I’ve lived in Texas for 8 years and given the rodeo and growth of the city, I’m not sure how this thing ain’t turned into something useful. Nor do I really understand why it’s a landmark…coming from NY where old Yankee Stadium was demolished and turned into an amazing inner city baseball park.
Another reason they can't tear it down Is because it has alot of asbestos in it which was a meterial that was thought to be fireproof but can cause alot of health problems alot of places back then had it but now it's like outdated and has been for 40 years
@@peacehopelovecharity I will believe it when I see cranes in the air. I'm guessing that it will be the same as the last two times they were going to do it. ('96, '09) They will do just a tiny upgrade to Memorial Stadium, spend all of the money on Allen Fieldhouse, and fire their coach. They've already started working on Allen. Everyone else in the Big12 has completed major renovations, expansions, and upgrades 2 or 3 times (some more) since KU's last major renovation, even the 4 incoming schools. They've added some bells and whistles over the years, but it's pretty much the same dump that they have been playing in since 1965.
The Astrodome is a Texas Historical Landmark and is on the National Parks Service's National Register of Historic Places, neither of them prevent the dome from meeting a wrecking ball.
In England, they often take old stadiums and improve them. In America, they just knock them down twenty years after they were built. The most embarrassing stadium in the US imo is Soldier Field. They took a classic stadium, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to ruin it.
Everyone loves it and it’s arguably the best game day experience in the NFL but nothing touches Buffalo as far as bad stadiums are concerned. It is an absolute pile of shit that should have been bulldozed a decade ago.
Snyder is a disgrace. Before Snyder, the Redskins used to have a 15 year waiting list for season tickets and over the years, they have reduced capacity of their stadium because the team was so bad.
And I believe it opened in 1950, when the Southwest Conference was at its peak and Houston - indeed, all of Texas - had no major-league professional sports. In that era, Rice fielded competitive teams despite its small enrollment.
Honestly the Oakland Arena, for being nearly 60 years old, doesn't look all that terrible. If anything, it was an architectural marvel at the time it was built and offered a glimpse into a future of glass-exterior sporting venues. It would be sad to tear it down, especially if they can still at least do concerts there and maybe put a G-League or minor-pro sports team in there.
You could have added Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois (home of the Northwestern Wildcats football team), but this upcoming season is going to be the last at the very old stadium as they are planning to demolish it and build a brand new stadium based on the newer soccer stadiums in Europe.
Here in Minnesota we’ve had two stadiums that arguably could have made it onto your list; Metropolitan Stadium, or, just plain Met Stadium, and the oft-maligned, nationally lampooned, Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Both stadiums hosted the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Vikings. Both teams had some pretty good years at the Met but couldn’t bring home any championships. In 1981, both teams moved to the “Dome” in downtown Minneapolis where the Twins won the World Series twice, in 1987 and 1991. The dome was just plain utilitarian ugly but it did create a definite home field advantage which gave the Twins an edge.
I find the two most embarrassing stadiums to be SoFi and Allegiant. Most games the visiting crowd cheers overpower the home teams fans. Home offense sometimes have to use silent snap counts. Imagine being a long time Bay Area based Raiders fan and paying travel costs (and being charged premium rates on game weekends), seat licenses, higher ticket prices, higher concession prices and the hassle/time of travel to attend a Raider game. Then when you get there and the ambience is terrible because the stadium isn't filled with like minded fans. Both stadiums are physical beautiful and engineering/construction marvels but the important thing is game day spirit and these stadium experiences are an embarrassment.
As much as I can agree.. I don't think you can compare pro-publicly funded stadiums with Collegiate college funded stadiums. Colleges don't have the coin to make them look top notch..until they win.. where the pro-teams just play hardball and twist arms with threats of leaving.. college teams can't move..
I don't know, I've seen the Falcons at Mercedes Benz stadium, I've also seen the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium many times and that stadium is just as nice and state of the art as where the Falcons play.
RIce Stadium was built before there were any pro sports in Houston and Rice football games were big-time events. Believe it or not, it actually hosted a Super Bowl back in the early 1970s!
Fun fact: Northwest Field (formerly FedEx Field in Landover, MD was originally designed to be a dome. It was supposed to be an indoor seating bowl with outdoor concourses and service areas. This is why the upper bowl was enclosed. Unfortunately, at the time it was built, the structure was the largest one in the NFL and it was several years before construction methods and technology could accommodate such a large roof. They kept the upper bowl enclosed as long as they could to keep the possibility of adding a roof in the future. This was a failed attempt by ownership at the time to make the stadium eligible for the Super Bowl. In recent years, upper deck seats have been removed, not because of a lack of selling tickets (you would usually use tarps to cover seats for this reason, like at the Trop in St. Petersburg, FL, or on the Mount Davis structure at Oakland Colisseum). Northwest Field’s upper bowl has been losing seats year over year because the building has structural damage from a lack of maintenance and care from ownership. The seats I used to sit in growing up (2 different sets of season tickets over the years) do not exist anymore (except probably in some hoarder’s garage). What you call camo seats in the club level are actually an optional upgrade. The owners of the seats in club level have the option of having cushions added for an additional cost. That’s why they are sporadically placed and only LOOK like camo. Throughout the history of the stadium, different seats had cushions at different times, so the club level never looked the same year to year. Unfortunately, the Commanders have to endure at least 3 years, as the lease isn’t up until 2027. My hope is that they do not renew their lease, take a capacity downgrade to play at Audi Field for several years after the lease at Northwest is up, until they can build a new stadium on the old RFK site, as RFK is finally scheduled for demolition.
Why do stadiums on a college campus have a longer life expectancy than those of professional sports teams? Tax the residents of a community from now to eternity to build a new stadium or arena, and when the owner of the team doesn't get the approval for a stadium upgrade, he/she holds the jurisdiction hostage by threating to move the franchise to a different city.
City of Oakland ALREADY SAID they will NOT tear down Oracle arena next to Coliseum. They will continue using it as an events center; concerts, boxing, monstertruck shows, conventions, and maybe even a WNBA expansion team.
Concrete exteriors tend to holdup a little better in hurricane force winds that tend to end up in Louisiana. Least it don't have sewage pouring down on its occupants
It cost money to build or renovate these stadiums. Usually about $1.5 Billion to $2.25 Billion Dollars. Sometimes north of $3.0 Billion Dollars. To pay for it Taxes or Ticket Prices must be increased. Sometimes to the point that people move or can not afford to go to the events. Even to tear down these stadiums most millions of Dollars. In comes down to one point. Who is going to pay for it!
The Astrodome is a Houston landmark and holds a lot of sentimental value to native Houstonians. That’s why it hasn’t been demo’d. We don’t want it to go anywhere 🤷🏽♂️🤘🏽 Also…your videos are repetitive. Not sure how or why I keep coming back to watch them. Must be some kind of Jedi mind trick…anywho keep’em coming lol
Im a houstonian and I think it should be torn down, if that’s the case then yankee stadium shouldn’t have been knocked out there not real physical value to just having something stand there.
Some say it's a historical landmark. It's not. You're saying it's standing because of nostalgia? It's standing because it's essentially a Superfund site and full of asbestos and the cost to demo the Dome is insane and Harris County won't or can't pay that tab.
Harris County, not the City of Houston actually owns the Astrodome. Former County Judge (the person closest to being the head of government for the county) Ed Emmett did not want the Astrodome torn down. He kept enough roadblocks in place to delay and delay and delay. Eventually someone or some organization filed the necessary paperwork to make it it the historical landmark as several of your commenters have actually said. The biggest problem now is, there is little, if any money to do any kind of renovation. So, until someone figures out how to pay for it, there will be no work on it and because of it's landmark status, it won't be coming down unless something changes or Mother Nature brings it down..
I was detained for fighting outside of the Texans game at a tail gate party. They kept me in the makeshift jail they have in there. It was worth it to be able to say that
Rice Stadium hosted a Super Bowl and that's the only other notable thing about it. also the upper deck is basically structurally deficient and can't hold big events there anymore. The Astrodome is on the list of historic landmarks and can't be torn down. Tho they are talking about turning the inside into like an events center or heritage park or something. I think that's actually something they should do with the old field at Oakland when they eventually take a wrecking ball to the Coliseum. Maybe put up some low income housing bc California, especially the Bay Area, is ridiculously expensive and affordable housing is needed in so many parts of the state. Also that remark about the "92 year old woman", I have a 96 year old great grandmother and....yeah. So I resent that comment on the grounds that my great granny resembles that remark! xD
The lower level as a parking garage and the upper as an events center. Put in 35-40k seats and it would have great usefulness. The OTC was there for decades.
While it’s true the Trop has no character whatsoever and it’s near nothing, it is extremely clean and comfortable to watch a game . It’s not built for baseball but it’s not a complete wreck either.
the reason the astro dome is still standing is because it would cost more to demolish than it would to turn it into a parking deck or an indoor park travis county voters voted to turn it into a indoor park with a parking structure under the park instead of tearing it down
I think UNM, ULL and Rice are fine. Those are great stadiums for what those schools are. The Astrodome was so dark and scary when I went to events there 25 years ago, thank the lord it was replaced. FedEx, totally agree, terrible and ugly, I do have sentimental value for the Alameda County Stadium because there have been some amazing moments there in history, but otherwise, yes, it's a pit, has been forever.
The Oakland sports complex saw great success aver many decades with all pro teams that called it home. It has grown old and past its useful life. Rice stadium once hosted a Super Bowl. Do you talk the same way to your family?
Nah on the Oakland Arena being embarrassing. The Coliseum stadium, sure. But the arena is internally around the same age as the Staples Center, United Center, the 76ers arena, the Suns arena and several other currently in use NBA/NHL arenas. It was completely gutted in 1997, and the exterior is literally the only thing that is original. It is not old, and the Warriors did not really NEED a new arena. They THOUGHT they were getting more money by building the Chase Center, but with the great tech exodus happening in San Francisco the joke has ended up being on them. 😂 But the Oakland Arena is definitely not embarrassing and is actually one of the trend setters in regards to building basketball specific arenas (which is now increasingly becoming a thing. See: Intuit Dome).
As far as Fed Ex Field. Games used to be fun there. What Daniel Snyder did to that franchise is downright criminal. Beyond the demand issue, I heard that they had to remove seats because of structural issues. Also, the club seats used to be all yellow, it's only multi color now because they don't care what seats they replace the broken ones with lol.
As a Brit, I don't think Oakland Arena looks that bad as far as I can tell. Our arenas here are about as good as your Elementary School's Sports Halls. The stadium however, Mount Davis is just way too big. USA tore down it's historic stadiums and ruined Soldier Field. The worst thing about US stadiums is the obscene amount of concrete surrounding them. You don't need 5000 acres of parking around every stadium.
Good video overall but picking on the poor ole Rajin' Cajuns when you could go into the rest of the Sun Belt, MAC, CUSA and find many that are much worse.
Turpin Stadium, in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Independence Stadium, in Shreveport, Louisiana, are also pretty ugly football stadiums with some major concrete exteriors.
Hahahaha.. I love your hate take but man that hurts you threw Oakland Complex under the bus first. You had me at an abandoned Dollar General! It's all good. I grew up in that dive bar loving the A's before Billy Ball and suffering my entire childhood through shit Warriors teams till Run TMC, the BD blip and the Splash Brothers Green. Tons of fond memories with my family and friends. Funny shit though. Love your take.
The Chicago Bears are seriously pursuing moving out of the city. Soldier Field, while having a lot of history, is highly overrated and unimpressive. I hope they pull the trigger and give a big "FU" to the city of Chicago. Even the location, right on the edge of the southside is sketchy. With the current state of the city it's nothing more than a crime magnet.
it’s funny how everyone used to talk great about fedex field until about 5 years ago. i cannot wait until they build a new stadium and that crap stain owner is out the door.
The Astrodome is too close to the new stadium. None of the controlled demolition companies won't blow it up, because they can't implod it without damaging the new stadium.
I went to Dodgers Stadium earlier this month on the 2nd & it was pretty good , L.A.D got the dub but the only thing i did not like was this one staircase i had to climb up because it was so steep
The Astrodome needs to stay due to historic value. Rice, stadium is OK because rice is known for education and not sports. So putting money into that stadium would be a waste of time.
@@anthony_rivera4735 well yeah, but it’s a fine soccer stadium. Too small for the nfl though. It was the first real modern soccer specific stadium in the USA in 2003. Its still one of the better stadiums in the league.
Ummm you do realize the stadium in Buffalo still exists right…..and if yes then you do realize it is an absolute unmitigated disaster. How it’s possible that there is a worse stadium than the one in Orchard Park, in 2023, is beyond words.
Pretty lazy list if you ask me. The Oakland complex is old and out dated sure, but the Coliseum is only on this list because the A's are doing so bad and have been in the news because their probably moving to Vegas, plus it's not even the worst stadium in the MLB that by far is Tampa. New Mexico is a low level div. 1 team with a low level div. 1 team stadium, you randomly pick any other college teams stadium and it would be about the same. Rice stadium for one hoasted the Superbowl and their football program at one time was much bigger then it is now so that is why stadium is as big as it is. As for the Astrodome it hasn't been used as a stadium for long time and really shouldn't count. Oh I almost forgot FedEx field, is not great but it's not horrible, 90% of what makes it bad for fans is it's location, the actual stadium is almost average.
Astrodome is on the list of Historical Landmarks, that's why it can't be torn down
Lol
One day he may actually look this up and know why it is still standing
Surprised ginger don't get it 😂
I’ve lived in Texas for 8 years and given the rodeo and growth of the city, I’m not sure how this thing ain’t turned into something useful. Nor do I really understand why it’s a landmark…coming from NY where old Yankee Stadium was demolished and turned into an amazing inner city baseball park.
Another reason they can't tear it down Is because it has alot of asbestos in it which was a meterial that was thought to be fireproof but can cause alot of health problems alot of places back then had it but now it's like outdated and has been for 40 years
The Astrodome is a historical landmark and can't be torn down.
Plus, how is Memorial Stadium at the University of Kansas not on this list?
@@peacehopelovecharity I will believe it when I see cranes in the air. I'm guessing that it will be the same as the last two times they were going to do it. ('96, '09) They will do just a tiny upgrade to Memorial Stadium, spend all of the money on Allen Fieldhouse, and fire their coach. They've already started working on Allen.
Everyone else in the Big12 has completed major renovations, expansions, and upgrades 2 or 3 times (some more) since KU's last major renovation, even the 4 incoming schools. They've added some bells and whistles over the years, but it's pretty much the same dump that they have been playing in since 1965.
The Astrodome is a Texas Historical Landmark and is on the National Parks Service's National Register of Historic Places, neither of them prevent the dome from meeting a wrecking ball.
The Astrodome should never be torn down. I concur doctor,
There are so many bad stadiums it would be impossible to list them. Look at New Mexicos Stadium.
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In England, they often take old stadiums and improve them. In America, they just knock them down twenty years after they were built.
The most embarrassing stadium in the US imo is Soldier Field. They took a classic stadium, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to ruin it.
Absolutely spot on
Everyone loves it and it’s arguably the best game day experience in the NFL but nothing touches Buffalo as far as bad stadiums are concerned. It is an absolute pile of shit that should have been bulldozed a decade ago.
Soldier Field = Aristotle meets George Jetson.
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I agree until you shifted on Soldier Field. I love it and at the time they had to do SOMETHING.
Snyder is a disgrace. Before Snyder, the Redskins used to have a 15 year waiting list for season tickets and over the years, they have reduced capacity of their stadium because the team was so bad.
Redskins tickets were impossible to get unless you were a member of Congress in the 80s. Sad.
Rice Stadium hosted Super Bowl VIII in January 1974. So, it did host something other than JFK's Moon speech.
And I believe it opened in 1950, when the Southwest Conference was at its peak and Houston - indeed, all of Texas - had no major-league professional sports. In that era, Rice fielded competitive teams despite its small enrollment.
Good point! And that was back when it was all about the game, not the half time show or the 8 hours of lead-in/hype pre-game.
And the Monsters of Rock. Van Halen headlined.
Honestly the Oakland Arena, for being nearly 60 years old, doesn't look all that terrible. If anything, it was an architectural marvel at the time it was built and offered a glimpse into a future of glass-exterior sporting venues. It would be sad to tear it down, especially if they can still at least do concerts there and maybe put a G-League or minor-pro sports team in there.
They still do hella concerts there
I think Oakland should have a hockey team NHL the Oakland seals that would be cool in my opinion
Yes, it's actually a gorgeous building once known as the Jewel Box
You could have added Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois (home of the Northwestern Wildcats football team), but this upcoming season is going to be the last at the very old stadium as they are planning to demolish it and build a brand new stadium based on the newer soccer stadiums in Europe.
What would be the point of demolishing it if they are just going to rebuild the same thing?
Dyche Stadium has character, I like its location too😊
Fun fact: FedEx Field is not the Largest NFL stadium in Maryland, M&T Bank is with 71000, FedEx only holds 68000
The astrodome is one of the most historical buildings in Houston! They can't tear it down!
Here in Minnesota we’ve had two stadiums that arguably could have made it onto your list; Metropolitan Stadium, or, just plain Met Stadium, and the oft-maligned, nationally lampooned, Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Both stadiums hosted the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Vikings. Both teams had some pretty good years at the Met but couldn’t bring home any championships. In 1981, both teams moved to the “Dome” in downtown Minneapolis where the Twins won the World Series twice, in 1987 and 1991. The dome was just plain utilitarian ugly but it did create a definite home field advantage which gave the Twins an edge.
The Hump Dome looked like a giant field house inside.
Still amazed that the Twins won the Fall Classic twice in 4 years😳 🍃🍂
@@GeoAce777 I'm amazed they won at all. Just kidding, I was happy for them.
@@howie9751 my first MLB game as a kid was my White Sox against the Twins at Comiskey Park. Minnesota and Kirby Puckett won in extra innings 🤯
@@GeoAce777 Been to Comiskey twice. Loved seeing games there.
I find the two most embarrassing stadiums to be SoFi and Allegiant. Most games the visiting crowd cheers overpower the home teams fans. Home offense sometimes have to use silent snap counts. Imagine being a long time Bay Area based Raiders fan and paying travel costs (and being charged premium rates on game weekends), seat licenses, higher ticket prices, higher concession prices and the hassle/time of travel to attend a Raider game. Then when you get there and the ambience is terrible because the stadium isn't filled with like minded fans. Both stadiums are physical beautiful and engineering/construction marvels but the important thing is game day spirit and these stadium experiences are an embarrassment.
This is just about stadiums themselves, not fan experience.
As a raiders fan I agree I’m tired of seeing our stadium ovr taken by our opponents
As much as I can agree.. I don't think you can compare pro-publicly funded stadiums with Collegiate college funded stadiums. Colleges don't have the coin to make them look top notch..until they win.. where the pro-teams just play hardball and twist arms with threats of leaving.. college teams can't move..
Salient point!
I don't know, I've seen the Falcons at Mercedes Benz stadium, I've also seen the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium many times and that stadium is just as nice and state of the art as where the Falcons play.
RIce Stadium was built before there were any pro sports in Houston and Rice football games were big-time events. Believe it or not, it actually hosted a Super Bowl back in the early 1970s!
Fun fact: Northwest Field (formerly FedEx Field in Landover, MD was originally designed to be a dome. It was supposed to be an indoor seating bowl with outdoor concourses and service areas. This is why the upper bowl was enclosed. Unfortunately, at the time it was built, the structure was the largest one in the NFL and it was several years before construction methods and technology could accommodate such a large roof. They kept the upper bowl enclosed as long as they could to keep the possibility of adding a roof in the future. This was a failed attempt by ownership at the time to make the stadium eligible for the Super Bowl. In recent years, upper deck seats have been removed, not because of a lack of selling tickets (you would usually use tarps to cover seats for this reason, like at the Trop in St. Petersburg, FL, or on the Mount Davis structure at Oakland Colisseum). Northwest Field’s upper bowl has been losing seats year over year because the building has structural damage from a lack of maintenance and care from ownership. The seats I used to sit in growing up (2 different sets of season tickets over the years) do not exist anymore (except probably in some hoarder’s garage). What you call camo seats in the club level are actually an optional upgrade. The owners of the seats in club level have the option of having cushions added for an additional cost. That’s why they are sporadically placed and only LOOK like camo. Throughout the history of the stadium, different seats had cushions at different times, so the club level never looked the same year to year. Unfortunately, the Commanders have to endure at least 3 years, as the lease isn’t up until 2027. My hope is that they do not renew their lease, take a capacity downgrade to play at Audi Field for several years after the lease at Northwest is up, until they can build a new stadium on the old RFK site, as RFK is finally scheduled for demolition.
Why do stadiums on a college campus have a longer life expectancy than those of professional sports teams? Tax the residents of a community from now to eternity to build a new stadium or arena, and when the owner of the team doesn't get the approval for a stadium upgrade, he/she holds the jurisdiction hostage by threating to move the franchise to a different city.
City of Oakland ALREADY SAID they will NOT tear down Oracle arena next to Coliseum. They will continue using it as an events center; concerts, boxing, monstertruck shows, conventions, and maybe even a WNBA expansion team.
Concrete exteriors tend to holdup a little better in hurricane force winds that tend to end up in Louisiana. Least it don't have sewage pouring down on its occupants
@@jeffhawley2441 Golden State's owner beat them to WNBA Expansion, will start play at Chase Center in 2025.
The FedEx field renovation is the epitome of a bunch of workers saying, “Not my job”.
Or renovation by committee
Love these videos, keep them coming! Your channel is super underrated
It cost money to build or renovate these stadiums. Usually about $1.5 Billion to $2.25 Billion Dollars. Sometimes north of $3.0 Billion Dollars. To pay for it Taxes or Ticket Prices must be increased. Sometimes to the point that people move or can not afford to go to the events. Even to tear down these stadiums most millions of Dollars. In comes down to one point. Who is going to pay for it!
The Astrodome is a Houston landmark and holds a lot of sentimental value to native Houstonians. That’s why it hasn’t been demo’d. We don’t want it to go anywhere 🤷🏽♂️🤘🏽
Also…your videos are repetitive. Not sure how or why I keep coming back to watch them. Must be some kind of Jedi mind trick…anywho keep’em coming lol
How dare he disrespects the atrodome
Im a houstonian and I think it should be torn down, if that’s the case then yankee stadium shouldn’t have been knocked out there not real physical value to just having something stand there.
Some say it's a historical landmark. It's not. You're saying it's standing because of nostalgia? It's standing because it's essentially a Superfund site and full of asbestos and the cost to demo the Dome is insane and Harris County won't or can't pay that tab.
Harris County, not the City of Houston actually owns the Astrodome. Former County Judge (the person closest to being the head of government for the county) Ed Emmett did not want the Astrodome torn down. He kept enough roadblocks in place to delay and delay and delay. Eventually someone or some organization filed the necessary paperwork to make it it the historical landmark as several of your commenters have actually said. The biggest problem now is, there is little, if any money to do any kind of renovation. So, until someone figures out how to pay for it, there will be no work on it and because of it's landmark status, it won't be coming down unless something changes or Mother Nature brings it down..
So, he's kind of like the *Alcalde* of Houston?
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FedEx Field being completely enclosed might be the only good thing about it. There's nothing else to see in Landover.
Didn't they host a Super Bowl at Rice Stadium?
Yessir
The Redskins used to have a waiting list for season tickets… not anymore.
Rice Stadium hosted a Super Bowl.
Thank you, I was screaming the same thing. Super Bowl 8.
FedEx Field "looks so cheap and so bad"....kind of like Dan Snyder.
It's not even the largest NFL stadium in Maryland, it only holds 64000, M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore holds 71000.
The Oakland Coliseum: “The exterior of it looks like an abandoned Dollar General.”
HAHA - Funny, DG😁
I was detained for fighting outside of the Texans game at a tail gate party. They kept me in the makeshift jail they have in there. It was worth it to be able to say that
lol, they turned the Astrodome into a jail??? Awesome.
Rice Stadium hosted a Super Bowl and that's the only other notable thing about it. also the upper deck is basically structurally deficient and can't hold big events there anymore.
The Astrodome is on the list of historic landmarks and can't be torn down. Tho they are talking about turning the inside into like an events center or heritage park or something. I think that's actually something they should do with the old field at Oakland when they eventually take a wrecking ball to the Coliseum. Maybe put up some low income housing bc California, especially the Bay Area, is ridiculously expensive and affordable housing is needed in so many parts of the state.
Also that remark about the "92 year old woman", I have a 96 year old great grandmother and....yeah. So I resent that comment on the grounds that my great granny resembles that remark! xD
The lower level as a parking garage and the upper as an events center. Put in 35-40k seats and it would have great usefulness. The OTC was there for decades.
Astrodome being a historical landmark is crazy.
Yes it's older than you
DG had me dying on this one!😂
Facts 😂
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New Mexico's stadium exterior looks like every single community college in the US
Everything in New Mexico looks like shit unless you're in Santa Fe
They haven’t torn the astrodome down because it’s a national landmark now..
Do some research before posting your videos please.
I'm surprised that Tropicana Field home of the Tampa Bay Rays didn't make the list. If you do a part 2 make sure you include that embarrassment.
While it’s true the Trop has no character whatsoever and it’s near nothing, it is extremely clean and comfortable to watch a game . It’s not built for baseball but it’s not a complete wreck either.
As a Rays fan, it’s not the best not the worst. I am surprised it didn’t make his list
the reason the astro dome is still standing is because it would cost more to demolish than it would to turn it into a parking deck or an indoor park travis county voters voted to turn it into a indoor park with a parking structure under the park instead of tearing it down
2:30 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he said it looks like Moscow 😂😂😂
"Concrete wall of Dystopia"...never heard anyone say that lol
Houston made it a historical land mark about 8 years ago, talking about the astrodome
I think UNM, ULL and Rice are fine. Those are great stadiums for what those schools are. The Astrodome was so dark and scary when I went to events there 25 years ago, thank the lord it was replaced. FedEx, totally agree, terrible and ugly, I do have sentimental value for the Alameda County Stadium because there have been some amazing moments there in history, but otherwise, yes, it's a pit, has been forever.
The Oakland sports complex saw great success aver many decades with all pro teams that called it home. It has grown old and past its useful life. Rice stadium once hosted a Super Bowl. Do you talk the same way to your family?
Been to games at all the stadiums you mentioned, Aloha included.
Nah on the Oakland Arena being embarrassing. The Coliseum stadium, sure. But the arena is internally around the same age as the Staples Center, United Center, the 76ers arena, the Suns arena and several other currently in use NBA/NHL arenas. It was completely gutted in 1997, and the exterior is literally the only thing that is original. It is not old, and the Warriors did not really NEED a new arena. They THOUGHT they were getting more money by building the Chase Center, but with the great tech exodus happening in San Francisco the joke has ended up being on them. 😂
But the Oakland Arena is definitely not embarrassing and is actually one of the trend setters in regards to building basketball specific arenas (which is now increasingly becoming a thing. See: Intuit Dome).
I guess I got lucky… never had a bad seat at FedEx
Should have put a party area on the upper deck of FedEx field
Rice Stadium is known for hosting a Super Bowl in the 70's
As far as Fed Ex Field. Games used to be fun there. What Daniel Snyder did to that franchise is downright criminal. Beyond the demand issue, I heard that they had to remove seats because of structural issues. Also, the club seats used to be all yellow, it's only multi color now because they don't care what seats they replace the broken ones with lol.
I Burst Out Laughing when He Called the Oakland Coliseum 1:20 a Giant Pile of CRAP 💩💩💩 .
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Rice Stadium is also know for having hosted Super Bowl VIII.
You should review RFK Stadium
As a Brit, I don't think Oakland Arena looks that bad as far as I can tell. Our arenas here are about as good as your Elementary School's Sports Halls. The stadium however, Mount Davis is just way too big. USA tore down it's historic stadiums and ruined Soldier Field. The worst thing about US stadiums is the obscene amount of concrete surrounding them. You don't need 5000 acres of parking around every stadium.
Too much parking?! Because not all stadiums in the USA have good public transportation. People have to get to the games some way.
@@bdpopeye Underground parking is a thing btw. Nearly every large US stadium looks like a depressing urban wasteland.
"Like an abandoned Dollar General" LOL
Is the spector of the Pontiac Silverdome still lurking about?
Good video overall but picking on the poor ole Rajin' Cajuns when you could go into the rest of the Sun Belt, MAC, CUSA and find many that are much worse.
FedEx field is now temporarily known as Commanders field until they sell the naming rights again.
Do people really care that much about exteriors?
Someone must pony up the cash
Another One Would Be Tropicana Field ( Rays)
I have to say the most embarrassing stadium is the one at Earlham College in Richmond IN. They do not have a football team.
One thing about Depressed Ginger. He rarely posts any videos.
They should have just massively renovated Oakland’s stadium and demolished Mt Davis.
I think we see some examples of brutalist arch with that concrete look for Louisiana and New Mexico.
Turpin Stadium, in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Independence Stadium, in Shreveport, Louisiana, are also pretty ugly football stadiums with some major concrete exteriors.
Compared to Reliant stadium next door , the Astrodome looks pitifully small
Hahahaha.. I love your hate take but man that hurts you threw Oakland Complex under the bus first. You had me at an abandoned Dollar General! It's all good. I grew up in that dive bar loving the A's before Billy Ball and suffering my entire childhood through shit Warriors teams till Run TMC, the BD blip and the Splash Brothers Green. Tons of fond memories with my family and friends. Funny shit though. Love your take.
Forgot to include Soldier Field and Guaranteed Rate Field
The Astrodome will stand forever.
Yeah! It may be old, but the Colisseum in Rome is way much older and looks much worse. Ha
The exterior of UNM's stadium looks like a jail
Super Bowl XIX was supposed to be held in the SuperDome but it wasn't ready yet.
Did you mean Super Bowl IX (9)?
@@darryljorden9177 yes, you are right
Rice Stadium hosted Super Bowl VIII.
wow you left the Trop off this list
You didn't make the obvious comment: Rice Stadium once held the Super Bowl.
The Chicago Bears are seriously pursuing moving out of the city. Soldier Field, while having a lot of history, is highly overrated and unimpressive. I hope they pull the trigger and give a big "FU" to the city of Chicago. Even the location, right on the edge of the southside is sketchy. With the current state of the city it's nothing more than a crime magnet.
it’s funny how everyone used to talk great about fedex field until about 5 years ago. i cannot wait until they build a new stadium and that crap stain owner is out the door.
The Astrodome is too close to the new stadium. None of the controlled demolition companies won't blow it up, because they can't implod it without damaging the new stadium.
Astrodome can’t be demolished because it’s a historical landmark. Please do a little research for once.
Oracle to historic to tear down
I went to Dodgers Stadium earlier this month on the 2nd & it was pretty good , L.A.D got the dub but the only thing i did not like was this one staircase i had to climb up because it was so steep
The Astrodome needs to stay due to historic value. Rice, stadium is OK because rice is known for education and not sports. So putting money into that stadium would be a waste of time.
I love how FedEx makes all of Gingers worst lists.
It Cost A Lot Of Money To Get A Nice Stadium. A Good Team Draws More People Who Wanna Come See A Game.
Clearly no love for brutalist architecture lol
crazy how awful Washington's stadium is considering the age.
A new stadium yet no one shows up lmao?
What was wrong with Oracle?
Got to Fedex & had enough.
LA Galaxy, Colorado Rapids and FC Dallas Stadium are also embarassing
What's wrong with the home of LA Galaxy?
@@DavidRamirez9054 yeah seriously.
Dallas otoh, how do you build a soccer stadium without shade in dallas??? Embarrassing.
@@pahwraith Evidently none of its planners ever went to an afternoon game at Arlington Stadium, the Texas Rangers' initial home (1972-1993).
@@anthony_rivera4735 well yeah, but it’s a fine soccer stadium. Too small for the nfl though.
It was the first real modern soccer specific stadium in the USA in 2003. Its still one of the better stadiums in the league.
Dreamstyle's stairs look like an old hospital.
I hope its press box has an elevator.
Don't forget...Rice stadium hosted A Super bowl.....SBVIII
Ummm you do realize the stadium in Buffalo still exists right…..and if yes then you do realize it is an absolute unmitigated disaster. How it’s possible that there is a worse stadium than the one in Orchard Park, in 2023, is beyond words.
You do realize they are building a new stadium across the street? I do agree It’s about time. I was a teen when it was built. Yup I am that old LOL
It's amazing a stadium gets 20 years old and it looks horrible what a waste of money put them on a high school field
I swear you keep making the same video. Or doing some kind of mind trick
Rice Stadium looks kind of cool.
They should turn the Oakland Coliseum into a wildlife habitat. I mean they are practically already there…
Tropicana Field.
Pretty lazy list if you ask me. The Oakland complex is old and out dated sure, but the Coliseum is only on this list because the A's are doing so bad and have been in the news because their probably moving to Vegas, plus it's not even the worst stadium in the MLB that by far is Tampa. New Mexico is a low level div. 1 team with a low level div. 1 team stadium, you randomly pick any other college teams stadium and it would be about the same. Rice stadium for one hoasted the Superbowl and their football program at one time was much bigger then it is now so that is why stadium is as big as it is. As for the Astrodome it hasn't been used as a stadium for long time and really shouldn't count. Oh I almost forgot FedEx field, is not great but it's not horrible, 90% of what makes it bad for fans is it's location, the actual stadium is almost average.
Glad you did over 30,000. If not the SWAC and MEAC would be this list.
This guy is hilarious 😂
You would've had a field day with Foxboro Stadium. It was so bad. You would've ranked it worst in the world
92 year old woman?
Damn Depressed Ginger
You went all in😅😅😅
Does anybody feel at one point or another that someone out there would be saying, "This guy is asking for it!" 😆
Rice Stadium hosted a Super Bowl, once.