CRITIQUING the World's CREEPIEST ABANDONED Stadiums - Why are they still rotting? 

The olympics is the worst when it comes to abandon areas/stadiums

The Astrodome is a Houston icon. It is now labeled a landmark. It will get some new renovations and will be open as a tourist attraction in a couple of years. Long Live the Dome.

"It. And MetLife Stadium." OK, I see you.

Wtf I went to that Pro Bass Shop last year and wondered why it was a pyramid. I didn’t know the Grizzlies played there lol.

10:38 speaking of rain in the Astrodome, you failed to mention that was once a RAINOUT (yes, a rainout) at the stadium in 1976. The story goes that there was such heavy rain, comparable to a Tropical Storm, that the streets in Houston flooded, and were particularly bad around the stadium. The teams, worried fans would get caught in the flooding, and with the umpires still MIA, canceled the game, and instead the players of both teams, along with a few fans who had made it to the game prior to cancellation, gathered on the field. It was the only rainout in the Astrodome's history, at least without a hurricane getting the game preemptively moved/canceled.

To this day seeing the Astrodome the way it is frustrates me for how it has been left. That stadium is amazing and I wish the city of Houston wouldn't have let it gone to waste like it has...

Anyone else getting BrightSunFilms vibes from this?

If I remember just one thing from this video, it's that President Eisenhower held both of his balls in Washington Coliseum.

Where's the Cleveland Browns field? All the fans left by like 1980.

Still can’t believe the Seahawks didn’t run the ball....

I've lived in Houston my whole life, and as of 2016, the city is planning on creating a hotel within the Astrodome. But, they've thrown other ideas out as well, and the dome hasnt been touched in awhile.

7:23 (5pointsvids) it was converted into a bass pro shop, believe it or not. (Literally everyone watching the video) Who hasn’t seen the dude perfect video.

The Grizzlies were founded in 1995 and left Vancouver in 2001

The bass pro shop in the Pyramid is awesome too, it has a series of creeks running through the floor with live fish in them and there's also Hotel rooms lol.

Aloha Stadium in Honolulu could easily be on this list. It fits all the criteria: decay, lack of safety, declining interest. Problem is, UH still uses it.

The Reliant Astrodome should be REFURBISHED into a basketball/hockey arena for the Rockets, and an NHL EXPANSION team.

I lived so close to the Pontiac Silverdome I heard when it got demolished

Don’t let this video distract from the fact that Nathan peterman get intercepted when he thinks about a football

Next Raiders Stadium

next up, oakland alameda coliseum

This is literally the first premiere I’ve ever tuned into

Textual meme: Bass Pro Shops and REI (two very similar stores) shaking hands and in the middle it says “converting old arenas into store locations”

Slight correction: The arena pictured at 3:38 is actually Hershey Park Arena, not Uline Arena. Love the video though!

That sly Miami marlins jab tho

As someone who is a lifelong resident of Memphis, TN, I don't think you should put The Pyramid Arena on your list of creepy abandoned stadiums because it isn't abandoned. Bass Pro occupies this building and is in use. Of course we do have a real abandoned sports venue in The Mid South Coliseum that has been abandoned since 2006. The Mid South Coliseum was built in 1963 at the Mid South fairgrounds. It hosted ABA basketball, Memphis State Tiger basketball, minor league hockey, concerts, wrestling and indoor soccer. It hosted concerts by Elvis Presley and the Beatles. The venue was abandoned by the University of Memphis Tiger basketball program when the Pyramid Arena opened. It was abandoned by the CHL's Memphis Riverkings in 2000 when they moved to play at the Landers Center in Desoto County, MS. It held on for a little while longer as a music venue until 2006 when the last concert was performed there. Ever since then, it is closed to the public and has been left rotting ever since. Every time Memphis city council debates on what to do with the structure and propose tearing it down, the local preservation society take them to court and stops them. When proposing to re-purpose the building, two things stand in the way. The lease agreement with the Memphis Grizzlies and Fed-Ex Forum and the fact that it is going to take at least $50 million dollars to renovate and refit the Coliseum. The city doesn't want to spend $1 million per year for upkeep of a building that isn't in use right now. So it sits rotting away unused and untouched.

Probably your best video to date. If you plan to do a sequel to this video, might I recommend Texas World Speedway? Been abandoned since the 90s and has fallen into disrepair

I only attended one event at the Houston Astrodome, and it was a religious retreat instead of a Houston Astros or Oilers game. I did get to go on the floor and stand on the pitcher's mound, which was a big deal for a 15-year old kid at the time. To this day, I've never stood on astroturf, as the turf was removed. I see the Astrodome when I go to Astros or Rockets games, as I park near NRG Stadium and take the public transportation to save a ton of money on parking. I once got to run on the field turf of NRG Stadium during a 5K run, but it was removed during later 5K runs. I guess there were just enough people to ruin it for all of us.

I Would Like To See You Critique NASCAR Tracks

The Astrodome story gets worse when you also include the former Astroworld Theme Park that was next too it.

You should have included the Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut... or just any building in Bridgeport.

How about “Worlds Most Famous Demolished Stadiums and Arenas”? Like Wembley, Yankees Stadium, Candlestick Park, The Spectrum, etc.

The big problem the cities that host Olympics have is they don’t plan for after the games end. Atlanta had the right idea, after the games the main stadium easily became Turner Field where the Braves played from 1997-2016. Los Angeles is almost the perfect city for Olympics because they’ve hosted it twice (1932 & 1984) and when they host it in 2024 so many facilities are already built or easily retrofitted. Plus there’s a built-in sports culture there that keeps facilities in business

On the subject of the Astrodome, don't forget WWE sold the place out in 2001 with Wrestlemania!

I went to the Astrodome Domecoming in April 2018 and the ceiling is something to see the event was to see the dome before the renovate it soon

I love the Hellinikon it's a shame they've let it rot. I wish they'd transplant it in Baseball configuration at my old High School. Bunnell would get more use out of it than the Greeks ever did.

i love this guy he just throws shade at literally everything

I stayed in the Bass Pro Shop in the Memphis Pyramid. There’s a really nice hotel that goes around the inside edge, and it was honestly a really fun time. Take your kids, they’ll love it.

"Premiered 20 minutes ago" *Comments are from several hours ago*

It’s crazy to think that there is an entire city and nobody has lived there for 35 years

I think Denzel Curry did a music video at the watersports stadium.

Very impressed, "5" with your pronunciation. Well done my man! @12:39

+FivePoints Vids : Recap on the Huston Astrodome: She has since been made into a historic landmark. The township of Harris County has reached an agreement to renovate the iconic stadium in the amount of $105 Million.

Phoenix Memorial Colosseum? The State Fair is in it's parking lot for a few weeks a year, it's creepy inside.

I think it would be cool if a stadium, like the Brazilian one in this video, was now used as a school, and they already had their football and soccer field in the middle of the school. They probably have a lot of rooms in it that can be used as a classroom

The Grizzlies didn't move from Vancouver in 1995, they debuted in Vancouver in 1995...

Point of order: NO ONE locally called it "the Memphis Pyramid." It's original name was "The Great American Pyramid" (If you ever do a video on sports hucksters, look up Sidney Shlenker. He fleeced this city but good") Everybody just called it "The Pyramid." Hell, I didn't know "Memphis Pyramid" was a thing until I looked up the Wikipedia entry.

The music made it far creepier. Well done

And then First energy stadium home to the Cleveland browns

I'm glad he didn't go the "picking every Olympic stadium" route. Very well done, 5Points.... ESPECIALLY on the last one. I figured some stadium Ukraine used has to be in the exclusion zone, but I didn't think it was THAT close to the reactor. Dang.

0:02 When the coliseum was built in Oakland, it was much younger than the one in Rome. Yet, both are equally ancient...

Greetings. About the Houston Astrodome: In 2014, the city of Houston bestowed on the Dome the distinction of becoming a landmark.

Maracanã isn't abandoned bro, two of the biggest clubs in Brazil (Flamengo and fluminense) host games there every week KKKKKKKKK

The astrodome is on the US national register of historic places. Therefore, it will never be taken down!

Jake Williams would be delighted to see this. Huh, FivePoint Vid (the asian dude) and Jake Williams (the Canadian dude) crossover perhaps? XD

Correction: RFK Stadium in DC was the first multi-purpose stadium built. Astrodome was only the first enclosed dome to be built.

Omg I love this channel

Great video five points very educational and funny at points great job

The creepy music in the background reminds me of blameitonjorge.

That Metlife Stadium scare. Truly the most nightmarish of jump-scares.

The Houston astrodome was also used for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo until the rodeo was moved to reliant(now NRG) stadium after the 2002 rodeo had ended.

I live in Houston and the astrodome was a great pride Houston had and we respect the history from it so short facts it was actually a technological wonder and the way it works and was used for a lot of things even after the astros moved to minuet made and the oilers became the titans because we used it for concerts and rodeos and such and now is in plans for a theme park and they were selling the seats from the stadium and my neighbor bought one because in Houston we know our history and why it’s important so please don’t make it seem as if it was a “disaster”

Amazingly good vid. As a Memphian... Im glad the Pyramid got some use to remain our signature skyline piece👍

While not stadiums North Wilkesboro Speedway and Nazareth Speedway are both abandoned and in crazy disrepair

The Bellarmine Knights currently use Freedom Hall as their home arena for Men’s Basketball since they became a Division 1 NCAA team in the 2020-21 season. Bellarmine is the 8th school in the state of Kentucky to become a Division 1 NCAA school.

Nice tour! Can't beat weeds, mildew, and crumbling concrete. One additional correction -- at 10:11 -- Astrodome not nearly the "world's first multi-purpose stadium." World's first multi-purpose domed stadium, yes.

June 18, 1983. Kiss played one of the biggest concerts in music history at the Maracana Stadium. 150-200,000 tickets were sold.

Love it. I wondered what had happened to the Astrodome after Hurricane Katrina. You don’t hear that name often.

The Astrodome is a historic landmark and its about to get renovated

Before watching this video I had a feeling you were gonna Include that abandoned stadium in Pripyat but I was still surprised

13:25 Anyone else remember this one from Burn Notice?

That bass pro shops pyramid is quite a sight, that I somehow was completely unaware of.

Shoulda collabed with bright sun films

You forgot to put North Wilkesboro Speedway on this list.

Maracana is pronounced mair a cahna

probably my favorite of your videos i’ve seen. nice job.

Pyramid in Memphis was a failure because of the TERRIBLE acoustics. Concerts were impossible due to angles of the roof. They “tried” to correct them but nothing worked and NOBODY would play there.

This is why the Olympics should only be held in places that either mostly make use of existing facilities; or at the very least have existing pro/college sports teams that could move in after the Olympics are over.

Good video its amazing what happens to these abandoned places

That Miami marine stadium was actually featured in the 1967 Elvis movie Clambake

I was at that bass pro shop when gameday was in Memphis

Little surprised that you didn't have the Rubber Bowl from Akron, Ohio on this list.

Hay is Astrodome I know this stadium thank you fivepoints vids four pulling this Stadium on your video

The Pripyat Stadium was sad. F in the chat for Pripyat.

FivePoints, you need to do abandoned NASCAR tracks, some off of the top of my head are: North Carolina Speedway (The Rock) North Wilkesboro Speedway Middle Georgia Raceway (Home to where the FBI found a moonshine distillery and where Dodge filmed the 2011 Dodge Durango commercial)

I think they should turn the astrodome into a mini indoor astro world

As a Louisville member, I can say freedom gall is not abandoned, and is part of the convention center. Cardinal stadium is completely gone.

Yoo fouts field, never thought I’d see my hometown end up in a video about sports stadiums!

Your one picture for the arena in Washington appears to actually be the Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, PA. Similar type of roof so I can see why it might be confused. Perhaps I’m wrong but I’m fairly confident.

the old Indianapolis Indians stadium. it is now used as an apartment facing the field. (minor league baseball)

I feel like this video would've been better suited on Halloween, but such an awesome video nonetheless.

Damn that last one was crazy.

I want to go fishing tackle shopping, at the eleventy-million dollar Memphis Pyramid. That would feel kingly.

The background music throughout the video is VERY creepy.

The music is creepy, but those slick side jokes had me tripping.

You have some of the most thick sarcasm I've ever heard! Love it! :D

If you do a part 2 you need to include the original AMI Stadium in Christchurch, NZ.

Why are they still rotting ?you ask...well It takes tens of millions to tear down...cheaper just to pay taxes and let it rot.

I'd like to see more videos like this, amd deeper into they why. Great video.

I went to North Texas and can confirm Fouts Field was an absolute hole, but it was appropriate because so was the football we were watching. Side Note: my grandmother and grandfather both went to NT and were good friends with the Fouts family

The Collosseum is not a true ruin especially after all the reconstruction. It is much easier to understand how it worked with the floor missing and the tour is amazing. Also it was no way the first Roman arena. The biggest and most famous yes, but every Roman city from Jerusalem to Londinium had its own equivalent. It's correct name is the Flavian Amphitheatre.