Stevie Ray Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25894368/inside-taboo-bizarre-revealing-world-stadium-bathrooms-super-bowl-liii-nfl-2018 There's a shout out to the Ralph/New Era regarding Bills' fans and their "extracurricular" activities. Ewww. In any event, this is definitely a subject I never really gave much thought to so it was somewhat interesting, but I had to stop eating breakfast while reading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Hix Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Cue the outrage over the ESPN chirp... And if you raised a child that would get shagged in a New Era bathroom, you have failed as a parent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerome007 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 FRAT. Not reading all of it! But this is so spot on: "But the urinal trough? The apparatus is a large, communal urinal that offers an egalitarian, and highly efficient, method of elimination while forcing men to pee like cattle -- shoulder-to-shoulder, with zero privacy, and often while facing each other's junk. Few things evoke our deep, strange, love-hate relationship with stadium bathrooms like the urinal trough" Those were nasty. I'm glad they're mostly all gone. Yeah I suspect a meatgazer was the designer for that thing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 I just skimmed the article, but there was no mention of having interviewed @plenzmd1 on this topic indicating some shoddy reporting. No self-respecting reporter would write an article on this topic without consulting the ultimate expert. ESPN strikes again! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Didn't bother reading it since I've lived it 8 Sunday's a year for most of the past 40+ years. Having attended the 2017 in Carolina, I was amazed that I waited until the half was done, walked down to the men's room, took a leak, and went back to my seat without waiting in a line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgil Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 I’m sorry, but shouldn’t this titled “How Buffalo Bathrooms won all bathrooms!” I fully expect people to start buying tickets to the game next year just to wait their turn in the New Era fun factory. Go Bills! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 1 hour ago, Buddy Hix said: And if you raised a child that would get shagged in a New Era bathroom, you have failed as a parent. What if the child had been conceived in that bathroom? (Asking for a friend.) 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, WhoTom said: What if the child had been conceived in that bathroom? (Asking for a friend.) The child, if male, should be named Ralph Richard Jingleheimer Schmitt. No way I’m working New Era into that. Ralphina Richardine if female. Edited February 2, 2019 by Ridgewaycynic2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsfaninChicago Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Oddly enough I thought that was a really interesting article! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyWhiteShows Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 This is all my opinion but the bathrooms at New Era Stadium are more than likely the worst in the NFL in my opinion. Not only are they cramped, small, and too few, but they also get disgusting awful fast. Especially when there’s snow or rain or inclement weather. Just take a look at the floor and if you dropped someone in that sludge I doubt you’d want to pick it back up. The sad part is, they actually improved them over the years but they are still bad. No comparison to stadiums like Minnesota. I’d have to say during the Ralph Wilson Stadium days those bathrooms were pure filth. Huge long lines. Lots of people relieving themselves in areas outside of the trough, including the sink. I’ve seen this multiple times. One time I remember someone laughing their ass off when urinating in the sink....nasty. “hey it all goes to the same place,” he said???. Another time a woman sashayed right into the men’s room stall, came out, and washed her hands like it no big deal. And as gross as the trough might be, the stalls are worse. Heaven forbid you ever need to go #2. The toilets are usually backed up big time, but that doesn’t stop people from going on top of of the mess. This results in about 5 pounds of toilet paper and waste in the bowl. And the constant flushing forces water up super high. It is so gross. I think moving forward the answer might be to build more bathrooms and staff them with about 2 attendants and 2 security guards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiotAct Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 10% of people there complete an online purchase while in the restroom? Did I read that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4_kidd_4 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 The bathroom outside my section is newer, clean and usually moves quickly. Also, it’s all about timing. Gotta use change of possessions, tv timeouts and the end of the quarter to your advantage. I don’t drink like a fish anymore, so 1st Q & 3rd Q break is usually good enough for me. If there’s like 20-30 seconds on the clock and whoever’s got the ball is obviously not gonna snap a play, that’s my cue to dip out quickly. If you wait for the official to say “that’s the end of the quarter/half” and then start moving, yeah yr gonna wait in line to wizz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Mueller Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) Quote: "The bathroom outside my section is newer, clean and usually moves quickly. Also, it’s all about timing. Gotta use change of possessions, tv timeouts and the end of the quarter to your advantage. I don’t drink like a fish anymore, so 1st Q & 3rd Q break is usually good enough for me. If there’s like 20-30 seconds on the clock and whoever’s got the ball is obviously not gonna snap a play, that’s my cue to dip out quickly. If you wait for the official to say “that’s the end of the quarter/half” and then start moving, yeah yr gonna wait in line to wizz." This guy shows more planning, strategic and clock management ability than Rex Ryan's whole coaching staff... Edited February 2, 2019 by Jamie Mueller forgot to add quoted material... 5 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerome007 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 When you're in a place or festival or show with no waits at the pit stop and a place to wash your hands, you feel like you just came out of an uncivilized barbarian land you had lived all your life before. By ourselves with manage, adapt, conquer. But add young kids to the equation and all the nasty stuff really annoys on another level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Senator Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 2 hours ago, Jerome007 said: FRAT. Not reading all of it! But this is so spot on: "But the urinal trough? The apparatus is a large, communal urinal that offers an egalitarian, and highly efficient, method of elimination while forcing men to pee like cattle -- shoulder-to-shoulder, with zero privacy, and often while facing each other's junk. Few things evoke our deep, strange, love-hate relationship with stadium bathrooms like the urinal trough" Those were nasty. I'm glad they're mostly all gone. Yeah I suspect a meatgazer was the designer for that thing. One time, I was at the trough at The Ralph, shoulder to shoulder on either side with a huge crowd behind waiting for the first guy to finish, and developed a case of ‘stage fright’. The guy to my right looks over and says, “Can’t piss, huh?” After that, I couldn’t. The next season I upgraded my seats to the Paul Maguire Club. . 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdand12 Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: The child, if male, should be named Ralph Richard Jingleheimer Schmitt. No way I’m working New Era into that. Ralphina Richardine if female. wait That's My name too ?! Edited February 2, 2019 by 3rdand12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Formerly_of_Roch Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 True story, years ago went on a bus trip to a Bills game, bus company had a problem with the bus we were supposed to get so instead sent two of these small 20 passenger mini buses. Enough seats for everyone, however only one of the buses had a bathroom. So now get to the stadium and all 40 or so people are using the bathroom on one bus. By the time the game ended, it was literately within about 1/2" of overflowing. So the two buses left the stadium, got up onto 219 and pulled over, the bus without the toilet pulled behind the other one to kind of shield the view from the highway. My bus driver then got out of the bus and pulled the plug along the side of 219! Can you imagine a couple hours later a state trooper or someone stopping on the side of the road wondering what is that pile? He probably called in a sighting of Big Foot is in the area! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwight in philly Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Yawn. .sports journalism .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formerly Allan in MD Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 On the eve of the Super Bowl, the Toilet Bowl thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincyBillsFan Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Two things that I remember most during my college years attending Bills games at the newly opened Rich Stadium in the 1970's: * Women invading the men's room to take over the stalls as their kidney's overcame any disgust they might have harbored and * diehard fans not wanting to miss the 2nd half KO peeing in cups and setting them on the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 No one spending 5k on a SB ticket would drink so much as to miss the game. What a stupid article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boca BIlls Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, stuvian said: No one spending 5k on a SB ticket would drink so much as to miss the game. What a stupid article You don't know humans do you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Just now, Boca BIlls said: You don't know humans do you... I know football fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boca BIlls Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Just now, stuvian said: I know football fans Then why would you ever make that statement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 30 minutes ago, Boca BIlls said: Then why would you ever make that statement? Because I've attended more football games than you have candles on your birthday cake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsfaninChicago Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 10 hours ago, BillyWhiteShows said: And as gross as the trough might be, the stalls are worse. Heaven forbid you ever need to go #2. The toilets are usually backed up big time, but that doesn’t stop people from going on top of of the mess. This results in about 5 pounds of toilet paper and waste in the bowl. And the constant flushing forces water up super high. It is so gross. Are you sure you are just not confusing this for the offense during the Juaron years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Why do stadiums have 2 to 1 female to male restrooms when 80% of the fans at the game are males? I'm assuming because its used for other events where this ratio is more even? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 5 minutes ago, matter2003 said: Why do stadiums have 2 to 1 female to male restrooms when 80% of the fans at the game are males? I'm assuming because its used for other events where this ratio is more even? Not only is the attendance 80% male, I’d guess 95% of the beer consumption is male. Yes, that creates issues. All kinds of issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Nails Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 The most extreme mad max beyond thunder dome bathroom moment at the Ralph was during the power outage game in 2009. Lights were going on and off. I went to the bathroom at one point when power was on. It quickly went off leaving the bathroom pitch black. This is before anyone had a light on their phone. It immediately, and I mean immediately, devolved into lord of the flies. People going in corners and sinks. In a classy move, I went for a circular sink because the lines were insane. Good decision until the lights came on mid-stream leaving about 15 us staring directly at each other’s junk. Good times with (suddenly) close friends. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowgirlsFan Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Anyone remember the Omni of the Atlanta Hawks? So about 20 years ago,I'm at a conference there. It's time to go to the restroom. Here's this line with a lot of girls ( and to those who don't know I am one) so I get in line. I get inside and here's about two dozen urinals plus another four dozen stalls. Talk about shock!!! I wash my hands then exit at the other end turn around and here's the sigh that says MENS. CRAZY just CRAZY!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyC81 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 14 hours ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said: True story, years ago went on a bus trip to a Bills game, bus company had a problem with the bus we were supposed to get so instead sent two of these small 20 passenger mini buses. Enough seats for everyone, however only one of the buses had a bathroom. So now get to the stadium and all 40 or so people are using the bathroom on one bus. By the time the game ended, it was literately within about 1/2" of overflowing. So the two buses left the stadium, got up onto 219 and pulled over, the bus without the toilet pulled behind the other one to kind of shield the view from the highway. My bus driver then got out of the bus and pulled the plug along the side of 219! Can you imagine a couple hours later a state trooper or someone stopping on the side of the road wondering what is that pile? He probably called in a sighting of Big Foot is in the area! Or Joey Chestnut was returning from a hot dog eating contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsintaiwan Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 I once saw a guy passed out into the bathroom when it was rich stadium. Flat out, next to trough, if memory serves. A wee kid, maybe five or six was shaking him saying, "Daddy wake up." Something I'd like to erase from my memory. I think was ten. 1984. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefan66 Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Not sure what the issue has been, but this past season the restrooms became a problem. I use the newer restroom by section 330 on the upper deck mezzanine, the one that is at the top of the ramp up. Lines were huge all season at obvious times to go, but also long during the “off” times. Cleanliness wasn’t much of an issue early on, became a problem mid season. Have not seen the sink used as a urinal for years since they’ve upgraded them. Wonder if that’s the reason for longer lines! Back in the day it was common to see someone using the sink every time you used the restroom (NOT condoning the action). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSBill Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 It's only a problem when you have a problem. Nothing worse than a filthy, cramped, sticky, public restroom, and for the most part, that's what we have at New Era field. Yuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 8 hours ago, matter2003 said: Why do stadiums have 2 to 1 female to male restrooms when 80% of the fans at the game are males? I'm assuming because its used for other events where this ratio is more even? Here’s your answer: Virtually all buildings follow the minimum requirements of the plumbing Code. The Code makes very little distinction between men and women fixture counts. With that said, there’s nothing stopping the Architects from providing more than the Code required minimum fixtures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boca BIlls Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 10 hours ago, stuvian said: Because I've attended more football games than you have candles on your birthday cake And I ask why would you make that statement? You sua you been to that mane game and yet never seen someone that drunk is unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyBatty is alive Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 My most pathetic memories of going at the Ralph was how nice and warmth the bathrooms were but the again the air was heavy with the warm humid vapor of piss from hundreds of men, 80% of them drunk. And i for one have no problems using a urinal trough, it makes things go so much quicker/ I recall;l trying to estimate by the number size and sobriety of each guy in the line which would be quickest. and no one looks at your junk and i certainly never wanted to look at someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 ...ESPN...the world wide leader in....bathroom stories.............the intrigue awaiting the provocative Steven A(HOLE) is killing me....doubled up on my Xanax....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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