As the Giants and Jets prepare to open a new stadium, a new article in the New York Post points out that more than a few seats are obstructed by steel beams.
It’s not a new phenomenon (just ask the folks in Indy), but the article from James Fanelli and Phil Mushnick reads as if they’ve discovered plutonium, by accident.
At least one architect (i.e., one of the architects who wasn’t hired to design the stadium) was “shocked” by the presence of steel columns, and he “speculated” that cost was a factor. Just as predictably, the guy whose firm got the gig defended the move. “The objective of ownership . . . was to create the most intimidating home-field advantage in football,” said George Henlein of 360 Architecture. “Columns are not needed in other stadiums, which do not have the capacity or the proximity of end-zone seating.”
Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon pointed out via Twitter that the obstructed-view seats were never going to be sold, and that they are being removed from the venue.
The Post article acknowledges these facts, eventually. And that serves only to make us wonder why an item on obstructed-view seats that will in reality obstruct no one’s view is obstructing the ability of readers to view actual news.
