What Happened To The Astrodome?
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The Astrodome was built in 1965 and was a stadium like none had ever seen. The first indoor air-conditioned stadium, the luxurious features were ahead of it's time and ushered a new era of consumerism for sports. The Astros, Oilers, and Houston Cougars played their home games at the stadium along with the numerous events such as the battle of the sexes, final fours, and national championships. It was also an entertainment hub featuring concerts from Elvis, the Jacksons, Selena, and many more. But as the Oilers left in the mid-90s along with the Astros a few yeas later, the Astrodome became expendable. An abandoned stadium that still stands because of it's history.
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My dad went to one Astro game there once and saw Selena’s last performance there in 1995 at the rodeo, domes got some history.
I never got to fart there unfortunately
That's awesome, RIP Selena
As a Houstonian, thanks for the great video man ive always loved your content and getting a vid on Houston history is awesome👍🏼
Brightsun Films made a video about the Astrodome a few years ago and it’s pretty good too. Basically similar to this one
The fuck is a houstonian?
One of the best WrestleMania’s ever, took place in Houston. WrestleMania X7
Facts
My parents both went to Selena’s concert at the dome in 1995, and little did anyone know, she’d be murdered less than a month after she closed that concert saying “we’ll see each other soon” in Spanish. I also had the chance to go to the dome to see a few monster truck shows, in the range of 2000-2002
Man was Selena such a beautiful Mexican woman. Gone tragically and too soon.
As someone who lives in the area, today, the astrodome still stands in the middle of the NRG stadium parking lot.
"And a fucking hill in center field" is my new favorite quote
Unfortunately, the hill is gone.
Ik always loved dead man's hill
That shit was dangerous and stupid as hell.
Seen my first game there in 82 and got to see my favorite all time pitcher Nolan Ryan. My Dad would bring us from Louisiana each summer to see an Astros game one day and go to Astro world the other day. Moved to Houston in 92 and went to a ton of games during the Killer B's days. Fun fact. Up until the time it closed you could still smoke in the mezzanine level or as we called it "smokin section. Tickets were pretty cheap also.
I mean were the 1990's astros good im not caught up in their history because im from the newer generation I was born after the astrodome closed down
Going there was always on my bucket list . So I decided to sneak in to experience it my self .. so many classic flyers and posters lying around and was able to take a seat at the very top of the last chairs standing by the jumbotron.. definitely down to go again !!!
My grandfather worked there 65 to 90. Lots of memories.
9:17 imagine going to a game and end up having dinner on the field
How do you not mention Selena’s historical performance!? Great video btw.
Brightsun Films made a video about the Astrodome a few years ago and it’s very good and I think he talks about her performance there too.
Because most people could care less.
@@jimbo713729 couldnt*
It had outlived its useful life-cycle and no longer merits renovation. The destruction wreaked on it by housing refugees from Hurricane Katrina was the "death blow".
we still hate bud adams with a passion
Speak for yourself. Bud Adams tried to not only get a stadium for the Oilers, but also a multi-sport stadium to help appease the Astros and Rockets too and was denied at every level. He got denied by the city, county, and state for financial help. He even proposed to pay for half of the new stadium himself and was still denied.
It's funny to see Houstonians whine and cry about how the Oilers name and history belong to Houston, but Houston kicked them to the curb because they didn't want to build a new stadium, then two years after the Oilers left, Houston decides to spend double what Bud wanted in 95 to build Reliant Stadium.
@@trclark7689 Nobody liked Bud....
@@thegreenbird795 again, speak for yourself. Aside from whiny Texans fans that think they're owed something, most people realize that he did what he did because he had no choice.
I worked for two of his companies and met him numerous times, he was a fantastic guy.
Love the video and historic info about the Astrodome. Curious, why the picture of Breezewood, PA at 1:35 mark? I'm very familiar with the area and was surprised when it popped up.
I think it's a joke of how car centric houston is
Man I wish I got to be there
Welcome to the Astrodome: The world's largest Spirit Halloween
What has happened to the Astrodome is a tragedy. At least we still have the SuperDome
Well, there still ideas of how to use the dome, but nothing confirmed.
as a Houstonian that was born in 2001, i yearn for the day i get to set foot in that stadium
I was born in 1981. I’ve lived in Houston Texas my whole life. You didn’t miss much. What we have now is much better. I do miss Astroworld though. That place was great.
They should turn the Astrodome into a Houston sports museum.....
If you could do a video on old Yankee stadium and Shea stadium I would definitely watch those.
Each day that the place is not kept up is just another year that it gets more expensive to upkeep that place. They either need to tear the place down or find some way to turn it into a hotel which will be hundreds of millions of dollars to do.
They should turn it into a Houston sports museum....
Let them play!! Let them play!! Let them play!!
Hello Bob Watson.
"And a 🎺 hill!" 😅😅
the greatest baseball game ever played was played at the astrodome game 6 of the 1986 NLCS mets vs astros. the mets won in 16 innings
If the Astrodome has regular maintenance how is it abandoned ?
16:08 uh who in the heck is William Collins. I've been a fan since the early 80s and never heard this name. Drayton McClane sold the team to Jim Crane in 2011, so I'm not sure what this means.
People make the Astrodome seem like a haunted ghost building, it just came to end of life, nothing special behind it. Reliant stadium was built end of story..
Flexicore of Texas 🥰
Thats not Houston at 1:34
10:57 and 19:07. Dr. Phil played in that game for Tulsa.
as someone who is from houston and went to a game in 99 they need to tear it down
The Astrodome is not abandoned as your caption suggests. It is now the home to Joel Osteen's church.
Where did you get that because your wrong
The abandoned sports venue that now houses Osteen's church, was actually an NBA arena (called The Summit), beginning in 1975 for the Rockets until 2003, when they moved downtown to Toyota Center.
It is located several miles from the Dome, alongside the Southwest Freeway, in Greenway Plaza.
The irony is George Steinbrenner was a 3 decade long loser who was only saved by DJ3K.
If he never got that core four, but mainly Jeter, then he dies with two rings from a squad he didn't even maintain the manager of
My uncle played hs football in the dome
The Astros haven’t won a World Series until 2022
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my first astro game happend in the astrodome i still have the ticket stub was in 97 vs the pirates..its nice but i say tear it the fk down its a damn eyesore in the state thats in and build a statue .but shithead adams should've taken the astrodome with them to Tennessee
Home of zero professional championship teams
Huh?
@@Benjiboi16the Astro dome never had a champ. What’s hard to understand?
94, 95 Back to Back NBA champs
@@greenpickle9606They played at the Summit and not the Astrodome. No pro team that ever called the Astrodome home ever won a championship.
@ I thought he meant a professional sport team I bet I know more than you do
The Dimmsdale Dimmadome's Still Better...
jus Sayin
God that is the ugliest stadium ever built.
Not as ugly as the stadium the 49ers built in Santa Clara.
If it was built in New york or california you would think it was the coolest thing ever for the time. But since it's Texas you hate it. So predictable
You need to work on your enunciation...when you talk fast, all of your words run together and you're hard to understand.
Saw Nolan Ryan pitch against the Dodgers there