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| - Bank of America Stadium is, of course, the home of our beloved Carolina Panthers, and I'd love to rate them five stars just for that. The stadium is clean and well-maintained. I love the panther statues greeting you at each entrance, I love looking for familiar names in the PSL owners listed on the statues. I love the free (tips appreciated) face painting provided each home game. I love that the restrooms are well-kept; clean, functional, with a seemingly never-ending supply of toilet paper.
There is a great selection of food and beer for sale. Everything from Krispy Kreme donuts to frozen lemonade to hot fresh pizza. This isn't the Bobcats arena, with high-class restaurants, and I would like to see a bit more "hometown pride" with some truly Southern-style specialties available, but you can pretty much find something to eat no matter how picky you are, and the prices (for a football stadium) are reasonable.
Also, you gotta love that this place is the only place in NC with special permission to sell alcohol early on Sundays.
The ramps leading to the upper levels can be a bit brutal, but let's be honest, they are spacious and better than stairs. If you truly have an injury or disability that makes the ramps a hardship, they do have elevators you can use to get to the upper levels.
I'm also a big fan of the designated smoking sections. Just because this is an open-dome stadium and not closed off doesn't mean I want people to be able to smoke in the stands. I mean, i bring my kids to these games.
I think this place will start to get more reviews now that they are FINALLY branching out into events other than Panthers games. After 15 years, I guess they finally realised they could get revenue from other events. I anticipate seeing more Yelp reviews starting with the big Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw concert that was just announced for next year.
I am docking one star because of two negative experiences, both occurring in the past 6 months. One, we had an issue with an unruly, drunken, abusive fan of the opposing team sitting near us during a game. Although numerous people complained (you can conveniently report to stadium security via text message with your cell phone), he was given MULTIPLE warnings and not ejected, even though he was involved in a physical altercation and was spewing curse words and racial slurs within earshot of my 5- and 7-year-old children. At this same game, a friend of mine was ejected for being "too drunk" because he merely stumbled while climbing up the stairs to his seat during the fourth quarter, injuring (and bothering) nobody.
Two, our seats are just about as far as you can possibly get from the Team Store. Opposite side of the stadium and four levels up. We went to the Team Store to browse after the game, and then they would not let us back into the stadium. I understand that they don't want people loitering around forever after the game is over, but it was cold and windy outside, and I was with my mother and two small children. It was a long chilly walk back to our car. Just wish we had been informed PRIOR to entering the store that we wouldn't be allowed back out unless it was on the exterior of the stadium- we would've gone prior to the game instead of after!!
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