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Guide to Gillette Stadium | Gillette World Sport
a visit to Gillette Stadium
Massachusetts USA to discover how
precise design benefits the fans and
athletes of two elite sports teams
Gillette Stadium began construction in
2000 was completed in 2002 we are home
to National Football League's New
England Patriots Major League Soccer's
New England Revolution but in addition
to that we host literally any type of
event you can think we have lots of
concerts over the past decade we're in
the top 10 of all outdoor stadiums in
terms of volume last year we were fourth
in the US and we were six worldwide so
yeah we're busy but we like it that way
capacity of Gillette Stadium right now
is 66 thousand eight hundred stadium
itself stands 16 stories tall
the whole stadium encompasses 1.9
million square feet on NFL game we have
5000 people supporting the operations of
the game and what's interesting on an
NFL gameday stadium itself is the 11th
largest city or town in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
many of the 5,000 strong staff are
responsible for the major operation of
transforming the playing area for two
different sports we typically like to
have two full days between a soccer
match and a football game it takes us
two days to take all the football
markings off so we like to have a clean
pitch for MLS and apart from the pitch
there are various other things that
changed you know last night the soccer
goals were outside and we'll roll those
out tonight we'll put the NFL go polls
on different types of benches for both
teams we're home to two professional
franchises so we want to do for both of
them is make it look and feel like their
home
Gillette was built with a fan in mind
all the seats angled toward the 50
whereas some stadiums if you're sitting
near the endzone and on the sidelines
you're looking directly across the
endzone not here
everything's curved toward the 50 at all
levels and we found here both for soccer
and for football it's a communal event
people come here to be with others to be
with friends and we specifically
designed the stadium to create communal
areas where people can gather outside of
their actual seat every team looks for
home-field advantage is and when people
say are you going to build a dome in
Foxborough Massachusetts it gets cold in
the winter well our fans are Hardy souls
and we would never do that but the real
reason for not doing it is our team gets
the practice in this bad weather
year-round some teams from other parts
of the country come in here and they're
not used to practicing in these types of
conditions it gives our team a real
advantage this not only is their home
stadium but it's also their practice
facility so they're here 24/7 365
we have best-in-class weight rooms
training rooms that have hot tubs cold
plunges steam rooms sauna you know a
hydro pool for rehab or for conditioning
so it was designed with you know with
winning in mind and what can we do to
put our professional athletes in the
best position to win the precision with
which the athletes can prepare behind
the scenes is matched by the meticulous
design of the playing surface itself
this pitch is company called field turf
it's the revolution 2.5 2.5 is the
length of the fibers that you see behind
us or 2.5 inches tall what we like about
this surface it allows us to do multiple
events if we had grass and I think any
athlete would tell you they prefer to
play on a perfect grass field but in New
England when the weather is bad and with
the number of events we do we couldn't
keep a perfect pitch so our players both
our NFL players and our major league
soccer players prefer this surface
because it gives them a consistent
surface every time they come out when
athletes running whether they're chasing
a soccer ball or the trying to catch a
pass from Tom Brady they're not looking
down and if we have an uneven grass
service that's going to cause more
injuries than a perfect
FieldTurf filled the carpet itself is in
filled with sand and rubber and what's
unique is the mix of sand and rubber is
more fine-tuned for the professional
athlete what they need is a firmer
footing beneath them not as much give
enough giving it to be safe but to try
to mimic you know a good natural grass
field in the history of Gillette Stadium
we've never canceled again we have a
heating system beneath the field so we
have over 12 miles of small tubing that
runs throughout the entire field in
which we pump glycol through so as the
weather gets bad here we can heat up the
field to maintain the same consistency
on the top and then believe it or not
when we get some level of snow we can
melt snow on top of it
both our soccer team or a football team
loved playing here on game day when you
look up and you see 67,000 people here
they're right on top of you they're loud
the Patriots have the best home record
in the NFL since we open so that's kind
of testament to not only the team but to
the design
