Saw my first concert there...Metallica black album tour. Saw AC/DC, Wu-tang & Rage Aginst the Machine ( where Zac got hurt mid concert) , and Pearl Jam. Also saw NJ win game 7 for The Stanley Cup in 2003. Tons of wrestling events also. Great building.
This arena was neat because it had it's own "mark" or unique trait of having a big screen up in the very far corner of the arena. Everytime WWE was there for a live TV taping, you could see it during matches.
@@soulfly3438 Whereas most are directly above the ring that you dont see on TV, Izod had it up all the way in the corner(nose bleeds), so you would see it almost the whole time during a match
In 8th grade CYO basketball my team got to play a game on the Nets court during the afternoon before they had a night game. Remains one of the coolest days of my life up until now.
I always loved this arena, and have fond memories of the sporting events and concerts I saw there. I couldn't understand why it was suddenly deemed unfit and outdated. Sadly, however, it doesn't seem tenable to leave it standing. As the narrator points out, between the fact that the Nets and Devils both left, and the abundance of nearby concert venues, the proverbial writing is on the wall.
Well the arena was getting outdated, with no bells & whistles at all. It was time for a new era, and the Meadowlands was never highly regarded at all for that matter too.
Probably the same reason as the Charlotte Colliseum. It was built right before a huge jump in stadium technology, and its just cheaper long term to build a new arena thats made for the new technology than to upkeep an old one.
@@PurpleCrownVic Same was also the case with the Orlando, and Miami Arena(s), which were okay for the times, but weren't going to be sustainable long term. That along with other late 80's venues in the Arco (later Sleep Train) Arena, Bradley Center, and the Palace of Auburn Hills, which were all initially state of the art and had good runs, but inevitably become outdated as time went on as well. Same could also be said when Seattle first rebuilt the Coliseum, and converted it into the Key Arena in 95, which wasn't sustainable, and had to eventually be redone in order to accommodate major league sports once more in the end too.
@@freakyfornash It was highly regarded for concerts. The acoustics were great especially compared to The Garden across the river. In the '80s and '90s most acts skipped The Garden in favor of the Meadowlands because it was that much better.
Went here all the time for WWE events, I live only 10 minutes from it.. way better than the drive down to Prudential in Newark. Wish it could come back some day!
I saw 2 outta the 3 Stanley cups the devils brought home in this place. I miss the outdoor tailgating( being able to have a hockey game with a bunch of kids and strangers) the tunnel that filled with let’s go devils chants, also sitting at the top of section 217.
@@rushrush1209 Definitely. Depending on where you lived, MSG was where everyone wanted to play. The Meadowlands was the best sounding and easiest to get to and Nassau was where the die hards went when there were shows during the week. Took me forever to get there from Bergen County.
So many concerts, Devils games, some Nets games, and graduated college twice for Bachelor's and two Masters degrees in there. The Rock in Newark is nice, and it is better for the Devils, but I miss it.
First video of yours I’ve seen, but think it’s pretty cool you came back with this sort of content, I’ve really been into it lately and the ones you’ve put out so far are very interesting
Being a die hard Vince Carter and NJ Nets fan it hurts to see the arena be vacant every time I pass by it when I go see the Giants or to the mall. I stop and stare at it for at least 10 mins 😂. No other arena can give me the memories that the IZOD center has 💯
Yea I remember my first even like it was yesterday. One of the highlights of the night was Bubba Ray Dudley power bombing Mae Young off the ramp onto a bunch of tables.
Once a New Jersey Nets fan always a New Jersey Nets fan and don’t let me even get started on how big of a devils fan I am I have been a devils season ticket holder going on for solid years now and I went to the last devils game before COVID hit and I went to the very first devils game after COVID once governor Murphy first announced fans would be allowed back to the prudential center
I bet, even if that era was pretty much the only time the place was anywhere close to being electric for Nets games, which typically had a morgue like atmosphere. At least the Devils games were often lively, even if their attendance was never that great in general (despite their success as time went on when they got good on a consistent basis) though.
Me and 2 college friends were there on opening night in '81 to see Bruce. Only problem, we didn't have tickets, and the scalpers wanted something outrageous like $125 for 3 tickets! (Bring back the '80's!). We didn't have it. So never got in. Did see Bruce there in '84. Remember thinking it looked so cool from the outside, like a spaceship, but inside it was really drab...
Queen in 1982 with Bily Squier oppening. Brian May had big troubles with his wireless cutting out duting his solo/echo segment, and ended up heaving the THIRD guitar that cut out as far as he could offstage.
I grew up in Little Ferry, NJ, about 10 minutes away from here and back when Giants Stadium was still a thing. The first game I got to go the was a Nets game and it was so hype because it was around the time when Vince, J Kidd, and RJ were still on the team. Good times.
My dad went to that first Springsteen concert. He said the seats he was tucked for weren’t even screwed in…not that you use your seats at a Bruce concert anyway…
I liked the old Brendan Byrnes Arena. I remember the acoustics were really good for concerts. It was easy to park there, and normally easy to arrive there and leave there. You would have to drive though. Pretty good sightlines there too. But sometimes Nets games there just didn't have the energy of Knicks games at MSG.
Byrne showed up at the arena for one of the last Seton Hall games played there.I was stunned as I couldn't believe that he would return to a place which had taken his name off of the building.
@@olivercrangle7160 Well barely anyone was even aware that was the arena's name anyway though. I literally had no idea it was actually called that (as most TV stations often referred to the place as simply "The Meadowlands") until I first went there for a Nets game on Easter Sunday of 1994 too! (L.O.L.!)
Grew up in Westchester County NY on the other side of the Hudson. It was closer than Nassau Coliseum and safer than traveling to an un-gentrified NYC back in the 80s and 90s, so it kind of became our local arena. I saw Muppet Babies Live and Ice Capades there when I was a kid. Later in High School I saw Aerosmith play there. Good memories...
Shame This Arena Was Not Good For NBA or College Basketball Games Cause of The View From The Upper Seats But When The NJ Devils Played There Until 2007 Many NY Rangers Fans Outnumbered NJ Devils Fans Before They Moved To Newark NJ!
nice arena but too far from Newark and public transit. without constant train service it’s not going to attract folks to come and with the Prudential Center in the heart of Newark accessible by PATH from New York City and at a decent price it was a hard sell for concerts at least it’s getting use as a soundstage, with renovations to increase space it might be a great alternative to the Brooklyn and Queens soundstages
The location of the arena is the problem. Newark is a much easier drive for people in Sussex, Essex, Warren, and Morris county. The Meadowlands arena is over an hour drive, where as Newark is about 40 minutes for most people in Northern NJ. There’s nothing to do in the meadowlands either, it’s literally just an arena in the middle of nowhere. The Newark arena has restaurants, the train to the city, bars, within walking distance of the Prudential Center. People supported the Nets and Devils, it’s just that if you want to build a team for NJ, put the arena where everyone in Jersey can reach it, not on the border of NYC that could care less about NJ sports teams
Comcast is leasing the building these days as a permanent studio set. Talk about a repurposing! Because it's sandwiched between MetLife Stadium and American Dream Meadowlands, it would be useless as a sports arena.
I remember seeing the Bulls play the Nets here. Once while the Bulls were warming up, a little girl with a courtside seat walked onto the court and up to Michael Jordan for an autograph. I couldn't hear what he said to her but she quickly retreated with no autograph.
I mean, building an arena out in the swamps with no major mass transit options, its a wonder it lasted into the mid 2010s... prudential center is better located and has more options for people to get to events... plus, having bars and restaurants in the immediate area makes the place a more exciting venue to go to... I will never understand the people who liked the Izod Center, it really was a dump
It Must be said, that, The Meadowlands sports complex is lent what ppl think it is. For instance, MetLife Stadium is in the middle of nowhere. It is adjacent to the casino and racetrack. So don’t say that the Meadowlands sports complex is a true complex of sports arenas. It’s spread out and with hardly anything around it. If ppl are going to travel to see a New York Giants football gm they better be prepared because MetLife stadium is all you gotta that location.
I was a big hockey and Washington Caps fan in the 90's and was able to go see them play the Devils in the venues heyday. I'm surprised it hasn't been imploded.
Oh my I remember this arena. I went to a preseason Nets game. I didn't really like the area it was in. The atmosphere was off and in a bit of an awkward area to my liking. Ahhh The industrial north Jersey aura. I'm a devils fan and haven't been to a game there until they moved to Prudential Center. At that time I watched all the games on TV, but although Newark isn't the best area the spot the arena is in is lined with security and police and is like 3 blocks from the train
It’s so crazy to me when a sports team builds a whole new arena because the 20-year old one they’ve been playing in is starting to show it’s age. The Oakland A’s have been trapped at the Oakland Colosseum for decades now! Other teams make it look so easy to just build a billion dollar arena like it’s nothing.
I think most arenas and stadiums built after 2000 won't share similar fates to their predecessors. If you look at statehouses across the US, most states built some cheap piece of crap just to get something up in the mid 1800s but then most of those fell into disrepair after 20-30 years. At the turn of the century most states made significant investments into constructing much more useful and structurly sound buildings which still stand and are is use today with no thoughts of replacing anytime soon. I think we have a similar story with sports venues especially since it's hard to imagine live sports growing any bigger or changing in any significant way.
The Prudential Center is certainly a better place to watch games, but the old swamp certainly got louder. Nothing matched Devils playoff games in the Meadowlands in terms of atmosphere. The crowd was absolutely electric. I still miss the old place. It wasn’t great for basketball, but it was AMAZING for hockey. Also, it had the greatest goal horn of all time and nothing else has come close.
It wasn't great for basket ball maybe because the nets sucked. Had they had more successful seasons like they did with Jason kidd I'm sure you would feel alot differently.
I went to my one and only event at this arena in 2001. About 2 months after 9/11. It was the first time i'd ever been patted down and metal detectored to get into a basketball game. Kentucky vs Duke in the Jimmie V classic.
Saw my first concert there in 1994 (Rush) I recall Geddy Lee mocking the Buffalo Sabres as the Devils had just beaten them in a playoff game the previous night in the same building
I miss this arena...The Devils were unstoppable in their playoff games in here, it was havoc for opponents.... Once they moved to the Rock for the 2007-08 season, they haven’t been the same since.
Because Lou hasn’t been able to build a team since the salary cap was implemented. But as an Islanders fan I’m sure you’re starting to see that for yourself
Governments should never be in the venue business. That is not a legitimate government function. There are too many ways to steal tax money when government does this kind of stuff.
Tearing down the arena would be a terrible waste!.. It has a rich history and is spacious enough and has a huge concouse for it's age and the location is priceless!.. Nuff said.
I went here for several Devils, and some occasional Nets games back in the day too. It was an interesting, albeit somewhat dull place, with no frills what so ever. I do miss it a lot, and sad it had to close, even if it could in no way compete with the new arenas popping up all over the place, with the bells & whistles this building never once had though.
Not at all from Jersey or nearby but have an uncle/cousins who lived there, and while on a holiday visit got to see the Nets and Dražen Petrović play Boston and Reggie Lewis on 22 December of 1992...and they died on, respectively, 7 June and 27 July of the following year. People die young every day, sure --but that was just shocking and sad stuff.
That 1990s concert list is insane wow
> 2:44
lol
Saw my first concert there...Metallica black album tour.
Saw AC/DC, Wu-tang & Rage Aginst the Machine ( where Zac got hurt mid concert) , and Pearl Jam.
Also saw NJ win game 7 for The Stanley Cup in 2003.
Tons of wrestling events also.
Great building.
This arena was neat because it had it's own "mark" or unique trait of having a big screen up in the very far corner of the arena. Everytime WWE was there for a live TV taping, you could see it during matches.
im confused. every arena has one somewhere in the arena
@@soulfly3438 Whereas most are directly above the ring that you dont see on TV, Izod had it up all the way in the corner(nose bleeds), so you would see it almost the whole time during a match
Does that explain why the crowds were dead there at every WWE TV taping? As I used to hate when I heard WWE were there
In 8th grade CYO basketball my team got to play a game on the Nets court during the afternoon before they had a night game. Remains one of the coolest days of my life up until now.
Same here! Except mine was after the game. Even got to meet Richard Jefferson.
My favorite memory in this place was seeing Kevin Durant as a rookie on the Supersonics and sitting in the nosebleeds just to see him play.
I always loved this arena, and have fond memories of the sporting events and concerts I saw there. I couldn't understand why it was suddenly deemed unfit and outdated. Sadly, however, it doesn't seem tenable to leave it standing. As the narrator points out, between the fact that the Nets and Devils both left, and the abundance of nearby concert venues, the proverbial writing is on the wall.
OH YEAH THOSE WWE WRESTLING SPORTING EVENTS WERE GREAT AT THE IZOD
Well the arena was getting outdated, with no bells & whistles at all. It was time for a new era, and the Meadowlands was never highly regarded at all for that matter too.
Probably the same reason as the Charlotte Colliseum. It was built right before a huge jump in stadium technology, and its just cheaper long term to build a new arena thats made for the new technology than to upkeep an old one.
@@PurpleCrownVic Same was also the case with the Orlando, and Miami Arena(s), which were okay for the times, but weren't going to be sustainable long term. That along with other late 80's venues in the Arco (later Sleep Train) Arena, Bradley Center, and the Palace of Auburn Hills, which were all initially state of the art and had good runs, but inevitably become outdated as time went on as well. Same could also be said when Seattle first rebuilt the Coliseum, and converted it into the Key Arena in 95, which wasn't sustainable, and had to eventually be redone in order to accommodate major league sports once more in the end too.
@@freakyfornash It was highly regarded for concerts. The acoustics were great especially compared to The Garden across the river. In the '80s and '90s most acts skipped The Garden in favor of the Meadowlands because it was that much better.
Went here all the time for WWE events, I live only 10 minutes from it.. way better than the drive down to Prudential in Newark. Wish it could come back some day!
I saw 2 outta the 3 Stanley cups the devils brought home in this place. I miss the outdoor tailgating( being able to have a hockey game with a bunch of kids and strangers) the tunnel that filled with let’s go devils chants, also sitting at the top of section 217.
Miss the nj nets
y'all miss them now that they're elite but didn't care for them when they went 12-70 in 2010 lol.
You can go to see them in Brooklyn.
@@markrichards6863 it’s not the same.
Ahhh.... paint and the heavy odor of adhesives. Welcome to New Jersey.
Saw Iron Maiden back in 2008 at the IZOD, on the Somewhere Back in Time Tour. Sound was effing great, Maiden brought the house down like usual
I flew in for that one to 're-live' the old days with high school friends. Killer show.
@@iggycieplinski2082 I flew in too, they didn't have any dates near me and I always wanted to see New York.
@@AaronSmith-kr5yf Where from?
I thought the acoustics were better at Continental Airlines Arena than Madison Square Garden or Nassau Coliseum.
@@rushrush1209 Definitely. Depending on where you lived, MSG was where everyone wanted to play. The Meadowlands was the best sounding and easiest to get to and Nassau was where the die hards went when there were shows during the week. Took me forever to get there from Bergen County.
Saw king of the king with Kurt angle and Shane o mac
So many concerts, Devils games, some Nets games, and graduated college twice for Bachelor's and two Masters degrees in there. The Rock in Newark is nice, and it is better for the Devils, but I miss it.
Love the old barn saw BRUCE opening in night in '92 and saw all of the 15 shows he played on that tour it was a pretty cool arena
You know you've arrived when you shell-out $40K for a practice venue before playing your big show.
First video of yours I’ve seen, but think it’s pretty cool you came back with this sort of content, I’ve really been into it lately and the ones you’ve put out so far are very interesting
Been to that arena plenty of times. Tons of nets games and wrestling events.
Same here.
I went there for Nets, Devils, and WWE events. I live like 3 towns away
What exit?
Jesus, for those of us not from there, what was it like?
wwe extreme rules 2014 was my first and last time at the IZOD Center
Being a die hard Vince Carter and NJ Nets fan it hurts to see the arena be vacant every time I pass by it when I go see the Giants or to the mall. I stop and stare at it for at least 10 mins 😂. No other arena can give me the memories that the IZOD center has 💯
Nets had some good times there and as a knicks fan I can testify.
Yes good times for nets in early 2000s
I live in northern NJ, went to the arena many times.
That arena was so great for Wrestling. I wish the WWE would buy it and make it their home base in the northeast.
Funny I was thinking the same for the new haven Connecticut arena since their office is only about 40 minutes away
Yea I remember my first even like it was yesterday. One of the highlights of the night was Bubba Ray Dudley power bombing Mae Young off the ramp onto a bunch of tables.
@@bulldog2035 More like a hr n half away
@@PopOutPaulie that depends how you drive
Why would WWE never mention that it was in New Jersey? They would always get around it and say something like "in the shadows of New York"
Once a New Jersey Nets fan always a New Jersey Nets fan and don’t let me even get started on how big of a devils fan I am I have been a devils season ticket holder going on for solid years now and I went to the last devils game before COVID hit and I went to the very first devils game after COVID once governor Murphy first announced fans would be allowed back to the prudential center
Growing up in North Jersey....the good old Meadowlands! My dad had season tickets to the NJ Nets in 2002. That place was rockin!💯
I bet, even if that era was pretty much the only time the place was anywhere close to being electric for Nets games, which typically had a morgue like atmosphere. At least the Devils games were often lively, even if their attendance was never that great in general (despite their success as time went on when they got good on a consistent basis) though.
Underrated channel. Keep up the good work!
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Keep it up, great work.
Nice, Im excited to see more from this series
Love the 334 club. Thanks for posting.
Saw so many concerts there over the years. It was easy to get there instead if concerts in the Newark arena.
I remember going to a circus event, and a monster jam event at this place. Great memories.
I remember going to my first monster jam show there when I was little
No matter how many $$$'s naming rights bring in, the BURDEN to taxpayers is never "reduced".
Me and 2 college friends were there on opening night in '81 to see Bruce. Only problem, we didn't have tickets, and the scalpers wanted something outrageous like $125 for 3 tickets! (Bring back the '80's!). We didn't have it. So never got in. Did see Bruce there in '84. Remember thinking it looked so cool from the outside, like a spaceship, but inside it was really drab...
This is one of the few places I can say I've been to many times in my life that is now abandoned I'm not even 25 yet
Queen in 1982 with Bily Squier oppening. Brian May had big troubles with his wireless cutting out duting his solo/echo segment, and ended up heaving the THIRD guitar that cut out as far as he could offstage.
Came to this after your Palace video. You have earned a subscriber.
Two a views and a sub. Deal!
@@LaBreeceTV Had to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Can't wait to see what you make next!
My first Devils game was at this arena back in 2004 I think it was.
I grew up in Little Ferry, NJ, about 10 minutes away from here and back when Giants Stadium was still a thing. The first game I got to go the was a Nets game and it was so hype because it was around the time when Vince, J Kidd, and RJ were still on the team. Good times.
8:13 😂 Aye did my mans just FART??
My dad went to that first Springsteen concert. He said the seats he was tucked for weren’t even screwed in…not that you use your seats at a Bruce concert anyway…
Lol does Bruce Springsteen get the Caspers going or something???
SIT DOWN! I PAID FOR THIS SEAT TO SEE THE BOSS, NOT YOUR BODY AND HANDS WAVING!
I liked the old Brendan Byrnes Arena. I remember the acoustics were really good for concerts. It was easy to park there, and normally easy to arrive there and leave there. You would have to drive though. Pretty good sightlines there too. But sometimes Nets games there just didn't have the energy of Knicks games at MSG.
Sometimes? More like all the time! (L.O.L.!)
Byrne showed up at the arena for one of the last Seton Hall games played there.I was stunned as I couldn't believe that he would return to a place which had taken his name off of the building.
@@olivercrangle7160 Well barely anyone was even aware that was the arena's name anyway though. I literally had no idea it was actually called that (as most TV stations often referred to the place as simply "The Meadowlands") until I first went there for a Nets game on Easter Sunday of 1994 too! (L.O.L.!)
@@freakyfornash New Jersey had no income tax until this man arrived on the scene-after saying that he saw no need for a tax.
@@olivercrangle7160 Yeah, and he truly was a typical, good for nothing Dirty Democrat for certain too! XD
so many Grateful Dead concerts at that venue good good times
NO STADIUM SHOULD BE PUBLICLY FUNDED, EVER! tax me then, charge me to go there? where does that make any sense?
Grew up in Westchester County NY on the other side of the Hudson. It was closer than Nassau Coliseum and safer than traveling to an un-gentrified NYC back in the 80s and 90s, so it kind of became our local arena. I saw Muppet Babies Live and Ice Capades there when I was a kid. Later in High School I saw Aerosmith play there. Good memories...
Shame This Arena Was Not Good For NBA or College Basketball Games Cause of The View From The Upper Seats But When The NJ Devils Played There Until 2007 Many NY Rangers Fans Outnumbered NJ Devils Fans Before They Moved To Newark NJ!
can u do one on Arco Arena?
That would be amazing
I'm making one about the palace right now and the pistons owner basicly spent the rest of life comparing it to the concrete block arco arena.
What a corrupt government in NJ. Wow. in you face at that. I'm sure glad I don't live there. That is disgusting.
Loved this place….however walking in that mile long tunnel from the parking lot was always bizarre
“The investors are pullin’ the plug.” It sure sounds like someone pulled their plug at the 8:13 time mark.
Haha
That news reporter at the beginning was Cliff Morrison . He used to be the weatherman here in Erie pa with JET TV 24 .
Love tidbits like this.
Great video. Made great points very informative. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
nice arena but too far from Newark and public transit. without constant train service it’s not going to attract folks to come and with the Prudential Center in the heart of Newark accessible by PATH from New York City and at a decent price it was a hard sell for concerts
at least it’s getting use as a soundstage, with renovations to increase space it might be a great alternative to the Brooklyn and Queens soundstages
Between nets , devils , college basketball , & wrestling , this was probably my 2nd home
Re open the arena move the Devils back there, getting to the prudential center has always been a nightmare!
I used to think The Prudential Center was the Izod Center
Saw many a concert at Brendon Byrne as a teenager…
The location of the arena is the problem. Newark is a much easier drive for people in Sussex, Essex, Warren, and Morris county. The Meadowlands arena is over an hour drive, where as Newark is about 40 minutes for most people in Northern NJ. There’s nothing to do in the meadowlands either, it’s literally just an arena in the middle of nowhere. The Newark arena has restaurants, the train to the city, bars, within walking distance of the Prudential Center. People supported the Nets and Devils, it’s just that if you want to build a team for NJ, put the arena where everyone in Jersey can reach it, not on the border of NYC that could care less about NJ sports teams
Great video. Thanks.
New Jersey could always get a minor league hockey team to play at the IZOD Center
If they couldn't fill the arena for an NHL team, a minor league team won't either.
Comcast is leasing the building these days as a permanent studio set. Talk about a repurposing! Because it's sandwiched between MetLife Stadium and American Dream Meadowlands, it would be useless as a sports arena.
I remember seeing the Bulls play the Nets here. Once while the Bulls were warming up, a little girl with a courtside seat walked onto the court and up to Michael Jordan for an autograph. I couldn't hear what he said to her but she quickly retreated with no autograph.
IIRC the opening scene for the film Highlander was filmed in the arena too.
I saw lebron play in person at the izod
I mean, building an arena out in the swamps with no major mass transit options, its a wonder it lasted into the mid 2010s... prudential center is better located and has more options for people to get to events... plus, having bars and restaurants in the immediate area makes the place a more exciting venue to go to... I will never understand the people who liked the Izod Center, it really was a dump
yeah sure dont forget the murder and crime rate in Newark
I'll always love that arena. My first nba game live was seeing those j kidd nets
Ahh the Kidd-Carter connection and Ian Eagle calls
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I wish the nets would move back we don’t want them here in NY
It Must be said, that, The Meadowlands sports complex is lent what ppl think it is. For instance, MetLife Stadium is in the middle of nowhere. It is adjacent to the casino and racetrack. So don’t say that the Meadowlands sports complex is a true complex of sports arenas. It’s spread out and with hardly anything around it. If ppl are going to travel to see a New York Giants football gm they better be prepared because MetLife stadium is all you gotta that location.
I was a big hockey and Washington Caps fan in the 90's and was able to go see them play the Devils in the venues heyday. I'm surprised it hasn't been imploded.
I had my college graduation ceremony at the IZOD Center in 2013.
Fantastic episode!
Was the first one.... ☺️
Will always know it as the continental airlines arena many many devils games.. but yeah also many things were lacking
Three Stanley Cups 🏆🏆🏆
Oh my I remember this arena. I went to a preseason Nets game. I didn't really like the area it was in. The atmosphere was off and in a bit of an awkward area to my liking. Ahhh The industrial north Jersey aura. I'm a devils fan and haven't been to a game there until they moved to Prudential Center. At that time I watched all the games on TV, but although Newark isn't the best area the spot the arena is in is lined with security and police and is like 3 blocks from the train
Newer doesn’t mean better. The Superdome in New Orleans was built in 1975 and it’s still iconic to this day!
I’ve been to the continental airlines arena a lot of times as a kid, good memories
It’s so crazy to me when a sports team builds a whole new arena because the 20-year old one they’ve been playing in is starting to show it’s age. The Oakland A’s have been trapped at the Oakland Colosseum for decades now! Other teams make it look so easy to just build a billion dollar arena like it’s nothing.
I think most arenas and stadiums built after 2000 won't share similar fates to their predecessors. If you look at statehouses across the US, most states built some cheap piece of crap just to get something up in the mid 1800s but then most of those fell into disrepair after 20-30 years. At the turn of the century most states made significant investments into constructing much more useful and structurly sound buildings which still stand and are is use today with no thoughts of replacing anytime soon. I think we have a similar story with sports venues especially since it's hard to imagine live sports growing any bigger or changing in any significant way.
I remember my beloved Detroit Redwings losing game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals and the Devil's winning the cup.
Nothing else compared to Devils playoff games there.
WWE WRESTLING MUCH BIGGER & BETTER THAN THE PLAYOFFS
The Prudential Center is certainly a better place to watch games, but the old swamp certainly got louder. Nothing matched Devils playoff games in the Meadowlands in terms of atmosphere. The crowd was absolutely electric.
I still miss the old place. It wasn’t great for basketball, but it was AMAZING for hockey.
Also, it had the greatest goal horn of all time and nothing else has come close.
It wasn't great for basket ball maybe because the nets sucked. Had they had more successful seasons like they did with Jason kidd I'm sure you would feel alot differently.
I remember hundreds of people making cow noises as they were herded through that ridiculous tunnel thing.
I went to my one and only event at this arena in 2001. About 2 months after 9/11. It was the first time i'd ever been patted down and metal detectored to get into a basketball game. Kentucky vs Duke in the Jimmie V classic.
I would rather go there than go to Newark....
This was fantastic.
Whatcha like about it?!
@@LaBreeceTV everything. I learned many things. It was easy to understand. The quality was great.
Been there many, many times in the '80s. Good arena. No bad seats. Great acoustics.
You’ve earned a subscriber from this video. Please keep the Modern Ruins videos going. I loved this.
Every time I would go to the giants game with my dad, I would question what was the arena used for.
East Rutherford, New Jersey needs the USFL NJ Generals and NHL NJ Devils
The IDOZ Center had monster jam shows also
Saw my first concert there in 1994 (Rush) I recall Geddy Lee mocking the Buffalo Sabres as the Devils had just beaten them in a playoff game the previous night in the same building
I miss this arena...The Devils were unstoppable in their playoff games in here, it was havoc for opponents.... Once they moved to the Rock for the 2007-08 season, they haven’t been the same since.
Because Lou hasn’t been able to build a team since the salary cap was implemented. But as an Islanders fan I’m sure you’re starting to see that for yourself
I wish this arena would be used for events. I miss going there for wrestling events. I'd love AEW to do some shows there.
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I remember going to truck show 30 years ago!
I watched the Ringling Bros. circus there from 1994 to 1998.
Studio space is a great idea but they need more projects filmed there
many a smackdown and circus show at that place as a kid. Thanks for the memories
Governments should never be in the venue business. That is not a legitimate government function. There are too many ways to steal tax money when government does this kind of stuff.
Tearing down the arena would be a terrible waste!.. It has a rich history and is spacious enough and has a huge concouse for it's age and the location is priceless!.. Nuff said.
I went here for several Devils, and some occasional Nets games back in the day too. It was an interesting, albeit somewhat dull place, with no frills what so ever. I do miss it a lot, and sad it had to close, even if it could in no way compete with the new arenas popping up all over the place, with the bells & whistles this building never once had though.
Great video
Not at all from Jersey or nearby but have an uncle/cousins who lived there, and while on a holiday visit got to see the Nets and Dražen Petrović play Boston and Reggie Lewis on 22 December of 1992...and they died on, respectively, 7 June and 27 July of the following year. People die young every day, sure --but that was just shocking and sad stuff.