Metropolitan Stadium: Rise and Fall
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- The story of Metropolitan stadium…
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The Vikings lost their mystique when they moved indoors.
Not really but oh well...
@@baconbap the Vikings have never made the Super Bowl since moving out of Metropolitan Stadium. That sounds like losing your mystique.
If there is an afterlife, let me live it in Met Stadium. My greatest wish in life, although unfulfillable, is to see just ONE MORE Twins game at Met Stadium. Thank you Harmon Killebrew, for my fondest memories of childhood.
You might want to do a video on the Metropolitan Sports Center that was next door, and was the home of the old Minnesota North Stars, and was the site of Led Zeppelins first 1975 US tour concert.
I’m pretty sure that center ice is marked somewhere in the mall as well.
@@kevinhover461 yea its 20 ft up from the blue line
I’m in Western Canada and I really enjoyed watching televised home game of the North Stars. This was due to a higher camera level which gave you a larger view of the ice surface. I felt real bad when the Met Centre was demolished. I’d definitely love to see a video on this arena as well.
Ahhh, I can smell the wonderful cigar smoke of old men keeping score so diligently…
Go Northstars Go!
This place was the ultimate home field advantage for the Vikings in the playoffs.
Thank you. I hated when my Rams had to play there, back when they were from LA, the first time.
Wasn’t expecting this one. Great choice.
That stadium was also where Drew Pearson caught the famous Hail Mary pass from Roger Staubach.
Didn't he push off though?
And Ahmad Rashad caught one FOR the Vikings
Offensive pass interference/here comes the whiskey bottle… first of many disappointments over the years.. (1998 was the worst season for me)
.. whatever happened to that bottle?
@@michaelleroy9281 from Tommy Kramer vs Cleveland!!!!
The Dallas Cowboys didn't seem to have a problem playing in cold weather. They almost won Ice Bowl in Green Bay, but Packers rallied late in fourth quarter to win in final 20-30 seconds.
My uncle had season tix to the Twins and Vikings . We used to visit every few years when I was a kid. On one of the trips he took us to see them play. Saw my first pro baseball and pro football games in that stadium.
My parents had season tickets to the Vikings at the old met. Great memories even if it was a dump looking back!
Honey try the Oakland Coliseum if you want a dump. And they still play there. Pitiful.
It also hosted the 1969 nfl championship game.
Joe Kapp's final appearance as a Vike (#11)
Vikings 27 , Browns 7
@@michaelleroy9281 Joe Kapp = 1 - Jim Houston = 0
@@robparadise6099 Oh yeah!
The very last NFL championship game played before the merger.
Saw the Twins play the Yankees there in1964. Great memories. Thanks dad. RIP
Hey man, keep up the good work! I love this channel!
From the first photo (0:11), it almost looks like Dodger Stadium! If it wasn’t for poor maintenance and that odd football bleacher down the left field line, it would have continued to be a great baseball park. Although I’m sure April/October games may have been freezing!
I was there for the 1st night game of the season sometime in the early 70's, and remember freezing my butt off, and I think that was in late April or early May.
May 3, 1974, a 4-3 loss to the Tigers.
As opposed to how warm those games are at open air Target Field?
@@Schneids71 true
I know right? And I was raised on Dodger Stadium. Covina boy here.
My parents used to go to games there all the time. It was gone before my time unfortunately
It's remembered -- at least by me -- for all those cold weather playoff games in the 1970s.
Dick Allen hit TWO inside the park homers in one game there...
Thank you. Very interesting and I always live the photos.
Love the Met wish I could've seen it in person.
Same goes for myself when it comes to Cleveland Municipal Stadium and the Richfield Coliseum
I went to so many games there mostly against the Blackhawks
I watched as a child from Southern California. The organist played the Jiffy Pop tune. I loved it.
@@sc12194 As a child I watched Angel's games on tv from Cleveland stadium. A big old cavernous place with 9,000 in attendance. Kind of spooky actually.
@@michaelleroy9281 honey, Blackhawks at the Met? Are you talking baseball or hockey?
Could you do a video on Balboa Stadium? Although not completely forgotten as it’s still being used by the city of San Diego, it has some interesting history. It held home games for the AFL’s Chargers before they moved into Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium.
Have mercy! Is Balboa Stadium still even there?
Love all these videos please do a Shea Stadium video one day !
I remember the purple people eaters at the line of scrimmage with steam rolling out of their helmets
$4 and change to see The Beatles
Have you done a video about the new Cleveland Guardians name and how it came to be? You’re a Cleveland guy and would be perfect for that.
I remember Metropolitan Stadium as a kid watching Angel's games from Southern California. I loved the organist (I know, kinda geeky.) I never realized it was the site of Mall of America, which I visited, along with the Metodome several years later to watch the Twins.
I know... But I had a free ticket on Northwest Airlines and chose to go to Minneapolis. It was actually a great vacation!!
No coincedence viqueens haven't been to a s b since leaving the met. They had a true home field advantage in dec./jan. and in playoff games outdoors at the met. Viqueens went all soft once they went indoors.
Yup, I've been saying that exact same thing for years..
As a kid I hated when my Rams had to play the Vikings in December playoffs in Minnesota...
Viqueens? WTF? 😀😀
Use to be fun to watch the Vikings when they played outdoors
This place was the true home of the Vikings. Not the Metrodome or U.S. Bank.
It wouldn't work in today's NFL but it was a great place
Funny how Patriots fans felt no sentiment about old Foxboro Stadium.
I saw several Twins games there and have silent 8mm home movies. Also saw a few Viking games there, including the dreaded "Hail Mary" game against the Cowboys. We were at the other end zone (3rd base side) waiting by the exit to run to the bus to take us to the train station. Most don't remember but there were actually TWO attempts by the Cowboys to get the winning touchdown. The first one (obviously) failed and I THINK there may have been a penalty to allow them to try again. I remember seeing something flying thru the air after the catch was made and thinking it was yet another penalty, then I saw the referee go down to the ground and another signaling touchdown. We were stunned to see it was a touchdown for the Cowboys so we hurried to the bus to get warm and wait for the ride to the train station. We found out later about the whiskey bottle that hit the ref.
I always wanted to go there. I still have a program from the heartbreaking 1965 World Series.
Too much Koufax
You likely had a better team than Dodgers, but they had KOUFAX. If I'm not mistaken, I think ALL 7 games were COMPLETE games for winning pitchers. If not, it was very close, none of this changing pitchers in third or fourth inning unless starter was getting hampered.
Fran Tarkenton, Jim Marshall, Mike Tinglehoff, Carl Ellard, Bud Grant, Paul Krause, Chuck Foreman.
Minnesota Vikings legends and great games such as The Hail Mary, Miracle At The Met, many teams San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, and many other teams and players came to that venue.
2 Hail Marys the Vikings had one in 1980
@@michaelleroy9281 The 1975 playoff against the Dallas Cowboys, The 1980 game against the Cleveland Browns. Two great games.
Some of the best times of my childhood were in The Met watching the Twins.
And since the Vikings went inside they have gone to, let's see, how many Super Bowls...
Yep, the Vikings threw away their number one advantage in the playoffs during the 60s and 70s by going indoors, though to be fair only ONE of the NFC Title Games was actually held at home and that was when the 98 Vikings lost to the Falcons.
@@trevinschaerr3732 it was also the number one disadvantage in trade deals with learned this the hard way as rangers fan living in Arlington the heat might be bearable for me but for a Cuban kid it’s not possible we lost a lot of good pitchers to the heat I can’t imagine how many decided frozen tundra wasn’t where they wanted to call home
Baltimore Memorial Stadium next?
In the opening shot there's a good picture of the old scoreboard. The billboard sign on the right is historic. Reggie Jackson hit it and was consider the longest homerun by a left-handed batter. A promotion later would give 50,000 dollars to any player that could duplicate the feat. Killerbrew shot is considered the longest by a right-handed batter.
Second MLB game I saw was at this stadium in 1967. I saw the Twins beat the Chicago White Sox.
Initially the New York Giants were supposed to move there until O’Malley talked Stoneham into moving to SF.
That's true. You really know baseball
The "Old" Senators moved there, but for one very stupid reason.
Holy crap. $4.50 to see the Beatles. Today $4.50 doesn't even get you a hotdog.
My 49ers won thier 1st playoff game in thier history at that stadium...in 7 degree weather!
December 27, 1970
Met Stadium hosted the 1st LCS and Final NFL championship Game ever in 1969. I was at both.
Could you do one on the hemisfair arena witch was in san antonio
Raise the roof and get a beautiful obstructed view seat… #44 and the ABA.. great times in SA!
Oh man. I remember the playoff battles the Bullets had with Spurs at the ol Hemisfair.
Don’t forget the Minnesota Kicks, one of the more successful teams in the old North American Soccer League.
I saw the Beatles here in August of 1965.
Great memories of going to Twins games at the old Met.
Honestly a poor video about the stadium. Originally the stadium seating was just around the infield. The left field pavilion was built later as one level. The 2nd deck was added for the 1965 All Star Game. The Minneapolis Miller's were a AAA team for the NY Baseball Giants. (at that time) They almost moved here before the Senators did. The stadium was also built in that location because it was equal distance between Mpls & St.Paul. Twin Cities.
It opened in 1956
Mary-Kate and Ashley at the Mall as well as the pilot episode of WCW Monday Nitro were both filmed at the Mall of America in Bloomington.
In the 70's . it was very hard to win there for Vikings opponents. Cold weather and wind made it very hard for teams to win. The Cowboys found ways to win there twice in the playoffs. Sadly for the Rams they were never ever able to win there come playoff time.
I think something died in Vikings when they moved indoors. The same could be said about Detroit Lions. Lions were fairly good when they played outdoors in Tiger stadium. I'm from Chicago, and I hope the Bears NEVER move indoors. They've made noise about moving to suburban Arlington Heights which would be OK for me, provided it was OUTDOORS. I heard one time a few years ago the Buffalo Bills played a late season home game in nearby Toronto, Canada against Miami Dolphins. What a waste of home field advantage against a southern team! The Toronto stadium had a retractable dome, and I think it was closed, and I think Miami won. I could be incorrect on a few of these details, so feel free to correct me.
One year, I think 1977, but I could be off about a year, the LA Rams were able to host a playoff game in LA against Vikings. Wouldn't you know it, it poured rain the whole game and was an absolute slopfest. I think if you watched game on an old black and white TV, you may have had trouble telling one team from another, and a lot of people still had black and white TV's back then. The Vikings won. So much for home field advantage!
Video on Milwaukee County Stadium!!!
I loved that ballpark. We went to one of the last games there & it still looked to be in remarkable shape.
I remember the old met had so much parking spaces you could lose finding your car easily
Correction: The Minneapolis Millers were a AAA minor league team, not AA, when Metropolitan Stadium was opened.
I was at a conference at the Thunderbird hotel and took a stroll during lunch outside the Met, left field and then entering the scoreboard area to inquire about buying or getting a piece of the Met. There was absolutely nobody around but the place but I could hear noises and voices in the distance. All of a sudden BOOM BOOM BOOM! Part of the upper deck on the first base side came down. For a hefty fellow I could have outrun Usain Bolt out of there because I was thinking “ no wonder nobody is here, there going to blow up over here and I’ll get an airborne ride back to Rochester courtesy of TNT. Wow, scary but cool also
Love the Videos also Second
The NY Giants were about to make a move to MN, until O'Malley persuaded the organization to move to SF.
Until watching this video, I had no idea there were two incarnations of the Washington Senators as I only knew of the one that eventually moved to Texas and became the Rangers.
The sick part was why the "Old" Senators moved. District of Columbia Stadium (renamed "RFK" in 1968) was opened in 1961. It was owned and operated by the National Parks Service. President Kennedy put enormous pressure on the Redskins to sign black players as a condition of renting the stadium. They did so. Kennedy also informed the Senators that they could not have segregated seating. (Clark Griffith wanted blacks restricted to the upper deck bleachers, the worst seats for baseball.) Griffith objected vehemently. The original plan was that Minnesota would get an expansion team; instead, Griffith decided to move the Senators there, and Washington got the expansion team (the "New" Senators). Griffith's motive: "You have fewer blacks in Minnesota."
The saddest part is that the "Old" Senators were actually building a good team. But they moved to Minnesota, where they won the pennant (1965) and two division titles (1969, 1970). The 1965 World Series should have been played in Washington, and the "Old" Senators could have competed with Baltimore in the A.L. East. The Griffith ownership was pond scum.
@@davidlafleche1142 Especially when free agency started in 1976 The Twins did nothing thanks to old Cal
@@davidlafleche1142 Griffith said rasslin , not wrestling about Washington
Cool! Where are the plaques in the MOA?
For a second i thought it was Dodger stadium
I was there once at age 5 or 6 in '72 or '73. My parents weren't sports fans.
Do Comiskey Park please
the Minneapolis Millers were a Triple A ball club, not a Double A
Metrodome was a joke. The only time I've seen people cheer when a defunct stadium was demolished was the Metrodome.
Snow globe..
The Minneapolis miller's...wow.
Cowboys fans will never forget Metropolitan Stadium. Hail Mary!
HE CAUGHT IT! TOUCHDOWN!
Well then- Urinating Tree
The Browns won't forget a Hail Mary there in 1980
Yes please do a video of Met Stadiums neighbor the Met Center... conflicting stories on what really happened in the end. Norm Green supposedly wanted a 99 year lease around the land of Met Center so he could add in front of it and in back of it for shops for extra revenue.
hockeyfanmn please is not wanted it’s very very annoying
You could also blame Gary Bettman for that
MOA is a good use?
The Eagles also played a memorable concert there.
The Eagles have also played some games there
Wish I could have gone to a few games here
I went to just one, I didn't know it at the time, Fran Tarkenton's last home game Dec 3, 1978 Vikings beat the Eagles 28-27
I skipped classes and went to baseball games for $2 outfield seats.
I've always wanted to visit we the mall of America
$4.50 for a beatles concert, my times have changed.
I would rather see the stadium & met center stay m, then having the MOA there!!!
I’ve only been to MOA about a half a dozen times, & I have no interest in going there!!
$4.50 to see the Beatles in concert in 1965. Wow.
That would be approximately $40 today. Still a great deal.
@@neneshubby now that ticket would be $400 or probably more than that even
@@whaduzitmatr I don't deny that. I'm just pointing out the financial equivalent would be $40 today. Somebody getting to see the Beatles for that cheap is a great deal.
@@neneshubby it would absolutely be a great deal, what I was trying to get at was obviously ticket prices havent followed inflation
HOW is demolishing a stadium and building a mall on the land considered a good use of the land?
After one season at the Metrodome, baseball fans wanted the old place back! Baseball players hated that dome.
a good stadium twins didn't hafta leave it didn't hafta get demolished sad waste of money.
I thought the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers.....
I was some person
First
That place was really ugly both for baseball and football.
The most famous band is history? Not! That would be the Rolling Stones!
The Seekers were better than both of them. (Look up "Sweet Adeline/Maple Leaf Rag," or "I'll Never Find Another You 1965")