Steve Balmer Is Obsessed With Toilets And His New Arena Will Have 1 For Every 27 Fans
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Steve Balmer is the type of billionaire I would want to be. He's worth $100 billion and instead of doing dumb things like "continuing to work" or "giving it all to charity", he is using his fortune to buy a pro basketball team, build a dream arena, and sit courtside cheering his dick off. He isn't asking tax payers to pay for his new arena, what's another $2 billion to him? Oh no, he only has 98 more million left, the horror!
So he's building this state of the art new arena for his beloved Clippers that he wants to be better than the basketball Hall of Fame. His words, not mine.
Washington Post - “I like to think about it as a basketball palazzo, an homage to the game,” an animated Ballmer told a crowd of media members, fans, local politicians and construction workers. “It’s not the Hall of Fame, but with as many championships as we’re going to win here, it’s going to be better than the Hall of Fame.”
How can you not love this guy?
But even better, he is worried about the fan experience. I recommend you read the Washington Post article because there are a ton of great nuggets in it, but he has thought a ton about toilets and friends, he loves em:
The Clippers even commissioned a computer model to project how long it would take fans in a sold-out arena to use the restroom, purchase food and return to their seats. To ensure that fans could complete the process during the length of a standard NBA timeout, the arena design boasts one toilet for every 27 seats in the upper deck, an unmatched ratio in the NBA.
“The thing I hate most in life is arenas where you have to wait in line for the bathroom,” Ballmer said. “I’ve become a real obsessive about toilets. Toilets, toilets, toilets.”
A-men brother. A freakin' men. Nothing is worse than long bathroom lines and missing half the game. The worst is obviously the Islanders arena where there are like 3 total bathrooms in the entire place. I was stunned the first time I went there. Good thing they are moving because that place is a dump. I don't know what the standard is, but 1 for every 27 seats in the upper deck sounds pretty great. Toilets, toilets, toilets. If Balmer's legacy is arenas moving forward have an abundance of toilets, he has achieved more than Bill Gates could ever dream of with his little foundation thing.
PS: Dan Snyder is looking at building a new stadium and his plan is to take all the best parts of all the best stadiums/arenas, so this is a great thing for us WFT fans. Can't wait to take a dump in Snyder's new stadium.