SBC Center or the Alamo Dome?

[Jonathan]

Which Arena was better?

[ChumpDumper]

Asking means you've never been to either.

[Jonathan]

I did, but i wanna hear peoples opinion.

[ChumpDumper]

In your official capacity?

[Kori Ellis]

If you are a basketball fan, I don't see how anyone could favor the Dome. It was just a football arena that was used as a make-shift basketball arena.

[SequSpur]

alamodome was better because I could afford season tickets in club level. now, i can afford 5 games and watch rasho, or someother scrub that pop signed.

[braeden0613]

alamodome was horrible...

[Solid D]

I like the use of the question mark ("?") Jonathan but the rest of the words in the sentence make for a fairly lame question.

[Solid D]

Which Arena was better?

First of all, both venues are currently still in use for various events, thus past tense "was" is an improper tense. Secondly, SBC Center has had a name change to AT&T Center, although nothing else really changed about it except for signage.

[Zunni]

alamodome was better because I could afford season tickets in club level. now, i can afford 5 games and watch rasho, or someother scrub that pop signed.
Club level at the Alamo Dome = about halfway up the upper deck in the ATT Center in both distance from the court and height above it.

[ponky]

i'm not a spurs fan but i've been to several games at both venues...i don't like the at&t center at all, it's too dark anywhere outside of the first twenty rows, they need to paint the ceiling a lighter color...this is probably the only reason i liked the alamodome...oh yeah, and it wasn't in BFE

[johngateswhiteley]

sbc, and it is by such a landslide that even asking the question.....just seems dumb.

[Lady M]

ATT center :D

[samikeyp]

Hemisfair Arena. :)

[strangeweather]

As most everyone has said, the dome was a terrible place to watch basketball.

I only got to go to Hemisfair a few times. From what I remember, it was kind of run down in its last years when I was there, and there were pillars that obstructed the view from some of the seats, but it was great for amplifying crowd noise, and it was a fun place to watch a game.

I really like AT&T, and the sightlines are great, even at the very back of the upper deck. I don't think it's as loud as Hemisfair could get, which is kind of a shame.

[J.T.]

I have two memories at the Alamodome...first game of the 1999-2000 season (ring ceremony) and some random regular season game I went to with my family and some five year old little girl was sitting behind me and screaming "Go Avery" "I Love You Avery" and other stupid shit like that even when AJ wasn't on the court. DRob could throw it down and she would say Go Avery. Had to be one of the most annoying nights in my entire life.

AT&T is the shit. That's all I have to say.

[Clandestino]

i don't care how you spin it... 36,000+ fans screaming is louder than 17,000 fans

[SA210]

i don't care how you spin it... 36,000+ fans screaming is louder than 17,000 fans
Agreed. :tu

[samikeyp]

i don't care how you spin it... 36,000+ fans screaming is louder than 17,000 fan

Very true....too bad we couldn't get 36,000 for each game.

[FromWayDowntown]

i don't care how you spin it... 36,000+ fans screaming is louder than 17,000 fans

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I was at the Alamodome for Game 2 of the 1999 West Finals (the Memorial Day Miracle) and at the SBC Center for the clinchers against New Jersey and Detroit and can assure you that it was louder at SBC Center for those games than it ever was at the Dome.

[Kori Ellis]

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I was at the Alamodome for Game 2 of the 1999 West Finals (the Memorial Day Miracle) and at the SBC Center for the clinchers against New Jersey and Detroit and can assure you that it was louder at SBC Center for those games than it ever was at the Dome.

Agreed. The clinching game against NJ was the loudest game I've ever attended.

[Solid D]

Hey johngateswhiteley! Ya' got one of those sigs with about 3 less USC banners in it? It throws everybody into wide-mode.

[bendmz]

Very true....too bad we couldn't get 36,000 for each game.
but i do believe we averaged about 21,000 per game at the dome..... and not to mention we currently hold the rercord for a season opener....i think it was like 36,000.... :elephant

[bdictjames]

I loved that NJ - Spurs series. I had the feeling I was cheering for another title... and I did really

[dknights411]

Does this even qualify it's own thread? Besides, the place has been the AT&T Center for almost a year now.

[LilMissSPURfect]

Hemisphere Arena :fro

[dknights411]

Hemisphere Arena :fro

Isn't that supposed to be HemisFAIR Arena? ;)

[Phenomanul]

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I was at the Alamodome for Game 2 of the 1999 West Finals (the Memorial Day Miracle) and at the SBC Center for the clinchers against New Jersey and Detroit and can assure you that it was louder at SBC Center for those games than it ever was at the Dome.


Don't they mic the audience at the AT&T Center???

Plus the 'background' music is really loud sometimes...

[Kori Ellis]

Don't they mic the audience at the AT&T Center???

Plus the 'background' music is really loud sometimes...

No, they don't mic the audience at the AT&T.

The clinching game against NJ was so loud it was unbelievable. I was screaming as loud as I could directly in LJ's ear and he couldn't hear me at all. That game was incredible.

[THE SIXTH MAN]

Att center with out a doubt. The only thing I liked about the dome is 40 bucks a seat would get you into the lower level. :D

[johngateswhiteley]

Hey johngateswhiteley! Ya' got one of those sigs with about 3 less USC banners in it? It throws everybody into wide-mode.


...i think a moderator adjusted it already, sorry for the inconvenience. i actually like it a bit smaller, however, my sig is nowhere near as big as some of the other sigs around here...regardless of whether mine is wider or not.

[Kori Ellis]

I didn't realize you had a bunch of small images in your signature, I tried to copy it to re-size it and then I realized :lol

So I just screensaved it and then copied the image into Photoshop, cropped it and adjusted it to "forum" width.

I hope you don't mind.

The problem with wider (as opposed to just bigger) is that it blows the margin on the page and you have to scroll side-to-side.

Anyway, no big deal. It's fixed now.

[johngateswhiteley]

I didn't realize you had a bunch of small images in your signature, I tried to copy it to re-size it and then I realized :lol

So I just screensaved it and then copied the image into Photoshop, cropped it and adjusted it to "forum" width.

I hope you don't mind.

The problem with wider (as opposed to just bigger) is that it blows the margin on the page and you have to scroll side-to-side.

Anyway, no big deal. It's fixed now.


kori,
...i have no problem with it at all. i just did not understand how it looked so wide on some peoples computer screens. my screen is like 14" and before you changed it the amount of width it took up was just over half. in any case, its fine and i actually like it better.

fyi, the larger sigs (north/south), imo, look much worse :shrug: btw, i offered Mr. Princess a trade in the 250 league....he should check it out and get back to me.

[LilMissSPURfect]

Isn't that supposed to be HemisFAIR Arena? ;)

ok :drunk

[NBA Junkie]

Was anyone in attendance on opening night in 1994 when the water cannon went off at the Alomodome after the fireworks display?

[samikeyp]

I missed that one....I was there the year before for the very first regular season game at the Dome when we set the attendance record. That was fun.

[LilMissSPURfect]

Was anyone in attendance on opening night in 1994 when the water cannon went off at the Alomodome after the fireworks display?

yeah.......it was awesome! :madrun :madrun

[jman3000]

best part about the alamodome was the 30 minute walk from the bottom level to the nose bleed. good times.

[samikeyp]

^^^ :lol true.