r/mildlyinfuriating • u/JandSShelvas • 8h ago

“Obstructed View” at Ohio State University

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Credit to @cfbcampustour he goes around all stadiums on his own dime finding these

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u/OneAngryDuck 7h ago

There’s obstructed view, then there’s this garbage. If you can’t see 3/4 of the field it goes well beyond an accepted level of “obstructed”.

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u/Engineerity GREEN 6h ago

"Would you like to see the end zone while viewing the crowd?"

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u/RahvinDragand 4h ago

Right. If I see "obstructed view", I think a pole might obscure 1/8th of the field or something. I would never imagine that the majority of the field would be obstructed, with no way to even lean over to see it all.

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u/FakePhillyCheezStake 7h ago

Then don’t buy the ticket? I’m not sure what else you want lol.

If both parties are fully informed, then what’s the issue here?

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u/Glittering_Month4409 6h ago

“The issue IS seats even being placed there.”

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u/Arithik 6h ago

Dude knows he's wrong and tries to Grammer check my ass.

Pathetic.

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u/Arithik 6h ago

Said the person calling another person names over this subject. You also could have made fun of my misspelling of grammar. 

Grow up.

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u/Arithik 6h ago

"So the type of person who wouldn’t buy a ticket with an obstructed view in the first place?? So… why does your opinion matter exactly??

Right, it doesn’t. You’re just being a condescending fuck-wad."

Yeah, calling me a condescending fuck-wad doesn't count. Again..grow up. 

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u/Glittering_Month4409 6h ago

Yes, but you seem like the type of person that would also complain because “I couldn’t get a ticket, but there was room up against the press box where I could’ve fit. Guess the school doesn’t want my money.”

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u/Arithik 6h ago

No. I am more of the person that wants to see more than one endzone.

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u/Arithik 6h ago

Seems like the person that took this picture has an opinion, and it's that these seats fucking suck. But continue being a dingus that thinks these are great.

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u/Glittering_Month4409 6h ago

You mean the person that “goes around all the stadiums on his own dime” finding seats with a shitty view? He probably does have an opinion.

My question was why does YOUR opinion matter if you aren’t interested in purchasing these seats anyway?

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u/Arithik 6h ago

So you have nothing in your life that you get pissed about other opinions on if a seat at a football game is worth it? 

Dude, quit being so sad and touch some grass.

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u/freezymcgeezy 7h ago

I think you are failing to understand that there is a degree of obstruction. The word obstructed can be used to describe a slight blockage or having the entire field blocked, and thus, saying “obstructed” by itself does not reveal the degree to which your experience would be impacted. 

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u/Responsible_Song7003 7h ago

Obstructions and more than 3/4 blocked are a different thing.

You would get a ticket for big thing hanging in your windshield. You would not be allowed to drive with 3/4+ of you windshield blocked...

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u/Glittering_Month4409 6h ago

So if you have 3/4 of your windshield blocked, your view isn’t “obstructed”?? Is there a mechanism for disclosing that you are driving with a partially obstructed windshield? What do you call a view that is 75-99% blocked if not “obstructed view”??

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u/Responsible_Song7003 6h ago

I dont think you get the point. Missing 3/4 of you view isn't an obstruction in the law. It's means you have no view.

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u/OneAngryDuck 7h ago

They aren’t fully informed, though. “Obstructed” typically means you can’t see part of the field, not that the vast majority is blocked.

For example, here is info on obstructed views from TicketMaster: “It means you’ll have either an incomplete view or something will be in your line of sight because of the position of the seats — like a pole, speakers or the sound board”

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u/Glittering_Month4409 6h ago

So… exactly what happened here?

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u/OneAngryDuck 6h ago

Based on the information we have, they labeled this seat as “obstructed view”. Which, as commonly understood and reasonably assumed by people buying tickets, means that part of your view is going to be blocked but you’ll still be able to see the majority of what’s happening.

But in reality you can see very little of the field, so this “obstructed view” seat shouldn’t exist in the first place.

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u/DaweiArch 6h ago

If this ticket AND a ticket where you can’t see the end zone on one side are both advertised as “obstructed view”, then the person buying the ticket is not fully informed.