Auxiliary Press Box ...

[FishHack76]

... This is just a curious question (and perhaps a dumb one), but is the auxiliary press box for NFL playoff games usually indoors or outdoors? By that question, you can tell this is for the NFC Championship and not the AFC Championship.
It would prove rather difficult to cover the Colts game outside.
I was just curious as to how warmly I had to dress. I doubted they would give free reign of luxury boxes to the press, so I didn't know where else they would stick us.

 

[Ace]

... This is just a curious question (and perhaps a dumb one), but is the auxiliary press box for NFL playoff games usually indoors or outdoors? By that question, you can tell this is for the NFC Championship and not the AFC Championship.
It would prove rather difficult to cover the Colts game outside.
I was just curious as to how warmly I had to dress. I doubted they would give free reign of luxury boxes to the press, so I didn't know where else they would stick us.

You are correct. I would be extremely difficult to cover the Colts game outside.

 

[John]

... This is just a curious question (and perhaps a dumb one), but is the auxiliary press box for NFL playoff games usually indoors or outdoors? By that question, you can tell this is for the NFC Championship and not the AFC Championship.
It would prove rather difficult to cover the Colts game outside.
I was just curious as to how warmly I had to dress. I doubted they would give free reign of luxury boxes to the press, so I didn't know where else they would stick us.

You are correct. I would be extremely difficult to cover the Colts game outside.

But that won't stop the network from having a blimp on hand to provide aerial coverage.

 

[Angola!]

... This is just a curious question (and perhaps a dumb one), but is the auxiliary press box for NFL playoff games usually indoors or outdoors? By that question, you can tell this is for the NFC Championship and not the AFC Championship.
It would prove rather difficult to cover the Colts game outside.
I was just curious as to how warmly I had to dress. I doubted they would give free reign of luxury boxes to the press, so I didn't know where else they would stick us.

You are correct. I would be extremely difficult to cover the Colts game outside.

But that won't stop the network from having a blimp on hand to provide aerial coverage.

You have to have that beautiful aerial coverage somehow.

 

[FishHack76]

But that won't stop the network from having a blimp on hand to provide aerial coverage.

Yeah the girlfriend asked about that when we were watching some game one night. "Why do they need a blimp?" I really didn't have a good answer.

 

[estreetfan75]

My guess is that by auxiliary they mean, inside but no view of the field so you have to rely on TVs.

 

[Moderator1]

Never been in an aux at a football game. At baseball games, I've been in left and right field. Outside.

 

[fishwrapper]

My guess is that by auxiliary they mean, inside but no view of the field so you have to rely on TVs.

This is correct. The Super Bowls for the last 7-or-so years have had auxiliary press boxes.
Going way back, I remember one in Pasadena which was a tent OUTSIDE the Rose Bowl.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The aux box will be somewhere with a view, a table, and phone and net access. Some attempt to protect your company's valuable electronic equipment from the elements will be made-that is to say, you'll probably be dry, but warm's a toss-up.
Get there early, real early. Go directly to media work room and set up shop there. Go to your aux box seat and watch the first half until you get frozen, bored, or both. Go back to work room and cover the event as usual.

 

[21]

Heard today that Bears typically issue 800 media credentials for a regular season game....and issued more than 3000 for Sunday's game. Dress warm and bring binoculars.

 

[shockey]

i agree with the esteemed mr. gee about everything except spending the first half in your seat. stay in the media work room, watch on tv and go from there. 8) 8) 8)

 

[Rufino]

Last two SBs I covered I was in the stands with a clipboard, but those weren't in situations like Chicago. Wow, that would definitely suck.

 

[JBHawkEye]

I think the last time there was a playoff game in Chicago, there were a lot of media people put in a room with no view of the field, but with lots of TVs.

I've done two NFC Championships, both in St. Louis, and the aux box was fine, you could see the field and there were plenty of phones.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Sat in the auxiliary in St. Louis. Back of one of the end zones, at the top of the lower deck. OK, but tough to see things downfield.

Sat in the auxiliary at the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl in New Orleans. Was in the upper deck. Had to file a running notebook immediately after the game ended; spent five minutes running from upstairs down to the media room. Missed New England's final drive and Vinatieri's game-winning field goal while doing so.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

I was in the baseball press box of the Superdome for that one, and they called it an auxilliary press box. There must have been several, because it's on the same level as the football press box.

I'll be at Soldier Field for this game. I have no idea where my seat will be, but I'm heeding the advice posted above, just in case.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

I was in the baseball press box of the Superdome for that one, and they called it an auxilliary press box. There must have been several, because it's on the same level as the football press box.

I'll be at Soldier Field for this game. I have no idea where my seat will be, but I'm heeding the advice posted above, just in case.

I must've been WAY down the food chain, then, because I was sitting in an actual seat in the upper deck, in a section that was roped off for us media types. I sat next to a co-worker who has been in the business for 30 years and has a Football Hall of Fame vote. Needless to say, he wasn't happy.

And there were no phones, so the only option was to run downstairs to the main media room on the field level. What I would have done for wireless back then...

 

[Bubbler]

I think the last time there was a playoff game in Chicago, there were a lot of media people put in a room with no view of the field, but with lots of TVs.

I believe it will be that way in Indy too. My paper has one seat in the main box, and I was assured that whoever went to the aux box would be in there with the NY Times.

Looks like I'm hob-nobbin'!

 

[leo1]

so why pay to send someone if he or she's gonna be watching on TV from a tent or workroom? that seems like a collosal waste of money.

 

[write then drink]

so why pay to send someone if he or she's gonna be watching on TV from a tent or workroom? that seems like a collosal waste of money.

post-game access

 

[Keystone]

Ahh, this brings back memories of the auxiliary press box at RFK Stadium. In those days, most of the regular Redskins writers from the suburban papers and smaller dailies were stuck up there because the regular press box was the smallest in the NFL and by rule the visiting team's media had to be accomodated. You were at the very top of the stadium and had to go through the stands to get there. Plenty of cold hot dogs, warm cokes and backed up toilets for eight games each season. But the team did put us in the regular box when a team didn't bring a lot of media, usually one of the Western teams. Actually, the 'Skins press staff during the Cooke era was great to work with.