Ron M.
Yelp
After $280M (privately funded) and 18 months, Husky Stadium opened the season in spectacular style last Saturday and ushering in a new era in Husky Football!
I can't help but be thoroughly impressed with the new digs. It certainly feels like home in the sense that it is basically the same configuration as the original stadium. The major differences would be the absence of the track and moat (they lowered the field four feet and moved it seven feet to the north), student section is now in the west end zone, Football Operations Building that occupies the west end of the stadium, new HuskyTron (it is said that you can play X-Box on it from the FOB) and the permanent seats at the east end of the stadium. A few other observations - the Ring of Honor on the west side of the stadium, wider concourses, more restrooms and more concessions! They definitely have a lot of local places represented like Beecher's, Ivar's, Kidd Valley and Trophy Cupcakes!
If you get a chance to go to a game, go early to walk around and explore the stadium. They open the gates two hours prior to kickoff, so you will have plenty of time to walk around and soak it in! Afterwards, head over to The Zone (east practice field) to have some drinks (I'm sure you will probably have had a few prior at tailgate) and watch the team do the Dawg Walk to the stadium before the game!
Outside of that, everything in my first review still stands!
GO DAWGS!
Remember my review of Husky Central? That ASCII graphic is definitely appropriate in this case:
GO! HUSKIES!
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UPDATE: 09/09/13
The following passage from the UW's AD letter to season ticket holders is a very apt quote to use. It could have been used as my review, but that would have been plagiarizing. Oh, since I am using quotes and citing it, it is okay!
"Every citizen of Washington should be proud to know that the greatest stadium in the world will be built on the campus of our own state university.
Generations of Washingtonians will visit it at its beautiful and permanent home on the shores of Lake Washington.
They will see it for what it is - an imperishable monument to the friendship and generous support which the people of this commonwealth always accorded their university."
-Associated Students of the University of Washington, 1920