The ball park in Arlington hosts high school football games also. The heat really was crazy. Such a great stadium though. The new one looks like propane Grill from the outside and a warehouse on the inside
I really liked Rangers Ballpark(Choctaw Stadium), but i think they should've put a retractable roof over it when they first built it! It's just too damn hot here in Texas in the summer time to be watching a baseball game, even at 7:00 at night! I think they rush-jobbed Globe Life Field though. Could've made it more retro-modern if they had taken their time and planned it better!
As a guy who grew up in the SF bay, candlestick was hallowed ground. The feeling I got seeing that stadium from the 101 as a kid can’t be described. The place was cold and windy as hell, and it was perfect. It was our place to watch our beloved giants and niners in the 80’s/90’s, and I’m really sad it’s not there anymore
I too, thought I was somewhere special. All the way from Blue Jays country. ( Was in Laguna Seca to be at the Indycar season finial) Went to the last of the Battle of the Bay World Series games, Delayed because of the Quake.Those poor, poor Giants! ( and everyone in that area)
@@jcngokai-76 It was built with enough concrete. It may have been a dump but it was a great place to watch either football or baseball, well baseball not so much at night. Wish the 49ers would have rebuilt at that site.
Candlestick Park man watching that be demolished is depressing. Growing up watching the Giants and 49ers there I froze my ass off many nights in that wind. The Stick was a dump but it was our dump and we loved it as many legends called it home
Thanks for the history of our old multiple use stadiums from the 70’s. Having lived in San Diego since 1971, I’ve attended countless Padres, Chargers & Aztec games at The Murph (which it was called before Qualcomm). Also we went to many rock concerts in the 70, 80 & 90’s. One of the best features of the stadium was how easy it was to drive (great access to the freeways) to & we’d tailgate for hours before the event. So sad to see it torn down but that’s progress in the 2020’s.
Was in Arlington for a Cowboys game this past season. I was told they still use the old Rangers stadium for many types of events. The high school state championship games are played there as well as selected college baseball games. HBCU football is played there also.
I always found the spiral ramps at SanDiego/Qualcom stadium to somehow be iconic. The stadium was ugly and not worth saving, but we'll never see those strange spiral ramps @1:27 again.
I miss the Georgia Dome! I went to 5 Atlanta Falcons games there. It was really easy to get to and the place got extremely loud when the Falcons was balling out! Only thing i didn't like about it was the treacherous 8 ramp walk you had to do to get to the upper deck! No elevators or escalators to get up there.
I remember often going to Qualcomm (or as locals called it, "The Q") in 1989 and 1990 when it was Jack Murphy Stadium (The Murph) for both Padres and Chargers games. The ambience was quite nice at that time because the extra seating had not yet been installed. As for rain at The Q, I went to the 2009 Holiday Bowl between Nebraska and Arizona; and it drizzled throughout the entire game. I still enjoyed the game though.
The Chargers and Padres played at Jack Murphy Stadium (Later Qualcomm Stadium) when it opened. The extra seats were added in the mid to late 90s to continue to host Super Bowls. It sucked because they closed off the view of the hills and really was the beginning of the end of it being an enjoyable place to catch a game.
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco". Falsely attributed to Mark Twain, this sentiment aptly describes the SF Bay weather. The wind-chill near the Bay is just unrelenting, even on sunny days. "The multitude of pleasant things by which all people of San Francisco are surrounded are not talked of at all. No-they damn the wind, and they damn the dust, and they give all their attention to damning them well, and to all eternity." Mark Twain (actual newspaper article he wrote)
Oppressive heat was an issue with Arlington Stadium, which preceded Globe Life Park, so I don't know why they didn't just go for an indoor or retractable roof stadium then. And if I recall, the issue with Turner Field was the location. Most of the Braves fans lived in the suburbs and were reluctant to schlep into downtown Atlanta for a ball game. So the team moved out to them.
Maybe it's me. I don't know, but I would've mentioned the Pontiac Silverdome. The Detroit Lions played there from 1975 to 2002 but it still stood hoping that they would host another team from another sport. It ended up being an Ultimate Frisbee venue. It closed permanently in 2012 or something. Got demolished a few years ago and an Amazon warehouse is built on the site. One thing you mentioned during the video was how domes without natural light are phasing out. In terms of natural light, the Silverdome had a frabric roof and it would be very bright during the day. Lions current stadium doesn't have that. It has a concrete roof and some windows on the side but in terms of brightness Pontiac Silverdome was much brighter. Also the Detroit Pistons played there from 1978 to 1988 where they would sometimes have games during the day and same deal as afternoon football games. Another reason why I liked the Silverdome is that's where they had WrestleMania III. They set an indoor attendence record(93,173 at that time) for a sporting event. Just sayin'.
The Arlington stadium is a weird experience. Was there for a conference last July. 3 days of drinking I walked in to the AC and was never so happy(didn’t know they had a roof). It was hot in Texas.
The stick was a dump but it was our dump. It was just a fun place to go watch a game in the 80s. Maybe not at night. It just didn't age well. I loved Texas old stadium to build it without a roof in the first place was just a major flaw from the get go. Dislike the new building.
The Metrodome was a dog turd from day one. I was so spoiled as a kid getting to watch the Twins play at old Met Stadium in Bloomington where the Mall Of America is now. That place was wonderful. But the Metrodome I hated from the first time I set foot in it. Good riddance, and not a tear was shed.
The old Rangers stadium was brutal for day games, but even the night games were sweltering. Often times it would still be 95-100 degrees by the time first pitch rolled around at 7:00. Just a miserable environment, to the point where free agents were hesitant to sign there.
Oakland is the only multi-use stadium? So the Rogers Center/Skydome which recently lost its football team, held a special track track and field match race, many concerts and is often the start for many stadium tours, has held international soccer, international cricket, monster truck shows and features seats that can rotate in the park is not a multi-use stadium?
Yeah Rogers Centre is multi purpose, but it pulls it off far better than the coliseum due to the lower bowl seats being mechanically movable, if you look at pics it does in fact work well for both
I would EASILY add the Capital Centre to this list. Former home of the Washington Capitals and Washington Bullets (Wizards). Ironically, they built the Redskins (excuse me, COMMANDERS) stadium right next door, and it too is begging to be demolished in the not too distant future. 😳
@OSCAR LEMUS Nope. That's to the east of the Capitol Building...Still stands, but due to be demolished as well...And yes, the Skins played there. So did the MLB teams Washington Senators, and later, the Nationals) The places I mentioned are/were in Landover, MD. The Skins stadium (Fed-Ex Field) currently is where the Cap Centre (aka: USAir Arena) used to stand.
Neither Turner Field or the Georgia Dome were bad when they were replaced. The Braves just wanted to move to the suburbs to gentrify their fan base and Mercedes Benz stadium was just a money grab for Arthur Blank.
I don't get the hate for Turner Field (as someone who never went). It seemed to be, outside the upper deck seat issue that so many stadiums face, a perfectly fine venue for baseball in Atlanta with the added historic benefit of it being a former Olympic venue. Heck, the Big O in Montreal hosted the Expos for longer than the Braves placed at Turner and it was a beautiful mess of a baseball venue that still plagues taxpayers too this day (in a Province that pays higher taxes than anywhere else in North America).
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The ball park in Arlington hosts high school football games also. The heat really was crazy. Such a great stadium though. The new one looks like propane Grill from the outside and a warehouse on the inside
Hank Hill would be proud
I hate the new ballpark. I was totally happy with the 1994 Ballpark!
I hate it even more because the interior looks like Houston's.
I really liked Rangers Ballpark(Choctaw Stadium), but i think they should've put a retractable roof over it when they first built it! It's just too damn hot here in Texas in the summer time to be watching a baseball game, even at 7:00 at night! I think they rush-jobbed Globe Life Field though. Could've made it more retro-modern if they had taken their time and planned it better!
As a guy who grew up in the SF bay, candlestick was hallowed ground. The feeling I got seeing that stadium from the 101 as a kid can’t be described. The place was cold and windy as hell, and it was perfect. It was our place to watch our beloved giants and niners in the 80’s/90’s, and I’m really sad it’s not there anymore
I have no idea how it survived the Loma Prieta earthquake
I too, thought I was somewhere special. All the way from Blue Jays country. ( Was in Laguna Seca to be at the Indycar season finial) Went to the last of the Battle of the Bay World Series games, Delayed because of the Quake.Those poor, poor Giants! ( and everyone in that area)
They should have built a Retractable Roof Stadium where the extant location of Candlestick was or the parking lot.
@@jcngokai-76 It was built with enough concrete. It may have been a dump but it was a great place to watch either football or baseball, well baseball not so much at night. Wish the 49ers would have rebuilt at that site.
@@scotttild me too, but local politics often cause more headaches than finding a way to redevelop the lot.
Candlestick Park man watching that be demolished is depressing. Growing up watching the Giants and 49ers there I froze my ass off many nights in that wind. The Stick was a dump but it was our dump and we loved it as many legends called it home
Arlington hadn’t even finished paying off the ballpark when they started building the replacement. Both funded by local taxes.
Georgia Dome was cool I went there for Wrestlemania 27
Same here I grew up in Atlanta during the 2000s n early 2010s I miss the Georgia Dome
That was Miz defended the title
@@dontedrake2316 yep
Thanks for the history of our old multiple use stadiums from the 70’s. Having lived in San Diego since 1971, I’ve attended countless Padres, Chargers & Aztec games at The Murph (which it was called before Qualcomm). Also we went to many rock concerts in the 70, 80 & 90’s.
One of the best features of the stadium was how easy it was to drive (great access to the freeways) to & we’d tailgate for hours before the event. So sad to see it torn down but that’s progress in the 2020’s.
"Qualcomm" will always be Jack Murphy Stadium or "The Murph" for anyone Gen X and older.
Was in Arlington for a Cowboys game this past season. I was told they still use the old Rangers stadium for many types of events. The high school state championship games are played there as well as selected college baseball games. HBCU football is played there also.
The high school state games are at att stadium
One of the worst multipurpose stadiums was veterans stadiums in Philadelphia that place was a absolute dump
I went there three times, the Army Navy Bowl games. I think every time, parts of the grandstand would break!
I went there one time in it's final year. Red Sox vs. Phillies. Pathetic Stadium. You couldn't even see the bullpens if you could call them bullpens.
I always found the spiral ramps at SanDiego/Qualcom stadium to somehow be iconic. The stadium was ugly and not worth saving, but we'll never see those strange spiral ramps @1:27 again.
Honestly I love the way Candlestick Park looked before it became multi purpose.
The way you pronounced Qualcomm is atrocious! It's "kwal"-comm not "kwiiii"-comm. 😖😖
I miss the Georgia Dome! I went to 5 Atlanta Falcons games there. It was really easy to get to and the place got extremely loud when the Falcons was balling out! Only thing i didn't like about it was the treacherous 8 ramp walk you had to do to get to the upper deck! No elevators or escalators to get up there.
I remember often going to Qualcomm (or as locals called it, "The Q") in 1989 and 1990 when it was Jack Murphy Stadium (The Murph) for both Padres and Chargers games. The ambience was quite nice at that time because the extra seating had not yet been installed.
As for rain at The Q, I went to the 2009 Holiday Bowl between Nebraska and Arizona; and it drizzled throughout the entire game. I still enjoyed the game though.
The Chargers and Padres played at Jack Murphy Stadium (Later Qualcomm Stadium) when it opened. The extra seats were added in the mid to late 90s to continue to host Super Bowls. It sucked because they closed off the view of the hills and really was the beginning of the end of it being an enjoyable place to catch a game.
If you play Microsoft flight simulator (2020) you can still flyover Candlestick Park and it has the 49ers field and ring of honor still intact 😅
mans rly just said FREEZING and 50 degrees in the same sentence
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco". Falsely attributed to Mark Twain, this sentiment aptly describes the SF Bay weather. The wind-chill near the Bay is just unrelenting, even on sunny days.
"The multitude of pleasant things by which all people of San Francisco are surrounded are not talked of at all. No-they damn the wind, and they damn the dust, and they give all their attention to damning them well, and to all eternity." Mark Twain (actual newspaper article he wrote)
Oppressive heat was an issue with Arlington Stadium, which preceded Globe Life Park, so I don't know why they didn't just go for an indoor or retractable roof stadium then.
And if I recall, the issue with Turner Field was the location. Most of the Braves fans lived in the suburbs and were reluctant to schlep into downtown Atlanta for a ball game. So the team moved out to them.
There’s also the RCA dome in Indy that was there before Lucas Oil opened
I had a rain delay at Qualcomm at a Padres game. I only ever went there once.
Maybe it's me. I don't know, but I would've mentioned the Pontiac Silverdome. The Detroit Lions played there from 1975 to 2002 but it still stood hoping that they would host another team from another sport. It ended up being an Ultimate Frisbee venue. It closed permanently in 2012 or something. Got demolished a few years ago and an Amazon warehouse is built on the site. One thing you mentioned during the video was how domes without natural light are phasing out. In terms of natural light, the Silverdome had a frabric roof and it would be very bright during the day. Lions current stadium doesn't have that. It has a concrete roof and some windows on the side but in terms of brightness Pontiac Silverdome was much brighter. Also the Detroit Pistons played there from 1978 to 1988 where they would sometimes have games during the day and same deal as afternoon football games. Another reason why I liked the Silverdome is that's where they had WrestleMania III. They set an indoor attendence record(93,173 at that time) for a sporting event. Just sayin'.
If the Arlington Renegades (XFL) lasts this time, Rangers stadium will get full capacity sooner or than later
No it won't, because the XFL isn't going to be bringing in crowds like that.
@@ItsNeezy lol 40,000+ people will never file into an “xfl” game
BOTH the Metrodome and the Georgia Dome looked like Giant Circus tents.😊😢😢😮
The Arlington stadium is a weird experience. Was there for a conference last July. 3 days of drinking I walked in to the AC and was never so happy(didn’t know they had a roof). It was hot in Texas.
I feel bad for the tax payers in Arlington and Atlanta. I'm only 50 years old and both the Braves and Rangers are on their third stadiums? Like WTF?
And the Cowboys, but only their newest stadium is in Arlington
where Qualcom once stood is now Snap Dragon stadium home of SDSU football
The 49ers should remain in San Jose next door to SAP Center
Just a fun fact the lasty one may have been 8times less than Sofi but Sofi did NOT take any taxpayer money to build.
No Dome in St Louis on this list? :(
It's still starting and hosting the XFL's BattleHawks
@@MarloSoBalJr Fair enough. :) GO BATTLEHAWKS lol
The stick was a dump but it was our dump. It was just a fun place to go watch a game in the 80s. Maybe not at night. It just didn't age well. I loved Texas old stadium to build it without a roof in the first place was just a major flaw from the get go. Dislike the new building.
The Metrodome was a dog turd from day one. I was so spoiled as a kid getting to watch the Twins play at old Met Stadium in Bloomington where the Mall Of America is now. That place was wonderful. But the Metrodome I hated from the first time I set foot in it. Good riddance, and not a tear was shed.
You forgot to add RFK Stadium in Washington D.C. It's being demolished right now.
Good riddance to bad rubbish
The old Rangers stadium was brutal for day games, but even the night games were sweltering. Often times it would still be 95-100 degrees by the time first pitch rolled around at 7:00. Just a miserable environment, to the point where free agents were hesitant to sign there.
bro said that globe life field is cursed meanwhile aaron judge beating the single season hr record
Oakland is the only multi-use stadium?
So the Rogers Center/Skydome which recently lost its football team, held a special track track and field match race, many concerts and is often the start for many stadium tours, has held international soccer, international cricket, monster truck shows and features seats that can rotate in the park is not a multi-use stadium?
Yeah Rogers Centre is multi purpose, but it pulls it off far better than the coliseum due to the lower bowl seats being mechanically movable, if you look at pics it does in fact work well for both
Welp the rangers at least won it all with their new stadium, give their old stadium to an nfl team
Originally known as Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.
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RCA dome in indy
Qua comm?
I would EASILY add the Capital Centre to this list. Former home of the Washington Capitals and Washington Bullets (Wizards). Ironically, they built the Redskins (excuse me, COMMANDERS) stadium right next door, and it too is begging to be demolished in the not too distant future. 😳
I think ur getting confused with RFK stadium
@OSCAR LEMUS Nope. That's to the east of the Capitol Building...Still stands, but due to be demolished as well...And yes, the Skins played there. So did the MLB teams Washington Senators, and later, the Nationals) The places I mentioned are/were in Landover, MD. The Skins stadium (Fed-Ex Field) currently is where the Cap Centre (aka: USAir Arena) used to stand.
You forgot to mention what happened to the candlestick property. Now it's just a dirt pile. Also cowboys stadium.
Ga dome and the new one to dark in side ughhh yall get stabbed , don't go .
What the hell kind of accent is that brother? Sounds like Philly and Wisconsin's love child?...just can't place it?
Man your just talking when the Georgia Done was built it was state of the art, you know nothing about the Georgia Dome!!!
Thank you, the Rangers new ballpark is trash.
Neither Turner Field or the Georgia Dome were bad when they were replaced. The Braves just wanted to move to the suburbs to gentrify their fan base and Mercedes Benz stadium was just a money grab for Arthur Blank.
Moving to the burbs does not gentrify the fan base. Moving to a city would, not the suburbs.
I don't get the hate for Turner Field (as someone who never went). It seemed to be, outside the upper deck seat issue that so many stadiums face, a perfectly fine venue for baseball in Atlanta with the added historic benefit of it being a former Olympic venue. Heck, the Big O in Montreal hosted the Expos for longer than the Braves placed at Turner and it was a beautiful mess of a baseball venue that still plagues taxpayers too this day (in a Province that pays higher taxes than anywhere else in North America).
Quakcomm Stadium? QUAL-COMM.