Because our stadium is getting all this love, thought I would add one gripe.

Anyone other than me prefer wood benches to aluminum?

The thick cedar benches will turn out to be way more comfortable than the thin aluminum ones. And unless you were sliding along on the wood benches the stories of splinters are overblown.

Agreed. Wood had some give. Maybe I was lucky, but I never sat on splinters. Anyway, the stadium looks great and I can always bring some seat cushions. Over all, it's all good.

Wood benches were good during cold games, especially at night. As the temps dropped, you could feel you body heat get sucked through your butt checks half-way through the 3rd quarter on the aluminum. By the end of game you just marched out of the stadium, hands jammed in your pant pockets, cursing the cold, cursing the refs, cursing the head coach and cursing the weather. The solution of course would be to bring a pad of some sort to prevent the conductive heat loss but, who thinks of that.

I agree. I'd much rather have weathered wood than aluminum. In fact, I would like to go back to the stadium before they ruined it.
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Won't miss the wood at all. Always seemed to find my seat had rotted away and didn't really have anything to sit on.

Won't miss splinters in my ass. At all.

Nope. Love the new stadium. Don't really feel the need to nitpick.

If the wood had been maintained, I would have preferred; however, it wasn't, it rotted, cracked and splintered from negligence and now they are history.

Anyone know if the rental seats will be available? The back support is is really nice on those.

How do you get splinters if you're wearing pants?

Much, much, *much* prefer the wood, especially when the weather's cold and wet. Expensive to maintain though- so I don't begrudge them the aluminum one bit.