When Will Mr. Ross Renovate Sun Life Stadium?

[DefensiveEnd76]

We should've never moved from the Orange Bowl and should've completely refurbished that historic stadium. We lost a huge part of our identity when we moved from there and a true homefield advantage as well. I sure as hell don't want to have a roof over our home games so our guys don't learn how to play in wind, rain etc. It's okay to have shade over the seats in the stadium but no damn roof!!!! We don't need to turn into a soft dome team.

 

[Pinkboy]

It's all throwing good money after bad now. Has been for a while, if not since before it was even built. That stadium is an unfocused concrete drab of a place that looks more out of date than college stadiums built decades before, and combines that with a gently sloping seating arrangement that magnifies the huge distance the seats already are from the field. It boasts a horribly low ratio of lower bowl seats to upper bowl ones. And it also sits outside the city limits of Miami in what can charitably be called a real ****hole of a neighborhood. Even the area surrounding Jacksonville's abomination of a stadium -- where you are often forced to park in grass/dirt lots -- is nicer than what surrounds Dolphin stadium.

If Ross really has the best interests of the team in mind, he'll stop trying to improve Dolphin stadium and move immediately on plans to construct a new state of the art, retractable roof, huddled close (meaning: loud) stadium somewhere inside city limits. Perhaps he's waiting for the team to show more success before moving on that kind of a plan, but his public statements have always been to effect that he likes the stadium and views improving it as the best investment. A typical example of billionaire penny pinching.

Even Paul Allen knew that a new stadium is often vital in rejuvenating the fortunes of a team, and low and behold, a few years after building a new stadium the Seahawks experienced the greatest run in team history, including a Super Bowl berth. Same with the Buccaneers and their new stadium. A Super Bowl followed closely after. The Patriots won their first Super Bowl after breaking ground on Gillette Stadium and two more followed (with two more appearances beyond that) after moving in. The Giants won the Super Bowl in 2007, the year they broke ground on their new home (Metlife Stadium), and another win followed last year. The Colts won the Super Bowl their last year in the RCA Dome and went to another shortly after in LucasOil. The Cardinals went to their first Super Bowl three years after moving into their new stadium. The Titans/Oilers only Super Bowl appearance in their history coincided with their first year in their new stadium in Nashville. The pattern goes back to the 70s Steelers, a team that was totally inept for years before the combination of Chuck Noll and a new stadium propelled them to four Super Bowls.

People can point to this and point to that and say it's all correlation blah blah blah. Whatever. Give me some of that ****ing correlation. It's insane. And anyway, I reject the notion that it's mere correlation. A new stadium speaks of purpose, it speaks of energy, it speaks of seriousness. Refurbishing old Joe Robbie Stadium speaks to none of that, and will lead nowhere.

 

[JCane]

We should've never moved from the Orange Bowl and should've completely refurbished that historic stadium. We lost a huge part of our identity when we moved from there and a true homefield advantage as well. I sure as hell don't want to have a roof over our home games so our guys don't learn how to play in wind, rain etc. It's okay to have shade over the seats in the stadium but no damn roof!!!! We don't need to turn into a soft dome team.

It was the greatest home field advantage in the history of sports.

 

[Coach_Rob]

do this first

then build this

this is really what im hoping for. no other stadium is like it, and it will attract a superbowl, and many other attractions to south flordia.

 

[bassjk13]

do this first

then build this

Is that not the rendering of the current stadium updated? Wouldn't need a nuke for that

 

[dolpns13]

The stadium is a D.U.M.P.. They need to demolish it and build up a new one!

 

[DphinBillkiller]

Agreed, just build a new one.

 

[MP-Omnis]

They're not going to demolish it after all the renovations they already put into it. Are you guys thick?

It's not going to be in Miami either. The current location serves the tri-county area best, and as there are only 20 games to go to if you count the playoffs, it's reasonable to have a more central location that everyone makes a trip to. The infrastructure is already there. What they need to do is make that whole surrounding area more convenient for tailgating, and then put up a european-style roof to protect the stands from rain and sun.

Mike Dee already submitted the stadium concept to the superbowl committee a year or two ago. It was in response to having lost the 2013 superbowl to New Orleans. The interior photo from that concept has already been posted. Here's the outside:

I would rather have them go for a centeral arch over the stadium that serves as the spine holding up a suspended roof, and then give it a bit of a dorsal fin shape, but something like that would be super expensive and much more complicated than just the four post setup seen in the concept art. Any progress will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. They can't afford to close that stadium down to create something spectacular. Something that big doesn't happen overnight.

 

[bassjk13]

They're not going to demolish it after all the renovations they already put into it. Are you guys thick?

It's not going to be in Miami either. The current location serves the tri-county area best, and as there are only 20 games to go to if you count the playoffs, it's reasonable to have a more central location that everyone makes a trip to. The infrastructure is already there. What they need to do is make that whole surrounding area more convenient for tailgating, and then put up a european-style roof to protect the stands from rain and sun.

Mike Dee already submitted the stadium concept to the superbowl committee a year or two ago. It was in response to having lost the 2013 superbowl to New Orleans. The interior photo from that concept has already been posted. Here's the outside:

I would rather have them go for a centeral arch over the stadium that serves as the spine holding up a suspended roof, and then give it a bit of a dorsal fin shape, but something like that would be super expensive and much more complicated than just the four post setup seen in the concept art. Any progress will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. They can't afford to close that stadium down to create something spectacular. Something that big doesn't happen overnight.

I love the way the interior looks in these renderings and having a roof over the seats would be awesome. I just hate the way the roof looks in those pics, it's almost like they said, "what is the cheapest way to slap a roof on this sucker". Not that there is anything wrong with doing it on the cheap but make it look like an up-to-date stadium if you are going to sink money into it

 

[dolpns13]

I love the way the interior looks in these renderings and having a roof over the seats would be awesome. I just hate the way the roof looks in those pics, it's almost like they said, "what is the cheapest way to slap a roof on this sucker". Not that there is anything wrong with doing it on the cheap but make it look like an up-to-date stadium if you are going to sink money into it

Agreed.. that roof is hideous.. I doubt they build it like that. As one poster said, this roof is "concept". With that, concepts almost NEVER come to fruition. How many concept cars do we see on the road. If they do put a roof on it, I suspect it will be a normal, dome type roof with a hold in the middle. Also with a flat roof, it will sustain definite water damage quickly as the rain wont have anywhere to go and will just sit on the roof. The flat roof is really just a bad idea and a hideous look.

 

[Zounds]

Ive been to many football stadiums and I dont think there is anything wrong with our stadium. The parking/tailgate areas need to be upgraded bu the stadium itself its fine imo. There are many worse stadiums than ours, and I would be very upset if we switched to a retractable roof, dome, or turf. Its Florida, we need heat, grass, sunshine, and even the rain.

 

[dolpns13]

Ive been to many football stadiums and I dont think there is anything wrong with our stadium. The parking/tailgate areas need to be upgraded bu the stadium itself its fine imo. There are many worse stadiums than ours, and I would be very upset if we switched to a retractable roof, dome, or turf. Its Florida, we need heat, grass, sunshine, and even the rain.

and that is why those stadiums, as well as ours, will not have any superbowls anytime soon

 

[Miamibyrd]

When we start winning!!!

 

[13ktownguy]

Sure do miss the Orangebowl!

 

[cowboy82nd]

With the Marlins gone, and having been planned to be gone for a while, It's inexcusable that Ross hasn't rennovated Sun Life into a stadium actually suitable for live sports viewership. A roof, moved the sidelines in, gotten rid of about 15,000 seats.

If we get rid of about 15,000 seats, we won't be able to host a Super Bowl. The league mandates that the stadium most seat at leat 70,000 people to host a Super Bowl.