What’s so bad about CBS?
Haven’t been to many stadiums, and when I was at them didn’t think much about the overall experience.
My season tickets are in the 500 level at about the 30 yard line. Even with the new video boards we have to have to worst stadium in the league when it comes to the data visuals. It's very hard to see the score and down distance. The graphic is smaller than the names of the players in the ring of honor. The concessions are extremely dated. It feels like a stadium on Madden 2000 that was new in Madden 2000. A real Playstation 2 created stadium vibe.
It has the really old standard style seating with one lower bowl, one middle bowl, and an upper level. The sight lines are not great unless you're sitting between the 30 and the 50.
It's one thing to be an outdoor stadium but it's another to be an outdoor stadium up north on the lakefront. The design of the stadium is simply not ideal for inclement weather and no, playing football in shitty weather is not something that fans should brag about.
Now on to the in stadium entertainment. They're trying too hard to be entertaining if that makes sense. Too many games and people shouting at you to get you to participate. They do a terrible job of playing off the dawg pound. You'd have no idea that the dawg pound was even part of our teams history because they don't capitalize on it. They even added "luxury" seats to the dawg pound which probably puts the nail in the coffin there.
I think an easy comp for getting an idea on how shitty CBS is would be going to a Cavs game at RMFH. The experience in RMFH is really fun. The entertainment, atmosphere, audio, and visuals are very well put together. I know it's a basketball game compared to a football game but when you compare some of the same things CBS misses the mark on almost all of them. Parking for a Cavs game is easier and faster. CBS is a decent walk for the majority of fans. You're looking at maybe 2 miles of total walking time easily.
The in game entertainment is much smoother at Cavs games. Ahmad is never trying too hard to get his point across or keep you entertained. Steph Floss is not suited for in game entertainment at a football stadium. He's way too loud and he doesn't have a voice for radio which is much easier to listen to when you're on loud speakers surrounded by 60,000 people in an open air outdoor stadium.
At RMFH no matter where you sit it's very easy to look for a find information about the game. Quarter, fouls, score, timeouts, stats. It's very hard to see the timeouts, score, down and distance, quarter, and even basic stats at CBS. The visual for the timeouts and the score is so small that you have to focus too hard to see it and you'll miss the action on the field.
At RMFH the stats for all 10 players on the court are always in the corners on the boards if not on the main jumbotron. You can easily see how many assist Garland has or points Spida has. If you wanted to see Okoro's shooting percentage it's right there and the graphic is larger than the actual score graphic at CBS.
At CBS it's way too hard to see player stats. You won't know how many rushing yards Nick Chubb has or how many carries he has until after he attempts a rush. Why aren't the offensive stats always on display when the offense is on the field? I can't tell you how many times we'll be at the game and it will be midway through the 3rd quarter before most fans actually see the stats. Now me personally, I'm following the game on Twitter and RCF while I'm at the game so I already know this information but the majority of fans at the game are relying on the in stadium visuals and they are lacking.
*Coupe quick hits
No cheerleaders means they have to find more ways for filler for entertainment. Even if they don't have cheerleaders this team could really use a scream team or dance team.
CBS concession food is the worst in the league and I don't need to go to every stadium to make that declaration.
The design of the concourse makes getting those nasty concession the absolute worst.
They try too hard to play off of the whole rock and roll theme. The truth is if they really want to play off of the home of rock and roll theme then they need an indoor stadium. Nobody is going to a rock concert outside in anything less than 70 degrees. Personally I think the team is having an identity crisis. I think they try to play off the dawg pound theme in a way that almost feels like they are being bullied into doing it by the older traditional fans. I don't think they really like the dawg pound identity and I think they prefer the rock and roll theme. Problem is that the dawg pound theme works really well in an outdoor stadium and the rock and roll theme is tailor made for a dome so here we are.
