@@meadster308 No, Norton lost a split decision, obviously very controversial. They showed the fight on one of the networks a few days later with a bunch of sportswriters watching. As I recall, they were pretty much split as to who won. I thought Norton clearly took the last round which would have made him champ. Norton did win the first fight against Ali (a non-title fight, Foreman had the belt) in San Diego, I believe.
but it wasn't built as a multipurpose. It was built for baseball and everything else is shoehorned in. Multipurpose is designed to accommodate multiple sports comfortably
You missed the Raptors first few seasons where they were playing at Skydome/Rogers Centre (home of the Blue Jays) while Air Canada Centre (now Scotiabank Arena) was being built
I think the real question is what hasn’t been held at skydome. Argos and the Bills, cricket test matches, then that weird track event with Donovan Bailey ….
Great Video DG! If you do a part two to this, make sure to add AT&T (Oracle) Park hosting the 2018 Rugby Sevens World Cup. It has held during the 2018 MLB season and the San Francisco Giants players said that the fieldwasn't the same afterwards. And don't forget about the L.A> Coliseum hosting a pre-season NASCAR Cup Series dirt race.
Awesome video. Thanks for the content and research. Oracle Park in SF hosted Cal Football games during renovations at Cals football stadium. It has also hosted soccer games there.
In 2018, the current Yankee Stadium hosted college football regular season game between Notre Dame and Syracuse. In fact, Notre Dame wore unis that look similar to the Yankees unis. In 2010, Notre Dame played Army at the current Yankee Stadium as well.
Rutgers and Army have also played and hosted seperate regular season games at the current Yankee. It has also hosted FCS games (Lehigh/Lafayette, Fordham/Holy Cross) and even DIII Ithaca/Cortland.
they had a Rugby Sevens World cup at the SF Giants stadium before. Sevens rugby is . 7 on 7, instead of the traditional 15 and the matches are about 20 minutes in length (inc halftime, stoppages, etc) so they crammed the entire tournament there in one weekend.
Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania (where the MLS Philadelphia Union play their home matches) has hosted the Rugby Sevens Championships as well as the "Battle of the Blues" football games (being Villanova University v. the University of Delaware; both being NCAA Division I-AA) so the pitch (being of standard FIFA dimensions) can easily accommodate both rugby and American Football.
Love the videos. Busch Stadium hosted more than just baseball for years. St. Louis Cardinals (MLB) (1966-2005) St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) (1966-1987) St. Louis Stars (NPSL / NASL) (1967-1974) St. Louis Rams (NFL) (1995)
You totally missed the world snowboard championships this year at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. They built a massive ramp from the top of the stadium down to field level and it looked terrifying!!!
8:34 if memory serves, the baseball convertibility was a requirement for the Vikings to get public funding for the ballpark. City makes money hand over fist renting to high schools and colleges for early season games.
Wrigley Field was home of the Chicago Bears for 50 years from the early 1920s- to the early 1970s. It was before my time but I have seen several photos of Wrigley hosting Bears Games and one of the end zones was slightly smaller that a normal end zone due to the dimensions of the park.
I remembered in the original xfl when san francisco had a team and they played their home games at pac bell park (long before it became oracle). And all the nhl winter classic games in football and baseball stadiums.
Pac Bell (or whatever it's called now - where the SF Giants play) hosted the XFL Demons (in 2000? or 2001?). That was an interesting setup with temp stands in LF. But it seemed to workout pretty well. IIRC, the first few games were well-attended.
Fenways had some weird ones over the last few years. Liverpool played Sevilla a few years back as well as the bowl games like Yankee Stadium does ex. Wasabi Bowl. And they’ve also had a snowboarding arena setup for public use in the winter sponsored by Red Bull
You missed when they did "Big Air" snowboarding at SunTrust Park in Atlanta. I think they did it at Fenway, too. Kennesaw State played a football game at SunTrust, too.
The Sky dome hosted a NBA game once. It was the largest crowd till last year when the Alamo dome beat it. Also no outdoor hockey games. In the 70s Las Vegas would host boxing matches in their parking lots.
As a San Diego State alumn and supporter I hated the Petco Park game from the beginning. And sure enough it cost us an NCAA Tournament bid that year. You never give a sorry team like USD a gimmick game like that to give them a chance.
That would be Globe Life Park in Arlington, which also has Army-Air Force football and some high school playoffs. Its predecessor, Globe Life Field (now Choctaw Stadium) is now used for football and soccer. And AT&T Stadium hosts a rodeo annually.
8:51 US Bank Stadium was designed to accommodate baseball so local high schools and the Minnesota Golden Gophers have someplace to play in the early months of their seasons as there's typically snow still in March. It was never intended to be shared with the Twins.
I believe that all D2 and D3 colleges in the region use US Bank stadium in Feb/Mar and they play 24 hrs a day. Fantastic use for the facility and may be some interesting future content.
6:16 That WVU / ASU Bowl game at Chase Field (will always be 'The BOB' to me!) was notable for starting with the roof open and it started raining. So, they played the beginning of the game in the rain...in a domed stadium! Haha! 7:10 One of the Bowl games at Wrigley Field a few years ago, they had to have both teams run offense in the same direction because the officials determined the clearance in the end zone wasn't safe for play. Also, both teams' sideline was on the same side of the field!!! It was crazy.
Just imagine in the days when the Bears played their home games at Wrigley Field before the AFL-NFL Merger forced them to relocate the Soldier Field (as teams had to play in stadiums with at least 50k seats). The same held true for the Boston/New England Patriots when they played at Fenway Park and college venues before moving to (the bare-bones) Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium in 1971.
Toronto Roger's Center (formerly Skydome) that was built for baseball and football was odd enough transitioning between the two but then for a couple of seasons it also had Raptor's basketball until the Raptors arena was completed. The basketball was even weirder to see there.
This was a fun video. Depressed Ginger was right not to bog this video down with those many outdoor NHL games every year where part of the novelty is to intentionally play in stadiums not designed to host hockey games. As a side note, there could be an entire video based just on the experience behind having the Northwestern Wildcats play that initial game at Wrigley Field. There was so much to it, including, as Depressed Ginger pointed out, placing the end line virtually right up against the right field ivy. As a result of that, all offensive drives for both teams throughout the game had to go from east to west. No offensive drives could go toward the right field wall. It was considered to be to dangerous for the players.
Turner Field was built to accommodate the Olympics then to be converted into a baseball stadium following the Olympics. Everything in the "left field and center field" areas was more or less temporary structures for the Olympics then taken down and the permanent baseball outfield bleachers were built
Now Turner Field is Center Park Stadium, home of Georgia State Football and was home to the AAF Atlanta Legends. If the XFL or USFL ever puts a team there, this is more likely where they’d play.
Great video! I sat in the third deck of the old Pontiac Silverdome on the Detroit Pistons 'Punk Rock Night' in the 1980's. You got the n for five bucks if you wore a black leather jacket. Seriously. Hilariously far from the action, but one helluva party.
Also old Chicago Stadium hosted Chicago Bears or some other football game. It had dirt field no grass. I don't think players wore helmets or face masks. Before forward pass was invented.
My Boilers played NU at Wrigley in 2021. I heard they’re going to play a home game there every other year? Not sure if that changes with their new stadium plan.
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Yes, I'm surprised DG missed that. It's a temporary track laid down each of the last two years. Some of the idea came from the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, NC. However, Bowman Gray has a permanent, paved 1/4 mile track around the football field where running tracks are at many high school stadiums.
At Wrigley, there wasn't enough room by NCAA standards to use the end zone with the outfield wall, so every time possession changed, they flipped the field and scored all the touchdowns in the same direction. A fine example of poor pre-game planning.
The OG Yankee Stadium should count as a multi-purpose because its RF bleachers were designed to be angled properly to face a football field and its CF and LF we positioned deep enough to accommodate football. Obviously, it wasn't an ideal football venue, but just as the Superdome was a multipurpose facility that was truly only meant for one sport, so was the 1923 Yankee. If you look at early overhead photos of the 1923 Yankee looking in from past LF, it is obvious it was built for two sports.
I agree. The third base stands when it first opened always seemed to me to be configured to handle football. When it opened 1923, Yankee Stadium’s capacity far exceeded that of almost all college football stadiums, so there were plenty of “good” seats to go around.
That's a bit interesting. You could say that of the Polo Grounds, too, couldn't you? And at least one cookie cutter I'd say was a lot more adequate for one sport than another, because I think Shea feels like it was _abysmal_ for football.
@@cypher515 The Polo Grounds' layout was due to the parcel size. There were 2 parcels in Coogan's Hollow. The Giants had built one on the south parcel, which they leased. A team from the short lived Player's League built another park on the north parcel. The Player's League quickly folded and the Giants took over the new stadium and the lease. However, they didn't maintain a lease on the south parcel. As they rebuilt and expanded the ballpark, they were hemmed in by the shape of the parcel. That the Polo Grounds was configured so well for football was more of coincidence than anything else. The wikipedia article on the Polo Grounds is surprisingly accurate.
In 1991, the Kings and Rangers played an outdoor game in an impromptu arena behind Caesar's Palace. The Kings won, and Tie Domi tripped on a grasshopper.
If any MLB team is going to play in San Antonio, it'll probably be the Astros, not the Rangers. The Astros seem to have a stronger fan base in San Antonio, and to a lesser extent Austin, than the Rangers.
I laughed when you guessed the Lightning played a playoff game in Tropicana Field. They were terrible their first few years; that packed stadium was definitely one of their first games.
the red bull crashed ice event they did at fenway a few years ago was pretty interesting. They set up massive ice jumps that people did on ice skates, I didn't even know such a thing existed at the time.
The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) was an occasional host venue for the Toronto Raptors for the first season or so before Sociabank Arena was open.
Can do a ton of these. Just off the top of my head, ski jumping at Fenway and Dodgers Stadium, Red Bull Crashed Ice at Fenway, baseball at the LA Colosseum, I think I remember an NBA game at Indian Wells, the Raptors played several seasons at SkyDome, football and Irish hurling at Fenway, NHL on a golf course in Lake Tahoe...
Going further back, ski jumping at Soldier Field and the LA Coliseum, bullfighting at the Astrodome along with rodeo (which is now at NRG Stadium), an ice show at the LA Coliseum, and a Mardi Gras parade in the Superdome. A couple of stadiums in Australia hosted parades during COVID: the LGBTQ Mardi Gras at the Sydney Cricket Ground and a Christmas pageant at the Adelaide Oval. There's also a Christmas parade at the McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in Texas. The Buccaneer Days parade in Corpus Christi formerly started at the city's Buccaneer Stadium, and during COVID took place in the American Bank Center arena.
"...obscure events like tennis, *soccer* "
😂😂😂 I know what he means but that's hilarious out of context.
Never heard of these events, they entertaining? 🤣
As a MLB / NFL fan, I'd like to know: what are these events? They sound interesting
Only in America.
😂😂😂😂😂
The NY Football Giants played at Yankee Stadium for almost 20 years. Also hosted boxing and wrestling. Definition of multi use.
Ken Norton best Muhammad Ali at Yankee Stadium.
@@meadster308 No, Norton lost a split decision, obviously very controversial. They showed the fight on one of the networks a few days later with a bunch of sportswriters watching. As I recall, they were pretty much split as to who won. I thought Norton clearly took the last round which would have made him champ. Norton did win the first fight against Ali (a non-title fight, Foreman had the belt) in San Diego, I believe.
@meadster308 nope that was in California
@@robbarbieri86762nd was in Inglewood
but it wasn't built as a multipurpose. It was built for baseball and everything else is shoehorned in. Multipurpose is designed to accommodate multiple sports comfortably
The Lightning used to sell out the Trop during regular season. The fanbase was incredible.
Surprised you didn’t include any winter classics
Anyways, great video as always. Love your content man
You missed the Raptors first few seasons where they were playing at Skydome/Rogers Centre (home of the Blue Jays) while Air Canada Centre (now Scotiabank Arena) was being built
I think the real question is what hasn’t been held at skydome. Argos and the Bills, cricket test matches, then that weird track event with Donovan Bailey ….
Great Video DG! If you do a part two to this, make sure to add AT&T (Oracle) Park hosting the 2018 Rugby Sevens World Cup. It has held during the 2018 MLB season and the San Francisco Giants players said that the fieldwasn't the same afterwards. And don't forget about the L.A> Coliseum hosting a pre-season NASCAR Cup Series dirt race.
Awesome video. Thanks for the content and research. Oracle Park in SF hosted Cal Football games during renovations at Cals football stadium. It has also hosted soccer games there.
Oracle used to host a college bowl game a number of years ago.
XFL - San Francisco Demons in 2001
You should do a video on the RCA Dome aka "Hoosier Dome" !
We're getting the Winter Classic on January 2024 at T-Mobile Park. They also hosted a Wrestlemania back in 2003, and had a Bowl Game in 2001.
In 2018, the current Yankee Stadium hosted college football regular season game between Notre Dame and Syracuse. In fact, Notre Dame wore unis that look similar to the Yankees unis.
In 2010, Notre Dame played Army at the current Yankee Stadium as well.
Rutgers and Army have also played and hosted seperate regular season games at the current Yankee. It has also hosted FCS games (Lehigh/Lafayette, Fordham/Holy Cross) and even DIII Ithaca/Cortland.
they had a Rugby Sevens World cup at the SF Giants stadium before. Sevens rugby is . 7 on 7, instead of the traditional 15 and the matches are about 20 minutes in length (inc halftime, stoppages, etc) so they crammed the entire tournament there in one weekend.
Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania (where the MLS Philadelphia Union play their home matches) has hosted the Rugby Sevens Championships as well as the "Battle of the Blues" football games (being Villanova University v. the University of Delaware; both being NCAA Division I-AA) so the pitch (being of standard FIFA dimensions) can easily accommodate both rugby and American Football.
Love the videos. Busch Stadium hosted more than just baseball for years.
St. Louis Cardinals (MLB) (1966-2005)
St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) (1966-1987)
St. Louis Stars (NPSL / NASL) (1967-1974)
St. Louis Rams (NFL) (1995)
You totally missed the world snowboard championships this year at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. They built a massive ramp from the top of the stadium down to field level and it looked terrifying!!!
Where did he say that EVERY stadium is in the video? 🙄
Another weird thing that Miller Park (yeah I still don’t like the name change) hosted was a bowling tournament
Anthony Bass is under some hot water for supporting the Target boycotts would love to hear your take on it
Miller Park and AT&T Stadium also hosted men and women's professional bowling.
8:34 if memory serves, the baseball convertibility was a requirement for the Vikings to get public funding for the ballpark. City makes money hand over fist renting to high schools and colleges for early season games.
Wrigley Field was home of the Chicago Bears for 50 years from the early 1920s- to the early 1970s. It was before my time but I have seen several photos of Wrigley hosting Bears Games and one of the end zones was slightly smaller that a normal end zone due to the dimensions of the park.
I remembered in the original xfl when san francisco had a team and they played their home games at pac bell park (long before it became oracle).
And all the nhl winter classic games in football and baseball stadiums.
Pac Bell (or whatever it's called now - where the SF Giants play) hosted the XFL Demons (in 2000? or 2001?). That was an interesting setup with temp stands in LF. But it seemed to workout pretty well. IIRC, the first few games were well-attended.
A few Bowl Games before going to Levi's Stadium
Fenways had some weird ones over the last few years. Liverpool played Sevilla a few years back as well as the bowl games like Yankee Stadium does ex. Wasabi Bowl. And they’ve also had a snowboarding arena setup for public use in the winter sponsored by Red Bull
You missed when they did "Big Air" snowboarding at SunTrust Park in Atlanta. I think they did it at Fenway, too.
Kennesaw State played a football game at SunTrust, too.
Notre dame played they’re shamrock series game at Yankee stadium a couple years ago. They wore baseball styled football uniforms
I remember when the Spurs played at the Alamodome for several years including their '99 championship season with the large curtain on one side.
The Sky dome hosted a NBA game once. It was the largest crowd till last year when the Alamo dome beat it. Also no outdoor hockey games. In the 70s Las Vegas would host boxing matches in their parking lots.
As a San Diego State alumn and supporter I hated the Petco Park game from the beginning. And sure enough it cost us an NCAA Tournament bid that year. You never give a sorry team like USD a gimmick game like that to give them a chance.
WWF's Showdown at Shea in 1980. Also WrestleFest at County Stadium in 1988.
The LA Coliseum has also hosted spring training games with jacked-up dimensions
0:17 I vote a Major League Baseball team in New Orleans with a new Stadium instead of Mercedes Benz Superdome
The fact you did a video in stadiums hosting weird events and you didn’t include the LA coliseum running a NASCAR race inside is it, is crazy
Busch also hosted an NHL Winter Classic a few years ago.
They’re called the gimmick games
The court at Petco Park was tennis, not volleyball, and it was for the Davis Cup in 2014 - US vs GBR as shown in one of the pictures
I was always fascinated by the Packers playing at County Stadium
I saw a video of hockey players trying crashed ice when it was set up at Fenway Park.
Can you do a video on how you would design the ultimate modern multi sport stadium?
Very surprised Fenway isn't on the list with both college football and NHL Frozen Fenway every year
Also was home to the AFL Boston Patriots for a few years.
Hard Rock stadium hosts the Miami open in tennis
How about the Astrodome hosting a basketball game in the late 1960's with Elvin Hayes for Houston against Lew Alcindor of UCLA. Epic. Good show De.
I remember watching the Billie Jean King age 29 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs at the Astrosdome in 1973
National Finals Rodeo and World Series, both in same stadium, Dallas during covid
That would be Globe Life Park in Arlington, which also has Army-Air Force football and some high school playoffs. Its predecessor, Globe Life Field (now Choctaw Stadium) is now used for football and soccer. And AT&T Stadium hosts a rodeo annually.
Thunderdome in Tampa hosted the Arena Football too before the arena was build there. Tampa Bay Storm
8:51 US Bank Stadium was designed to accommodate baseball so local high schools and the Minnesota Golden Gophers have someplace to play in the early months of their seasons as there's typically snow still in March. It was never intended to be shared with the Twins.
I believe that all D2 and D3 colleges in the region use US Bank stadium in Feb/Mar and they play 24 hrs a day. Fantastic use for the facility and may be some interesting future content.
6:16 That WVU / ASU Bowl game at Chase Field (will always be 'The BOB' to me!) was notable for starting with the roof open and it started raining. So, they played the beginning of the game in the rain...in a domed stadium! Haha!
7:10 One of the Bowl games at Wrigley Field a few years ago, they had to have both teams run offense in the same direction because the officials determined the clearance in the end zone wasn't safe for play. Also, both teams' sideline was on the same side of the field!!! It was crazy.
Just imagine in the days when the Bears played their home games at Wrigley Field before the AFL-NFL Merger forced them to relocate the Soldier Field (as teams had to play in stadiums with at least 50k seats). The same held true for the Boston/New England Patriots when they played at Fenway Park and college venues before moving to (the bare-bones) Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium in 1971.
Corrections:
1) New Or-luh-ns
2) The baseball configuration was available until the 2011 renovations
There was the USBC masters bowling at Miller park.
Toronto Roger's Center (formerly Skydome) that was built for baseball and football was odd enough transitioning between the two but then for a couple of seasons it also had Raptor's basketball until the Raptors arena was completed. The basketball was even weirder to see there.
This was a fun video. Depressed Ginger was right not to bog this video down with those many outdoor NHL games every year where part of the novelty is to intentionally play in stadiums not designed to host hockey games. As a side note, there could be an entire video based just on the experience behind having the Northwestern Wildcats play that initial game at Wrigley Field. There was so much to it, including, as Depressed Ginger pointed out, placing the end line virtually right up against the right field ivy. As a result of that, all offensive drives for both teams throughout the game had to go from east to west. No offensive drives could go toward the right field wall. It was considered to be to dangerous for the players.
I believe in that Northwestern game when teams got past certain yard marker they switched ends not to run into wall at right field endzone.
Wrigley also was home to the Chicago Sting soccer team.
Turner Field was built to accommodate the Olympics then to be converted into a baseball stadium following the Olympics. Everything in the "left field and center field" areas was more or less temporary structures for the Olympics then taken down and the permanent baseball outfield bleachers were built
Now Turner Field is Center Park Stadium, home of Georgia State Football and was home to the AAF Atlanta Legends. If the XFL or USFL ever puts a team there, this is more likely where they’d play.
Great video! I sat in the third deck of the old Pontiac Silverdome on the Detroit Pistons 'Punk Rock Night' in the 1980's. You got the n for five bucks if you wore a black leather jacket. Seriously. Hilariously far from the action, but one helluva party.
Pitt and Syracuse play a football game at Yankee stadium this year
Also old Chicago Stadium hosted Chicago Bears or some other football game. It had dirt field no grass. I don't think players wore helmets or face masks. Before forward pass was invented.
I went to a soccer game at Candlestick park just before the stadium was demolished
What about when Miller Park held a PBA bowling televised final?
The Superdome hosted the New Orleans Pelicans Minor League Baseball team.
What about the Battle At Bristol? 150,000 screaming fans watching a football game at a Speedway!
One forgot about the old Pontiac Silverdome being used as the home court for the Detroit Pistons before moving to The Palace of Auburn Hills in 1988.
Air Force's Falcon Stadium hosted an NHL game
Yankee Stadium also hosted the most NEW YORKA kind of sport..................Boxing.
The NY Giants called Yankee Stadium home for years after the Polo Grounds demise.
My Boilers played NU at Wrigley in 2021. I heard they’re going to play a home game there every other year? Not sure if that changes with their new stadium plan.
You didn't mention the NHL's annual Winter Classic or their Stadium Series.
Gotta look up when killer park was used for bowling.
Welcome to Allegiant Stadium!!! Home of the Las Vegas Athletics!!!
Oriole Park once hosted Catholic Mass when the Pope visited in 1995
U forgot the blues hosting the Blackhawks in Busch stadium
And every other outdoor NHL game...not to mention the Busch Clash in the LA Coliseum.
Semo Played SIU at Busch Stadium. I forgot what year but I was there!
In football
Att stadium also hosted cal football for a season while there stadium was being renovated
This was a good one
How about the Baker Bowl in the 40s being used for among other things, midget auto racing?
Nascar at Los Angeles coliseum is interesting and weird event
Needed to have some shots of midget auto racing inside old Hoosier dome.
La collisium hosting NASCAR
Another great video!
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toronto raptors rogers centre?
Wisconsin is a low scoring team they also had pba bowling in am fam
60-50 isn’t really low scoring for a big 12 team
The pro bowlers tour had an event at the then miller park
Petco park💀
lower your mic please, you are too loud
"Obscure events like tennis, soccer "
Wtf?
The LA coliseum hosting NASCAR gotta be one of my favourite ones
Yes, I'm surprised DG missed that. It's a temporary track laid down each of the last two years.
Some of the idea came from the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, NC. However, Bowman Gray has a permanent, paved 1/4 mile track around the football field where running tracks are at many high school stadiums.
On the flip side, a college football game was hosted at Bristol Speedway.
And the Stadium Super Trucks in 2013. That track was really cool.
not to mention Hard Rock Stadium being the paddock area for an F1 race
Bristol Motor Speedway turned in to a football stadium. College football. Something like 150,000 showed up.
At Wrigley, there wasn't enough room by NCAA standards to use the end zone with the outfield wall, so every time possession changed, they flipped the field and scored all the touchdowns in the same direction. A fine example of poor pre-game planning.
Which is weird because the Chicago Bears played at Wrigley for a number of years.
@@meadster308 the rules were different back then. Player safety wasn't nearly as big of a concern. Think leather helmets and very little padding.
IIRC, one defensive TD was scored in the outfield endzone
is that true
@@timelymirror7826 yes
The Bears played in Wrigley until sometime in the 70s.
The OG Yankee Stadium should count as a multi-purpose because its RF bleachers were designed to be angled properly to face a football field and its CF and LF we positioned deep enough to accommodate football. Obviously, it wasn't an ideal football venue, but just as the Superdome was a multipurpose facility that was truly only meant for one sport, so was the 1923 Yankee. If you look at early overhead photos of the 1923 Yankee looking in from past LF, it is obvious it was built for two sports.
I agree. The third base stands when it first opened always seemed to me to be configured to handle football. When it opened 1923, Yankee Stadium’s capacity far exceeded that of almost all college football stadiums, so there were plenty of “good” seats to go around.
That's a bit interesting. You could say that of the Polo Grounds, too, couldn't you? And at least one cookie cutter I'd say was a lot more adequate for one sport than another, because I think Shea feels like it was _abysmal_ for football.
@@cypher515 The Polo Grounds' layout was due to the parcel size. There were 2 parcels in Coogan's Hollow. The Giants had built one on the south parcel, which they leased. A team from the short lived Player's League built another park on the north parcel. The Player's League quickly folded and the Giants took over the new stadium and the lease. However, they didn't maintain a lease on the south parcel. As they rebuilt and expanded the ballpark, they were hemmed in by the shape of the parcel. That the Polo Grounds was configured so well for football was more of coincidence than anything else. The wikipedia article on the Polo Grounds is surprisingly accurate.
Yankee stadium hosting soccer is always a weird event. Great baseball stadium. Worst MLS stadium.
In 1991, the Kings and Rangers played an outdoor game in an impromptu arena behind Caesar's Palace. The Kings won, and Tie Domi tripped on a grasshopper.
Great video bro! You should do a on Turner Field turning into a college football stadium for Georgia State
If any MLB team is going to play in San Antonio, it'll probably be the Astros, not the Rangers. The Astros seem to have a stronger fan base in San Antonio, and to a lesser extent Austin, than the Rangers.
I laughed when you guessed the Lightning played a playoff game in Tropicana Field. They were terrible their first few years; that packed stadium was definitely one of their first games.
I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Miller Park hosted the 2007 USBC Masters Finals (bowling)
4:38 imagine Los Angles FC or Los Angles Rams playing at Dodgers Stadium
Wtf the Lightning played at that dump
Do a video on USF getting a football stadium
Churchill Downs (KY derby) hosted a louisville basketball game. Last year our AAA stadium hosted an outdoor louisville basketball game too
the red bull crashed ice event they did at fenway a few years ago was pretty interesting. They set up massive ice jumps that people did on ice skates, I didn't even know such a thing existed at the time.
Shoutout to Fenway Park, host to football, hockey, soccer, boxing, even ski jumping in addition to baseball
My dad saw a Football Game at Fenway during WWII.
didn’t michael jordan play a game at rogers centre home of the blue jays?
The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) was an occasional host venue for the Toronto Raptors for the first season or so before Sociabank Arena was open.
Can do a ton of these. Just off the top of my head, ski jumping at Fenway and Dodgers Stadium, Red Bull Crashed Ice at Fenway, baseball at the LA Colosseum, I think I remember an NBA game at Indian Wells, the Raptors played several seasons at SkyDome, football and Irish hurling at Fenway, NHL on a golf course in Lake Tahoe...
Going further back, ski jumping at Soldier Field and the LA Coliseum, bullfighting at the Astrodome along with rodeo (which is now at NRG Stadium), an ice show at the LA Coliseum, and a Mardi Gras parade in the Superdome. A couple of stadiums in Australia hosted parades during COVID: the LGBTQ Mardi Gras at the Sydney Cricket Ground and a Christmas pageant at the Adelaide Oval. There's also a Christmas parade at the McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in Texas. The Buccaneer Days parade in Corpus Christi formerly started at the city's Buccaneer Stadium, and during COVID took place in the American Bank Center arena.
@@gregsells8549 definitely a lot of fodder for more of these types of videos!