Above: A nearly-empty Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL during a recent Marlins baseball game. During Marlins' home games, the Miami metropolitan area, the 7th largest in the country, drops to the 8th most populous metro area. Stadium officials have been known in the past to use August and early September baseball games to prepare new, inexperienced ushers for the much better attended Miami Dolphins' home games, who share the facility. "We like to get the ushers some practice, and since there really are no Marlins fans, they have to just pretend there are people at the games," said Mark Taglioni, a Sun Life Stadium senior usher manager. "Unfortunately, tv cameras have caught our new ushers going through the motions of checking tickets that aren't there and directing thin air to their seats. It may look very strange on television, but it gets us ready for football season."
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Sun Life Stadium's ushers caught showing imaginary Marlins' fans to seats in preparation for Dolphins' games
Above: A nearly-empty Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL during a recent Marlins baseball game. During Marlins' home games, the Miami metropolitan area, the 7th largest in the country, drops to the 8th most populous metro area. Stadium officials have been known in the past to use August and early September baseball games to prepare new, inexperienced ushers for the much better attended Miami Dolphins' home games, who share the facility. "We like to get the ushers some practice, and since there really are no Marlins fans, they have to just pretend there are people at the games," said Mark Taglioni, a Sun Life Stadium senior usher manager. "Unfortunately, tv cameras have caught our new ushers going through the motions of checking tickets that aren't there and directing thin air to their seats. It may look very strange on television, but it gets us ready for football season."
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