:
I agree.....a move back down to the Orange Bowl site would be great.....the area is not nasty and crime ridden...it is just not a neighborhood that has alot of money......I think the place is great......it may be a bit intimdating to some....but we need that.....keep some of the visitng fans away......and get more Dolfans to the games......it will never happen tho.....not enough room to expand down there......and Wayne wnats to add an amusement park in the parking lot basically......
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Hey Wayne could still have his amusement park in the parking lot. If the area is dirt poor then big money Wayne should have no problem buying up the land around the area, clear off the homes, and build what ever he wants.

Take for example Tampa Stadium, when the Buc's were created the old Buc's owner bought up 10 city blocks and bulldozed the houses and built the stadium.

:winkwink: Heck if I run across some down time I may just do some home work, and see if I can create an artists concept drawing and series of artistic plans and try and send them to Wayne's Office at One Dolphin Place. You never know, Disney built their Wide World of Sports Park from an artist concept from some dude that lives in Gainesville, its worth a shot, and I used to be a Disney Animation intern so I need to use some of my wasted talent.
 
TurkishFin99 said:
Knowing Wayne, he could buy up some of the property around the stadium and make it happen. I seriously doubt that a move back to the OB would happen. The Hurricanes just signed a deal to play in Dolphins Stadium for the next few years.
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Yeah I know.....plus they JUST renovated the stadium and added the 2 big screens....unfotunately we will be there for YEARS to come.....and for YEARS to come everytime we play the JETS at home Dolfans will be out manned and out fanned.....sad really.....
 
Well I'm going to take a shot at my idea of making up some artist concepts and trying to get them over to Wayne's Office. Besides the Police Academy which starts next week I have nothing else to do and should be able to pump something out in a month or two.

Would you guys sign a petition if I got one started and posted it in here?

I have never been to a Dolphins home game, but I remember as a kid the atmosphere of the early to mid 1980's games, it was almost like a college game, I got into it more and that was just watching it on the boob tube, I can only imagine how it was in the place.

Better to try and fail then to sit around and gripe about it.
 
6r3yf0x said:
Well I'm going to take a shot at my idea of making up some artist concepts and trying to get them over to Wayne's Office. Besides the Police Academy which starts next week I have nothing else to do and should be able to pump something out in a month or two.

Would you guys sign a petition if I got one started and posted it in here?

I have never been to a Dolphins home game, but I remember as a kid the atmosphere of the early to mid 1980's games, it was almost like a college game, I got into it more and that was just watching it on the boob tube, I can only imagine how it was in the place.

Better to try and fail then to sit around and gripe about it.
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Good luck bro......I hope you succeed.....post up some of the work you come up with...I would love to see it.....and I mos def would sign a petition....
 
I'd sign a petition. I mean crowd noise is something that just doesn't seem like was being considered when Wayne designed the new stadium. From the look of the games on tv the crowd just seems to be too far away from the field. Look at Lambo field, Oakland and Seattle. Players and fan support are the main themes but yet Miami you don't see a crowd or any players inter-action.
 
777 said:
Good luck bro......I hope you succeed.....post up some of the work you come up with...I would love to see it.....and I mos def would sign a petition....
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Thanks!

I will post the work once it has been sketched out, maybe down the road if some people like it they would be willing to lend their computer skills to digitize it. I'm very talented with hand drawn animation and sketching, but I missed the digital animation train 100%.

Give me about a month or two and I should have something solid to post in this thread.
 
IAFINFAN said:
Back in the 80's Dolphin home games seemed wild and a lot of fun. The crowd always seemed loud and really gave Miami a huge home field advantage.

With the new stadium it just seems too far from the field that even when full of fans isn't half as loud as it seemed 20 years ago. Granted the product on the field is much different and winning takes care of most negative things.

Living in Iowa I haven't been able to get out to Miami to catch any games but wondered if there was any info out like studies that were done when the new stadium was built to make the acustics reflect noise back to the field to make it louder and more of an advantage to the home team. One stadium that I know did this and it shows is over in Seattle. Very loud there. Iowa also did this with there renovation.

Watching Miami for the last several years on Direct TV, sad I know, it just doesn't seem loud and I realize most of the stadium is empty but you can acutally hear their PA person loud and clear on tv and find this very sad.
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This topic has been beaten to death man. What do you us to say?
 
People always think the "good old days" were better.

Nostalga is for losers.

The OB was a piece of crap with people peeing in the sinks and treating it like garbage. Dolphin Stadium is a fine stadium. I remember some great playoff games when it was called Joe Robbie Stadium which were totally rocking. The game vs KC, the Indy wild card game, and the buffalo game.

Its all about winning, and we've sucked for about 7 years now.
 
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