Qwest Field Tickets

By: Tickets Finder    Category: Qwest Field Tickets, Sports, Concerts

Here is some info about Seattle’s Qwest Field:

Qwest Field is a football stadium in Seattle, Washington. It serves as the home field for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and men’s and women’s Seattle Sounders soccer teams. The stadium opened in July 2002 and was built on the site of the Kingdome, the previous stadium for the Seahawks, Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners, and several other Seattle sports teams. On March 26, 2000, to make way for the construction of the stadium, the Kingdome fell in the world’s largest implosion of a single concrete structure.

I’ve actually never been there, but I here it is a pretty sweet stadium. If you are looking for primo tickets to an upcoming game or event at Qwest Field here are the best places I have found to look:

StubHub always seems to have great sats to the biggest events. They have an excellent and reliable booking engine and they even let you sell your extra tickets with them.
We Have Seats seems to have the cheapest prices out of the top aftermarket ticket sources so they are always a good place to shop.
TicketsNow is a reliable place to shop as well with a solid reputation and usually a large selection.

Here is some more trivia from the Qwest field Wiki:

Location 800 Occidental Avenue S.
Seattle, Washington 98134-1200
Broke ground April 2000
Opened 2002
Owner Washington State Public Stadium Authority
Operator First & Goal Inc.
Surface FieldTurf
Construction cost $300 million
Architect Ellerbe Becket & First and Goal, Inc

The stadium was originally named Seahawks Stadium and affectionately called “The Hawk”, or the “Hawks Nest”. The name Qwest Field was announced on June 2, 2004, after Qwest bought the naming rights, $75 million, for 15 years. Although some people began using the new name immediately, the official approval wasn’t given until twenty-two days later (June 24) by the Washington State Public Stadium Authority. Seahawks owner Paul Allen funded about 30% of the stadium’s cost out of his pocket, the remainder being paid by a funding package of user fees, sports lottery revenue, and taxes on related industries.

Allen was intimately involved in the stadium design. He rejected plans for a retractable roof, and directed the architects to minimize the stadium footprint as much as possible to bring fans closer to the action. Also, he had the architects design the structure of the stadium, especially the roof, to direct as much crowd noise as possible on the field. In addition, the north end zone seating, called the “Hawks Nest”, was specifically designed for rowdy fans; the seating consists of metal bleachers which reflect sound, and fans often stomp to create even more. Qwest Field has since earned a reputation as arguably the loudest stadium in the NFL. During the 2005 season, more penalties for false starts were called against visiting teams in Qwest Field than in any other NFL stadium. At one point during the 2006 season, the New York Giants complained that Qwest Field was artifically piping in noise in order to distract visiting quarterbacks from running a count.

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