the building has its own vacuum system inside it and can be controlled to inflate or deflate the building... Now imagine if they did the wrong one and popped the top of the building XD that would be one hell of an explosion
No it doesn’t it has fans and to deflate you cut the power off the fans as seen in 1:07 and you open the doors outside letting the air out and it doesn’t use a vacuum system and nor can be controlled by a machine to deflate the only other way to deflate is the cut the power and open the doors or it would collapse if we did cut the power it would still be inflated for about 15 more hours. And it doesn’t pop. I used to work there as a grounds crew so don’t assume what that building has.
I have dumped a home run into Seat 34. It's actually an easier target to hit than it was in 1991 when Kirby did it for real, because it's not behind a big Plexiglas shield.
I’ve been obsessing with this stadium since MVP 2005. I love using this stadium. I still play it in the show. Doubles/Triples of the ring field wall. 😎👍
My band sang the national anthem there in 1983 for a Twins game. Boston, Twins won 4-1, last Minnesota appearance of Carl Yastrzemski. The sin tax on on-sale liquor ($1 or more per drink) that they used to help finance the project caused people to spend less money, which caused live entertainment venues to fold. Now the dome is gone, bar bands are largely a thing of the past, I haven't played a gig for 10 years, and none of it matters. I still have the tape of the band singing in the dome.
@alan Rogs @alan Rogs if they are they are definitely rare and are very elegant pieces of audio equipment! Most google results suggest the bin style subwoofers with their cluster horns on the top but nothing yeilds any similar build of that in the metrodome stadium where their set up has large high definition horns with a large cabinet style subwoofer box beside it which appears to have four large 24 inch woofers and four midrange speakers in one cabinet, i tried googling every piece of info about the speakers but nothing to no avail even suggested what the metrodome used for their sound system, if you look at other stadiums, nothing like that specific model exists anywhere but the metrodome. I'm sure they sounded as crazy as they looked (never got to experience the metrodome sadly). I sure wish i was there when they were tearing the stadium down to save the speakers! They'd make very great sound systems for large crowds or guitaring if wired to the proper settings!
@@alanrogs3990 yep unfortunately that's how it is, speaker collecting isn't that common sadly so there are very little care in saving those things when the buildings time is up!
A series of tensioned cables, but yeah pretty much. Not a solid structural roof. I guess it gets much easier to de-rig all the hanging speaker clusters when you drop the roof close to the ground, haha!
I was at the RCA Dome when it was deflated in 2008. They made a ceremony out of it during the day with the former mayor who originally got it built to open in 1984. Anticlimactic.
It was a good venue for the time, sadly, time has changed and new is in. The university of Minnesota was the last tenet after the Twins and Vikings vacated.
the building has its own vacuum system inside it and can be controlled to inflate or deflate the building... Now imagine if they did the wrong one and popped the top of the building XD that would be one hell of an explosion
When a Deflation is needed there are Fans that keep the Dome inflated. So when then turn of all the fans it will deflate. It deflated faster because they open some of the doors to let the air out faster.
I bet it sucks for Minn fans.. us down in Houston will know soon what it feels like to have our dome destroyed.. Except yalls really aint safe dont know wft they were thinking building that in a heavy snowfall area
Ideal Gas Law proved Brady was innocent. Besides, the Colts also played with under-inflated balls, and they were not punished. Brady was framed, and it wasn't all that big a deal anyway.
The most saddest day I used to work there as a grounds crew from 2005-2013 I was privileged to turn off one of the fans of the dome to deflate it and I’ve personally been going there since it opened so many memories
because domes offer less obstructed space, you can use the stadium for multiple events, and it protects fans from the weather. Inflatable roofs make more sense than a traditional roof.
All they really had to do was take off the roof and keep the rest of the stadium to play football the way it is supposed to be played. Outdoors. But no the nfl is trash now.
Uh oh! Looks like the Patriots are in Minnesota!
LARDLOGO haha!! That is accutally really funny
Good joke
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
Now they're really in Minnesota
tom brady did the honors of deflating the roof
lmfaoooooo
Did the honors of deflating a ball to
Lol
the building has its own vacuum system inside it and can be controlled to inflate or deflate the building... Now imagine if they did the wrong one and popped the top of the building XD that would be one hell of an explosion
Tbh i doubt it would pop bc it would take a hella long time plus there is probably a pressure relief system
No it doesn’t it has fans and to deflate you cut the power off the fans as seen in 1:07 and you open the doors outside letting the air out and it doesn’t use a vacuum system and nor can be controlled by a machine to deflate the only other way to deflate is the cut the power and open the doors or it would collapse if we did cut the power it would still be inflated for about 15 more hours. And it doesn’t pop. I used to work there as a grounds crew so don’t assume what that building has.
@@matthewgrevas7544 but it has popped member when it collapsed
@@ithwitt
Which time? Either way, it "popped" because of the weather outside, not because it was over pressurized.
I love how I can still play in the Metrodome in MLB The Show '17 it's a fun ballpark to play on there
I have dumped a home run into Seat 34. It's actually an easier target to hit than it was in 1991 when Kirby did it for real, because it's not behind a big Plexiglas shield.
it’s so hard to hit homs runs in but i love playing at it too
Does the random giant inflatable gallon of milk appear in the game?
I’ve been obsessing with this stadium since MVP 2005. I love using this stadium. I still play it in the show. Doubles/Triples of the ring field wall. 😎👍
1:47 RIP Lights
My band sang the national anthem there in 1983 for a Twins game. Boston, Twins won 4-1, last Minnesota appearance of Carl Yastrzemski.
The sin tax on on-sale liquor ($1 or more per drink) that they used to help finance the project caused people to spend less money, which caused live entertainment venues to fold.
Now the dome is gone, bar bands are largely a thing of the past, I haven't played a gig for 10 years, and none of it matters. I still have the tape of the band singing in the dome.
that's a pretty scary site in the inside lol
it looks
fun
Sight
im going to miss the dome
The view from the inside is freakin scary!
Cool view on the inside.
I MISS THE METRODOME 😭😭😭
I remember Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Home of the Twins and Vikings, so many memories of NFL football games.
@@frankdenardo8684 I’ve seen the Vikes...Twins and Kicks games there as a child. Love that stadium!
I miss this old place..
I remember when I was 5, my parents took me to watch monster jam here
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! AT THE METRODOME! MONSTERRRRR JAAAAAMMMMM!!!
It was like watching a game in a warehouse.
Yep. Or like a mold infested basement?
I’ve been once and I miss it
I wonder if anyone saved those speakers? They are VERY interesting feats of engineering! The voice of the stadium!
exactly what I thought. are the indeed voice of theater speakers?
@alan Rogs @alan Rogs if they are they are definitely rare and are very elegant pieces of audio equipment! Most google results suggest the bin style subwoofers with their cluster horns on the top but nothing yeilds any similar build of that in the metrodome stadium where their set up has large high definition horns with a large cabinet style subwoofer box beside it which appears to have four large 24 inch woofers and four midrange speakers in one cabinet, i tried googling every piece of info about the speakers but nothing to no avail even suggested what the metrodome used for their sound system, if you look at other stadiums, nothing like that specific model exists anywhere but the metrodome. I'm sure they sounded as crazy as they looked (never got to experience the metrodome sadly). I sure wish i was there when they were tearing the stadium down to save the speakers! They'd make very great sound systems for large crowds or guitaring if wired to the proper settings!
@@thatonelonelyeagle5398 People just don't realize the worth of some of these old speakers in buildings they are tearing down.
@@alanrogs3990 yep unfortunately that's how it is, speaker collecting isn't that common sadly so there are very little care in saving those things when the buildings time is up!
@@thatonelonelyeagle5398 I've heard that lots of old school wall speakers were Western Electric 755a's
Key words: For the final time
AAAAAHHHHH!!!! NOBODY THOUGHT TO REMOVE THE AMERICAN FLAG?!?!?!?!
or the speakers
It didnt touch the ground, soo they just made it easier to get
lol why do you care its a flag xD
Lol is that really your only concern?
thats gay i would dip my flag in shit if i wanted to
That's crazy! All that sound equipment is hanging from a cloth like that?
Yep! And the acoustics were absolutely ASSTASTIC.
more like cables, and that 'cloth' was much heavier duty than you'd figure.
@@katherineberger6329 YOU COULDNT HEAR SHIT lol
A series of tensioned cables, but yeah pretty much. Not a solid structural roof. I guess it gets much easier to de-rig all the hanging speaker clusters when you drop the roof close to the ground, haha!
I was at the RCA Dome when it was deflated in 2008. They made a ceremony out of it during the day with the former mayor who originally got it built to open in 1984.
Anticlimactic.
Jake Roth I live in Minnesota and now the vikeshave a beast stadium
Should've called 1-800-patroits
That’s one way to bring the house down
It was a good venue for the time, sadly, time has changed and new is in. The university of Minnesota was the last tenet after the Twins and Vikings vacated.
no the vikings were the last tenet to play there because the vikings played at the gophers new stadium TCF while the new one was being built
AHHH THE LIGHTS THERE DOWN
2021 Still miss the place. The new place in my opinion is not all that great.
Im so happy they stole a billion in state tax money to build a new one!
Isn't the Vikings new stadium going to be built on the same exact site as the Metrodome, and will it have a retractable roof on it as well?
Same site yes. Retractable roof, sadly no. I hear it will have south end glass panels that will open.
Mac Fisher The Glass panels will be like Lucas Oil Stadium!
Who needs a retractable roof when it would hardly ever be open anyways. Why not save the money? It makes perfect sense.
+Kevin Rose They are vikings! They should play on the snow and go to Valhalla!
Us bank stadium
TRUE HOME OF THE MINNISOTA TWINS!
Yea. I still think about those times when the baseball would be lost in the dome lol
Nah, the true home was the old Metropolitan Stadium. (Before the dome)
i wonder if they took out the speakers ?
You need a much smaller lift to de-rig those clusters once you drop the roof in! Haha
@Studio DJ Tech and Teach how much did they go for?
now how excatley did they do that, be able to remove the air from the inside and let the roof come down like that?
theres a room with controls for air of the thing that pushes it down
the building has its own vacuum system inside it and can be controlled to inflate or deflate the building... Now imagine if they did the wrong one and popped the top of the building XD that would be one hell of an explosion
Andrew Silva Sometimes the best part about the games is just leaving them when you go out the doors and you just get pushed out by all the air
When a Deflation is needed there are Fans that keep the Dome inflated. So when then turn of all the fans it will deflate. It deflated faster because they open some of the doors to let the air out faster.
How long did it take to deflate? The time lapse helps, but it appears to be hours until the roof is deflated. Anyway, R.I.P. building disaster.
30 to 45 Minutes
I bet it sucks for Minn fans.. us down in Houston will know soon what it feels like to have our dome destroyed.. Except yalls really aint safe dont know wft they were thinking building that in a heavy snowfall area
Tom brady must have made this video 😂😂😂😂 if you know what I mean
Emanjr28 fuck off
stp
Ideal Gas Law proved Brady was innocent. Besides, the Colts also played with under-inflated balls, and they were not punished. Brady was framed, and it wasn't all that big a deal anyway.
Deflated ?
That's so creepy. Is it supposed to do that?
It is when they're getting ready to demolish the place and build a new stadium at the same location.
This is so Sad!
so after it collapsed with the snow they rebuilt the roof?
yea
No they just left it broken and quit football for 6 years.
No they didn't idiot their home stadium was Minnesota college's stadium
Gish 0\_/0 it's actuallly called the U of M not Minnesota College
DeAwesomeGamer k good to know that thanks
just like tome bradys footballs or him being a goat?
The most saddest day I used to work there as a grounds crew from 2005-2013 I was privileged to turn off one of the fans of the dome to deflate it and I’ve personally been going there since it opened so many memories
OMG that's such a great story I read it from start to end it reminded me of nothing is your period key broken
What song is this
The Equalizer
LOL Remove everything inside and let all the posters on the outside get hit by Wecking Ball
Never understood the purpose of having a roof like that...
The 80's baby. Everything was fucking stupid
my fist see games me and my dad firends form work we go to Metrodome see twins game fun to
I don't see why anyone would put up an inflatable roof in the first place. especially in Minnesota.
weather here in Minnesota. gets really cold in the winter time.
Minny Paul it's stupid to have a big balloon why not out and actual roof
because domes offer less obstructed space, you can use the stadium for multiple events, and it protects fans from the weather.
Inflatable roofs make more sense than a traditional roof.
@@Minny_Paul were you around in the 60's and 70's. team hated playing the vikings in the cold
Anyone know the name of the song remix?
182Burritos I know right ! does anybody know?
at least remove the flag
Yea
All they really had to do was take off the roof and keep the rest of the stadium to play football the way it is supposed to be played. Outdoors. But no the nfl is trash now.
Johan Igoa have you ever been to Minnesota?
@@matthewgrevas7544 have you ever seen where the vikings played at the old met stadium
What a horrible waste no way to use this for homeless people? this is a utter disgrace !
the new stadium was built right where the old one was
Dude that's so fake
how's this fake?
Lil Smallz idiot
Lil Smallz idiot