they're the definition of just because you can do something it doesn't mean that you should congrats on installing lights that don't take 10 minutes to warm up though
Early in the year at Dodger stadium, Muncy hit a no doubt homerun and they turned the lights off before the ball landed in the stands.
Fairly sure it’s just a filter on the lights But maybe light technology has progressed significantly in the last five years or so since Duke installed them in Cameron
I thought I was the only one. Fuck those lights. pay Jimbo the GDP of Tonga not to coach, whatever. But those lights are the surest sign of bloated AD budgets.
It's LED lights that can turn on and off instantly and change colors Lots of the districts in hs around here have banned flashing them in district play, but they still do it on non district games Some serious programming goes into the system running them to prevent seizure causing flash patterns They can be set to flash/change colors with the music, etc It's one of those things that's kinda cool but gets dumb real fast
it adds some element of atmosphere. Not a fan of completely turning out the lights after a score but the colored LEDs are cool. Not sure these are really all that expensive. Most schools are moving to LEDs now for a number of reasons
Yeah I’m reading this thread thinking these are a bunch of armchair fans who probably haven’t seen the inside of their team’s stadium… ever?
youth baseball/football complexes and high school fields have been installing them all over the country. the on/off and colors can be controlled via an app. gonna be a shitshow. but yeah they're cool in person in the big stadiums.
I can’t imagine anyone that’s ever been in a stadium when these color changes happen thinking that it’s anything but cool and an experience enhancer.
Give me the old days where they had to delay the fucking Super Bowl to get lights to warm back up. Jimmy Cheats World didn’t like the game’s momentum and flipped those puppies off for second halftime.
It was hilarious when they were going off during that New Mexico-Utah State game with 20 people in the stands
This was the first one Nebraska did a few years ago, at least that I can remember, and it got everyone amped in the stadium. Between the end of the 3rd and start of the 4th. Alas, we suck and still lost, but it was fun while it lasted.
I gotta tell you, the move the SEC made to allow for beer to be sold in the stands didn’t do jack shit for people watching at home.
didn't do jack shit for me either. BDS still hasn't figured out how to get a cold beer in my hands without waiting in line for half an hour. I had one too many lukewarm Heineken tallboys this fall.
It’s similar at Florida games. I’m assuming it has to do with limiting access, but why not have vendors walking around the seats or concourses selling beer?
Experience enhancer for pre-game, halftime shows, and pre-4th quarter traditions. Keep the lights on after a TD though.