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We got our first look inside Inter Miami’s brand new stadium.
Season ticket holders were invited for an exclusive early access experience — and we’re breaking it all down.
In this episode of Battered Herons we discuss:
• First impressions of the new stadium
• Seating, layout, and overall design
• Matchday experience expectations
• What stood out the most
• What surprised us
• What fans should be excited about
This is the beginning of a new era for Inter Miami — and we got to see it up close.
Drop your thoughts below — what are you most excited to see?
#InterMiami #MLS #NewStadium #Messi #InterMiamiCF
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Rough start.
But one day to go to a new stadium opens up.
It's April 3rd, 2026.
We're having a little cafecito with the hair on's.
Probably not as long of a show as we usually do, but we had to come on here to give our
reaction.
I know I'm sure if you've been on social media, you've seen the pictures, you've seen
the vlogs, you've seen all that stuff, you know, they had influencers out there recording
videos of how beautiful it is.
But we like to articulate what we see.
So we're going to go on here and we're going to give our reactions to the stadium and
everybody in the chat that was there, we'd love to hear what you guys thought also.
So shout out and shout out to Mr. Duke from Chicago.
Much appreciated.
Who's going to score the first goal?
That's been something we've been talking about in the show a lot.
I'm praying.
So the football guys that it's messy, it deserves to be a messy.
Messy is the one that put this team on the global map and this stadium, I think, is going
to be a well known.
Let me just put it that way.
It's going to be well known.
It's going to be one of those stadiums that you see in FIFA, right?
Because not all the stadiums get to be in FIFA.
They'll be in FIFA and you just want that moment.
You want messy to be that first goal and you want that picture of whatever he does after
the fact to be somewhere hung up in the stadium because to me, that's a big moment.
So shout out to KBD.
Thank you for joining us, sir.
How are you doing?
I can't wait to see the game, dude.
We're literally more than 24 hours because we're doing this in the morning, but it's 36
hours or, I don't know, something like that.
Yes, 36 hours away because the game will start at 730 and it would be stingy if somebody
else scores that goal other than messy.
Yeah, but we'll see.
Look, I'm like, messy is the goal score on this team, right?
Yeah.
So I feel pretty confident in betting that it will be him, but who knows as long as it's
not a zoom in.
I said that so much that I'm scared that it's going to end up being Mike V is saying there
is zero chance the team doesn't play either play for messy to score this entire game.
I mean, that's not just play, but pay Mike V and like, I don't know if that's like a solid
bet to make, you know how you go bet the first goal score.
Like I think that is the right play to make it's right like you always talk about fairy
tales and how sports works, but because I've romanticized sports because I feel like
oftentimes, it kind of just works out that way, right?
Like if Robert Taylor was one, Robert Taylor was like, I know that on our show and for like
the hardcore fan base, Robert Taylor is a lot of love.
But like if Robert Taylor, let's say, historically, my intramime had been around longer and he
was like a more predominant name in this franchise's history, I felt like it would have been
apropos for him to score it on an opposing team.
That's the type of stuff that I always imagine in sports.
Obviously, he wasn't like, we love him, but he wasn't that big of a name, historically
French Miami.
But that's the type of stuff that I like to, that I always think about.
But yesterday we finally got to look at the stadium, awesome moment for me because I got
to go with the fan, I got to take the kids, very, very cool.
The stadium was beautiful as expected.
What were your initial thoughts when you first walked in?
So walking in, because pulling in was a little bit different than walking in because walking
in to me was, it's gorgeous.
Like you see all of the pictures that they put, you know, before you keep going, because
I don't want to forget to mention it, I was talking to my brother about this.
So when you walk in, like Chris said, it is beautiful.
But yeah, I know the point he's that you're going to make, because he told me the same
day.
Is it?
Yeah.
Because it's a beautiful entrance.
And then luckily our, our section is like right there walking in, you get greeted by
today.
No.
No.
I mean, uh, let's go to go via, yes, and look, and I know there's a little to the right.
But like, that is like the main entrance.
How is it not a picture of like the team celebrating the championship?
You want me to send you a picture?
Messy.
Like, yeah.
I don't, I don't think I have a picture of that.
But I was like, come on.
Like that was a missed opportunity.
Well, I, you're right.
Because when I was walking up with your brother, it's, it's one of the first things that
we noticed.
He, he was like, dude, why don't they have Messy up here?
Why is Tulasco Sigovia there?
Because I noticed Tulasco Sigovia, he noticed Ayende, and which is kind of weird.
Like you're having these other players, I, I mean, I wish I can, well, I'm okay with
them recognizing other players.
I, I am, but like, damn, right, like right at the entrance, like, come on.
Yeah.
All right.
Go ahead.
Back.
I, I, I kind of derailed what you were saying.
Uh, but that was something that I noticed.
I didn't want to say like here.
I'll just, I'll show it right here.
It's a big picture of Tulasco Sigovia.
So there it is.
They get a little better.
Yeah.
There's Tulasco Sigovia.
And then over here, you have the team.
And then on the right of that, you have to, on that other side, you have today, Ayende,
which by the way, I don't know if you posted it, but okay, there it is.
Here's the today, Ayende.
I haven't posted anything.
I just posted the video of me walking out for the first time.
Okay.
Because that was a, that was an awesome moment for me, a surreal moment.
I got my tickets, but those that don't know, I, I originally from New York, been a sports
fan, so I was a little kid, always dreamed about having season tickets to a team in New
York.
It's impossible.
And Miami's becoming that also, I guess, but, so I never really went to any games either.
I went to one Yankees, when Yankees, when I was a really, really little kid, I never went
to a sporting event.
So it's always been a dream of mine to own season tickets to a team.
And once I saw the opportunity for a brand new team while I was living down here, I said,
I'm jumping on it, bottom of 2019, and man, it just been waiting for the moment to like,
this is going to be my home away from home.
So yesterday, and somebody commented on, on the video, I was like, why were you walking
so slow?
I was soaking it in, to be honest with you, because I knew that I'm never going to see this
for the first time again.
I said, I saw it already, like, it's never going to impact me seeing it again.
Like, I'm never going to have that moment again.
So I just walked in slowly, just taking it all, because I've been waiting so long for
it.
So that's why I was walking so slow.
And it's fair to say, I mean, look, there's been talks about a stadium in Miami, you
know, since the inception of the team.
So it might be saying pictures to lasco no govia, hide this respect might be like, he
puts bangers.
And this is a cool, actually, Ashley says, I thought it was cool.
They had a picture of Yadlin and Messi, that was really cool.
That was super cool.
That's actually in the video that I put together.
I took a walk around the stadium, just so everybody knows kind of what the restaurants
are and stuff.
Oh, by the way, the goat area on that stadium is going to be section of the 209.
That's the interest to the Leo Messi stand.
So that's already goaded.
And then right outside of it is the cafe Bustello stand.
Oh, yes, yes.
And I mean, a goat with a goat, shout out to the people that set that up that way, because
I will be by the Leo Messi stands often a half time, because I got to get my coffee
at half time.
So like my perspective from going in, I mean, it was beautiful.
Like I love the pictures that they have.
But try me again, and you can see it's one lane.
Oh, yeah, that's going to be hell on game day.
It's literally one lane.
Well, I mean, that's the thing.
Like, look, when I drove, that's why I said it, when I drove in is different than when
I walked in.
Yeah.
When I drove in, it's a mess.
The traffic is a mess.
The there's, I mean, they're still constructing the outside.
They got to put palm trees on.
So palm trees laying to the side, they got to, they got to fix up a lot of stuff.
This right here, because a lot of people showed you the vlogs and stuff of how beautiful
it looks.
And it is beautiful.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
But nobody's sure how it's part is that what you see right here to your left, that's basically
everything around the stadium.
That's what you see.
You see cranes, you see just, there was like a mountain of just dirt like walk to the side.
So I, and I talked about this last week about how I wish that when you get that first experience,
you get to experience everything, but it's going to be probably like this for a large part
of the season, because it's going to take a while to build everything that they're talking
about.
NYCFC is learning off of this.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
NYCFC is learning.
They've done it a couple of years.
And this is perfect.
Boss Daddy is saying Mark Anthony time, baby, let's go.
That's right.
Mark Anthony is going to be singing the national anthem.
Yeah.
There we go.
Well, outside of the fourth T Street one lane, and then looking at all that dirt.
And by the way, when it was windy, I started getting sand in my eyes.
It was.
Yeah.
So just be ready for that.
Yeah.
To start getting ready for that right, right before started raining, started getting
windy, started getting like some of that sand that they had around in my eyes.
So just be ready for that.
One of the stadiums gets windy.
But all in all, outside of the process of walking and the garage, great.
It's.
Oh, yeah.
It's beautiful.
Well, you know what I didn't like about the garage is that they, I mean, well, they
ran me through the parking spaces.
There's no guided way to get to the spaces.
Yeah, a little messy.
But that's what that, that was the point yesterday, though, right?
It was a test run.
Well, the problem is like, your brother and I were right behind you.
I was right behind them.
And it was a mess.
The lady threw us in like a crevice right there, and then getting out, there's only one
exit sign.
It's not as efficient.
I mean, it wasn't like, it was difficult yesterday.
So I'm sad of it tomorrow tomorrow, one day of Saturday.
It's going to be, it's going to be rough.
You can get out to the stadium early, especially if you're driving highly suggested, because
it's going to be difficult to get in to that stadium, especially if you're driving.
And this was something that kind of sucks.
Ashley mentions one of my biggest issues is no cup holders.
Well, I mean, if you remember, the cup holders, the reason I hated it, because you'd celebrate,
it would snap back, and then it splashed somebody's beer all over.
But that doesn't happen in other arenas and stadiums, that was just a thing there.
So I thought that they would fix that, not just completely get rid of the cup holders.
Well, it doesn't snap to close anymore.
It's not like that.
The pink ones actually kind of still sit down.
And then Mike, being mentioning here, my understanding unofficial is that the streets
will be closed during game day for ticket holders only.
Hmm.
I don't know how they're going to sanction a local street down like that.
Right by the airport.
I don't know.
But maybe that would be helpful.
I saw a notice that was put out to people that are traveling on Saturday to make plans
three hours ahead of their flight because of the event at, you know, a new stadium.
And Superman versus Batman, we're not going to be, I'm not going to be streaming.
Because when you're doing it from the phone, you're paying attention through the screen.
It's a disaster.
No.
I hate doing that.
Chris and I look and we understand, right?
We understand that vlogs are very, very popular and that people enjoy it.
And I know that it would help our channel grow immensely.
Yes.
You know, it's a way for many times, right?
We're fans first.
Like we do this show from a fans perspective and we're not, we just can't sit there and
literally just record the whole game just so we can get some footage and then go home
and then put it together.
Like we can't, like I, I rather just sit there and enjoy the game.
So although I know, I 100% know that that would help our channel grow in popularity and
get a lot of more views.
It's a toss.
It's not worth it because we're fans first and we're, we're there to enjoy it.
Like we come out here to talk to you guys because this team, this is my favorite team,
like a ball sports team.
Like this is, this is what it's all about for me.
So we will try.
We put it.
We take pictures and look, Chris did a video yesterday.
So we try, but I can't take away from my fan experience because I'm a fan first.
Well, and Ashley's mentioning that one drive down there was enough to make me never drive
down again, coming from North Broward.
Try rail it is.
And at the, go shout out to our, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the event Anita producer
along with, uh, Bigote says who wants to talk about public transit road, try rail and
it was fantastic.
Well, um, there is a drop off point literally, actually five seconds away from the stadium.
Shout out to Ashley because now you've experienced what we've been doing for the last five years.
Especially on a weekday game, the few weekday games I've gone to, two hour drive up North
and then a two hour drive, our drive back down South, it's, it's been brutal.
But yesterday I got out of there and, uh, my kids wanted to go to school for the second
half of the day because I, I took them out of school for this.
That's right.
Fuck school.
I'm talking.
I'm a principal.
I don't, I don't mean that.
But, um, I, I took, we left there and I had them in school, 25 minutes later.
Like, it's so surreal that I was at the stadium and I had my kid at school 25 minutes later
where I'm usually giving up for a four hour drive.
So that's for us down here in Miami, Miami proper.
That was awesome.
Well, as far as like the experience goes, I loved it.
I love the supporter section.
I tried to get on the other side.
I tried to get through, but then a fucking badge guy was there, you know, validating my
seats.
Like, dude, nobody's sitting down.
Let me go stand with those guys.
By the way, don't engage all the haters online.
Oh, yeah.
There's so many people.
There's so many people.
There's so many people that are just so jealous of everything.
It's so small.
Oh my god.
They have a different colored seats.
Oh, wow.
Oh my god.
They had a right into Miami.
So we know where we're at.
Like, the things that they say and then I, and then I see that people are like taking
the time.
They don't.
They don't.
Like, they, they, they're so jealous and upset at how much fun we're having because we
have a good squad and such a short amount of time that they just want to try to ruin it.
Don't.
These guys don't engage those idiots like they're, they're so bitter that because they hate
to see people who have nice things and we got something nice.
So just don't engage with those idiots.
I mean, these guys in Nashville, they have a one US open cup.
And they shit their pants with excitement.
No, they're eliminated from the CCC.
They're going to live off of that until we do something to them back to them.
I know.
But like, you know what part is what is that they eliminated us, but they didn't even fucking
beat us.
That's what frustrates me.
They're like, no, bitch.
You didn't beat us.
You got us on a technicality, but you didn't beat us, which is, which, that's the only
part that bothers me.
If they were to beat us, I would have been a little more accepting of it.
Yeah.
Ashley's mentioning it here.
The MLS subreddit was all talking about how much to hate Miami, but that we probably
have the best stadium in the league right now.
Yeah.
Don't engage those idiots.
They're such idiots.
And that's like, that's the best word to put for them.
They're idiots.
So just don't engage with those.
Because it annoys me because they get like fun out of like getting engagement back.
These are just idiots alone.
And we're talking shit about this, the different colors in the seats.
Now, I never understood why they did it.
Apparently, from what some of the people who were talking crap was, it's so that the
stadium never would have to be.
Make it look like people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I never considered that.
I guess.
I just, I didn't think anything of it.
I don't think it's a big deal.
Well, and might be saying zero chance of food is cheap.
That stadium needs to be paid.
So my $132 beers.
You know, it's funny.
Now that you mentioned it.
And I want to talk about the stadium in terms of like, I don't know if you remember
that I mentioned to you or I don't know if it was your brother, but like the last
seat of the stadium in drive pink felt further than the last seat in the stadium.
I knew at, you know, stadium and it looks close.
That it looks like a good seat.
It looks like every single seat in that.
I think it, I think the seats are steeper because it looks like everybody is just
close to the pitch.
Yes.
It looks like no matter where you sit in that stadium, you're going to have a great
view.
Whereas then when you were sitting in the Lego seats in the last row, which I never went
back.
If I'm assuming it looked like that.
Here, it looks like wherever you sit.
Like I was talking to my wife when we were leaving because we have the first row behind
the goal.
Yeah.
And I was like, we're so low to the ground that it might be difficult to see across.
Yes.
So we're going to test it out.
Right.
We'll do the whole season.
But when we were leaving, and you go up that bottom low, the bottom bowl to exit, I saw
the very last row of that bottom bowl section.
And the view is just so perfect.
I was like, you know what?
If this first row doesn't work out for me this year, I'm going to see if I can go like
20 or 30 rows back because it's just perfect.
Like that, that angle where you just see everything.
Yeah.
I mean, being first row, it's cool because you get to be close to the players.
But that, that like middle view is really nice.
I think, I think even like four or five rows above the first row is good.
Or at least like you said, like one of the top rows of the bottom bowl, I think that that
would be good too.
Well, the thing is, and because we got the first row in Chase Stadium, but the first row
in Chase Stadium was technically the equivalent of the high list date because it was like
higher, right?
Yeah.
Like I am on grass level.
I was like, oh man, like this is cool.
Like when they're like right here, but like when they're on the opposite side, this is going
to be a tough watch.
So we'll see.
Well, I mean, Ashley is mentioning my view from the upper bowl is great.
And Mike B is also saying this rep, the rep will change your seat gladly because they can
sell your seats easy.
Oh, yeah, first row for sure.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So I'm going to, no, I'm going to write it out this year.
I'm going to write it out the whole season.
Yeah.
At the end of the season, I'll talk to my rep.
I really paid for my tickets.
Like, it was, are they going to give me my money back?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you guys are going to send me an email and to in 72 business days, I told you, wait
for that email on Sunday or Monday.
Yeah.
Like, oh, it's that time of year.
It's time to renew.
Don't worry.
If you plan on just renewing your, your seat tickets, you don't have to do anything.
We'll just start charging you again next month.
It's coming.
It's coming.
It's coming after.
All right.
The stadium, again, beautiful.
Goes all the way around.
It looks like it's finally going to have like some, some consistent stands for food.
My city pizza was there.
A cafe de Bustello, 209, for those of you that are coffee addicts like my wife and
she's helped me.
Oh, and I'm going to get you out there.
And then they had, they let us see the new team store, the Adidas store.
It's going to be the only two floor team store in the MLS.
Yeah.
It was really cool.
When you walk in, you're greeted by this, and when I walked in, I saw that, I didn't look
at the face though.
I just walked straight by.
Yeah.
It was my kids that pointed it out.
They're like, yo, look, that's messy.
I said, oh, my God, that is messy.
That was very cool.
I thought that was very cool.
I hope they keep that forever there.
Very cool.
Like, they're like, oh, messy needs a statue.
I mean, it's not a statue, but it's close, right?
Like, already.
It's better than the Dwayne Wade statue.
For sure.
For sure.
So I thought that that was great.
When you walk in, it's a big store.
They didn't have the first floor open, but we got to go in the second floor, which is
right outside our section.
And then also something that they have, they have a, that's my son.
I didn't have any pictures of just it without my, my kids.
I wanted to pick a bubble of a Funko pop, but the line was big.
So the only, they said it's the only one in the world where you get to create your own
in person Funko pop.
So you create it there and it has the into Miami kid on it.
Because if you get online, I don't think it has an into Miami kid and they do it right
then and there.
So that was very cool.
No, you have to order it.
I saw people ordering it.
Oh, I saw people order it right then and there.
No, you have to put in, you have to pay for it and then you pay for your address and
it gets sent to you.
Ah, okay.
Okay.
But what they were saying is that it's the only one in the world that you get to create
your own in person and then it has the into Miami kid because I've looked at those
make your own Funko pops and I never I regret me as a as a as a option.
I regret not doing it.
I literally only had I had nobody I had no, but I was just it was just each person on
the machine.
Oh, good luck.
How much was it?
Uh, no, I didn't, I didn't see the price.
I didn't want to look at the guys like charging got to be like, whatever, 50 bucks at
least.
Well, I regret it because I know that doing it at some point later is going to be a
disaster.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That store is going to be a mess.
Like the the the only floor, which is the second floor technically was the only place you
can go.
They have a first floor, but it was an open yet.
Right.
And my cousin Manish and shout out to many of those you know, I'm obviously he's the
NYCFC supporter.
He also does battered dolphins fans.
If you guys are dolphins fans, you want to hear about the dolphins battered dolphins fans.
He does it with me and big man in many, many wepa.
Peter Finatic.
So make sure you check that out.
And also where my monitor is.
He started off.
He's battered Marlins fans, you drop in an episode at 9 a.m. this morning.
So if you want to hear about the Marlins battered Marlins fans at 9 o'clock, um, so he asked
me, he's like, that store is, is it only on inside the stadium?
I said, no, it's going to be an entrance from outside the stadium.
So you could probably go to that stadium store, like obviously when it's done, the construction
is done.
However, it's probably going to be open Monday through Friday, from like eight to five
p.m.
Kind of like the Mamie heat.
So if you go to the Mamie heat arena, the Kaseyah center, you can go to their team store
during the week and it's open from the outside of the stadium.
And it's going to have accessibility from the outside also and it's going to be through
the first floor.
I'm sure you can go up to the second floor also.
That's not available yet.
But eventually it will be its two floors and it's pretty awesome.
It's pretty awesome.
It has such a big team store.
That's good.
It's close to my job.
So I'll probably go over there and get that Funko pop up at some point.
How did you guys get that visit?
All season?
Yes, it was for season.
It was for season.
Well, you know what?
I'd like to tell you that shout out to soccer daddy, shout out to Mr. Duke, appreciate
keeping that going.
Manny does suck.
I'd like to tell you it was all season ticket holders.
But I feel like there were way too many people there that were not season ticket holders.
Yeah, because you could request for more tickets.
That's all I got.
My kids in there.
I requested two additional tickets for my kids.
So I don't know.
I only have two season tickets.
Yeah.
And I usually just alternate whether I go with my wife, my daughter, my son, and then eventually
my other kid.
I have to get more season tickets.
I might be saying a kid near some.
Yeah, might be, might be saying you should ask the environment to pay your commission
for the seats that you bought things that you, thanks to you guys get like a promo code.
Listen, I'm still waiting for a promo code for a friend of mine that I referred.
Mike, he might be, he's going to get his season tickets back.
Let's go.
Is he?
Yeah.
He just said it.
He confirmed it up there.
He said, I'm going to email my rep.
See you there.
He knows he's showing out cash because Mike, he might be got premiums.
Oh, by the way, in the, in the, in the, I ended up sitting on over by like the premium
area.
They finally let me in and, um, and the seats are freaking fantastic.
Of course.
It's like sitting on a lazy boy chair.
Of course.
So come on now.
Yeah.
Um, and Mr. Manu says, uh, uh, uh, we're going to call it Miami Freedom Park, not New Stadium
because Miami Freedom Park.
But I, I agree.
That sounds better.
Okay.
The first thing that my wife said when she was walking up, she's like, why the heck do
we have the new stadium words in purple?
I was like, I, I know that sucks, but that's the color of their.
Company, their logo, whatever.
So that's that big of deal.
Um, but what I would say is that if you're going and you put it in your GPS on some GPS
is new stadium doesn't come out.
So you're going to have to put Miami Freedom Park.
Yeah.
And even when you put Miami Freedom Park, it doesn't necessarily send you there.
It sends you to like, uh, uh, I told you, yeah.
So I, if I were you, I would get the address, um, look up address for new stadium or
address, yeah, for new stadium and then put in the address to make sure that it takes
you there directly because that was, uh, weird that, that, that did, um, it made the
drive more complicated.
So when I realized that put the, the address in and it took you straight there to 14 street.
So it's like a hundred stadium driver, something like that.
I think that's the address after looking up, uh, Reverend saying, is it freedom to dream?
Well, no, it was at one point going to be called Miami Freedom Park, um, but it is now
called new stadium.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And yes, it doesn't exist yet on the maps.
Nope.
Not yet.
It does on, it does on ways.
It does.
Okay.
On ways it is.
Okay.
On ways it does.
In my car, it didn't show up on my phone.
It didn't show up.
So in some places, it doesn't show up yet.
So it does, it does, it does look up.
If you look up on ways, new stadium, it does show up and use stadium.
So some of them do.
Yeah.
All right.
So we came camp new sounds good.
Yeah.
I mean, it does a play on words there for sure.
Yes.
That would have been better.
Well, again, we just wanted to come on here.
Um, to just give our reactions to articulate what we saw, what we like, what we didn't like.
I don't know if you missed anything.
Oh, there's one more thing that you want to talk about.
There is that gate.
Oh, uh, yeah.
So, I mean, I didn't, I'm my bad.
I was just typing out the app that I found that I use for GPS ways.
It's not ways.
W.A.
Y.S.
Um, you're talking about the gate that's in front of the seats that I respectfully have.
Because I think we talked about everything else.
Uh, well, you know what?
It doesn't look too bad after looking at some of the pictures.
Like, I don't know.
I got to sit there and see how it looks.
But, you know, when we bought our tickets, they showed us sort of like a rendering on how it would look like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like, you have a clear view like nothing is impeding or like blocking your view.
But I noticed where my seats were and I couldn't go down there because it's not ready yet.
That section or the couple sections after that.
I noticed that there was a gate where people can walk through in and out of the stadium from, you know,
the stadium access.
And I'm like, dude, that gate is like substantially higher than the other gate.
And it's not open.
Yeah.
And so I'm thinking to myself, geez, if I got to turn left to watch the game and that gates right there,
am I going to have like a good view or am I going to have an obstructed view here?
So that kind of sucks.
I'm going to have to see what it looks like when I get there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was part of the test run because it started raining.
Yeah.
You stay dry.
You're going to get a little bit of a drizzle if it's raining hard because of wind.
Yeah.
You're possibly going to keep you completely dry.
But no, it covers you.
And in the concourse, even more so, you're not going to get wet.
Is there a messy statue?
No.
There probably be one in the future.
But for now, when you go to the team store, you do get this, which is as good as,
that's better than most statues you see around the country.
Yes.
And then you also get the Funko pop.
So we got messy represented in two places in that adidas store.
So most no statue though.
Yeah.
And I mean, actually, as mentioned, you'll get wet out on the concourse.
Yeah.
Well, you know what?
Walking around the stadium.
It was raining.
I didn't get wet because it was coverage above bathrooms were.
I didn't check out the bathroom.
Yes.
Super big.
It's not like how it was a dry pink.
Really at the exit of every section or no?
It looks like it.
I think.
I think.
No, I don't think it's an every section.
It's every other section, I think.
I'd have to look back at the video of the walk around.
Okay.
Mike, these asking what section you guys in also an estimation.
What's the best view of the stadium?
I mean, what a lot.
The stadium is in the premier seats.
Well, yeah.
Thanks for sitting with the lazy boys.
That's the best view.
I mean, I think honestly might be, like I said, in them, even if you were to go
higher on your seats, you would, you would have a good view.
I think from the middle would be probably the best view.
When I usually go to get tickets to any type of game, any sporting event.
When it's obvious nine to my mind, when I go as like to a road game somewhere else,
I always traditionally look for upper level first row.
Because I feel like that's always your best view.
You get to see everything.
And I think that that might be the case here also.
I think second level first row might be where it's at.
And just boys is actually mentioning water was funneling.
It's opening in the roof by my section.
It was really bad.
That is tough.
That does think.
Yeah.
And just and just boys are saying that their view was amazing.
And it was in the midfield of the 200s.
Yeah.
I think the midfield, that's might be sat, you know, you sit in the midfield, might be.
Get the same area.
From France.
Look.
Hey, if you want to see the stadium, it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
If you want to see the stadium when messy playing in it, you got until 2028.
So you still got some time for sure.
All right.
Chris, any final words I think we covered everything.
Like I said, we just wanted to come on here and tell you.
And then also make sure if you're watching this, keep a lookout because we're going to post the video that Chris made.
We're going to post that up on YouTube in a couple of hours.
So you're going to look out for 11 o'clock.
You're probably going to have to edit the beginning because there's some music in the beginning.
So I figured out.
So yeah, so just like that, we'll have that up in the hours.
And Danny and I are going to time ourselves going to the stadium.
He's going to be driving.
I'm going to take the Metro so we can have an idea of both leaving from Kendall Drive.
He'll be on the rail on Kendall Drive.
I'll be getting on the turn bike.
So we're going to see how long it takes us to get from our starting points to the stadium.
And then after the fact, how long it takes us to get out of the stadium to our car or the monorail and back to Kendall Drive, right?
Because that's where that's where we can do it kind of even.
So we'll see.
So we'll give you a better idea tomorrow afternoon.
And then if you're waiting for the post game show, we love to come on the post game show right after the game.
That's when the emotions are high. That's when the chats the live is.
We have no idea.
We're going to come on tomorrow night.
We'll be on.
We have no idea.
Have a feeling that it's going to take quite a while for us to get out of the stadium.
It's all new experience.
I'm excited for it, but definitely going to be.
Interesting.
It's going to be interesting.
So just if.
Be patient with us.
We don't know what we'll be on the game should end around 930.
So hopefully by 1030.
But who knows.
But we'll be on.
So that you can bank on that and just turn the little notification bell on.
As soon as you have that little notification bell on.
You'll get that notification that we're going on.
So yes.
Absolutely.
Appreciate everybody.
Chris, any final words?
No, that's it.
Man, we're a day a day away.
And it's going to be.
It's going to be really interesting tomorrow.
Look at that.
It's this like you so much.
Imagine.
Imagine.
I don't know.
You have two pieces of the insur-mami history.
Most goal scorer in playoffs and first goal ever in inner mind in.
Look, I think it was only nine likes.
If anybody going to the stadium.
Make sure that you get like they have the selling.
Yes.
For the inaugural game.
And on the other side, it has right inaugural.
Game.
It has the day.
I bought it early just because I don't want to make a big line and I have a feeling that that line.
The lines in that stadium are going to be crazy tomorrow.
So just make sure.
Yes, you're going to hold it up like that.
Just like that.
Boom.
So make sure that you check this out because this is a little piece of history right here, right?
I'm not too big on scarves like some other people.
But when it's like this, I think it's really cool.
So I got mine already.
Chris is going to get a Miami FC one soon.
So look out for that.
All right.
40 dollars.
Yeah, nothing else Chris.
Appreciate everybody joining us.
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Alberto.
I love that.
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The special.
No, they haven't announced anything.
I don't know if they're giving anything away.
They might.
I hope.
I hope they do.
Of course.
Yeah.
If they do, I'm sure Chris will be doing give away to the chat because you'll have like a hundred of whatever it is.
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