🏈 ⏲ PRE-GAME Thread: Alabama vs Miami. ⏲

[JoshB]

Where's CrimsonBoz to come give us the real inside scoops?!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

335. Row 24. 3/4/5/6
Be one in red bama shirt...lol

 

[Rolltide24]

335. Row 24. 3/4/5/6
Be one in red bama shirt...lol

Just look for the old guy!

 

[252BAMA]

Make that 2.

Three.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Just look for the old guy!

N a red shirt. With an old woman in tow!...lol

 

[alabama mike]

I like the second one as well.

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

2nd one. I like the pigskin texture.

 

[SoCalPatrick]

Reports:

The stadium, which opened in 2017, seats 71,000 for football games but the expandable seating bumps the capacity to 75,000. Attendance for the last Alabama season opener in the stadium was announced at 71,916 for a 2019 game with Duke that Alabama won, 42-3.

Tickets for Alabama-Miami are currently listed for $130 and up on secondary sales sites when fees are included.

The delta variant of COVID-19 also remains a factor in the planning process, Stokan said, but they’re still working through those details. They had calls set up with Alabama and Miami as well as Ole Miss and Louisville who’ll play a Monday game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium as part of this opening weekend event.

“Well we’re talking through all the protocols with the four teams this week,” Stokan said. “Everybody’s waiting as long as they can just to make sure that they have full knowledge of where the variant is and coronavirus. And then we’re talking to Mercedes-Benz (Stadium) as well, learning what they’re doing with Atlanta United and the Falcons since they have a preseason game. So those, those conversations are going on now.”

Opening the retractable roof of the stadium is “one of the things amongst many that we’re looking at,” Stokan said.

As far as other mitigation plans, Stokan said they want to talk to each participating school to “hear what everybody’s comfortable with.”

Asked specifically about vaccine requirements for attendance that other NFL venues have instituted, Stokan “you look at everything.”

“But nothing to report on which way we’re going to go one way or the other,” Stokan said. “We’re just looking at everything right now again, just talking to the teams and talking to Mercedes-Benz to find out what’s the latest that everybody’s doing. Nothing to report or nothing concrete that we can say ‘This is what our protocol is.’”

As of last week, Mercedes-Benz Stadium wasn’t requiring face coverings in the general seating areas, only in “enclosed areas” like the stadium clubs and the team store. They are “strongly encouraged” in all other places in the stadium, The AJC reported.

Alabama and Miami are set to kick off at 2:30 p.m. CT with the game airing on ABC-TV.

 

[BamaFan334]

Better be ready to offer 100% refunds if their dumbasses decide to only allow vaccinated people in two weeks before kickoff after tickets were disbursed.

 

[Rolltide24]

About to purchase 5 tickets for the family and my daughters friend. Can’t believe there are so many on Vivid and Stubhub. As low as $104 plus their fees. Anyone have 5 extras they need to sell before I make the purchase?

 

[UAgrad93]

@doemasters my vote goes for #2 as well!

 

[the Bookie]

 

[doemasters]

 

[rick4bama]

Aunt Kate is telling Bama fans to get that vac! I wondering if she telling her school to do the same?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Me too...maybe most dont go to games...

look forward to meeting you....

where are you?

336, Row 17, Seats 9-10.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Aunt Kate is telling Bama fans to get that vac! I wondering if she telling her school to do the same?

by the end ot the season, their attendance might equate to social distancing.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

336, Row 17, Seats 9-10.

We all up in clouds

 

[bamaledge]

We all up in clouds

Mo money, mo money, no money!

 

[Rolltide24]

Section 225 Row 7. We need to get together and at least fist bump before or during the game. Sounds like there’s a few here going.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Section 225 Row 7. We need to get together and at least fist bump before or during the game. Sounds like there’s a few here going.

I’m in...100%