@@peacelovehopecharity 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.
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was thought to be fireproof but can cause alot of health problems alot of places back then had it but now it's like outdated and has been for 40 years
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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..
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.
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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).
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.
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
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 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.
Turpin Stadium, in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Independence Stadium, in Shreveport, Louisiana, are also pretty ugly football stadiums with some major concrete exteriors.
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.
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.
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.
Astrodome is a national landmark, so now you know why it hasn't been knocked down. And Oracle Arena is a great venue that's been heavily renovated inside, and the exterior looks cool, you have poor taste and you don't do research.
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.
I don't see any problem with the college stadiums you mentioned on this video, at least from a practical standpoint. Sure, they are ugly and have too much seating relative to the size of crowd their respective teams generally draw. My problem is when taxpayers are forced to pay for stadiums they don't want/need, particularly for pro teams. Generally, it seems like the motivation for building these stadiums is to bring in tourist revenue from fans. Often though, the stadiums, their renovations, and upkeep cost far more than any profits gained by the businesses in the city/area where the stadiums are located. Mostly, we are just subsidizing billionaire owners, who have no need for the money. It would be better if teams were owned by the fans (and maybe the players too) so those who are interested in the teams that play there could make decisions about the direction to take the team(s) in, including if more money should be spent on a new stadium or stadium renovations. If fans owned the teams, I would think that might make it more painful for teams to move also.
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.
@@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.
