The History Of Monster Jam Path Of Destruction Tour 

2014 was an amazing year for Monster Jam. It featured very unique tracks with cars and todays dirt ramps, and they did not care how damaged your truck was they would still let you go. Not to mention if you rolled over they would let you blow the transmission trying to save it. I wish Monster Jam was still like this.

Only OGs remember when Monster Jam have different field of trucks in each events.

God just the words path of destruction give me so much nostalgia cuz of this tour and the game

They should bring this tour back, its my favorite tour because of all of the chaos and well, destruction. this video brings so many nostalgic memories from when i joined the monster truck community, definitely the best tour to exist in the league.

I was at East Rutherford 2014, and 2016. Really enjoyes both shows.

As someone from Maryland, I loved these tours. I remember going to Philadelphia in 2010 and 2012, and Baltimore in 2011 and 2013. It’s a shame there’s no stadium event in Maryland anymore. They tried FedEx field last year and while I had fun, attendance was bad and I don’t think monster jam will go back.

11:25 I was at this show and I still remember it to this day.

The Monster Truck Tour I grew up attending was actually a branch off of the Thunder Nationals tour. The promoter for the Monster Truck Nationals, George Eisenhart Jr., actually got HIS start working for Aaron Polburn who was the co-creator of the Thunder Nationals tour. Conversely, Aaron Polburn got his start announcing drag races at a track in Ohio ran by George Eisenhart's dad, George Eisenhart Sr. Sadly, George Eisenhart Jr. passed away in 2009 due to an unfortunate on-track incident during one of his shows and the tour was sold to another company who ran it for about 9-10 years before the tour ceased operations

I was at the First Stadium show in Cincinnati. It was a great event! Seeing Ryan Andersons first freestyle win in Spider-Man was amazing! If I remember correctly they only had a limited amount of tickets to sell.

Fun Fact: The 2013 East Rutherford event was planned to be the last event shown on speed before its rebrand into fox sports 1. They actually filmed the episode opening with Scott Douglass addressing that fact. I have no idea why it never made it to air.

East coast always get ripped off from monster jam. Only real big events are Metlife stadium and Philly. I wish we could get better shows over here

*Stadium shows being held in the northeastern part of the United States with the Pennsylvania and Cincinnati shows being the closest* *seethes in Ohioan who had to wait 10 years for a show at Cleveland Browns/FirstEnergy Stadium*

I wish the summer was an easier time for events. Monster jam hosting events in Pacific northwest venues in the spring is a really dumb move. It's not ever really that cold up here but...IT'S THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN SPRING. We've been super lucky so far in seattle but that won't last every year.

I went to Philly in 2010 and 2011, and went to MetLife from 2012 till 2017. Amazing times and the 2014 event was by far my favorite Monster Jam event ever to attend. Such nostalgia from this tour that it deserves to have a separate part of my childhood compared to the rest of it.

Those Philly shows were so good, the last monster jam shows I’ve been to to date, but HOLY CRAP I still remember them well it was legendary

Great synopsis, and awesome footage! I was not actively watching Monster Jam during this era, and this video makes me regret that sorely!

Hot take: Baltimore 2011 was the best freestyle Tom Meents has ever done. What sets it apart for me is that it had better momentum and flow than most other Tom Meents runs since usually he just yeets the truck from one side of the floor to the other without trying to do combos, and that the truck managed to stay mostly in one piece since as much as Tom makes magic happen while fighting with a broken truck, it can hinder a truly great performance. On top of that, the run still had most of the other hallmarks of Tom Meents' classic freestyles: Huge air, it filled the clock, and of course the McMeents Twist remains one of the craziest moves ever performed in a monster truck.

i remember all of the good ol days when monster jam was still going strong, this league did so much while it lasted. BTW i'm very honored that my clips were a part of this videos. huge fan and huge thanks for all you've done

Awesome video man! I didn't know that the shows held in 2017-19 were still considered part of the Path of Destruction tour. In my opinion, I personally enjoyed those shows a lot but they definitely weren't on the level of the previous years. I think what could've made them forgettable was probably the coverage of the shows as it wasn't as exciting

Do you think you would ever make a video about the history of the Triple Threat Series?

As someone who went to the 2017 MetLife one and every MetLife show for the past few year I will say that I liked this tour.

Tom meents returned at foxboro in 2017

1:53 At first glance I thought that was an arena show in Manchester, NH, but then I saw the sign for "Stamford Tickets"

I wonder if there will be any more new monster jam trucks coming to monster jam

I think it would be cool to talk about the history of Monster Jam World Finals Encores

I got the game this tour at MetLife was my first ever monster jam event I went to underrated and the best

This brings me back!

@MonsterTalk Would love to see a video about the various Monster jam video games I know you did a video on Monster 4x4 powered by monster jam

13:21 how ironic, to think that people are getting tired of the Chicago style racing now when they did this exact same thing 6 years ago with them wanting Chicago style over New Jersey style racing

Jackson, would you consider a series highlighting MJ video games? From Maximum Destruction to Steel Titans 2? Showcase the games then give your honest opinions? Just a future content ideas

I knew about the P.O.D tour before the the thunder nationals

We need a thunder nationals video

We Saw Tom Ments Do The Double Backflip In Gillette Stadium

I consider myself lucky for being at ever Metlife show. The path of destruction was just 👏🏻.

U should do a video on the evolution of not only the many trucks that makes it wat it is today but also the technological advancements that makes it wat it is

Hey where did you find the 60fps tv footage of 2014? I cannot seem to find any on the membership.

To my understanding the sudden stop at Philly was due to new grass or turf or something like that

I also think if they wanna put them on the tour that’s fine… but for stuff like Philly and East Rutherford they should be different tours not the same tour… it’s just too close together.

you should make a video of the top 10 best drivers that retired

Monster jam should have a separate series where mega trucks run in stadiums and do racing and freestyle like the monster trucks. Sorta like the Xfinity Series in Nascar.

I has the DVD for the 2013 path of destruction freestyle

Idk why but i thought the P.O.D tour was to market the MJPOD game

I went to all the East Rutherford shows from 2012 to 2015

13:41 that truck was so loud in person. when it did a backflip the whole stadium went crazy it was awesome and definitely was one of the coolest things they did at gillette

Fun fact in 2014 it was the first time monster jam was at foxborough

Monster jam path of disteruton had new grave digger, max d, el toro loco, and more but I now that today we see crazy stunts, racing.

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Ok ngl I want them to put this on in rice Eccles

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Dude went from path of destruction to 2023 for no reason

I hoping monster jam steel titans 3 will come

Can you make a GraveDigger

Me: only knowing it because of the game

i love the inflatables

3:59 min is in roblox

Philadelphia was dropped because around this time monster jam was running the Ukraine tires. The tires have extremely prominent treads. When they visited Philly, the tires dug clean through the dirt and shifted the wood/plastic and fucked up the eagles grass. the stadium got pissed and said they didn't want them back until they got new tires. This lead monster jam to trimming, cutting, and buffing the ukraine tires, and eventually the partnership with bkt.

wait so no Santa Clara? or santa clara does not count (pls let me know)

I attended the first two Philadelphia shows and Baltimore stadium from 2011 to it’s grand finale in 2013.

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