We only have 3 months left before Rec Fields 8 and 9 begin their permanent transformation into the home of Charlotte 49ers Football. Eventually in this first post weāll add the webcam for the stadium construction once they get it up and running. For now feel free to add any pictures you want to take of Rec Fields 8 and 9. Please label the pictures with appropriate details, especially once we have something more than an empty field to photograph.
This is gonna be fun. I remember when the SAC/Halton was being built. Iād go out there at least once a week to see the progress. It was a great thrill when it finally opened. Anyone else still have your ā49ers Prideā tee shirts with the āNo Place Like Homeā and menās b-ball schedule on the back? They gave them out at the first home game that year vs app state. I have 2 and treat them like religious relics. :)) I do sleep in them, sometimes. ;D
Iām ALWAYS early to the games and I had 3 people with me for that opener against Ap. My seats were actually in 221 or 222 that first few years as well. Knowing Charlotte, it was probably the first 1000 or less that got the shirts. I might not have been in the first 1000, but I know I was among the first 2-3,000 because I remember not many people being in their when we arrived. We watched it slowly fill in. Of course, it didnāt sell out but IIRC there were about 7500 there that night.
As cheap as those things are, I hope theyāll get 2-3 of them and assemble some good time-lapse film for us to view when itās near completion. One webcam is not enough for something this great.
Went to the baseball game yesterday and afterward walked out by the site about 4:00 and imagined what itās gonna be like when games commence. On April 2nd the angle of the PM sun is about what it is around September 9th, so I got to thinking: I hope my FSL seat will be on the stadium side facing away from the sun. Hope those of you in the AD take heed to this. Attending Panther home games early in the season are brutally hot/blinding sitting in sections on the visitorās side on their field. Please AD, put my FSL on the sun-to-the-back side of NINER Stadium.
The flip side of that is freezing your butt off come some of those November games when you sit on the side of the stadium that gets no sun during the game and the wind is howling at 20+ mph. Iāve been burnt to a crisp at games and have been turned into a Popcicle, and itās hard to choose which one is better. You can always put on more clothes, but not if you didnāt bring enough. At least when itās hot, you can go get an overpriced, ice cold beverage. I can always cool off when itās hot faster than I can heat up when itās cold. The first season will be a good learning experience.
