Alan F,
I always enjoy your contributions in the stadium forums, but I've a couple of questions for you.
In this thread you've referred to HKS plan as being a bastardised NFL stadium. What are the fundamental differences between an NFL stadium and a football stadium (pitch size/shape excepted) for spectators - excluding the ancillary/corporate stuff like concourses, bars etc? i.e for your everyday Joe Punter, what differences are there in the viewing experience for someone going to an NFL game this weekend and someone going to a Premier League game?
Also, you refer to the average attendance never breaking 50k. Is this a result of the (various) capacities, or is there a way to quantify this in terms of max capacity - ie are we talking about the average never exceeding 75%, or 95%?
I can't seem to get a year-on-year capacity - our record is 61k in the 50s, but that must have changed a lot over the years.
I seem to remember capacity being 49k in the late 80s, but I could be dreaming.
(All that is an incredibly long-winded way of asking how elastic the demand for tickets is).
Cheers.