The first update fans will notice at Ford Field this season is the massive and ubiquitous video boards that take up 26,500 square feet of LED display space as part of a $100-million renovation.
But amid all the dazzling new updates and upgrades fans can expect to see, there’s one major change that is significant precisely because fans won’t see it: the playoff-appearance banners.
“We took them down as part of the renovation,” team president Rod Wood said today while guiding a media tour of the stadium, “and I just think I’d rather celebrate the next division win and not put them back up.