unfortunately literally every stadium in sports is considered outdated in 20 years now. And the billionaire owners don't have to build them, they just pressure the cities to build them for them.
Shea was a great place to see a game. Insane atmosphere and most sight lines were great. The infield mud was an added bonus, but they finally started re-sodding it in the late 70s when baseball was over.
I never saw a game at Shea in person, but I feel like it was maybe the best of the 10 stadiums on this list. It probably would have made a perfectly fine baseball stadium if they hadn't shared the space with the Jets.
Shea had great access by subway from Manhattan. It was easy to get there. I went to Mets, Jets, and even Yankee games (1975) there. Bitter cold and very windy in the winter, and a lot of noise from the nearby international airport. But a lot of good memories in that place.
How is the former Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia not on here? Cracks in the concrete under the field and the only stadium with a jail for arrested fans
@@daganjackson7106Heinz Field (now Acrisure Stadium) is in Pittsburgh and is home to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Philadelphia Eagles play at Lincoln Financial Field.
One that didn't make the list was a stadium that was originally intended for a sport other than football, but ended up as an NFL team's home stadium. Not baseball, as so many NFL stadiums in the last few decades had to deal with, but bicycle racing! The Cycledrome, in Providence, Rhode Island, was the home of the Providence Steam Rollers, who were an NFL franchise from 1925-1933. The field was surrounded by a wooden cycling track, which tightly constricted the field of play, and limited the end zones to being only 5 yards deep, instead of the normal 10. Players tackled out of bounds also tended to find themselves on the wooden track, which during football games was crowded with fans watching the game.
I was there that day, kind of. My friends and I were in the next to last row in the upper deck on the opposite side from the entrance tunnel to the field. Practically another zip code! 😁 We could barely see the actual wrestlers, and the big projection screens above the ring were not watchable early on because of daylight coming through the translucent roof. Some say that the announced attendance of 93,000 was bogus and the real number was lower in the 60-70k range. I say that's BS. For football the Silverdome held over 80k and the permanent seating looked packed to me, and the floor seating looked just as crowded.
nah, Ford Field still have a few more years before it gets beyond what the Silverdome was (1975-2001) (2002-20XX) for Ford Field. Only been there 22 years atm
@@Jeffrey-od9uk that never happens since the seasons never coincide. So there is never football line marking on a baseball diamond during baseball. While there’s no getting rid of the diamond. That is a problem of the past though. Seeing how they no longer share fields
The metrodome has a special place in my heart. Between the yearly sports trips with my dad who has sense passed and playing in there yearly for state football.
My grandfather told my mom (when she was a teenager) how they were gonna go to the Dome when it was completed, sadly he passed away before it was completed and never got to see it. My mom went to her first game there and and was like “this is for you dad”.
I never went there but it appeared from the tv to have a great atmosphere in the 90s. I don't think it should be on the list. Yes it became dated but in the 80s and 90s it seemed like a great venue for the time period.
@@neilwhitaker6284 It was a great atmosphere indeed. The Twins owner, Carl Pohlad, started hollering for a new Twins stadium in the early 90s when it was only 10 years old. In 1998 when Jesse The Body Ventura was elected governor, he was asked if he supported state funds go to a new stadium he replied (paraphrasing) "Well we don't replace schools when they're only 16 years old and we don't need to replace stadiums when they're only 16 years old." That's what I like about non politicians when they get elected. What I disliked about the Metrodome was it's location: downtown Minneapolis. They already had the land where the old Met Stadium was and it was easy to get to, right off of I 494 and that's where it should have been built. But politics always gets in the way of common sense and it was built downtown where parking is a pain in the arse. Back in the 90s I remember reading an article in the paper about the Metrodome and they had about 300 events in one year so it was used a LOT. Twins, Vikings, Gophers, Final Four one year, moto cross, monster truck shows, Concerts and many more events. They even used to have roller blading where people would skate through the corridor surrounding the stadium. The Super Bowl was there in about 1998?? and I don't recall anyone in the media speaking badly of it. It was built on the cheap and of course there were many stadiums much nicer but to tear down a stadium that's just 32 years old just seems so wasteful.
Wondered if “The World’s Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum” would make the list - Memorial Stadium, home of the Baltimore Colts (and Ravens) from 1953 to 1997.
Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. If you have watched highlights of the 1970 AFC Championship game (Raiders-Colts), the field, during the cold months, was all dirt. I believe that game was referred to as the Dust Bowl.
Yes, and I am decent sports fan. I lived through the "cookie cutter" late 1960s, early 1970s circular muti-use stadiums. When they came out baseball and football people raved about them. To me Wrigley was a joke with it's short HR wall because it was stuck in a neighborhood. Then sports execs and the media decided they needed more a throwback look, so yep, tear them all down. After all, you can't watch sports without expensive catered boxes. I loved Riverfront stadium was only used 32 years. What a shame.
You could build every pro sports team a new stadium with just one of the multi billion dollar packages we’ve been wasting on Ukraine the last few years.
When I was in high school in the 70s, my buddies and I would drive in to Milwaukee on Packer Sundays. The Packers stunk in those days, and you could pick up tickets really cheap outside the stadium, especially if the weather was sketchy. We didn't care about sightlines or stadium aesthetics, it was just fun to go to an NFL game.
Silverdome was a huge improvement over the Lions' previous venue : ( Baseball ) Tigers Stadium, which they played in for almost 40 YEARS up until 1975.
The Bears played in Wrigley Field for many years and only moved to Soldier Field when the NFL decreed all stadiums had to have at least 60K capacity. Now the Bears are trying to get out of Soldier Field
When first built it was named Schaefer stadium named after Schaefer BEER... Schaefer is the one BEER to to have when you're having more then one, the team was sold several times and the stadium name changed a few times, I learned how to drink on Shaefer beer and Schlitz, I grew up two towns away from Schaefer stadium in Norfolk County Massachusetts and went to many Pat's games and concerts there the first year it was built
Robert Kraft who owned the Patriots (he bought the team from Victor Kiam) threatened to move the team to Hartford, Connecticut (and had actually signed a letter of intent to move the team there) unless the city of Foxborough gave a "sweetheart" deal for the land next to Schaffer Stadium to build it.
@@RansomRambula-no6yo The only real issues were the roof and field. While it was also generally bare bones elsewhere that's not necessarily a negative just not a positive
I was waiting to see someone bring this one up, but what an incredible home field advantage. Went to a Packer's Game there in 1987 - Warner, Largent, Etc...Very Loud!!!
@@happybeingmiserable4668 That's NOT true. The Packers SPLIT their home schedule between Milwaukee and Green Bay, playing home games at BOTH, until 1994.
@@fantasticvoyage262 who cares about kickers? Guys got dirt on their uniforms or mud if it was raining which was awesome when I was a kid seeing muddy unies.
@@neilwhitaker6284 People that want their favorite teams to win care about kickers. It's not 1957 anymore. The days of multipurpose stadiums are thankfully gone forever.
@@neilwhitaker6284 Gee, really? Multipurpose stadiums are terrible. That's why they no longer exist. You're and the other guy above are the only ones that miss bad sightlines, poor turf, and decrepit and souless stadiums. Everyone else is glad they are gone.
No way is the silverdome a top 10 of all time. It was one of the first domes, had massive seating capacity, hosted tons of concerts and things like wrestlemania. The only bad part was the turf was basically painted concrete
@@muddobber6863 I work pretty Much right across the freeway from it, actually got to watch them implode it from my office window, it was pretty cool actually. The first set failed and that was interesting too
The Vikings moving indoors was a colossal mistake. The Vikings were unbeatable in Metropolitan stadium, especially in November and December when the winter set in
Why did you have the Pontiac Silverdome on here? It was a great stadium WHEN IT WAS OPEN but it was in Pontiac and not Detroit, that was the only thing wrong with it. The owners always wanted too much money for events so it was never a viable option. You should have included Tiger Stadium instead. Yes it was in Detroit but it was a REALLY rough area of Detroit plus it was SOOOO old it was falling apart, most of the bathrooms did not work and the plumbing in the stadium leaked.
Where is Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington MN? What a horrible configuration and sight lines, especially for 9:13 football. Both team benches were also on one side of the field.
Foxborough Stadium was a lot of fun to see a game. But you pretty much nailed all of its shortcomings. From the bathrooms to the crazy traffic trying to leave after a game or concert.....LOL
Why was the Silverdome the "worst"? You never said anything bad about it except "it had become outdated".....but that will happen to every stadium. That doesn't mean there was anything wrong with it.
The 49ers played at Kezar Stadium before Candlestick Park. It still exists, with the seating cut down, it is used for soccer, track meets, and high school football
Was looking for Kezar. What a dump. They used it for SFPD to practice riot control in 1980s. Many anarchist "rioters" would use or volunteer at Haight-Ashbury Soup Kitchen under the grandstand.
Fun fact about Qualcomm stadium. The last time the Padres were in the World Series they got swept by the NY Yankees and the Yankees got to celebrate their WS win right there in Qualcomm stadium. I know those Padre fans were happy to get their team out of there, but funny enough they still haven’t made it back to the WS, and just this offseason lost their best player to the same team that beat them in the WS there in Qualcomm. The Yankees.
I remember watching the Bills and Jets playing at Shea Stadium in the mid-seventies. Half the field was snow covered and the other half mud with a nice big lake. You had to wait until the teams got to the lake in order to find out which team was which. That was how football was meant to be played and I'd take those old classic stadiums over the modern overpriced stadiums any day.
That's because the Coliseum was, by far, the worst multipurpose stadium ever designed. The baseball-to-football conversion was so painstaking and inefficient, they had to wait until the end of baseball season to do it.
Grew up in the Bay Area as a 49ers and SF Giants fan, so Candlestick Park was a big part of my childhood. It's unusual shape inherited from its original design as a baseball stadium resulted in obstructed views for lower level seating and an overall awkward layout for football games. Also, the stadium's location on a windy coastal area often made playing conditions difficult. It would get really cold there during games.
I was there for a July game in 1966. I got to see Willie McCovey hit a home run. Willie Mays also played that day. You're right about it being cold. We wore parkas to a day game.
I was living in Minneapolis in 2010 and when the dome collapsed I was in the city. We heard a loud bang, and the next morning, two mornings after my 2nd birthday, we heard on the news the metrodome collapsed
I remember going to a Jets game at Shea the season after Super Bowl III. Emerson Boozer #32 was on my paper route for the NY Daily News so it was cool to see him play in person. We were in the "outfield" end zone stands which had maybe 30 rows of seats as I recall. All I remember was freezing my tail off and drinking like 20 cups of hot chocolate. Poor Namath was really struggling with knee injuries by then.
When I was 13, my dad took me to a game at Schaefer Stadium. It looked like a giant version of a high school stadium with two aluminum stands next to each other. And yes, it took an hour at least to get out, which made steam come out of my dad's ears. That footage of the Metrodome collapsing was unreal. But I guess they repaired it? After it got demolished and their new one wasn't ready, the games at TCF meant it was like old times at Metropolitan Stadium in late November or early December. They had one of those below zero playoff games there, too.
Thats very cool I would have liked to go to a game there at Schaefer other than the traffic. I remember the metrodome roof collapsing and the Vikings had to play a home game at Ford Field in detroit vs the Giants then they played the final home game at TCF stadium and the roof was repaired for the next season.
Messed up there on the San Francisco Giants. Came West from New York in 1958 and played their first two seasons in Seals Stadium before moving to the new Candlestick Park.
War Memorial Stadium (5:00) in Buffalo was in a very bad part of town. Opposing teams would have eggs and bricks thrown at their buses going to and from the stadium. The late Otis Taylor who played for the KC Chiefs said of all the AFL stadiums he played in he hated War Memorial Stadium the most. He said that when a game would end you had to run as fast as you could to the dressing room or else the hot water for showers would run out.
Sanders was the GREATEST R.B.--EVER! He would have shattered EVERY record had he played longer, but because the 'Lions' refused to trade him, he opted for retirement.
Weak video. Just a selection of teams previous homes that were abandoned less than 30 years ago. Do you really think Oakland Coliseum is worse than Youell Field, or Qualcomm was worse than Balboa Stadium? Sure, multi use fields were bad, but you don't know your history well enough to call this worst of all time.😊
@mpetersen6 November 1981 before it opened December 1982 April 1983 and the final one December 2010 and it nearly blown off during a game in April 1986
Silverdome was a masterpiece in it's time, it detreated after it's closure, but was not worst all time. How about Sun Devil Stadium? 100 degree heat and metal bleachers. woefully inadequate amenities by NFL standards and Cardinals were stuck there for 18 seasons.
I was going to bring that up myself, but once they closed up its east stands and converted it into a football stadium, it really looked pretty decent, like an actual football stadium, it had no obstructed views whatsoever, unlike Candlestick Park.
You need to have included the Pre-1972 stadiums,..All those legendary old baseball parks doubled as Football Stadiums. Fenway, Yankee ,Tiger, Wrigley, etc. Also id like to see a video from ANYONE on the history of Nippert Stadium .
The Pontiac Silverdome was never really the nicest stadium, but one I'll say for it, it could get LOUD when it was filled up! I saw a Lions game there in 1991, and when they did the introductions of the starting lineup, the last player introduced was Barry Sanders, and I couldn't hear the PA over the crowd noise! That was a cool moment there, like even before they got to him, cus the fans knew he was last, the cheers were deafening!
Schaefer Stadium was built for $7 million. It had four bathrooms for 60,000. It was a dump the day it opened. Parking lots were dirt. Kraft bought the stadium, and when the owner wanted to move the team to St Louis, he refused to let the team out of the lease. So they sold the team to Kraft.
You can't have a list like this without Soldier Field. I didn't know it was one of the smallest venues in all of sports. In fact, Chicago's home to 3 of them (United Center, Wrigley Field [no surprise there], and Soldier Field). That explains why we'll never host or win another Super Bowl.
It is, by far, the worst multipurpose stadium ever built. The baseball-to-football conversion was so sloppy and inefficient, they actually had two different arrangements for football! The Raiders had to wait for baseball season to end before they went to the "permanent" football setup. And the Raiders had to be boiling over with frustration watching the A's win three World Series, while they didn't win a Super Bowl until Ben Drieth fixed that playoff game against the Patriots in 1976.
When elected officials and many sports fans see taxpayer money as their own personal ATM, it's easy to feel entitled and want every team in a city to have their own stadiums. It's absolutely ridiculous and such a waste.
I'm kind of surprised that the Houston Astrodome is not on this list. It had one of the worst playing surfaces in the NFL, and was one of, if not the first, multi-purpose stadiums. On the other other, I'm not sure which stadium would need to be removed from the 10 picked to make room for the Astrodome. They all had issues.
I believe San Diego State built Snapdragon Stadium where Qualcomm Stadium once stood. The capacity is small and they would need to greatly expand and update it if an NFL team were to ever call it home.
You are clearly too young to know anything. There are worse stadiums today than some of these classic stadiums that were the best of their era. Ie Jack Murphy (Qualcomm), Candlestick Park. The infield dirt being on the fields was normal for the multi purpose fields of the time. Learn some history. Just because a stadium was old doesn’t make it bad. But I would not understand a young kid to know or appreciate anything 🙄
You started with a Minnesota stadium and could have finished with one as well: Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN was awful and way worse than several on your list. Both football teams had to stand on the same side of the field!
Being 73 now, I remember when there was just an Anchor fence between the field and the bleachers…yes it was a dump, but many great memories of the old ‘stick….
When Horace Stoneham was scouting locations for the stadium, he went to Candlestick Point around 10:00 A.M. one day, a time when there is almost no wind. He thought it was a beautiful spot for a ballpark, but had no idea that the wind became ferocious in the afternoon and evening. Weathermen said that the wind wouldn't have been nearly as bad, if they had built it only one mile up the road. But, if they had, thousands of people would have been killed in the 1989 earthquake, because the spot had less bedrock.
Yes. In the early days of the NFL, it was common for a football team to take the name of the baseball team. There was a "Brooklyn Dodgers" football team that played at Ebbets Field, and a "Pittsburgh Pirates" football team at Forbes Field. The Boston Redskins got their name from the Red Sox, but didn't go all the way. The Bears played at Wrigley Field and wanted to identify with the Cubs.
@@mikeadiddle Of course, they don't do that anymore. However, the Pittsburgh Penguins (originally blue and white) did change their colors to black and gold, to identify with the Pirates and Steelers. If Pittsburgh ever has a basketball team, no doubt it will do the same thing.
@mrnasty02106 Whether it was meant for, or a good stadium for football or not, has nothing to do with it being a great stadium. No reason to insult the stadium just because you didn't like football being played there.
@@mattrupnow7886 Here we go with this shit. Wrigley's history is loaded with shitty ideas. Off topic, but part of my job as a troll...one day in 1941, some SOB thought it would a great idea, to assemble and use a pipe organ. No surprise, it's from a physicist and a musician. The fans didn't have it (and this was 1941, when shit like this was still embraced). Maybe concerts are okay there, but I jeer anything else.
The Metrodome helped the Twins win the World Series because of opposing National League fielders, not used to the white ceiling, kept losing fly balls.
I will say this… there is no reason for a stadium to be “outdated” in 20 years.
Then you don’t know what you’re talking about.
It becomes like that if it’s not kept up and not renovated to suit modern standards
unfortunately literally every stadium in sports is considered outdated in 20 years now. And the billionaire owners don't have to build them, they just pressure the cities to build them for them.
To be a little fair it’s been more like 30 now. It’s been 27.
It’s kinda like cars your car doesn’t have wood tires but it doesn’t have heated seats is kinda a way you can see it
I love how this video jumps right into the subject matter without a long unnecessary intro.
Shea was a great place to see a game. Insane atmosphere and most sight lines were great. The infield mud was an added bonus, but they finally started re-sodding it in the late 70s when baseball was over.
I never saw a game at Shea in person, but I feel like it was maybe the best of the 10 stadiums on this list. It probably would have made a perfectly fine baseball stadium if they hadn't shared the space with the Jets.
Shea had great access by subway from Manhattan. It was easy to get there. I went to Mets, Jets, and even Yankee games (1975) there. Bitter cold and very windy in the winter, and a lot of noise from the nearby international airport. But a lot of good memories in that place.
How is the former Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia not on here? Cracks in the concrete under the field and the only stadium with a jail for arrested fans
That it was the only stadium with a jail says all you need to know about Philly 😂😂
Heinz stadium or whatever it's called now has a jail
I agree. Very dangerous turf
@@daganjackson7106Heinz Field (now Acrisure Stadium) is in Pittsburgh and is home to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Philadelphia Eagles play at Lincoln Financial Field.
Bro they need a jail in the new Philly stadium and in the baseball and basketball stadiums. Those fans are wild 😂
One that didn't make the list was a stadium that was originally intended for a sport other than football, but ended up as an NFL team's home stadium. Not baseball, as so many NFL stadiums in the last few decades had to deal with, but bicycle racing! The Cycledrome, in Providence, Rhode Island, was the home of the Providence Steam Rollers, who were an NFL franchise from 1925-1933. The field was surrounded by a wooden cycling track, which tightly constricted the field of play, and limited the end zones to being only 5 yards deep, instead of the normal 10. Players tackled out of bounds also tended to find themselves on the wooden track, which during football games was crowded with fans watching the game.
Milwaukee County Stadium where the Packers played 2 to 4 home games per year from 1953-1994. Both teams' benches were on the same sideline!
Like they are in soccer
War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo is where ' The Natural ' was filmed.
If you are a wrestling fan, The Pontiac Silverdome will always live in your hearts. Wrestlemania 3, where Hulk Hogan slammed Andre the Giant.
I believe it still holds the record for the largest indoor attendance ever with over 93,000 people
My dad went to UofM and used to hit the silver dome routinely. He said the best moment for him was the who in the early 80’s
Elvis was there too
I was there that day, kind of. My friends and I were in the next to last row in the upper deck on the opposite side from the entrance tunnel to the field. Practically another zip code! 😁 We could barely see the actual wrestlers, and the big projection screens above the ring were not watchable early on because of daylight coming through the translucent roof.
Some say that the announced attendance of 93,000 was bogus and the real number was lower in the 60-70k range. I say that's BS. For football the Silverdome held over 80k and the permanent seating looked packed to me, and the floor seating looked just as crowded.
@@daved1535Don’t let Dave Meltzer see this lol
I can’t believe that stadiums just go to waste
Welcome to the NFL. Stealing tax payer dollars for no material gain to the citizens
It's pretty wild to think Ford Field in Detroit has already outlived the Silverdome. Is Ford Field outdated? I couldn't imagine Downtown without it.
nah, Ford Field still have a few more years before it gets beyond what the Silverdome was (1975-2001) (2002-20XX) for Ford Field. Only been there 22 years atm
The silverdome was better than forf field
don't forget the Silverdome & hosting Wrestlemania III the biggest attendance ever for Wrestlemania 93,173 March 9, 1987 & sold out in 90 minutes
I always hated football games played in stadiums with a baseball diamond in the middle of the field.
😭😭
I always hate watching baseball played in stadiums with an American footballs field cutting through it
@@Jeffrey-od9uk that never happens since the seasons never coincide. So there is never football line marking on a baseball diamond during baseball. While there’s no getting rid of the diamond. That is a problem of the past though. Seeing how they no longer share fields
@@Youre_RightGod damn you are so wrong it's amazing.
@@Youre_Right MLB & NFL regular seasons do coincide in September.
NGL the Alamodome here in San Antonio does a damn good job at switching the field if only we had an NFL team to occupy it dammit! 😤
Fr tho, I’ve been to a utsa game.
LOL, really? You think the Alamodome is appropriate for an NFL team? Please...
San Antonio is CURRENTLY one of the cities getting looked at for a possible NFL expansion in (2-3) years.
That's because it's not practical to play baseball there. They can't cram a normal baseball field into it.
There's no good reason why San Antonio does not have an NFL team except one,---Jerry Jones.
I low key have a soft spot for the dirt in the raiders stadium. It may have sucked to play in but it looked super unique
The metrodome has a special place in my heart. Between the yearly sports trips with my dad who has sense passed and playing in there yearly for state football.
When the roof collapsed in 2010 that was the beginning of the end
@@michaelleroy9281 fr, it’s really put the final nail in the coffin
My grandfather told my mom (when she was a teenager) how they were gonna go to the Dome when it was completed, sadly he passed away before it was completed and never got to see it. My mom went to her first game there and and was like “this is for you dad”.
I never went there but it appeared from the tv to have a great atmosphere in the 90s. I don't think it should be on the list. Yes it became dated but in the 80s and 90s it seemed like a great venue for the time period.
@@neilwhitaker6284 It was a great atmosphere indeed. The Twins owner, Carl Pohlad, started hollering for a new Twins stadium in the early 90s when it was only 10 years old. In 1998 when Jesse The Body Ventura was elected governor, he was asked if he supported state funds go to a new stadium he replied (paraphrasing) "Well we don't replace schools when they're only 16 years old and we don't need to replace stadiums when they're only 16 years old." That's what I like about non politicians when they get elected.
What I disliked about the Metrodome was it's location: downtown Minneapolis. They already had the land where the old Met Stadium was and it was easy to get to, right off of I 494 and that's where it should have been built. But politics always gets in the way of common sense and it was built downtown where parking is a pain in the arse.
Back in the 90s I remember reading an article in the paper about the Metrodome and they had about 300 events in one year so it was used a LOT. Twins, Vikings, Gophers, Final Four one year, moto cross, monster truck shows, Concerts and many more events. They even used to have roller blading where people would skate through the corridor surrounding the stadium. The Super Bowl was there in about 1998?? and I don't recall anyone in the media speaking badly of it.
It was built on the cheap and of course there were many stadiums much nicer but to tear down a stadium that's just 32 years old just seems so wasteful.
Wondered if “The World’s Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum” would make the list - Memorial Stadium, home of the Baltimore Colts (and Ravens) from 1953 to 1997.
“It’s also where Tom Brady made his NFL debut”
*Brady throw a donk. 😂
I laughed so LOUD at that moment. Scared my wife.
Nice pix of the old stadiums!
Now, get a narrator who doesn't sound like he's hungover and uninterested...
Great hitting park
Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. If you have watched highlights of the 1970 AFC Championship game (Raiders-Colts), the field, during the cold months, was all dirt. I believe that game was referred to as the Dust Bowl.
Bill Curry called it “Our Astrodirt” LOL
Residential houses in the background
But it was great, I loved the place. Only real drawbacks were limited restrooms.
@@billybudd6776 Did you live close enough to walk to the stadium?
@@dcaa62817 no I would pay the local entrepreneurs the dollar insurance
It's truly nuts the amount of money "wasted" in this country.
Yes, and I am decent sports fan. I lived through the "cookie cutter" late 1960s, early 1970s circular muti-use stadiums. When they came out baseball and football people raved about them. To me Wrigley was a joke with it's short HR wall because it was stuck in a neighborhood. Then sports execs and the media decided they needed more a throwback look, so yep, tear them all down. After all, you can't watch sports without expensive catered boxes. I loved Riverfront stadium was only used 32 years. What a shame.
You could build every pro sports team a new stadium with just one of the multi billion dollar packages we’ve been wasting on Ukraine the last few years.
It’s pretty crazy to think that Brady played in the silver dome and Allegiant Stadium
As a Packer fan remember County Stadium?
When I was in high school in the 70s, my buddies and I would drive in to Milwaukee on Packer Sundays. The Packers stunk in those days, and you could pick up tickets really cheap outside the stadium, especially if the weather was sketchy. We didn't care about sightlines or stadium aesthetics, it was just fun to go to an NFL game.
@@blockcl
Same
You could always get a ticket
Pretty close to zero room at the end of the end zone
Also
Both teams occupied the same sideline.
@@philherrick7319mike Ditka and Forrest Greg would both exchange f u at the 50 yard line
Filmed Major League there. Go Wild Thing!
0:25 that huge brown structure in front of the Dome is actually still standing in front of the new stadium
Why wouldn’t it be? lol it’s not the stadium it’s has nothing to do with anything ? 😂😂😂
@@Noenglsh it’s still technically part of the stadium since it’s literally right in front of it
This sounds like it was written by a 12-year old. Work on your grammar, kid.
You should ask for a refund.
Silverdome was a huge improvement over the Lions' previous venue : ( Baseball ) Tigers Stadium, which they played in for almost 40 YEARS up until 1975.
The Bears played in Wrigley Field for many years and only moved to Soldier Field when the NFL decreed all stadiums had to have at least 60K capacity. Now the Bears are trying to get out of Soldier Field
I have great memories of those thanksgiving games at Tiger Stadium
I feel like they were just old stadiums but when they were new they were the cool kid on the block
When first built it was named Schaefer stadium named after Schaefer BEER... Schaefer is the one BEER to to have when you're having more then one, the team was sold several times and the stadium name changed a few times, I learned how to drink on Shaefer beer and Schlitz, I grew up two towns away from Schaefer stadium in Norfolk County Massachusetts and went to many Pat's games and concerts there the first year it was built
Robert Kraft who owned the Patriots (he bought the team from Victor Kiam) threatened to move the team to Hartford, Connecticut (and had actually signed a letter of intent to move the team there) unless the city of Foxborough gave a "sweetheart" deal for the land next to Schaffer Stadium to build it.
I've never heard of the metrodome being called "the humpty dump".
Look at Camden yards. 30 year's old and still probably the best baseball stadium.
Don't forget about the Kingdome
The Kingdome was by FAR--the WORST 'Dual' use stadium EVER created.
@@RansomRambula-no6yo The only real issues were the roof and field. While it was also generally bare bones elsewhere that's not necessarily a negative just not a positive
I was waiting to see someone bring this one up, but what an incredible home field advantage. Went to a Packer's Game there in 1987 - Warner, Largent, Etc...Very Loud!!!
I can't believe Milwaukee County Stadium isn't on this list.
And l agree stadiums do not go out if date in 20 years. But l wish greed would.
The Packers would play games there over games at Lambeau up until the early 90's
@@happybeingmiserable4668 That's NOT true. The Packers SPLIT their home schedule between Milwaukee and Green Bay, playing home games at BOTH, until 1994.
I always though the baseball diamond on the football field was pretty cool. Might not've been great to play on, though.
I never liked it. Kickers disliked kicking on it.
@@fantasticvoyage262 who cares about kickers? Guys got dirt on their uniforms or mud if it was raining which was awesome when I was a kid seeing muddy unies.
@@neilwhitaker6284 People that want their favorite teams to win care about kickers. It's not 1957 anymore. The days of multipurpose stadiums are thankfully gone forever.
@@fantasticvoyage262 both teams play on the same field...
@@neilwhitaker6284 Gee, really? Multipurpose stadiums are terrible. That's why they no longer exist. You're and the other guy above are the only ones that miss bad sightlines, poor turf, and decrepit and souless stadiums. Everyone else is glad they are gone.
I was born in 1957 and grew up in Cleveland and can remember ol' Municipal Stadium, and man, was it a cavern!
No way is the silverdome a top 10 of all time. It was one of the first domes, had massive seating capacity, hosted tons of concerts and things like wrestlemania. The only bad part was the turf was basically painted concrete
It was so bad it also hosted world cup matches.
@@muddobber6863 I work pretty
Much right across the freeway from it, actually got to watch them implode it from my office window, it was pretty cool actually. The first set failed and that was interesting too
The Vikings moving indoors was a colossal mistake. The Vikings were unbeatable in Metropolitan stadium, especially in November and December when the winter set in
Really nice video and photos
Why did you have the Pontiac Silverdome on here? It was a great stadium WHEN IT WAS OPEN but it was in Pontiac and not Detroit, that was the only thing wrong with it. The owners always wanted too much money for events so it was never a viable option. You should have included Tiger Stadium instead. Yes it was in Detroit but it was a REALLY rough area of Detroit plus it was SOOOO old it was falling apart, most of the bathrooms did not work and the plumbing in the stadium leaked.
This is veteran stadium erasure
Where is Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington MN? What a horrible configuration and sight lines, especially for 9:13 football. Both team benches were also on one side of the field.
Foxborough Stadium was a lot of fun to see a game. But you pretty much nailed all of its shortcomings. From the bathrooms to the crazy traffic trying to leave after a game or concert.....LOL
Why was the Silverdome the "worst"? You never said anything bad about it except "it had become outdated".....but that will happen to every stadium. That doesn't mean there was anything wrong with it.
The 49ers played at Kezar Stadium before Candlestick Park. It still exists, with the seating cut down, it is used for soccer, track meets, and high school football
Was looking for Kezar. What a dump. They used it for SFPD to practice riot control in 1980s. Many anarchist "rioters" would use or volunteer at Haight-Ashbury Soup Kitchen under the grandstand.
It’s probably more famous as the site where Dirty Harry had his first showdown with Scorpio
@@michaelbaucom4019 SFPD used it for riot training prior to 1984 DemCon. Protestors used it for soup kitchen.
Fun fact about Qualcomm stadium. The last time the Padres were in the World Series they got swept by the NY Yankees and the Yankees got to celebrate their WS win right there in Qualcomm stadium. I know those Padre fans were happy to get their team out of there, but funny enough they still haven’t made it back to the WS, and just this offseason lost their best player to the same team that beat them in the WS there in Qualcomm. The Yankees.
I remember watching the Bills and Jets playing at Shea Stadium in the mid-seventies. Half the field was snow covered and the other half mud with a nice big lake. You had to wait until the teams got to the lake in order to find out which team was which. That was how football was meant to be played and I'd take those old classic stadiums over the modern overpriced stadiums any day.
The old Tampa Stadium was a complete dumpster fire
As Chris Berman would say "The Sombreo"
What about the orange bowl
Notice how they used to configure the field at Oakland while Baseball season was still going @ 1:36.
That's because the Coliseum was, by far, the worst multipurpose stadium ever designed. The baseball-to-football conversion was so painstaking and inefficient, they had to wait until the end of baseball season to do it.
Grew up in the Bay Area as a 49ers and SF Giants fan, so Candlestick Park was a big part of my childhood. It's unusual shape inherited from its original design as a baseball stadium resulted in obstructed views for lower level seating and an overall awkward layout for football games. Also, the stadium's location on a windy coastal area often made playing conditions difficult. It would get really cold there during games.
I was there for a July game in 1966. I got to see Willie McCovey hit a home run. Willie Mays also played that day. You're right about it being cold. We wore parkas to a day game.
The field at Veterans Stadium ended more careers than Lawrence Taylor
Damn, no mention of veterans stadium in Philadelphia?
I was living in Minneapolis in 2010 and when the dome collapsed I was in the city. We heard a loud bang, and the next morning, two mornings after my 2nd birthday, we heard on the news the metrodome collapsed
I remember going to a Jets game at Shea the season after Super Bowl III. Emerson Boozer #32 was on my paper route for the NY Daily News so it was cool to see him play in person. We were in the "outfield" end zone stands which had maybe 30 rows of seats as I recall. All I remember was freezing my tail off and drinking like 20 cups of hot chocolate. Poor Namath was really struggling with knee injuries by then.
When I was 13, my dad took me to a game at Schaefer Stadium. It looked like a giant version of a high school stadium with two aluminum stands next to each other. And yes, it took an hour at least to get out, which made steam come out of my dad's ears. That footage of the Metrodome collapsing was unreal. But I guess they repaired it? After it got demolished and their new one wasn't ready, the games at TCF meant it was like old times at Metropolitan Stadium in late November or early December. They had one of those below zero playoff games there, too.
Thats very cool I would have liked to go to a game there at Schaefer other than the traffic. I remember the metrodome roof collapsing and the Vikings had to play a home game at Ford Field in detroit vs the Giants then they played the final home game at TCF stadium and the roof was repaired for the next season.
Messed up there on the San Francisco Giants. Came West from New York in 1958 and played their first two seasons in Seals Stadium before moving to the new Candlestick Park.
War Memorial Stadium (5:00) in Buffalo was in a very bad part of town. Opposing teams would have eggs and bricks thrown at their buses going to and from the stadium. The late Otis Taylor who played for the KC Chiefs said of all the AFL stadiums he played in he hated War Memorial Stadium the most. He said that when a game would end you had to run as fast as you could to the dressing room or else the hot water for showers would run out.
No Veteran’s stadium in Philadelphia?
Lions silver dome wasn't that bad but it wasn't All that good either!!! Well heck Barry Sanders put in some work there that is for sure ✌️
Sanders was the GREATEST R.B.--EVER! He would have shattered EVERY record had he played longer, but because the 'Lions' refused to trade him, he opted for retirement.
Weak video. Just a selection of teams previous homes that were abandoned less than 30 years ago. Do you really think Oakland Coliseum is worse than Youell Field, or Qualcomm was worse than Balboa Stadium?
Sure, multi use fields were bad, but you don't know your history well enough to call this worst of all time.😊
As a packer fan I loled when I heard about the metrodome in 2010
Packers??????
LAMBEAU AINT SHIT
The Humpty Dumpty Dome. Wasn't the first time the roof collapsed.
@@mpetersen6 my sister nicknamed it the diaper
@mpetersen6 November 1981 before it opened December 1982 April 1983 and the final one December 2010 and it nearly blown off during a game in April 1986
What about City Stadium or the Polo Grounds?
Polo Grounds lasted decades and was considered a Baseball Cathedral
Silverdome was a masterpiece in it's time, it detreated after it's closure, but was not worst all time. How about Sun Devil Stadium? 100 degree heat and metal bleachers. woefully inadequate amenities by NFL standards and Cardinals were stuck there for 18 seasons.
Interesting study. Kind of overworks "weird", "strange" and "odd" when describing dual-sport stadiums.
The first one doesn't count seeing the NFL has a "don't tackle Patty" clause in everyone's contract.
What about the Orange Bowl? Outdated uncomfortable seating, horrible restrooms, no suites, and deadly food! 😮
And concrete for artificial turf
It's miraculous that no one was inside the Minnesota stadium when the roof collapsed.
how did the Vet not make this list? the domes made for such a great home field crowd noise advantage
The Dome was awesome in Minnesota
The Dome was awful.
I went to there a few times and personally I loved it
I thought for sure you’d add Denver’s old Mile High Stadium
I was going to bring that up myself, but once they closed up its east stands and converted it into a football stadium, it really looked pretty decent, like an actual football stadium, it had no obstructed views whatsoever, unlike Candlestick Park.
You need to have included the Pre-1972 stadiums,..All those legendary old baseball parks doubled as Football Stadiums. Fenway, Yankee ,Tiger, Wrigley, etc. Also id like to see a video from ANYONE on the history of Nippert Stadium .
You had me until 2:29. lol :)
I was an iron worker on that project. The dome was built cheap was uncomfortable and ugly!
The Pontiac Silverdome was never really the nicest stadium, but one I'll say for it, it could get LOUD when it was filled up! I saw a Lions game there in 1991, and when they did the introductions of the starting lineup, the last player introduced was Barry Sanders, and I couldn't hear the PA over the crowd noise! That was a cool moment there, like even before they got to him, cus the fans knew he was last, the cheers were deafening!
And they even used to allow smoking there in the 80s didn't they?
How could you mention Candlestick Park and not talk about the wind?!
Milwaukee County Stadium didn't make the cut?
Or Metropolitan Stadium?
Highmark in Buffalo has great memories in it. But it is very outdated. The tailgating is so good it doesn't matter
New stadium literally going up across the street.
Schaefer Stadium was built for $7 million. It had four bathrooms for 60,000. It was a dump the day it opened. Parking lots were dirt. Kraft bought the stadium, and when the owner wanted to move the team to St Louis, he refused to let the team out of the lease. So they sold the team to Kraft.
I've never been, but State Farm stadium intrigues me. I like how they move the football field in & out.
The narrator seems to be under the age of 30.
Typer of comment seems to be old and be arrogant
@@joj9750 Maybe so my little troll...
And if I am correct the Oakland Athletics are now moving to.
Wait for it.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas will NOW have.
Wait for it!
Not ONE--BUT TWO Loser teams!😂😂😂😂
And also Sacramento, lol
@@RansomRambula-no6yo the Raiders aren’t that bad this year
You can't have a list like this without Soldier Field. I didn't know it was one of the smallest venues in all of sports. In fact, Chicago's home to 3 of them (United Center, Wrigley Field [no surprise there], and Soldier Field). That explains why we'll never host or win another Super Bowl.
If I had a Dolorean DMC-12 I would go back to 2006 just to go to an Oakland Raiders game at the old stadium I never got to go there.
The Coliseum is a dump. You didn’t miss anything. Just a slab of concrete. Went there to see the A’s and Raiders while attending Berkeley.
It is, by far, the worst multipurpose stadium ever built. The baseball-to-football conversion was so sloppy and inefficient, they actually had two different arrangements for football! The Raiders had to wait for baseball season to end before they went to the "permanent" football setup. And the Raiders had to be boiling over with frustration watching the A's win three World Series, while they didn't win a Super Bowl until Ben Drieth fixed that playoff game against the Patriots in 1976.
When elected officials and many sports fans see taxpayer money as their own personal ATM, it's easy to feel entitled and want every team in a city to have their own stadiums. It's absolutely ridiculous and such a waste.
I'm kind of surprised that the Houston Astrodome is not on this list. It had one of the worst playing surfaces in the NFL, and was one of, if not the first, multi-purpose stadiums. On the other other, I'm not sure which stadium would need to be removed from the 10 picked to make room for the Astrodome. They all had issues.
Where did the Cincinnati Bengals play before Riverfront?
How about Busch Stadium
Hope the city of San Diego build a new stadium and bring back the Chargers...HelLA doesn't need two teams
I believe San Diego State built Snapdragon Stadium where Qualcomm Stadium once stood. The capacity is small and they would need to greatly expand and update it if an NFL team were to ever call it home.
@@davidv2700 Wonder why they didn't make it bigger?? It could host San Diego St and bring the Chargers back.
That’s what the Chargers said the first time they were in LA.
And San Diego NEVER appreciated the one they had. That's WHY they !
Wait for it.
LOST--IT! 😂😂😂😂
You are clearly too young to know anything. There are worse stadiums today than some of these classic stadiums that were the best of their era. Ie Jack Murphy (Qualcomm), Candlestick Park. The infield dirt being on the fields was normal for the multi purpose fields of the time. Learn some history. Just because a stadium was old doesn’t make it bad. But I would not understand a young kid to know or appreciate anything 🙄
You started with a Minnesota stadium and could have finished with one as well: Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN was awful and way worse than several on your list. Both football teams had to stand on the same side of the field!
It was ALSO AN OLD ASS STADIUM, that NOW sits on the site of the 'Mall Of America.'
Candlestick was a dump since day one!
I agree. Even Joe Montana claimed to HATE playing there.
Being 73 now, I remember when there was just an Anchor fence between the field and the bleachers…yes it was a dump, but many great memories of the old ‘stick….
When Horace Stoneham was scouting locations for the stadium, he went to Candlestick Point around 10:00 A.M. one day, a time when there is almost no wind. He thought it was a beautiful spot for a ballpark, but had no idea that the wind became ferocious in the afternoon and evening. Weathermen said that the wind wouldn't have been nearly as bad, if they had built it only one mile up the road. But, if they had, thousands of people would have been killed in the 1989 earthquake, because the spot had less bedrock.
People attack the metrodome in Minneapolis while the horrible stadium that was before it (Met Stadium) is entirely forgotten.
What do you mean by outdated
They were falling apart. And had bad views. Or playing surface.
Some of these weren't the worst, they just had become old or in bad locations.
I have a lot of great memories going to Jack Murphy / Qualcomm stadium, but yea I totally agree.
The vet is such a bad stadium
“Looked kinda weird”. Unique is what use to make stadiums have some style. Football was made to play in mud, dirt, grass and bad weather.
Why 😮 did the Braves build a outside stadium ? Geeezzz
"Cleveland Indians football team"??
Right?? What racist football team name.
@@JacobFerch lemme guess, you think the redskins and the chiefs are racist too?
Yes. In the early days of the NFL, it was common for a football team to take the name of the baseball team. There was a "Brooklyn Dodgers" football team that played at Ebbets Field, and a "Pittsburgh Pirates" football team at Forbes Field. The Boston Redskins got their name from the Red Sox, but didn't go all the way. The Bears played at Wrigley Field and wanted to identify with the Cubs.
@@davidlafleche1142 That's weird, and I never knew that. I'll get that one right at the next trivia night for sure. :-)
@@mikeadiddle Of course, they don't do that anymore. However, the Pittsburgh Penguins (originally blue and white) did change their colors to black and gold, to identify with the Pirates and Steelers. If Pittsburgh ever has a basketball team, no doubt it will do the same thing.
Why wasn't Wriggly field on this list? That field was far too small to play football.
Thank you for being one of the few to mention that dump. My God, people were high/on drugs in those days with ideas.
Wrigley Field
@@mattrupnow7886 We all know that Wrigley sucks. No matter how historic or beautiful. It was never meant for football, nor any other events.
@mrnasty02106 Whether it was meant for, or a good stadium for football or not, has nothing to do with it being a great stadium. No reason to insult the stadium just because you didn't like football being played there.
@@mattrupnow7886 Here we go with this shit. Wrigley's history is loaded with shitty ideas. Off topic, but part of my job as a troll...one day in 1941, some SOB thought it would a great idea, to assemble and use a pipe organ. No surprise, it's from a physicist and a musician. The fans didn't have it (and this was 1941, when shit like this was still embraced). Maybe concerts are okay there, but I jeer anything else.
I’m surprised that Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia didn’t make this list.
The Metrodome helped the Twins win the World Series because of opposing National League fielders, not used to the white ceiling, kept losing fly balls.
Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium became so run-down that the joke was, whatever "war" it commemorated had been fought within it.
Love how we (Minnesota) went from one of the worst stadiums to one of the best if not the best stadiums in the NFL! 😊