The_Philster
06-21-2003, 07:43 AM
CHICAGO - Eyes opened, jaws dropped and cameras clicked away Friday as nearly 50 Bears employees toured the team's spectacular new football palace along Chicago's magnificent lakefront.
The new stadium, which opens 100 days from Saturday when the Bears host the Green Bay Packers Sept. 29 on Monday Night Football, will be a vast improvement over the old Soldier Field in every conceivable aspect.
All seats will be an average of 37 feet closer to the action and the vertical design will keep the noise in, creating a true home-field advantage that didn't exist in the old building because of the horizontal configuration of the stands....
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The new stadium, which opens 100 days from Saturday when the Bears host the Green Bay Packers Sept. 29 on Monday Night Football, will be a vast improvement over the old Soldier Field in every conceivable aspect.
All seats will be an average of 37 feet closer to the action and the vertical design will keep the noise in, creating a true home-field advantage that didn't exist in the old building because of the horizontal configuration of the stands....
more (http://www.chicagobears.com/news/index.cfm?cont_id=189599&right_include=/includes/dsp_bearsnews_module.cfm&include=&show_headline=true&this_month=6&nav_key=nws&subnav_key=na)