Open the Alamo Dome for the playoff

[cujo112461]

Open the Alamo dome for the playoff so the spurs could play there. You would be able to seat double the compacity of the a&tt center .

[Trainwreck2100]

Open the Alamo dome for the playoff so the spurs could play there. You would be able to seat double the compacity of the a&tt center .

the millionaires w/ their lux. boxes would not like that

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

ok, let me make a few calls.

[pache100]

No thanks. I HATED basketball in the Alamodome. The AT&T center is infinitely better even if it has fewer seats.

Save the Alamodome for the victory celebration.


the millionaires w/ their lux. boxes would not like that

The team wasn't real fond of it, either. I'm much more concerned about their happiness during the playoffs than the "millionaires".

[Trainwreck2100]

No thanks. I HATED basketball in the Alamodome. The AT&T center is infinitely better even if it has fewer seats.

Save the Alamodome for the victory celebration.


You never sat with la raza in the $5 seats

[ducks]

maybe they can setup a big screen in there for the home and away games
charge $5 for parking and serve drinks and food
seems it would make $$$$$$$$$$$

[pache100]

You never sat with la raza in the $5 seats

I sat in the $5 seats.

[CubanMustGo]

Me too. $5 seats beat no seats.

Changing to the 'dome, however, would effectively make the Spurs a visitor for their home games. All the players said it was much more difficult to shoot in that cavernous space.

[SpursWoman]

ok, let me make a few calls.


:lol

[Vashner]

It would be the dumbest idea you can come up with. Why? Because they would not be used to it and we could loose.

Then about oh.. 1 million people would want to hunt down and kill Cujo...

[pache100]

maybe they can setup a big screen in there for the home and away games
charge $5 for parking and serve drinks and food
seems it would make $$$$$$$$$$$

I have always wondered why they didn't do that for away games during the playoffs; not enough parking at the dome, though, and I doubt the downtown parking lots would be willing to donate - they'd have to run the buses. It would be a great atmosphere to watch the games, though.

[Old School Chic]

The idea of having the Spurs play at the Dome has been brought up many times...
But, It will never happen. Actually, the fans that we were complaining about the other day (the ones with no interest in cheering) you know the ones in the first 5-10 rows from the court...WOULD NOT ALLOW IT

[T Park]

Actually, the fans that we were complaining about the other day (the ones with no interest in cheering) you know the ones in the first 5-10 rows from the court...


Im in the first 5-10 rows, I cheer, and no way in HELL< would I want to go back to that leaking dump that is the dome.


Lots of people wont go to the game, sorry, but thats reality, people need to get over it.

the 40 thousand people a game werent that great either, the dome was a miserable place to watch a basetball game.

Opening it up and putting big screens all around and watching playoff games there?

NOW THAT would be a GTG :lol

[FromWayDowntown]

Enough with this nonsense. It will never happen, mostly because it makes no economic sense for the Spurs to do it. On top of that, as has been noted, it makes no basketball sense for the Spurs to do it, either.

I have season tickets and playoff tickets for AT&T Center, and I can tell you that I'd be PISSED if the Spurs tried to move playoff games to the Alamodome. There's no way that I can get a seat at the Dome that would be comparable to what I have at AT&T Center; same is true for most season ticket holders.

I can appreciate that people want to go to the games, that not everyone can afford season tickets, and that the difference in seating capacity stresses those competing interests. But what San Antonio now has is exactly what the rest of the NBA has. And the Spurs had to do that to remain economically viable in San Antonio.

If you think the Spurs should still be playing at the Alamodome, you must also believe that the Spurs should be playing in St. Louis or Oklahoma City or New Orleans or some place like that. If there was no AT&T Center in San Antonio, there would be no Spurs in San Antonio.

[T Park]

very well said FWD.

[LilMissSPURfect]

You never sat with la raza in the $5 seats


I was there ....i remember parking costing more than the tickets...

[Extra Stout]

maybe they can setup a big screen in there for the home and away games
charge $5 for parking and serve drinks and food
seems it would make $$$$$$$$$$$
Since the Dome usually just sits there, why not? They used it for the last two title parties. The logistics can't be any harder than scheduling the playoff games at the ATT anyway. Charge a few bucks for admission, let the Southsiders feel the arena experience, make everybody happy.

[George W Bush]

It would be the dumbest idea you can come up with. Why? Because they would not be used to it and we could loose.

Then about oh.. 1 million people would want to hunt down and kill Cujo...

Looky here Vashie, once and for all. :madrun

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38278

[MannyIsGod]

Since the Dome usually just sits there, why not? They used it for the last two title parties. The logistics can't be any harder than scheduling the playoff games at the ATT anyway. Charge a few bucks for admission, let the Southsiders feel the arena experience, make everybody happy.Probably because it would cost more money than it would make. Doesn't seem very viable to make money.

[baseline bum]

The Dome sucks, and is the worst arena I've ever watched a game in, at any level.

[Melmart1]

The Dome sucks, and is the worst arena I've ever watched a game in, at any level.

:tu

Even the obstructed view seats at HemisFair, which I have sat in, are better than anything in the Dome.

[samikeyp]

Even the obstructed view seats at HemisFair, which I have sat in, are better than anything in the Dome.

amen.

[Vashner]

lol check out the PM this noob sent me hah.

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why dont you kill your self bitch it was a idea to get more spurs fan in to watch and be at a playoff game.
Like most fan have not.

[T Park]

lol kill yourself??

lovely........

[Vashner]

Well I said something like if he moved them to dome people would hunt him down and kill him. So it's deserved.

[Melmart1]

And cujo has not posted since... good riddance!

[Vashner]

A serious reply to him would be. The ATT/ SBC center was engineered for a better BBall playing experiance.

The Alamodome is a FOOTBALL stadium. Hey I love the place, I want to spend 200+ million on it in my fantasy to fix it up for expansion team / whatever. Even Fuutball.

Right now the comfort of the Spurs players is critical in a playoff situation. This would disrupt the Players pace. And your NOT even looking at the operations portion of the franchise and facilities.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Play in the Dome? Why stop there? I hear Rodman's trying to get back into the league.

[Vashner]

Human beings have a spatial orientation (Puts on Brooks AFB hat).

This is your senses and your surroundings. Your little bubble of reality.

You put the Spurs in the Dome and there reality of where they want to play is changed. Chemistry changes. The volume, sounds, smells, everything is different
in there.

Back when they played the whole season it made sense. There was a rythm and a comfort. But not ATT Center is that comfort. It's got better everything.

[ploto]

I have been to private events at the AT&T Center for away play-offs games. I am not sure why they don't hold public ones.

[exstatic]

The Dome sucks, and is the worst arena I've ever watched a game in, at any level.
Pontiac Silverdome for the Pistons. WAY worse.

[mike detroit]

based on what i've heard about attendance at spurs games, a bigger stadium in not what you're after. maybe a smaller one with better acoustics.

[mike detroit]

Pontiac Silverdome for the Pistons. WAY worse.

it was kind of cool, as a little kid at the time, to be able to go behind the curtains and see the football field at halftime.

[Melmart1]

based on what i've heard about attendance at spurs games, a bigger stadium in not what you're after. maybe a smaller one with better acoustics.

:rolleyes

[mike detroit]

:rolleyes


it might be better if you rolled your eyes once you got a stadium that even held a good number of people. I could have a private birthday party in you place.

[mike detroit]

for the record, i'm just fu*(king with you guys. I know the palace is like 2000 people bigger then all the other arenas in the league. I just felt like talking smack. apologies.

[efrem1]

The nostalgia of the dome is nice, but economics now rule the day. Sacramento is facing a big problem with Arco and the Maloofs feigning moves to Vegas.

[pache100]

based on what i've heard about attendance at spurs games, a bigger stadium in not what you're after. maybe a smaller one with better acoustics.

Did you miss this?


http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/sellout_060416.html

Limited playoff tickets to go on sale Thursday April 20
Spurs Sell Out Entire Season

With only one game left at home (FYI, that game was a sellout, too) in the Spurs regular season, the Spurs are anticipating selling out all 41 home games of the 2005-06 regular season. This is the first time since the AT&T Center opened in October 2003. It has taken a great team effort to finally accomplish this milestone; a championship team, increased season package sales and group sales and tremendous community support.

All Spurs Plan Holders (suite, full-season, half-season and 10-game) receive the right to purchase seats for all four rounds of the NBA Playoffs prior to the on sale to the general public. Even with the growth of Ticket Plan Holders, there will be 500 tickets available to the public for each Spurs home game of the 2006 NBA Playoffs.

Dates and times will always be announced in advance of each on sale. Fans can ONLY purchase tickets online at ticketmaster.com and spurs.com or Charge by Phone at (210) 225-TEAM. All ticket purchases will be limited to two (2) tickets per person, per game.

This Thursday, April 20, Spurs fans will have the opportunity to purchase game tickets to the first two home games of Round 1 (Games A & B) in the NBA Playoffs beginning at 10 a.m.


for the record, i'm just fu*(king with you guys. I know the palace is like 2000 people bigger then all the other arenas in the league. I just felt like talking smack. apologies.

Um. Okie doke. :angel

[clubalien]

I think maybe openng the dome and having peopel watch the game on the big screen is fine

is there anything sheduled to take place

personaly I woudl rather watch the game on tv without all the fans and trafic pakring being beat up by ron artest etc happeneing

[A-Train]

There's nothing better than basketball with a blue curtain backdrop.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The gigantic poster of the Iceman was pretty cool though.

[Extra Stout]

Probably because it would cost more money than it would make. Doesn't seem very viable to make money.
Other teams do it all the time for away games during the playoffs.

[Obstructed_View]

:tu

Even the obstructed view seats at HemisFair, which I have sat in, are better than anything in the Dome.
Obstructed view rules. Those were the days.

Seriously, if a team works all year to get home court advantage only to piss it away in the most important part of the year, they deserve to get bounced out of the playoffs.

[Guru of Nothing]

There's nothing better than basketball with a blue curtain backdrop.

Uhm, basketball with a blue curtain backdrop AND A WATER CANNON!

[Obstructed_View]

Uhm, basketball with a blue curtain backdrop AND A WATER CANNON!
The greatest opening night show in NBA history.

[Spurs rock]

I liked the Spurs games in the Alamodome better than in the SBC/at&t Center. There was more excitement there.