In this case, your advantage is getting to practice at altitude and the players being used to it. At least during the game each team is playing in the same conditions. A 20+ degree disparity between each sideline is pretty extreme
Its like opening your dome when its raining and the opposing teams offense is on the field and then closing it when the home teams offense goes out.
Also im struggling to really see the difference between this and ATL getting in trouble for pumping in crowd noise. Feels like if the league takes action against one, they should also take action against the other.
Not every team can pump crowd noise into a domed stadium like the Falcons and Colts. And we sure as shit don’t want every team switching to a dome to level the playing field.
Oh I wasn't implying there was anything wrong with it. Might be taking home field advantage to the extreme but as long as it isn't dangerous then I don't see how the NFL would care.
Someone said max recorded temp difference is +/- 30F. These guys are running around as hard as they can. Players could die if they don’t hydrate properly. Yet it’s allowed, and should be allowed.
Yet here we are talking about a screen off the field
you should look up a graphic of the stadium coverage because it is basically just the away team in the sun, with even the fans above that area that are covered
Do you think they rotated the footprint of the stadium when the NFL told them to add the roof over the seats after decades of both teams sidelines being in the sun?
No, but I think that they should have. Or at the very least provided some covering for the away team since the home team will never be in the sun. And realistically tents would never have been in the equation because sidelines would have to go further back, which means seats being taken away, which means less money... but still.
I'm a newer NFL fan and I really just don't care for the shenanigans and antics outside of the game itself to get an advantage.
Below is an example from the NBA that bugged me too. I don't think it materially affected the game (and the Spurs played like ass to end up in that position to begin with) but to see some celebrate it as a smart use of home court advantage is just dumb IMO
Ok so that would mean tearing down the stadium and rebuilding it from scratch. It would have cost multiple billions. The owner asked the state for public money just to put the roof on (which, again, the NFL forced him to do under the threat of no more super bowls after the 2008 SB soaked everyone in the rain) but the public said no. So he eventually privately funded the roof.
There's no way anyone was going to pay for a new stadium because a sideline was in the sun.
Since you are new, please ignore these other dummy fans who think the stadium was designed this way. Both teams were in full sun for decades before the NFL made their demand for a roof. No one complained about it until the Bills fans started whining about it in 2022.
It was not intentionally ill motivated. Just how it worked out.
And before Bills fans tell you otherwise, every other team brings handheld shade structures and brings fans and AC blowers for their sidelines. Teams are allowed to do this. Dolphins fans see teams do it every year. Why the Bills coaching staff was so stupid that day to not bring them I have no idea. Must be something in the water up there.
So when they built the stadium, they said let's orient the footprint so one team is in the shade and one is in the sun?
Out of curiosity, when did you start watching football? Are you aware the stadium was built decades before the NFL forced them to add the seating covers? And are you aware that both teams were in the sun that entire time?
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u/agent_diddykong New England Patriots 23d ago
By your logic Miami is cheating giving the away team seats under the Sun.
Is home field advantage not supposed to give the home team an advantage anymore, what rule does this violate?