The Astrodome actually had dirt under the turf until it was renovated in the mid-80s. The dirt would have been a remnant of its original grass field, and the Dome had many dirt events over the winter like rodeo, motorsports and even bullfighting. After the renovation dirt would be hauled in as at other stadiums.
Thanks for sharing! I wouldn't have expected dirt to be under the turf early on, but it certainly makes sense with the early adoption of turf and for other events!
Oddly enough, in Australia, there are oval stadiums where they play both cricket and Aussie Rules football, and oblong/rectangular stadiums where they play soccer and both codes of rugby, and the whole purpose is that the stadium is used for more than one sport for which the field of play and seating are suited. There's only like Accor Stadium in Sydney and Marvel Stadium in Melbourne that were built for ALL sports, with movable seating. However, Accor is mostly used for rugby league and Marvel is used mostly for Aussie Rules, as those sports are the most popular in each of those cities.
Thanks for watching! That’s really interesting, I think building a stadium for two sports is way more doable than trying to build something that can work for all!
Municipal Stadia did not emerge in UK in part due to the ownership model For the most part these grounds were private owned rather than the local municipality so a football club had no requirement to cater for other sports and seldom shared with other footie teams Its one of the reasons London has a huge number of stadiums There was multi sports arenas Sheffield hosted cricket and football Bradford hosted footie and rugby and had a speedway track The old Wembley stadium had a greyhound race track around it In Australia cricket stadia hosted Aussie Rules but that sport used the same field , the rugby codes had their own rectangular fields but they did play games in cricket ovals To this day they away from the east cost states where the rugby codes have big arenas if the play big games of rugby in Melbourne or Perth they have to play in the big oval arenas such as the gigantic MCG as the rectangular venues are not nearly large enough
You missed Cleveland Municipal Stadium. It was a Multi-Purpose for both the Browns and Indians.
Nice video there
Thanks a lot!
Dude, you could have used a few more Takes for some of the key points.
Noted thanks for the feedback
You miss Cleveland municipal Rogers Centre Olympic stadium other than that I really liked the video. I’m definitely subbing.
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it, yeah there were certainly more I could have added, maybe one day I will revisit some I missed!
Fenway Park has hosted a lot of football games since its opening in 1912.
Yeah I should have included Fenway, thanks for mentioning it!
The Astrodome actually had dirt under the turf until it was renovated in the mid-80s. The dirt would have been a remnant of its original grass field, and the Dome had many dirt events over the winter like rodeo, motorsports and even bullfighting. After the renovation dirt would be hauled in as at other stadiums.
Thanks for sharing! I wouldn't have expected dirt to be under the turf early on, but it certainly makes sense with the early adoption of turf and for other events!
Oddly enough, in Australia, there are oval stadiums where they play both cricket and Aussie Rules football, and oblong/rectangular stadiums where they play soccer and both codes of rugby, and the whole purpose is that the stadium is used for more than one sport for which the field of play and seating are suited. There's only like Accor Stadium in Sydney and Marvel Stadium in Melbourne that were built for ALL sports, with movable seating. However, Accor is mostly used for rugby league and Marvel is used mostly for Aussie Rules, as those sports are the most popular in each of those cities.
Thanks for watching! That’s really interesting, I think building a stadium for two sports is way more doable than trying to build something that can work for all!
Municipal Stadia did not emerge in UK in part due to the ownership model
For the most part these grounds were private owned rather than the local municipality so a football club had no requirement to cater for other sports and seldom shared with other footie teams
Its one of the reasons London has a huge number of stadiums
There was multi sports arenas Sheffield hosted cricket and football
Bradford hosted footie and rugby and had a speedway track
The old Wembley stadium had a greyhound race track around it
In Australia cricket stadia hosted Aussie Rules but that sport used the same field , the rugby codes had their own rectangular fields but they did play games in cricket ovals
To this day they away from the east cost states where the rugby codes have big arenas if the play big games of rugby in Melbourne or Perth they have to play in the big oval arenas such as the gigantic MCG as the rectangular venues are not nearly large enough
Yeah that makes sense regarding the ownership structure! Thanks a lot for the insight!
You lost me at the third "ick-specially".
Thanks for watching! Sorry I lost ya!