The Rogers Centre in Toronto is a multi-purpose stadium. In addition to the Blue Jays the Raptors played in there early on and the CFL's Toronto Argonauts called it their home for several years.
@@adellis24 It won't be mult-purpose for much longer though. It's undergoing major renovations over the next two years to make it more like a ballpark.
@@fabio40 I understand, even if it was originally built primarily as a baseball venue with added functionality for the CFL the renovation will solidify its baseball status. The Argos haven't played there in years but with the other events such as conventions, monster truck/motox & concerts are still held at the venue so one could still argue it is the last functioning MPS. Its undeniable status as an icon of Toronto was cemented by its design and proximity to the CN Tower.
those extra events like concerts and monster trucks are also held in baseball only stadiums so a renovated Rogers Centre will still be capable to host other events, also the 100 section will be ripped put and realigned closer to the field at the end of the year
Yeah that's an odd one. Built as strictly a baseball stadium, then enclosed for football - which I felt ruined the place, especially since the Big A had to be moved. Now even though it's been remodeled once again, it's not the same.
Barry Bonds was the shit when he played for the 49ers! That Montana to Bonds connection was nearly unstoppable.. not sure why everyone goes gah gah for jerry rice.. Bonds was the goat
As a Cardinals fan growing up in St. Louis, most of my memories of the old Busch Stadium were after it'd been converted into a baseball only ballpark again in 1996. They took out the astroturf, brought back the natural grass, and took out some upper deck sections to make room for a retired players and champions section. I would've loved to have seen the old Busch Stadium stick around a little longer, but even the conversion was admittedly a "band-aid" solution by the front office as plans were already in early stages for building the new park that opened in 2006. I personally loved the old coliseum type vibe with seats encompassing the entire stadium.
Busch stadium wasn't a bad stadium out of all the cookie cutters and that can be said because the loyal fans who have respect for baseball. A modern mid 2000s renovation would have the stadium around longer. The Ken Griffey Jr 500 Homerun at Busch stadium back in 2004 shows how much the Homerun meant for Griffey along with the person who caught the ball gave it back to Griffey (Griffey in return have him autographed bats, balls, and jerseys).
Atlanta just builds new stadiums every 25 years. Fulton county stadium was about 25-30 years old when it was replaced. The Georgia dome was 25 years old when it was replaced. Turner field was 20 years old when it was replaced.
Add the Omni to that as well 1972-1997. And although State Farm Arena (formerly Phillips Arena) just had a massive renovation it will be turning 25 next year. So it maybe next.
Aloha stadium in Hawaii where the pro bowl used to be played was a multi-purpose stadium at one point. The to center sections along the sidelines could pivot to form a diamond shape for baseball, or a triangle shape for concerts
There is still the multi purpose stadiums in the way of Football, Football ( soccer ) and in some cases Rugby too. Since the fields are pretty similar in area
Cleveland Municipal Stadium had a capacity of over 74000, that was the problem with it for baseball it was way too big among other issues there, the all star game was probably the only sell out, the Expos all star game in the early 80's was at max capacity of 59000
I'm thinking about the cookie cutter mult-purpose stadium era in the 70's where St Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington in earlier days shared the stadium with football teams to save costs. We go into the 90's and find out baseball only and football only are more suitable. Anaheim Angels converted back to a baseball only stadium where it improved in their fan experience after the Rams left. Imagine after the Raiders left to Las Vegas, a football and baseball team sharing the same stadium.
Multi-purpose stadiums are not completely dead in other sports just yet. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London has a retractable soccer pitch/football field. Also, there are still "spectacle" events like the NHL Winter Series.
Football/NFL/Rugby multipurpose stadiums tend to work a lot better tbf due to the length all being comparable and it being a rectangular shape with football/rugby being the widest pitches then the NFL
I remember sportscasters referring to the right field 'wall' at the Metrodome as 'The Hefty Bag'. Left field had a hockey feel to it with the plexiglass in place.
One cookie cutter stadium that you left out which was the mother of all cookie-cutter stadiums is the late DC stadium, a.k.a. Robert F Kennedy stadium, which should be demolished within the next 12 months. It was built for the Washington Senators, and the Washington Redskins, and of all the cookie-cutter stadiums I’ve been to I think it probably had the best unobstructed seating For its time. 45,000 for baseball, 58,000 for football. It took from the time Senators left for the Dallas area in 1971 until 2005 with the arrival of the Nationals for the baseball configuration to return
Washington DC can thank the MLS for getting the MLB back in town. The year the Skins left was the year MLS started and kept the stadium in use instead of facing the wreckingball. Keeping the stadium alive allowed the Nationals to use RFK while Nationals park was built
I appreciate your videos. I also like the quirk of the reverse image of Atlanta's Olympic Stadium shown at 12:46 or 12:55 marks. Hmmm, which one is the inverse, and which one is the regular? Fine detail is fun. The empty part of the upper deck and the Atlanta skyline hold the clues. ---------------- And perhaps Olympic Stadium in Montreal could be seen as triple-purpose: 1976 Summer Olympics, MLB for 1977-2004, and CFL for 1977 to 20xx.
Pretty sure the braves moved because they wanted to be out in the suburbs where most of their fans live. Plus they wanted control of the development outside the stadium like what they ended up doing with the battery
To be fair, it's not where most of their fans live. It's where most of their fans *with money* live. There isn't even public transportation to get there. That's business, I guess, but it's a sellout move that alienates the base which I think many MLB organizations will regret.
They also didnt want to pay the city of Atlanta rent on Turner Field anymore after they renegged on promises to renovate the stadium. American Family Field in Milwaukee is going through the same issues now.
The Braves departure from Turner Field had nothing to do with the stadium. They left because the City of Atlanta and Fulton County would not give the Braves control of the surrounding property to develop. Cobb county did give them development rights around Truist Park and it been wildly $uccessful for the Braves owners.
So on Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Sun Life Stadium: for the left field seating, they didn't sell tickets to that first tiny section with orange seats because... there's no guard rails to prevent people from falling. That's the line where they had to fold the seating up for baseball. The stadium wasn't a true multi-purpose venue, it was designed for football only that could be retrofitted to support baseball, so you did get certain quirks like that. If you were to sit in the first row, your feet would dangle above the Teal Tower scoreboard.
I hear you say all the time that hockey rinks and basketball courts are the same size, when that is nowhere near true. By square footage, you could fit 3.5 courts onto a rink. NHL is 200x85. NBA is 94x50. This is why Barclays Center was terrible for hockey. Most arenas fit 2,000 removable seats between the hockey boards and the court.
Most pro arenas are used for both, often on the same day. All hockey arenas can be used for basketball, but basketball-only arenas cannot fit a rink. Just making the distinction. I don’t think he knows or cares much about hockey so I’m sharing a fact that will improve his knowledge and future videos. Trying to help my man out.
It's a funny coincidence you did a video on this subject as I was going to suggest a video for you to see. In Mexico they are trying to build a multi purpose stadium for football, the international kind, and baseball. It's not a huge stadium but around 35K with stands that move around to change the configuration. I believe the stadium is being called "Estadio Sostenible de Yucatan". The multi purpose stadium format isn't completely dead.
The Mexican LFA football team Saltillo Dinos plays its home matches at Estadio Francisco I. Madero, a baseball stadium which outfield was configured to fit a football field. This layout is unique for a baseball/football multipurpose stadium. However, the seats are far from the action.
Even though US Bank Stadium is built on top of the footprint of the Metrodome, US Bank has the same interior setup as the Metrodome and does host baseball for the University of Minnesota and high school games early in the season.
I was always intrigued by multipurpose stadiums, because I grew up in the era where It seemed like half of the NFL teams and half of Major league. Baseball teams played in stadiums that they shared with each other. One that particularly fascinated me was Anaheim stadium that was baseball only, but they added seats for football. They gave it an odd configurations for both sports. My least favorite was actually the Metrodome, because in my opinion, it looks like they took a football stadium and knocked out some seats for baseball, making baseball seem like an afterthought. At the cookie-cutter stadiums at least they were able to maneuver the seating to suit, both teams, even if it was awkward for both. Just my opinion. Having said that, I think every team that moved from a dual purpose stadiums to a single use stadium, got an upgrade.
It seemed that cookie cutter stadiums were mostly a National League thing. I always wonder if that is why the American League tended to be more home run friendly in that era since the cookie cutter stadiums tended to have very large distances to the outfield fences.
Old Yankee stadium could have been one of those easter egg venues much like turner field, where in its original configuration had a running track that created some absurd outfield dimensions.
RFK was a great old stadium! Built for baseball and football in 1962 and was shared by the Redskins and Senators until the Fall of 1971 when the Senators plays there last game there before moving to Texas in 72. Then it was primarily used by the Redskins other then the original old timers baseball game or congressional baseball game. Then DC United started play in the mid 90’s and the stadium was again shared between the Redskins and DC United. Then the Redskins moved to a new stadium in 1997 and RFK was soccer only until 2005 when MLB Returned to DC. They spend a ton of money renovating the stadium to make it a functional multi use stadium again for baseball after 34 years. Then the Nats moved into Nats a park in 2009 and DC a United into Audi Field leaving RFK VACANT. Now it’s Heidi g taken apart.
As an Atlanta fan, I appreciate you mentioned Turner Field, but I'm sure I'm not the only person to say how could you leave out Jack Murphy Stadium (aka Qualcomm Stadium) in San Diego, the only multipurpose built stadium to host both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year. Also, Braves moved due to the majority of the fan base living outside the city and the stadium was near ghetto at the time.
@ 10:24, Pro Player/Joe Robbie Stadium, it's hard to tell, but did that Orange outfield seating even have a railing in front of the seats? Seems as though when setup for football it didn't matter, but when seats folded in, there was no safety barrier, hence why no one sat there.
The old Cleveland Municipal stadium was able to hold over 80,000 well over 56,000 You have to remember before 92' (or pre Camden Yards) Stadiums were HUGE especially in terms of capacity. Before the renovations most stadiums were no less than 48k capacity besides Wrigley,Comisky and Fenway! They were these huge Steel structures Mile high stadium attendance was 80k opening day of the Rockies first game ever in 93' Those "GRAND STANDS" in left field operated using water that was pumped into water bearings spread under the stands... (Think HYDROLOGIC) Pully system that. There was a minor league team that used the field before the Rockies arrived. Atlanta Braves and Falcons played at Fullerton County another multi purpose stadium before they moved in 1996
went to a playoff game at marlins stadium in 2003.....sat in upper deck down the line.....because of football seating i couldnt see the entire first base side of the diamond....
Hockey rinks are over twice as long as basketball courts, so I do wonder why we still have multi-purpose arenas. A seat behind the basket is terrible and on the whole worse than sitting in the nosebleeds for a basketball game played at a hockey arena. On the flipside, fans at Islanders games when they played in Brooklyn couldn't see much of the rink because the Barclays Center sightlines were designed for a smaller basketball court than a hockey rink.
I have never been to Barclays, but I have heard the sightlines for hockey were awful. Apparently when the building was being designed it was originally going to be a basketball/hockey arena but, due to cost concerns, they ditched those plans and went with BB only...now the Isles have their own barn right next to Belmont Park and the Cross Island Parkway, the new "Mausoleum" (thank you Steve Somers) so this issue has been solved.
Just colossal ugly monstrosities. Sports spectatorship is supposed to be an intimate experience, like a Wrigley Field or Fenway Park, for example. These cookie-cutter atrocities can’t go away fast enough.
Going to the Metrodome, bring a clothespin for your nose. The place smelled like a mixture of burning plastic and horrible B.O. God that place was AWFUL.
You went as far back as Cleveland Municipal Stadium and yet left out Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Griffith Stadium, Forbes Field, Yankee Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Ebbets Field, Comiskey Park, Milwaukee County Stadium, etc. and yet People still want football at Wrigley.
Nowadays many football stadiums also host soccer but the field sizes are almost the sams so its not the same as baseball/football. But im happy that the sports get their own stadiums
Mile High Stadium looks far better than the other multi-purpose stadiums. They just pushed back the entire outfield stands? Insane, wonder why more stadiums never adopted this technology.
They thought about doing that in Metropolitan Stadium, but decided it wasn't practical. However, the Vikings financed that left field section, in return for lower rent. When they first built it, it was actually much closer to the gridiron. Then they dismantled the whole thing and rebuilt it as an outfield section, and it stayed there.
I find Tuner Field interesting they did the same thing as the Expos did but did it correctly where the stadium would be partially built for baseball but with a lot of temp seats for the Olympics then the temp seats, track ,etc were pulled out and it was completed as a baseball stadium, Montreal Olympic stadium was designed was backwards to was designed to be a full time track and field stadium first that the Expos played out of, back then nobody thought of designing it for baseball first like Tuner Field, the Braves wanted major renovations which was super expensive and the majority of fans aren't close to the stadium, also that area is straight up hood and the public transit wasn't close so people had to walk through the ghetto to get there, good thing is they didn't tear it down and repurposed it some what, the Texas Rangers and the tax players in Texas are stupid they got 2 baseball stadiums and a football stadium beside each other
The game 5 of the 1948 World Series was played in front of 86,288 in Municipal Stadium ! That season, Cleveland had the highest single season attendance, 2,620,627, which was not eclipsed until 1962 by the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Then there was Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. A multi-purpose Stadium that could host both baseball and (Canadian) football, and succeeded at doing neither.
@@fpjrzman still an outdated multi-purpose stadium nonetheless. Technically the Oakland coliseum is not the last one though I'd imagine Rogers Centre is in far better shape. Blue Jays still need a new stadium however.
@@joecostantino3684 Not after the renovations are done. Also, Rogers Center (aka SkyDome,) was sadly obsoleted before it was 10 years old, thanks to the boom of retro classic baseball stadiums.
They asked for a certain amounts renovations in Turner Field and Atlanta or Fulton Can unity refused so they got the city counsel in Marietta to pass legislation to fund the new stadium, plus most of the Braves fans lived North of Atlanta. The people got passed and everyone on the council was now dead re-elected. This what needs the happen vote out those who want the raise taxes for Billionaires
What about The Old Yankee Stadium. Hosted The New York Football Giants and Boxing. Also, you mention the Olympcs but don't give a shout out to Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Come on man. Just kidding. Love the videos. Keep up the great work.
