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Lucas Oil Stadium Tour

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Downtown, Indianapolis Colts, Lucas Oil Stadium, Real Estate, Sports

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I was one of the few (me and another 9,999) people that were able to score some tickets for the inaugural public tour of the Grand Opening of the new Lucas Oil Stadium here in Indianapolis.

The stadium and functionality of it are very impressive. The crowd control for the event wasn’t very impressive. If there really were only 10,000 people allowed into each tour, their ability to move people into the stadium quickly left something to be desired.

The tour was basically self-guided, you couldn’t go anywhere you wanted, but you basically just wondered around at your own pace and could linger where you wanted. The problem was that you only had two hours. We arrived at the stadium right at 10am when we were supposed to and didn’t make it into the front doors until after 10:30am. We walked around a bit and eventually decided to work our way down to the field itself.  Once you make it down to the field you can’t come back up into the street level concourses, so you’re on your way out at that point. You’re then faced with the decision of just going straight-out the back loading dock ramp or divert to walk past the locker room.

When we started in the line for the locker room, it was 11:10am, we walked out of the stadium, done with our tour, at 12pm. Didn’t get to go "into" the locker room, just walk by it and take a quick picture.

You can see all my photos in my slideshow below.

8 Responses for "Lucas Oil Stadium Tour"

  1. Douglas Karr

    August 17th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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    Awesome photo! I love the perspective

  2. Doug Litsey

    September 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm

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    Indianapolis can be extremely proud of Lucas Oil Stadium and I believe that it will benefit the city for many years to come. I wasn’t able to go on a tour, but I heard that the crowd control did not go so well. I have a new blog at fletcherplace.wordpress.com (started 9/1/08) where I will share my opinion on development in downtown Indianapolis, particularly “south of the tracks”.

  3. Jason Bean

    September 4th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

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    Doug thanks for stopping by the site and leaving your thoughts. I’ll checkout your blog and add it to the sidebar here. Do I know you?

  4. Deron Johnson

    November 6th, 2008 at 11:38 am

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    Just checking out the slide show, I haven’t been to Lucas Oil stadium yet but i play for the Lowell Red Devils, so I’ll get to see it soon enough!

  5. gabbie lynn

    November 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

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    I will probably never be able to go to the Lucas Oil stadium because i live in MN but I’ll still be a huge Colts fan!! I love Peyton Manning!! GO COLTS!

  6. Abbee Edwards

    December 1st, 2008 at 3:36 pm

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    The Colts Rock! I am so happy that the new stadium turned out that good!

    I am 13 years old and I live in Holton,Indiana.

  7. James Johnson

    December 17th, 2008 at 3:01 am

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    All these New NFL stadiums seem to be copying European soccer(or what they call football)stadiums. Its funny we disrespect the worlds game and then we copy aspects of it.

  8. Hans Steiniger

    January 21st, 2009 at 3:42 pm

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    Those pictures are fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Kinda gives me chills just looking at the new facility. I’ve been to Qwest Field, University of Phoenix Stadium, and Reliant Stadium all of which were more than impressive, but the pics you took really make a case for Lucas Oil being on that level or better. What a WIN for Indianapolis!


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