Carnesecca Arena Design

The fake seatbacks are not worse than the previous seating. They are way worse. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to admit they made a mistake, and they need to be removed. Proper seatbacks cannot be installed without major renovations as each row would need to be widened. Everything is concrete right now so that is close to a complete demolishment of two thirds of the arena. And it would also reduce capacity. With MSG and other arenas in play the cost/benefit is hard for me to envision.

On the other hand the cost to remove the current fake seatbacks would be very low. And installing them actually reduced capacity slightly, so now that CA is selling out again the payoff to doing it would be immediate. As far as the thought that these ill conceived devices were installed to quiet complaining customers, they are complaining more now. Others can disagree with me if they know otherwise, but I can't find anyone in my entire section (8) who doesn't hate them.
 
Make them all long benches again but put nice red cushiony airy padding with lines on them with seat numbers for my fat again ass. Preferable with some sort of gas neutralizer for whenever our 114 crew farts. That gives middle and lower people more legroom and more seating overall and pleasant nice experience for everyone
 
Alumni Hall said:
We used to have seating behind each basket. Maybe a few hundred in each end zone. They were pull out wooden bleachers that were maybe 6-8 rows. In fact after Louie retired, that’s where he sat and watched the games.
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He sat one row behind me and one seat to my right. It was amazing having the living legend there, and he was (as everyone knows) the absolute sweetest man.
 
Alumni Hall said:
We used to have seating behind each basket. Maybe a few hundred in each end zone. They were pull out wooden bleachers that were maybe 6-8 rows. In fact after Louie retired, that’s where he sat and watched the games. When they redid the ceiling and had to add the newer style basketball goals with all the protective padding and mechanics, the end zone stands were removed. In the old days, our baskets were supported like your pix of Cameron. View attachment 1728View attachment 1730
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And those small ledges behind the baskets were used by my friends and I to access the main ledge above the bleachers to tape our homemade signs that were written on long rolls of butcher paper. One even made it into the Sports Illustrated article about our win against Tennessee who had Bernard King and Ernie Grunfeld.

"BERN, ERN AND IRV-YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT HOME"

Although I vaguely remember it saying "SHOULD'VE STAYED HOME"

(Irv being Irv Chatman, another player from NYC but not on the level of the other two.)

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Sports Illustrated 1975-12-22 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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fan since 65 said:
And those small ledges behind the baskets were used by my friends and I to access the main ledge above the bleachers to tape our homemade signs that were written on long rolls of butcher paper. One even made it into the Sports Illustrated article about our win against Tennessee who had Bernard King and Ernie Grunfeld.

"BERN, ERN AND IRV-YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT HOME"

Although I vaguely remember it saying "SHOULD'VE STAYED HOME"

(Irv being Irv Chatman, another player from NYC but not on the level of the other two.)

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Sports Illustrated 1975-12-22 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Wow just went through all the pages of that SI edition you posted...the magazine had great articles and almost every ad was for liquor and cigarettes! Miss the old SI
 
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