Thread: NFL Wider Field
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Old Tue Feb 12, 2013, 09:21am
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Originally Posted by Matt-MI View Post
I think most of the new NFL stadiums would be hard pressed to give up 35' from the sidelines
And that, right there, is why this will never happen. If you widen the inbounds area of the playing field, you have to narrow the OOB/sideline areas. In the few NFL stadiums I've been in, there's not a lot of extra space on the sidelines right now anyway.

The other option would be to remove the first few rows of seats, which would A) be rather expensive on the construction side, although it's a one-time expense, and B) result in fewer high-priced seats available for paying customers (and no owner would go for this).
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