Love your stadium shows. I have always had a curious observation of stadiums since I was a child. I am 68 years old and played D-1 basketball in many places that are long gone. History moves on.
@@stickynorth, @mackenzietoscan3602, 157,000 I believe. Funny timing, I was just thinking about that earlier tonight before stumbling upon this video. But I knew there was Buckley’s chance it would make it onto this video. Australian stadiums don’t tend to get much recognition in my experience…the number of videos I’ve seen about world’s biggest stadiums where all the famous European stadiums in the 80 and 90 thousands capacity are mentioned and the 100,000 capacity MCG is completely omitted from the conversation😒 Speaking of the MCG, if they had built that stadium at Waverley, I wonder how many of the big AFL matches would be played at the MCG today? But it was interesting to hear about Hitler’s proposed stadium, never knew about that one.
Germany would have built that stadium that probably would have sold and probably use that for soccer that definitely will sold out in today's world that can be used for
In the early 70s there was a domed stadium being planned in Buffalo for the Yankees following the Astrodome, but the deal collapsed ...you can look it up, no joke. It was to be built in suburban Lancaster.
I think the German monstrosity was featured on Mysteries of the Abandoned. Also, Portland had a football team in the WFL (1974-1975). It played at what is now Providence Park. Had the Delta project gone forward, that probably would have been its home field.
The idea of hosting the Olympics in one spot is good. If you can make these stadiums user friendly and an enjoyable experience (sightlines not horrible) you should have the capacity as high as possible and the cost to attend artificially lowered somehow to pack the place. Yes, you can get a better view on TV but people need to get out and intermingle more. Better for the economy and mental health overall.
Portland came closer than you think to getting pro football. During the AFL/NFL merger, they originally were going to force the AFL clubs out of NFL markets. Plans were for the Jets to Memphis and the Raiders to Portland. The Merger agreement was, of course, later refined.
As for a domed stadium, I remember a 1984 proposal to replace Cleveland Municipal Stadium with a domed stadium, for both baseball and football, to be built just south of Public Square. However, there was a lot of opposition to it, by both politicians and the public, since it was a property tax increase. The issue was soundly defeated by the voters, and two of the county commissioners who were in favor of the domed stadium were voted out in the next election. Six years later, a proposal for both a stadium and arena was proposed, this time by raising the taxes on tobacco and alcohol. There was still opposition, but this time, the voters approved it, and Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field), and Gund Arena (now Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse) was built, on the same site as the 1984 domed stadium plan. Cleveland Municipal Stadium did get replaced, however. After the original Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore to become the Ravens, a proposal was brought to the voters again, to build a new football stadium. The NFL promised Cleveland both an expansion franchise, and to keep the Browns name in town, if the voters approved an extension of the "sin tax" to build this. The voters approved, the old stadium was demolished, and the new stadium opened in time for the 1999 football season.
I so wish the Mets had left Citi Field the one true pitchers park in MLB. The first renovation, adjusting the left field fence, I can tolerate. But now it's just another hitters park
Having lived in Vegas my entire life, I actually found remember the sports complex idea. I will say at least the one smart thing with it is that all venues were next to each other which makes total sense. As it is in most cities if say you have 1 team from each of the big 4 (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) have the stadiums spread out to a degree. Some are close and some are miles away. As it is now with T-Mobile arena and Allegiant Stadium, they are not to far apart seeing as you can walk from one to the other, if you took your time or were a slow walker, in 20 min or so. I walk on the fast side and I timed it and was able to walk from Allegiant to T-Mobile in a hair over 15 minutes. While I yoo see the A's coming to town, I hope and pray we do NOT get an NBA team. Why you ask? All one has to do is go back to the 2007 NBA all star game to get your answer. When amm star weekend was done there was over a billion dollars in damages to different venues of the city (mainly the hotels and casinos where people were staying) and chances are it would happen again EZPECIALLY if the team was good and won a championship because NBA fans are, well, I won't say it cause I will look like a racist As far as a baseball stadium with a retractable roof, it makes sense because starting in mid to late August, you could have night games with the roof open and starting in September you could do it for any part of the day. Hell, in actuality you could have the roof open from the start of the season until late may so really 4 months of the season you could have the roof open. Anyway, I'm ok with a baseball team but God save us if we get an NBA team. If we do ever get one, at least the arena is already there with T-Mobile arena being open and having proved to be just the most amazing arena, for hockey anyway!!
Lol Philadelphia has a basketball team and they are surely a lot more passionate than people in Vegas, there’s literally no reason Vegas wouldn’t be able to get an nba team.
Las Vegas is kinda doing this, they may be getting a baseball team and if they do they plan on building the stadium next to the current NFL one. Basketball will be a bit harder Lebron wants to buy and move a team to vegas tho so it definitely is still kinda being worked on. Not the same exact plan but
