We showcase the stadiums and arenas of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, with a minimum capacity of 10 000 for football stadiums and 5 000 for everything else. Thanks for watching!
There’s nothing like driving around the truly rural parts of Texas on a Friday night, through the farm and ranch land, seeing almost nothing in the distance, but passing tiny towns with their football stadiums shining as bright as a diamond. You just know that in each place there’s a community coming together and small-town legends are being created.
Indeed! ... I remember well ... just driving around rural Texas is awesome, I covered the entire state over about a 40 year period, drove all over the state🟪
This brought a tear to my eye. I've been to nearly all of these stadiums, but its the high school stadiums that got me welling up. My father was a High School Football coach and I played throughout high school as well, and I've been to all of these stadiums (except the ones built after 2015), either playing or watching my Dad coach. So many hot nights, listening to the bands playing their fight songs, seeing the teams come out and break their banners as they ran onto the field, and hugging my dad as he came off the field to meet me and my mom. On our way home from the games we'd turn on the radio to listen as scores came in from other high school games, maybe stopping by Whataburger to grab a celebratory burger along the way. Times were so much simpler then and I have left North Texas, but my heart remains on the turf and grass of those fields. Thank you for this video, it really took me down memory lane. P.S. UT Arlington's football team was disbanded years before I was born, but I won a couple City Championships at Maverick Stadium during grade school. It is still dear to me. Can't believe an aussie made a video about my home that made me cry. Much Love
Every year Texas plays Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl. Half the stadium is burnt orange and the other half crimson. It's a truly a unique experience in college football.
I went to Allen High School and was on the 2012 Varsity football team, the year the stadium opened. Opening night we had >22,000 people, many people buying standing-room-only tickets. It is still crazy to me how awesome of a stadium we had and the fact that we still fill it up most Friday nights. Cool to see it on this list :)
These stadiums are so well known that you don't have to be from the Dallas area to know that a large part of football history is here. Legendary games, players and coaches have touched these fields. Great video. Thank you.
LMAO this is one of your best ones so far. Love how all the multimillion dollar high school football stadiums finally broke you down halfway through and you needed a "Texan" to come in haha
I grew up in Fort Worth and got to play in a few of these stadiums. There are a lot of really great smaller stadiums here as well. Amon G Carter is my favorite by far though!
Fort Worth native, here... glad to see Dickies on the board. And yes, I've been to (and even played in) a few of those high school stadiums, like most DFW residents.
The tower beside Mesquite Memorial Stadium transmits the Mesquite ISD's own radio station, KEOM 88.5 FM, which broadcasts most of games played within and plays music of the 1970s. McKinney ISD Stadium hosts the NCAA Division II Football Championships, while Toyota Stadium hosts the FCS Championship as well as the Frisco Bowl. Frisco ISD plays football at both Ford Center and Toyota Stadium. The Conference USA basketball tournament has been played the last few years at Ford Center, using two courts. The entrance to Schollmeyer Arena reminds me of the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
Thank you just brought light to our Memorial stadium. The memorial stadium was a great place to relax. Their often the school had events and as month ago it hosted the National band Marching contest.
My hometown...I've been in half of these (and almost all of the college ones). Stadium story (and yes, the tcu stadium is a bit steep in person) - They are a private college in Ft. Worth, while SMU (the last group profiled here) is similarly a private school in Dallas. They play home and away each year, and this instance takes place one year the game was in Ft. Worth. At the end of each performance, the SMU band form what is called the diamond M (band stands to form said letter) and one year as they stood there, the crowd might have noticed little baggies floating in the wind. Six months or so later, on the stadium's field, a pattern, shaped like a diamond M, of rye grass grew...
I kind of like how Texas has a 10-20,000 seat stadium for their suburban towns (cities, in some cases) instead of scattering 4-8,000 seat Erector Set-stadiums around like other states do. It gives them a usefulness beyond just school events.
2:12 UNT Coliseum resembles the old Reunion Arena in downtown Dallas, which was the main arena for the Dallas Mavericks until 2001. It shares a similar "pedestal" look that is not at all common in arena design. Interestingly enough though, UNT Coliseum opened in 1973 while Reunion opened in 1980 - so maybe the city took some inspiration from the college up the road? 11:28 Not only are these balconies, but some were actually originally offices that could be leased out by companies who wanted a unique address. Not sure there's any other stadium in the United States that has offices (other than the team's, that is) incorporated into the building - but tbh, it's an idea that really was ahead of its time. Other teams, especially those who can't get a sweetheart deal to develop and profit from the land around their stadium (like the Atlanta Braves or the New England Patriots), should consider this as a money-generating alternative in their new ballpark/arena. Ground-floor retail at new stadiums is pretty commonplace now, and leasable office space might be the next evolution of that idea, especially for facilities in the downtown area.
I just attended the Rocket League world championships at Dickies Arena this past weekend, and it's a really nice venue. Great to see some different styling from a modern arena, and that video board is huge.
It's kind of an unwritten rule that Fort Worth facilities should have an art deco façade. Beautiful place and LONG overdue. I'd like to see the Brahmas come back in ECHL and a G-League team.
Kevin, the same Fort Worth Civic Leaders (specifically the Basses), built Bass Performance Hall, a wonderful acoustic venue........well, Ed Bass oversaw totally Dickie's Arena, which was built with the same type acoustics as Bass Performance Hall, as Bass knew they were building a multi-purpose Arena housing many concerts, which the acoustics would be tops anywhere. My only problem is that Dickie's Arena was topped out at 14,000 seating capacity; I had this wild hope that since Fort Worth is the LARGEST CITY IN AMERICA (12th) without a Major League Sports Team, I was hoping that Fort Worth could build a venue with 17,000-18,000 range, so we might be able to land an NBA Team--Imagine an NBA Team coming to Texas, playing Houston, San Antonio, the Mavericks, and a close rival in Fort Worth Guess it won't happen in my lifetime, but our identity (unfortunately) is tied to Dallas. Even though the Cowboys haven't played IN DALLAS since 1970, and now is located in Tarrant County---I'll always keep my fingers crossed for a Pro Team in a City of a Million and DFW area of 8 Million!
I live in Dallas and I can confirm that we take our stadiums very serious, I teach high school and our stadium is college level caliber…..to sound old: BACK IN MY DAY my high school had just a two bleachers and a scoreboard:D
Better than my high school stadium. Located on a hill next to a two century old cemetery with concrete bleachers and a single scoreboard dating back to the 1980s as "modern"
As someone who is a born and raised Texan, I can tell yall that people take their highschool football games very seriously. It's a state past time to be honest. Doesn't matter what city you're in, homecoming games on Friday night basically shut the city down for about 4 hours. Also, the old Texas rangers stadium was amazing before they converted it. I spent many an afternoon roasting under the oppressive July sun watching my favorite baseball team lose to #4 in the league teams. But man, I gotta say, it's good to be out of the sun in the new stadium.
Old globe life and the rough riders stadiums are two of the best stadiums I’ve ever been to. Also the only stadium I can think of that you missed is the dirt track at Texas motor speedway, a much smaller dirt oval behind the main stadium
I’ve been obsessed with stadiums and stadium design since a kid. I would draw fake stadium mock ups and diagrams in my school copy books lol. Wish i would’ve pursued it as a career. As a Pennsylvanian i humbly request a Philly or PA stadium video please 🙏🏻
My Uncle worked with the company that designed the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington as well as the American Airlines center. It is quite amazing as to what goes into the design of these buildings.
you should do one on Houston's stadiums they have Minute Maid Park, NRG Stadium, Toyota Center, Rice Stadium, TDECU Stadium, The Legendary Astrodome and The Summit (now Lakewood Church).
Great job, as usual. Good idea to do all city stadiums. You did miss a few, including a couple of arenas. The Credit Union of Texas Event Center is a 6,275 fixed-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Allen, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas. The arena opened in 2009 under the name Allen Event Center. Construction cost was $52.6 million. Home to the Allen Americans minor league hockey and Dallas Sidekicks indoor soccer. Comerica Center is a multi-purpose arena in Frisco, Texas. It is the home of the Texas Legends of the NBA G League and the Frisco Fighters of the Indoor Football League, as well as the executive offices and practice facility of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars. It seats between 5,000 and 7,000 people. Construction cost $27 million + $39 million renovation (which expanded capacity to around 6,000). Keep up the good work!
There's another high school arena, the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland. The Fort Worth Convention Center arena, which resembles a flying saucer, is set to be demolished as it's been functionally replaced by Dickies Arena, but telescoping seating is planned for the ballroom which will replace it. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas also boasts a domed arena, originally called Dallas Memorial Auditorium, with 9,000 seats. It once shared the Dallas Chaparrals of the ABA (now the San Antonio Spurs) with Moody Coliseum. There's also a 7,000 seat coliseum at Fair Park, next to the Cotton Bowl, formerly used for minor league hockey but built more for rodeos. Will Rogers Coliseum also had minor league hockey, with a rivalry in the '70s between the Fort Worth Wings and the Dallas Blackhawks.
This was a good video. The only other impressive high school stadiums that I’ve been too that I can remember pretty well and didn’t see on this list was Highlander Stadium in the park cities, Max Goldsmith Stadium in Lewisville and Ron Poe stadium in McKinney. Other than those good job!
When I moved to DFW 3 years ago, the notion of Texas football craze was plainly ridiculous to me. By now, other than the fact that high schools are blowing way too much money on it, the high school football culture may well be my favorite aspect of the Texan identity. Crazy to think how many of these stadiums Ive made memories at. Legendary video
I live 6 minutes from the C.H Collins Complex so here are some facts: -Those "houses" are concessions and restrooms. There are 4, with 2 on home and 2 on visitor on opposite ends -The building to the north end zone is either an athletic complex or conference rooms -4 teams play here currently, including the #16 ranked in the nation and #1 in Texas Guyer. Denton and Denton Ryan also play here. Braswell currently plays here, but they might move out because they have their new stadium on us 380. -This is just a high school and marching band venue -The visitor and home sections are identical and have approximately the same amount of seating. -It is located next to the Denton Natatorium on 288 and 428 -The capacity fits around 12,000 -It has a 3-floor press box That's it
I’m sad you didn’t include my high school stadium: Pennington Field. Not the best looker, but it is an imposing place for visiting teams. We used to say “No one escapes the walls of the Penn.” and there’s a reason for that. In my three years playing at Euless Trinity, we went 15-1 at home.
Things could have been much different for Irving ISD. From what I recall, back in the 90s (I can't remember the exact year), there were two bond propositions regarding the schools, one of which was to build a new stadium to replace Joy and Ralph Ellis Stadium, which was then known as Irving Schools Stadium. That specific bond proposition was voted down. At least they eventually made some renovations that made it look acceptable. I don't see it being replaced anytime soon.
You missed several surprising high school football stadiums. Aledo, Lewisville (actually several in Lewisville ISD other than the Marcus stadium you covered), and Duncanville come to mind. Plus, one that I can’t remember the specific school but has a full indoor football practice field. And those are just off the top of my head…but performed AV installation work in DFW area schools for about 5 years so I saw many across many districts.
Houston stadiums could give Dallas a run. Merrell center, Berry Center, Delmar Fieldhouse (Baby Toyota center), Legacy Stadium, Galena Park ISD stadium, Constellation Field so many more I can't name right now
As a student of UTA, the first stadium you showed, I should point out that despite us having a stadium, and a field with our logos on it, we don’t actually have a football team. The football program was discontinued in 1985. The stadium is only used for track and field. So yes, as you said in the College Park Center segment, we are a basketball heavy university because we don’t have football..
I'm really enjoying these metro area stadium reviews. Could you also do one for the Ruhr-Area in germany? It's not exactly a single city but it is a more or less continuus agglomeration of more than 5 million people with a very specific working class industrail identity and with clubs like schalke, dortmund, bochum, essen etc. there is a lot to cover. Would really appreciate it. Thanks for the frequent videos and much love from south germany
Do a video on just the High School stadiums in Texas. Any amenities or architecture can eventually be seen if you look long enough. We have mild falls and winters all over the state, and most people live between 1 and 6 hours from a professional team. HS football is often a favorite sport in the state, and is much more community oriented.
Well done. Football is a huge thing in Dallas- FtWorth. I’ve been to a good amount of those stadiums and a lot of them are a little excessive on the price but actually being there you realize it was worth every penny
love this guy...very funny in a tongue in cheek sort of way...and sounds like Will Power the Indycar race driver...i doubt if Will is as funny though...keep up the entertaining work...
“Independent” indicates that the school district is separate from any municipality, county, or state-the school district has its own taxing authority outside the direct control of other governmental entities. Schools in a city or town are not controlled by the city or town government, the Mayor can't tell a school's Principal what to do. The district has a "CEO" in the form of a Superintendent. The Superintendent answers only to a School Board which is elected by the residents of the geographic district. Districts may encompass a single town/city or a larger area and usually takes the name of the town of origin of the school district. I live in a district that covers 3 cities/towns and is named for the larger city that students from the smaller towns were attending because these towns didn't have the resources to keep up with growth of the town. Garland ISD which serves the cities of Garland, Rowlett, and Sachse. Homer B. Johnson Stadium, featured in this video, is owned by the Garland ISD. Garland also has a smaller stadium, Williams Stadium. The 7 high schools of Garland ISD share in the use of both stadiums.
Hearing $70m+ for a DAMNED HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUM is WILD, but if multiple schools use it, the cost SEEMS to be slightly justified.......SLIGHTLY.
The stadiums, especially the newer ones are in school districts/cities where their populations have risen dramatically over the past few decades, newer schools in those districts, often being built in the last 10-15 years. The stadiums are definitely meant to be used for multiple schools and uses.
I don’t like Globe Life Field because one I don’t think they really needed to build it (although I think they had a better reason then the Atlanta Braves did) and two, it looks like a slightly more modern carbon copy of Minute Maid Park in Houston, just look at the two side by side
Considering the original Ballpark at Arlington wasn't even 25 years old when they started the replacement Globe Life Field, it almost seems like a waste of money. I don't even know if The Ballpark had been fully paid off by that time. I get the issue of having a roof in case of storms and cover from the hot Texas sun, but that was as much a problem when The Ballpark was conceived in the early 90s. I suspect that a roofed stadium would have cost too much to win support at that time, so they went with the no-roof version just to get some kind of replacement for the old Arlington Stadium. It's too bad, because The Ballpark had a unique, maybe even quirky design that left no doubt where you were if you were the visiting team.
@@JBM425 the worst part is that $500 million, roughly half the cost of the stadium was paid for with public money. I’m well aware that this is a very common trend, but somehow it needs to stop. Of course the owners will boast about all it will do for the local economy, and while it does very from place to place, many studies have debunked these claims. If these billionaire owners want to replace a stadium that isn’t even three decades old, then they can pay for it themselves. That’s not unreasonable
@@rollingdudes8859 that’s the main reason I’m saying you had a slightly better reason then the Braves did to replace a less then three decades old ballpark. But it still looks like a copy of Minute Maid Park and it was wrong to use public money
When I moved to Prosper Texas ( 8:45 ) the population was about 800. When I graduated the population was nearing 30K. and we had the same high school football stadium the entire time (and it was actually at the middle school. The year after I graduated the new High School Football stadium was built. I remember seeing the previews for it nearly a decade before and thinking there was no way that would ever be built. but here we are.
I just left a game in Prosper. My oldest son was the 5,000 student enrolled in the district years ago and graduated 2020 with the last class of Prosper High before they opened the 2nd high school. I do remember the old stadium and I thank them for giving us a temple worthy for the community to put on a show every weekend.
As somebody who grew up in the DFW metroplex & played high school football there, I have been to almost all of the stadiums in this video & even played football in some of them, but my home stadium wasn't mentioned in this video, that would be the Gopher-Warrior Bowl in Grand Prairie, TX.
Besides soccer, Toyota Stadium also hosts NCAA football. It is where the FCS National Championship is played every year, with South Dakota State as the current reigning champions, as well as where the Frisco Bowl is played every year.
Good video . There are actually even more ( close to )10000 seat high school stadiums than this. For instance Marcus stadium shown in this video has 3 more in their ISD (Lewisville, Hebron and Flower Mound all with more than 9500 seats). Pennington in Bedford has 12500 and probably several more.
We're probably a bit too south to be considered proper Dallas / Ft Worth (although we're really not as far away from Dallas as Denton and Prosper). There's a very interesting high school stadium in Cleburne, TX, Yellow Jacket Stadium. The limestone exterior is very unique, and it's the only high school stadium in the DFW area to be registered with the state as a historical site.
You missed the Gopher Warrior bowl in Grand Prairie. It host many of the high school playoff games regardless if one of the Grand Prairie teams is involved. Its a Bowl built in the ground and has always been a cool venue!🏉🏈
I’ve been to the Fort Worth stock show and rodeo many times, my family raises cattle and when I was in high school I was an exhibitor there and now my family sells cattle there. I saw the dickies arena being built and I’ve seen a rodeo or two inside will rogers coliseum
4:15 I'm about a 35-40 minute walk from my house to Marcus High School's stadium in Flower Mound. Was really surprised to see that stadium featured in this video (Lewisville High's Max Goldsmith Stadium is pretty similar but with a newer facade).
the expensive Texas high school stadiums are paid by private funds, the parents in rich Texas towns form corporations to better fund the schools. I've been to a couple of them in the Austin area and its not just stadiums, everything on campus is first class, and all the students benefit. The pressure on the students to succeed both in athletics and academics is intense. One former student I met who was now a senior pre med at University of Texas told me that her high school was much harder than pre med.
Surprised you didn’t show the Fine Arts/Athletic Complex (FAAC) in the Birdville ISD. 12,000 capacity, looks really nice, and is in a really nice area. My old high school plays there.
I graduated from McKinney back in the 90's. McKinney was the first high school in Texas to get an indoor practice arena. To be fair the School district didn't pay for it. Coca-Cola did. My father was on the school board for McKinney when the deal took place. It was a great move for the district. Up to that point the district had owned, and serviced all of it's own soda machines. Coke came in and offered to replace all the machines district wide, maintain and stock them and give the district a percentage of the sales. They also included the practice arena as part of the deal. It ended up saving the district money. It got the district out of being in the vending machine business which didn't really make the district any real money.
Mate, decent video, but you missed a lot of things and got a few things flat out wrong. I’ve visited many of these stadiums, and you’ve got a good sense about many of them! Thanks for taking the time to cover this topic!
The Cotton Bowl hosts the Red River Rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas... it is JAM PACKED with fans from both teams every single year at the same time of the Texas State Fair (literally outside of the stadium).
And, a couple of years ago, it hosted the New Year's Day "NHL Winter Classic" outdoor hockey game between the Nashville Predators and the Dallas Stars.
The Cotton Bowl was also a venue for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and I attended two matches there. The 2026 FIFA World Cup opted for Jerry World, as AT&T Stadium is nicknamed, as did the New Year's game that carries the Cotton Bowl name.
There’s nothing like driving around the truly rural parts of Texas on a Friday night, through the farm and ranch land, seeing almost nothing in the distance, but passing tiny towns with their football stadiums shining as bright as a diamond. You just know that in each place there’s a community coming together and small-town legends are being created.
Indeed! ... I remember well ... just driving around rural Texas is awesome, I covered the entire state over about a 40 year period, drove all over the state🟪
This brought a tear to my eye. I've been to nearly all of these stadiums, but its the high school stadiums that got me welling up. My father was a High School Football coach and I played throughout high school as well, and I've been to all of these stadiums (except the ones built after 2015), either playing or watching my Dad coach. So many hot nights, listening to the bands playing their fight songs, seeing the teams come out and break their banners as they ran onto the field, and hugging my dad as he came off the field to meet me and my mom. On our way home from the games we'd turn on the radio to listen as scores came in from other high school games, maybe stopping by Whataburger to grab a celebratory burger along the way. Times were so much simpler then and I have left North Texas, but my heart remains on the turf and grass of those fields. Thank you for this video, it really took me down memory lane.
P.S. UT Arlington's football team was disbanded years before I was born, but I won a couple City Championships at Maverick Stadium during grade school. It is still dear to me.
Can't believe an aussie made a video about my home that made me cry.
Much Love
Same here, I'm from Grand Prairie & played football for South Grand Prairie, nothing beats Friday night football in north Texas.
@@dmdeester maybe you know my Uncle Ben Bailey who coached at SGP a while back
@@conoregan5363 Can't say that's a name I remember, I went there from 2010-2014, Brent Whitson was my head coach.
@@dmdeester before that lol
Every year Texas plays Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry at the Cotton Bowl. Half the stadium is burnt orange and the other half crimson. It's a truly a unique experience in college football.
And the longhorns suck.
@@chickenonanapkin HOOK EM… upside down
It's an experience I've been able to take part in multiple times that I wouldn't trade for the world!
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Yeah, why he used the pics he did is odd. Showing the split fans would made it more impressive.
Love seeing my local stadiums featured! We really are spoiled with great venues in this area.
I went to Allen High School and was on the 2012 Varsity football team, the year the stadium opened. Opening night we had >22,000 people, many people buying standing-room-only tickets. It is still crazy to me how awesome of a stadium we had and the fact that we still fill it up most Friday nights. Cool to see it on this list :)
Was Kyler Murray on the team at that time? I know he graduated in 2015, but wasn't sure if he was at Allen all 4 years.
@@BoomerKeith1 He was. He transferred to Allen after his freshmen year. He was the starter from mid 2012 through 2014.
It's funny that you started with UT Arlington's "Football" stadium because UT Arlington hasn't had a football team since 1985
What do they use it for now?
@@jackinblack19 I think track and field and high school football
I know my mom went there and it was so surprising
Kind of sounds like what they did at Wichita State.
@@jackinblack19 also bed races every year lol
These stadiums are so well known that you don't have to be from the Dallas area to know that a large part of football history is here. Legendary games, players and coaches have touched these fields. Great video. Thank you.
LMAO this is one of your best ones so far. Love how all the multimillion dollar high school football stadiums finally broke you down halfway through and you needed a "Texan" to come in haha
I grew up in Fort Worth and got to play in a few of these stadiums. There are a lot of really great smaller stadiums here as well. Amon G Carter is my favorite by far though!
Choctaw Stadium will always be The Ballpark in Arlington to me.
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Long live The Temple
Fort Worth native, here... glad to see Dickies on the board.
And yes, I've been to (and even played in) a few of those high school stadiums, like most DFW residents.
The tower beside Mesquite Memorial Stadium transmits the Mesquite ISD's own radio station, KEOM 88.5 FM, which broadcasts most of games played within and plays music of the 1970s. McKinney ISD Stadium hosts the NCAA Division II Football Championships, while Toyota Stadium hosts the FCS Championship as well as the Frisco Bowl. Frisco ISD plays football at both Ford Center and Toyota Stadium. The Conference USA basketball tournament has been played the last few years at Ford Center, using two courts. The entrance to Schollmeyer Arena reminds me of the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
Thank you just brought light to our Memorial stadium. The memorial stadium was a great place to relax. Their often the school had events and as month ago it hosted the National band Marching contest.
My hometown...I've been in half of these (and almost all of the college ones).
Stadium story (and yes, the tcu stadium is a bit steep in person) - They are a private college in Ft. Worth, while SMU (the last group profiled here) is similarly a private school in Dallas. They play home and away each year, and this instance takes place one year the game was in Ft. Worth. At the end of each performance, the SMU band form what is called the diamond M (band stands to form said letter) and one year as they stood there, the crowd might have noticed little baggies floating in the wind. Six months or so later, on the stadium's field, a pattern, shaped like a diamond M, of rye grass grew...
I kind of like how Texas has a 10-20,000 seat stadium for their suburban towns (cities, in some cases) instead of scattering 4-8,000 seat Erector Set-stadiums around like other states do. It gives them a usefulness beyond just school events.
Texas is a big state with a lot of people
Been doing this for decades based on ISDs. It does make a lot of financial sense.
Football is a religion in Texas
2:12 UNT Coliseum resembles the old Reunion Arena in downtown Dallas, which was the main arena for the Dallas Mavericks until 2001. It shares a similar "pedestal" look that is not at all common in arena design. Interestingly enough though, UNT Coliseum opened in 1973 while Reunion opened in 1980 - so maybe the city took some inspiration from the college up the road?
11:28 Not only are these balconies, but some were actually originally offices that could be leased out by companies who wanted a unique address. Not sure there's any other stadium in the United States that has offices (other than the team's, that is) incorporated into the building - but tbh, it's an idea that really was ahead of its time. Other teams, especially those who can't get a sweetheart deal to develop and profit from the land around their stadium (like the Atlanta Braves or the New England Patriots), should consider this as a money-generating alternative in their new ballpark/arena. Ground-floor retail at new stadiums is pretty commonplace now, and leasable office space might be the next evolution of that idea, especially for facilities in the downtown area.
I just attended the Rocket League world championships at Dickies Arena this past weekend, and it's a really nice venue. Great to see some different styling from a modern arena, and that video board is huge.
They should get a minor league hockey team (AHL or ECHL) to play there.
It's kind of an unwritten rule that Fort Worth facilities should have an art deco façade.
Beautiful place and LONG overdue.
I'd like to see the Brahmas come back in ECHL and a G-League team.
@@Chaz4543 AHL would be really nice, and I believe they need a 32nd team with the new Seattle franchise
Kevin, the same Fort Worth Civic Leaders (specifically the Basses), built Bass Performance Hall, a wonderful acoustic venue........well, Ed Bass oversaw totally Dickie's Arena, which was built with the same type acoustics as Bass Performance Hall, as Bass knew they were building a multi-purpose Arena housing many concerts, which the acoustics would be tops anywhere. My only problem is that Dickie's Arena was topped out at 14,000 seating capacity; I had this wild hope that since Fort Worth is the LARGEST CITY IN AMERICA (12th) without a Major League Sports Team, I was hoping that Fort Worth could build a venue with 17,000-18,000 range, so we might be able to land an NBA Team--Imagine an NBA Team coming to Texas, playing Houston, San Antonio, the Mavericks, and a close rival in Fort Worth
Guess it won't happen in my lifetime, but our identity (unfortunately) is tied to Dallas. Even though the Cowboys haven't played IN DALLAS since 1970, and now is located in Tarrant County---I'll always keep my fingers crossed for a Pro Team in a City of a Million and DFW area of 8 Million!
ayy me too, cool place. I love Fort Worth's aesthetic
I live in Dallas and I can confirm that we take our stadiums very serious, I teach high school and our stadium is college level caliber…..to sound old: BACK IN MY DAY my high school had just a two bleachers and a scoreboard:D
I mean there are still stadiums like that in Dallas to this day.
Better than my high school stadium.
Located on a hill next to a two century old cemetery with concrete bleachers and a single scoreboard dating back to the 1980s as "modern"
Thank you sir, for the great video (as usual!!). This is a good step to show the Texas High School football stadiums! Love from Reno NV and Israel!
I really laughed out loud with the coffee spitting sound at 2:36.
always like it when you include motorsport venues! neat!
As someone who is a born and raised Texan, I can tell yall that people take their highschool football games very seriously. It's a state past time to be honest. Doesn't matter what city you're in, homecoming games on Friday night basically shut the city down for about 4 hours. Also, the old Texas rangers stadium was amazing before they converted it. I spent many an afternoon roasting under the oppressive July sun watching my favorite baseball team lose to #4 in the league teams. But man, I gotta say, it's good to be out of the sun in the new stadium.
Old globe life and the rough riders stadiums are two of the best stadiums I’ve ever been to. Also the only stadium I can think of that you missed is the dirt track at Texas motor speedway, a much smaller dirt oval behind the main stadium
I’ve been obsessed with stadiums and stadium design since a kid. I would draw fake stadium mock ups and diagrams in my school copy books lol. Wish i would’ve pursued it as a career. As a Pennsylvanian i humbly request a Philly or PA stadium video please 🙏🏻
My Uncle worked with the company that designed the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington as well as the American Airlines center. It is quite amazing as to what goes into the design of these buildings.
3:14 I just got back from a scrimmage at panther stadium. Very impressive in person
I grew up in the area and they just RENOVATED the stadium a few years ago!!! Very NICE STADIUM!!!
you should do one on Houston's stadiums they have Minute Maid Park, NRG Stadium, Toyota Center, Rice Stadium, TDECU Stadium, The Legendary Astrodome and The Summit (now Lakewood Church).
I mean, the astrodome is just a rotting husk at this point
@@rangersking6699 at least its still there
I've been to Will Rogers once for a rodeo. It was an amazing experience. I have a soft spot for older venues, since I'm a bit of a history buff.
Great job, as usual. Good idea to do all city stadiums. You did miss a few, including a couple of arenas. The Credit Union of Texas Event Center is a 6,275 fixed-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Allen, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas. The arena opened in 2009 under the name Allen Event Center. Construction cost was $52.6 million. Home to the Allen Americans minor league hockey and Dallas Sidekicks indoor soccer. Comerica Center is a multi-purpose arena in Frisco, Texas. It is the home of the Texas Legends of the NBA G League and the Frisco Fighters of the Indoor Football League, as well as the executive offices and practice facility of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars. It seats between 5,000 and 7,000 people. Construction cost $27 million + $39 million renovation (which expanded capacity to around 6,000). Keep up the good work!
I don't think you need to explain what Allen Texas was, considering he included their high school's football stadium in the video
Allen Event Center is a cool venue, I've seen soccer, hockey, football and a concert there!
Forgot the Fort Worth Convention center arena holds 13,500
There's another high school arena, the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland. The Fort Worth Convention Center arena, which resembles a flying saucer, is set to be demolished as it's been functionally replaced by Dickies Arena, but telescoping seating is planned for the ballroom which will replace it. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas also boasts a domed arena, originally called Dallas Memorial Auditorium, with 9,000 seats. It once shared the Dallas Chaparrals of the ABA (now the San Antonio Spurs) with Moody Coliseum. There's also a 7,000 seat coliseum at Fair Park, next to the Cotton Bowl, formerly used for minor league hockey but built more for rodeos. Will Rogers Coliseum also had minor league hockey, with a rivalry in the '70s between the Fort Worth Wings and the Dallas Blackhawks.
Update: Dallas Memorial Auditorium will become the new home of the Dallas Wings in a couple of years after a renovation.
This was a good video. The only other impressive high school stadiums that I’ve been too that I can remember pretty well and didn’t see on this list was Highlander Stadium in the park cities, Max Goldsmith Stadium in Lewisville and Ron Poe stadium in McKinney. Other than those good job!
When I moved to DFW 3 years ago, the notion of Texas football craze was plainly ridiculous to me. By now, other than the fact that high schools are blowing way too much money on it, the high school football culture may well be my favorite aspect of the Texan identity. Crazy to think how many of these stadiums Ive made memories at. Legendary video
I live 6 minutes from the C.H Collins Complex so here are some facts:
-Those "houses" are concessions and restrooms. There are 4, with 2 on home and 2 on visitor on opposite ends
-The building to the north end zone is either an athletic complex or conference rooms
-4 teams play here currently, including the #16 ranked in the nation and #1 in Texas Guyer. Denton and Denton Ryan also play here. Braswell currently plays here, but they might move out because they have their new stadium on us 380.
-This is just a high school and marching band venue
-The visitor and home sections are identical and have approximately the same amount of seating.
-It is located next to the Denton Natatorium on 288 and 428
-The capacity fits around 12,000
-It has a 3-floor press box
That's it
I’m sad you didn’t include my high school stadium: Pennington Field. Not the best looker, but it is an imposing place for visiting teams. We used to say “No one escapes the walls of the Penn.” and there’s a reason for that. In my three years playing at Euless Trinity, we went 15-1 at home.
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@@Greyson23.44 LD Bell! As we say around here, you can’t spell Bell without 24 L’s 😂
@@RushFanatic87 😂
@@Greyson23.44 make that 25 L’s!
@@RushFanatic87 yep
Thanks for highlighting my Metroplex!
Great video - inspired choice of a truly eclectic mix of stadia
Things could have been much different for Irving ISD. From what I recall, back in the 90s (I can't remember the exact year), there were two bond propositions regarding the schools, one of which was to build a new stadium to replace Joy and Ralph Ellis Stadium, which was then known as Irving Schools Stadium. That specific bond proposition was voted down. At least they eventually made some renovations that made it look acceptable. I don't see it being replaced anytime soon.
Arlington, TX have an amazing sports complex there.
You missed several surprising high school football stadiums. Aledo, Lewisville (actually several in Lewisville ISD other than the Marcus stadium you covered), and Duncanville come to mind. Plus, one that I can’t remember the specific school but has a full indoor football practice field. And those are just off the top of my head…but performed AV installation work in DFW area schools for about 5 years so I saw many across many districts.
Wow! So many stadiums in this area. Plus, now I have a good reason to go to a baseball game.
Houston stadiums could give Dallas a run.
Merrell center, Berry Center, Delmar Fieldhouse (Baby Toyota center), Legacy Stadium, Galena Park ISD stadium, Constellation Field so many more I can't name right now
As a student of UTA, the first stadium you showed, I should point out that despite us having a stadium, and a field with our logos on it, we don’t actually have a football team. The football program was discontinued in 1985. The stadium is only used for track and field. So yes, as you said in the College Park Center segment, we are a basketball heavy university because we don’t have football..
The Texas speedway is freaking huge! Just like everything in Texas.
Texas Christian University's football and basketball stadiums are beautiful!
That southern accent makes you sound like Hank Hill!
I'm really enjoying these metro area stadium reviews. Could you also do one for the Ruhr-Area in germany? It's not exactly a single city but it is a more or less continuus agglomeration of more than 5 million people with a very specific working class industrail identity and with clubs like schalke, dortmund, bochum, essen etc. there is a lot to cover. Would really appreciate it.
Thanks for the frequent videos and much love from south germany
The second stadium is actually a high school stadium
And it's "Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD"
Do a video on just the High School stadiums in Texas. Any amenities or architecture can eventually be seen if you look long enough. We have mild falls and winters all over the state, and most people live between 1 and 6 hours from a professional team. HS football is often a favorite sport in the state, and is much more community oriented.
I’ve been to all of these Stadiums
Too bad UT Arlington doesn’t have football 😔
Well done. Football is a huge thing in Dallas- FtWorth. I’ve been to a good amount of those stadiums and a lot of them are a little excessive on the price but actually being there you realize it was worth every penny
Nice shot of the Dallas Omni Hotel at the end. They have great umbrellas.
love this guy...very funny in a tongue in cheek sort of way...and sounds like Will Power the Indycar race driver...i doubt if Will is as funny though...keep up the entertaining work...
For those of you outside of Texas, "ISD" such as "Carrolton ISD" stands for "Independent School District." The more you know... ;)
“Independent” indicates that the school district is separate from any municipality, county, or state-the school district has its own taxing authority outside the direct control of other governmental entities. Schools in a city or town are not controlled by the city or town government, the Mayor can't tell a school's Principal what to do. The district has a "CEO" in the form of a Superintendent. The Superintendent answers only to a School Board which is elected by the residents of the geographic district. Districts may encompass a single town/city or a larger area and usually takes the name of the town of origin of the school district. I live in a district that covers 3 cities/towns and is named for the larger city that students from the smaller towns were attending because these towns didn't have the resources to keep up with growth of the town. Garland ISD which serves the cities of Garland, Rowlett, and Sachse. Homer B. Johnson Stadium, featured in this video, is owned by the Garland ISD. Garland also has a smaller stadium, Williams Stadium. The 7 high schools of Garland ISD share in the use of both stadiums.
Hearing $70m+ for a DAMNED HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUM is WILD, but if multiple schools use it, the cost SEEMS to be slightly justified.......SLIGHTLY.
The stadiums, especially the newer ones are in school districts/cities where their populations have risen dramatically over the past few decades, newer schools in those districts, often being built in the last 10-15 years. The stadiums are definitely meant to be used for multiple schools and uses.
I don’t like Globe Life Field because one I don’t think they really needed to build it (although I think they had a better reason then the Atlanta Braves did) and two, it looks like a slightly more modern carbon copy of Minute Maid Park in Houston, just look at the two side by side
Considering the original Ballpark at Arlington wasn't even 25 years old when they started the replacement Globe Life Field, it almost seems like a waste of money. I don't even know if The Ballpark had been fully paid off by that time. I get the issue of having a roof in case of storms and cover from the hot Texas sun, but that was as much a problem when The Ballpark was conceived in the early 90s. I suspect that a roofed stadium would have cost too much to win support at that time, so they went with the no-roof version just to get some kind of replacement for the old Arlington Stadium. It's too bad, because The Ballpark had a unique, maybe even quirky design that left no doubt where you were if you were the visiting team.
@@JBM425 the worst part is that $500 million, roughly half the cost of the stadium was paid for with public money.
I’m well aware that this is a very common trend, but somehow it needs to stop. Of course the owners will boast about all it will do for the local economy, and while it does very from place to place, many studies have debunked these claims.
If these billionaire owners want to replace a stadium that isn’t even three decades old, then they can pay for it themselves. That’s not unreasonable
Agreed, but it is nice not having to roast in the sun while watching the rangers lose.
We needed the INDOOR FIELD!!! SUMMERS HERE ARE TOO HOT!!!
@@rollingdudes8859 that’s the main reason I’m saying you had a slightly better reason then the Braves did to replace a less then three decades old ballpark. But it still looks like a copy of Minute Maid Park and it was wrong to use public money
I was in the area two weeks ago. They are amazing
When I moved to Prosper Texas ( 8:45 ) the population was about 800. When I graduated the population was nearing 30K. and we had the same high school football stadium the entire time (and it was actually at the middle school.
The year after I graduated the new High School Football stadium was built. I remember seeing the previews for it nearly a decade before and thinking there was no way that would ever be built. but here we are.
I just left a game in Prosper. My oldest son was the 5,000 student enrolled in the district years ago and graduated 2020 with the last class of Prosper High before they opened the 2nd high school. I do remember the old stadium and I thank them for giving us a temple worthy for the community to put on a show every weekend.
As somebody who grew up in the DFW metroplex & played high school football there, I have been to almost all of the stadiums in this video & even played football in some of them, but my home stadium wasn't mentioned in this video, that would be the Gopher-Warrior Bowl in Grand Prairie, TX.
Cool to see my stadium on one of your list played at a lot of the HS fields and a few of the bigger ones
A typical suburban stadium in Australia is a ground with cars parked around the edge.
I went to Duncanville HS. Thank you for showing our stadium, while it is big it isn’t quite as big as I’d liked it to be.
Besides soccer, Toyota Stadium also hosts NCAA football. It is where the FCS National Championship is played every year, with South Dakota State as the current reigning champions, as well as where the Frisco Bowl is played every year.
DFW always goes all out for the High School football stadiums
Wow very informative
Good video . There are actually even more ( close to )10000 seat high school stadiums than this. For instance Marcus stadium shown in this video has 3 more in their ISD (Lewisville, Hebron and Flower Mound all with more than 9500 seats). Pennington in Bedford has 12500 and probably several more.
I’ve been to 21 of the 43 stadiums you listed!
We're probably a bit too south to be considered proper Dallas / Ft Worth (although we're really not as far away from Dallas as Denton and Prosper). There's a very interesting high school stadium in Cleburne, TX, Yellow Jacket Stadium. The limestone exterior is very unique, and it's the only high school stadium in the DFW area to be registered with the state as a historical site.
I love this: Can you do my hometown next? South Florida has three major cities all with 10,000+ seat stadiums
I think you forgot pennington field in Bedford. It seats 12,500.
Played football there growing up!!! AWESOME STADIUM!!!
You missed the Gopher Warrior bowl in Grand Prairie. It host many of the high school playoff games regardless if one of the Grand Prairie teams is involved. Its a Bowl built in the ground and has always been a cool venue!🏉🏈
Is it over the 10 000 capacity threshold? I did have it listed but I think it was cut due to being too small.
I’ve been to the Fort Worth stock show and rodeo many times, my family raises cattle and when I was in high school I was an exhibitor there and now my family sells cattle there. I saw the dickies arena being built and I’ve seen a rodeo or two inside will rogers coliseum
Wow! That's a lot of sports venues in one city
4:15 I'm about a 35-40 minute walk from my house to Marcus High School's stadium in Flower Mound. Was really surprised to see that stadium featured in this video (Lewisville High's Max Goldsmith Stadium is pretty similar but with a newer facade).
You actually forgot a good one Grand prairie gopher warrior bowl . You should check it out! 💯🔥🔥🔥
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Kudos from the Forth Worth side for saying Dallas-Fort Worth and not just Dallas.
*Fort Worth
I know, it’s nice to see some love for us.
Kinda scary how many of those places I’ve covered games at. Part of spending more than 30 years as a sports writer, I guess.
Those high school stadiums and gyms. Hoo boy.
the expensive Texas high school stadiums are paid by private funds, the parents in rich Texas towns form corporations to better fund the schools. I've been to a couple of them in the Austin area and its not just stadiums, everything on campus is first class, and all the students benefit. The pressure on the students to succeed both in athletics and academics is intense. One former student I met who was now a senior pre med at University of Texas told me that her high school was much harder than pre med.
ANOTHER BANGER!!!!
Good job!
Surprised you didn’t show the Fine Arts/Athletic Complex (FAAC) in the Birdville ISD. 12,000 capacity, looks really nice, and is in a really nice area. My old high school plays there.
I live down the street from McKinney ISD stadium. Impressive, for sure, for a high school stadium.
Good work and now for the next Metropolitain area with a bunch of Stadiums!
I graduated from McKinney back in the 90's. McKinney was the first high school in Texas to get an indoor practice arena. To be fair the School district didn't pay for it. Coca-Cola did. My father was on the school board for McKinney when the deal took place. It was a great move for the district. Up to that point the district had owned, and serviced all of it's own soda machines. Coke came in and offered to replace all the machines district wide, maintain and stock them and give the district a percentage of the sales. They also included the practice arena as part of the deal. It ended up saving the district money. It got the district out of being in the vending machine business which didn't really make the district any real money.
The reason dragon stadium is so nice is it’s because it’s the super rich kid school
Yeah Southlake got money a lot of football players for Southlake got parents with deep pockets💰and some got fathers that played in the NFL.
I've been wondering for months, what is the music you use in your videos?
Yeah me to I seen all the world wide staudims videos
As a Texan (houston) I love seeing all the high schools I recognize
Memories of Texas Stadium. Miss !
Don't forget that the Cotton Bowl was a host for the Dallas Stars for the Winter Classic in 2020 (before the Pandemic).
Mate, decent video, but you missed a lot of things and got a few things flat out wrong. I’ve visited many of these stadiums, and you’ve got a good sense about many of them! Thanks for taking the time to cover this topic!
Joe E. Ralph Stadium is the home of Irving FC, member of NPSL the same as Fort Worth Vaqueros
5:19 fun fact, the Rocket League World Championship was JUST played at this arena last weekend😄
The Cotton Bowl hosts the Red River Rivalry between Oklahoma and Texas... it is JAM PACKED with fans from both teams every single year at the same time of the Texas State Fair (literally outside of the stadium).
And, a couple of years ago, it hosted the New Year's Day "NHL Winter Classic" outdoor hockey game between the Nashville Predators and the Dallas Stars.
The Cotton Bowl was also a venue for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and I attended two matches there. The 2026 FIFA World Cup opted for Jerry World, as AT&T Stadium is nicknamed, as did the New Year's game that carries the Cotton Bowl name.
You forgot Buddy Echols Field, and Coppell High School Arena. They both hold over your minimum threshold
I might have missed it but was DISD’s Forester Field on here?
i’ve shown in will rodgers coliseum it’s pretty cool to see it in one of your videos.
Missed Pennington Field over in HEB (Bedford).. one of the original oversized HS football stadiums in the metroplex.
texas hs football stadiums are insane no wonder everythings big in texas and thats no joke
15:03 amon g carter stadium looks like a friggin beauty. seriously wow