Real Salt Lake Stadium- 13 days until first match
A couple notes and pics from practice
Well I was able to make a jailbreak from work today to go watch practice at the new stadium, and it was impressive as I walked in the first thing that hit me was the smell of the grass, what a pleasant thing it was. With a match tomorrow the practice was intense but not too long; it was good to see how well the pitch held up during the practice. It really looked like carpet that you could just run the vacuum cleaner over and it would be just like new. Here are a couple pictures from today’s practice session:
view from the concourse
Wingert goes for a shot on the mini goal, but Horst lays down to block the shot
Kyle takes a shot on goal (let’s hope we see more of this tomorrow)
It really does look like carpet, even up close it looks good
Wiley veteran(Mathis) meets young rookie(Reiman)
Rookie (Reiman) gets a good counter against Kyle
After practice view from the bench
More Photos can be seen at: http://connect.roguecavaliers.com/photo
Stadium updates
So with just 13 days left the construction is moving at a rapid place and today there were workers in a number of areas, some of the most impressive efforts are that the upper deck is almost complete as are the south stands (which just a few days ago looked like they might not be ready by the 9th). A lot of work in the suite areas, and the concourses and common areas, the branding and names of concession areas has made great progress and all the video boards we working, as well as the very large and very nice scoreboard. You will notice in the pictures that on the right side of the main screen there is a smaller screen, but not on the left side. I have a feeling that the area may be waiting on the branding effort that will come when the naming rights partner is announced (I hear that is coming very, very soon)? I got my first look at the visitor’s locker room, not as nice as the home locker room, but still a very nice area. I also got a look at the audio and video areas, which are really impressive.
Enough talk, here are some pictures:
visitor’s locker room
Fireplace in the Club (are they going to sell the naming rights to this area as well?)
View from the Club patio area
scoreboard as seen from the Club patio
Suite seats, dusty but very nice
View from the suite
View from the press area
Some very cool video equipment, all I want is a couple hours to play with it all
I thought I had a lot of cables behind my TV
One of the many concession areas
soon to be my favorite concession area
View from the upper deck (this picture doesn’t come close to doing the view justice)
View from Section 8 row A seat 2 (again the view in person is so much better)
Section 9 is almost complete
Concession area behind the supporter sections (I was really hungry, that is why there are so many picture of the concession areas)
More clever branding
Work on the goals gets underway
I could post a ton more pictures, but I will put more at: http://connect.roguecavaliers.com/photo
Also here is a fun video made out of a series of photos of Mr. Joy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAbsq75e5hw)
That is all for now, it may take a while for all the photos to get loaded, so keep checking back.
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