It seems that every other professional sports team in this country is jockeying to have a new stadium or arena built for them.
Baseball's Oakland A's are the latest franchise to announce that they are hoping to have a new ballpark built down the road in Fremont, California, and it appears this stadium will be equipped with some high-tech applications courtesy of Cisco Systems that may draw just as much attention as the team itself.
According to the A's owner Lew Wolff, who presented his vision of the ballpark to Fremont City Council members, the stadium, which would be named Cisco Field, applications such as the ability for fans to swipe electronic tickets stored in their cellphones as well as viewing instant game action replays from their seats with laptops were highlighted as part of the entire fan experience at the ballgame.
In addition, a wireless network would be constructed as well, which some stadiums and arenas have already established.
Of course, all of this technology costs money, and it remains to be seen if Fremont or any other city that is being pitched to build a facility to house a professional sports franchise would be willing to invest the many millions of dollars it would take to accomplish these goals.
1. thats fine to go high tech but hope the security measures are behind that as far as people getting ticket on cell phone like stolen cell phones just heads up thanks ryan in newark go A's
Posted at 2:05PM on Nov 11th 2006 by ryan