What if Cleveland Wins.......... can we put fans in the nose bleeds?

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20 hours ago, Rochesterfan said:

 

I will not get into any of the ridiculous viewpoint garbage as that is totally inappropriate, but I will say as you add more fans - you also have to add more support personnel across the stadium.

 

You would need more gates open to flow people in, more spaced out parking and more times to enter, more security to ensure people are safe, more vendors and cleaning staff, more bathrooms would need to be opened and that does not get to the increased testing that would need to happen and space out those.

 

The change in logistics is significantly more especially as you add upper decks.  Then you also have to ensure people don’t find ways to sneak down from upper decks like they always do.  I mean 6700 fans in week 1 and we had fights already - I think they have done a great job of balancing the fans with the staffing and infrastructure to ensure as much safety as possible.

 

If you upped it to 16000 fans you would have to quadruple the support staff - so you go from like 6700 fans and probably a total of 10,000 people in the stadium and lots to probable 16,000 fans and probably closer to 25,000 people total in and around the stadium.

Not that it matters, but your math is wrong. You are inferring a higher % of support people required with the incremental 9,300 fans than the first 6,700 fans. That makes no sense. Even if the upper deck required an equal ratio to be added as the lower bowl requires, there is a core "fixed" group of support people who are the same whether they have 6,700 or 67,000 in the stadium.  That means the % of support people required will go down as more fans come in, not up as you are inferring. 

 

Now is it possible the Bills couldn't get an adequate number of support people back in total as they haven't had a regular staff all season? That is possible. But the other viewpoint that this was a highly conservative decision based on public health is also conceivable, if not likely.