Fans of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins are rightfully ticked off when a stadium redesign at the TD Garden this summer seems to have resulted in much, much less leg room for people attending the games.
The stadium redesign happened this summer, with the idea that the seats in the stadium would be “replaced and upgraded with modern, ergonomic seating,” according a press release issued in September.
They also appear to have gotten some more seats in, because “ergonomic seating” can’t explain how just about anyone above the height of 5-foot-9 can no longer fit in the seats at a Bruins or Celtics game.
Look at this nightmare. (Thanks to Barry Petchesky in Deadspin for spotting a bunch of these tweets.)
Fans have grumbled quite a bit, and with good reason — tickets for Bruins and Celtics games run in the hundreds of dollars, and it sure looks like the fans are getting the squeeze because the owners wanted to squeeze as much possible money out of every game.
Which, you know, capitalism. But at a certain point people aren’t going to spend hundreds to get crammed into seats when they’ve got big screens and lovely couches at home.
For their part, TD Garden is trying to make the argument that the extra padding on the new seats is what’s making it so the leg room has gone down, which … ha.
