Joda you are spitting heat ITT lately. Let's break down UTA a little further.
Gross overhead shot. Looks like the picture my grandparents had of their farm in the 80s
I LOL'd. Old people rough ridin' LOVE framing faded pictures of their tan-colored farm that were taken from a helicopter or whatever. Super gross, kinda like this stade. I don't know too much about Cessna Stade but you're right. I am alway entertained by stadiums like this whose bleachers basically span from one 25 yard-line to the other and no further than that, but that then shoot up like 70 rows. Creates such a LOL'zy tall bleachers that don't make that much sense. Can you imagine sitting in the nosebleeds, and looking across the field to a visitors section that tops out at like 15 rows and behind that is the Texas Hall stage/basketball arena? Now that's a rough ridin' setting.
Seats looks like a lovely mosaic that would be in the lobby of the Bellagio or something. ('scuse my LMIQ)
That white wall around the field is so hilarious to me. Looks awful.
Super old, super faded scoreboard. This is probably a recent pic
And you just know that the right half doesn't even have jumobtron capabilities, probably can't even show replay of the bed race photo finishes. They probably just use that part of the scoreboard to show old time cartoony graphics like KSU Qatz used to have. Like really rudimentary sequences where a boxy kicker approaches the ball in a stilted manner, then kicks it and the ball flies through the air just barely over the crossbar, then lands right behind the goalpost, and then the scoreboard says IT'S GOOD! in flashing block letters.
I actually really like their new basketball arena. It's sexy as hell on the inside. Outside too.
Impressive looking exterior, maybe a bit mall-ish but I've seen worse (and Trees!)
I see it more as, like, if a bank had a kid with a newer, mid-range city's symphony hall. Like, let's say that Bank Of America banged the Boise Symphony Center. This is what you'd get.
I also found this gem of a video that's definitely UTAO
Oh my god this vid was increds. If any of you gE'ers passed on clicking this link the first time around, plz reconsider. Joda found us a gem.
Their old arena? "Texas Hall"? Unreal. Easily the most earth-shattering post ITT. When I look at those pictures I am sad, full of glee, irate, embarrassed for them, overjoyed for them....really all of it. I bet it'd be a wild ride to do shrooms and go sit in the balcony for a game because then you'd probably be all, "whoa, all of life's a stage and this is a really weird play." Do you think there were ever actual plays on that stage that weird ruined because the shot clock horn went off on accident in the background?