Whats Left of the Multipurpose Stadiums? 

It does?? I figured an artificial reef would damage an underwater ecosystem. Then again, I should speak to a marine biologist about that one.

@@djtrankilo231 it helps promote fish spawning, as it helps protect young fish from predators and they can lay their eggs in the crevices and holes. All toxic materials are removed before being dumped. It was only the brick and concrete. This is frequently done in ocean as well to help restore damaged reef habitats.

I'm surprised it doesn't collect all the Cleveland Steamers that float down the Cuyahoga River to the Lake!

I heard that people called that stadium, "Mistake on the lake",. Hopefully it isn't the "Mistake in the lake".

Apparently Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium is similar, a reef in Chesapeake Bay. Cleveland & Baltimore really have a lot in common with their sports trials, tribulations, & triumphs.

First Domed Stadium in the world.

I believe it is registered as a historical landmark.

It's an expensive decaying white elephant and should be torn down.

Hard Rock Stadium, The Superdome, LA Memorial Coliseum all used to have mlb teams play there

@@charliereffettstormchasing but all of those were built for football (except for the coliseum which was built for the olympics but has hosted football for most of its existence) and had a baseball field crammed into it when it wasn’t supposed to be there. Plus he is mostly talking about stadiums from the 60s and 70s, Oakland Coliseum was built during that time period having opened in ‘66, the la coliseum was built way before this time period and hard rock being built after this time period, and although the super dome was built during this time period, I don’t know if it hosted any actual games.

It may be the last one to be demolished...assuming the Astrodome doesn't fall first.

@@arandomdudeontheinternet5792 Actually, I thought the LA Coliseum was built long before the Olympics...longtime home of the LA Rams (both stints) and USC.

@@charliereffettstormchasing When did the Superdome have baseball? Spring training? College baseball?

...the home run apple is just like the mini-stadium in Denver, except it actually was part of the stadium! and it hosted four separate home teams in 1975: something no other stadium can claim

A real dump! Noisy, bad fans, and except for domes, the worst MLB stadium, and I have seen MLB in all 31 locations (Montreal + 30 current teams). Tampa now gets the honor of ugliest stadium.

Philly, Pitt and Cinci were almost identical, but Pittsbugh had the great location where the Allegheny and Monogahela formed the Ohio. PNC is one of my 2 favorites (AT&T in SF) of the new stadiums.

I remember going to Citizens Bank Park a week after it opened in '04; you could get a good view of the wreckage of the Vet from the upper level concourse. It was kind of a sad sight; I clearly recall going there to see the Phils in '76 as an 11-year-old and was quite overwhelmed by the size of the place. It still had the centerfield fountain; I once saw Schmitty deposit a homerun there one pitch after he got a strike called that he didn't like.

@@MrDan708 For long-suffering Phillies fans, 1976 was a miraculous year that set the stage for 1980. I am not from Philly, but Mike Schmist was one of my favoritexplayers. Was happy for the city they got to celebrate in 1980, as it is a great sports town. I was not a fan of the Vet, and like CBP much better, but I think the in-town site near Chinatown would have been better. I understand the freeway access and parking in South Philly, but I like being right in town and going to Rittenhouse Square before and after. You can still do that via the Orange Line train, but just my preference. The Braves & Phil's had some real battles for a few years, when both teams were good. I root for both teams that originated in Boston, so Sox and Braves - but Northeast baseball is the best, so STL fans are great!

@@jdhjimbo If you were coming from out of State, like me, in Jersey, the location of the sports complex doesn't get much easier, as far as accessibility. I can do that drive in my sleep. As for the legends, Schmidt to this day does color commentary for the games. I believe only on Sundays but it's cool to see that other than being a silver fox of hair, he hasn't aged that much.

@@JerseyJeff84 That's nice that Schmitty is still involved, like the Tigers did with Al Kaline. I alwaysxliked HarrybKalas, especially his classic narration of NFL Films. I always stay in Philly proper, so I am different from a majority of the suburban fans. It is very handy in South Philly, and that is a good and safe neighborhood. If the complex were I North Phil,y, that would be a different story.. I have a good friend who went to Villanoca, and he commutes to Phil,y for games, and loves the location. He lives in the NY part of North Jersey - Morristown, a very nice city - one of my 3 faves, along with Princeton and Cape May. Eagles look they have another rough season ahead, as I caught part of the pre-season game vsxmy Patriots. Pretty ugly for Philly, though preseason doesn't mean much, and no Hurts in the game. I cannot stand Flacco!

I live in SD, and looking at the lot I see nothing preserved, lol

When did "The Q" get demolished??

@@manuelestrada797 2020

@@bjtgaming May of 2020 with the final being in March of 2021. So nearly a years worth of demolition.

@@paraskep5080 Yeah I knew that, also like the profile picture of Emperor I hope it open soon

Nice! I only went to Turner once and saw the remains of Fulton County stadium, especially the spot where Hank Aaron's legendary home run landed.

By Canadian football existing for two seasons in Baltimore, it helped bring football back to two cities (NFL in Baltimore, when the Browns relocated, and Montreal, when the Stallions relocated after the NFL returned to Baltimore).

...and moved to Montreal when US operations ceased, becoming the new Allouettes

Was a horribly ugly stadium, but built very cheap. I got to see my Michigan Wolverines win the NCAA basketball title there in 1989, when I was living in Seattle. The 2 new ballparks are beautiful, but cost a small fortune - something King County voters were not willing to support in 1976/1977, when the Seahawks and Mariners started. The first baseball team - the Seattle Pilots (nka the Milwaukee Brewers) played in Sick's Stadium on Rainier Ave - a minor league park, and they moved after 1 season (1969) in Seattle.

…And, for a number of years thereafter, the site of Sick's Stadium was left a large expanse of grass where you could walk around and still see the placement of where the grandstands once stood. I wish they’d kept it as a city park, but there wasn’t the will to do so, and now there’s a Lowe's Hardware on the site. Also, a bit of history on the Kingdome's origin, which may explain a lot: The bill to build the stadium passed at the end of the '60s, but a few local stadium opponents tied it up in the courts for years, during which time the Pilots came and left. The plan finally passed judicial review in time for the NFL and MLB to offer expansion teams but, by then, the OPEC oil crisis and the resulting inflation meant that the funds that had been approved for the stadium no longer covered the initial designs, and so they had to cut back drastically. (In the end, those economy measures led to the ceiling collapse of 1994, whose repair wound up costing more than the entire construction cost of the Dome in the first place. And then, of course, it only lasted for five more years before being demolished.)

@@JamesDavidWalley I was living in the PNW when that ceiling collapsed (though in Lake Oswego, OR in 1994). It was such an ugly park (looked like trailers were hanging all around the outside of it). Even with the cutbacks, I think it came in about $15-17 million over budget, which is pocket change today. Safeco cost $1 billion, when it opened in 2000, and Century Link (or whatever corporate name du jour is on it) opened a few years after that for another $Billion. Amazing how people's lack of financial acumen can change when govts rack up $Trillions of debt. The street where Sick's Stadium met Rainier Ave, was the one I used to take to reach a parking area along Lake Washington for a power walk or jog along the lake. I used to laugh when local Seattle's used to tell me Rainier Ave was a ghetto. I was raised in Detroit, and saw p,aces that would curl your hair. Seattle had no neighborhoods like that at all, though Dopey Durkan and her Komrades on the City Council are trying to turn the Emerald City into Detroit! I loved living there, and it is a shame what Marxist morons have done to both Seattle & Portland.

@@jdhjimbo....Its a good thing Chump did not get his way......he wanted to turn the US into a giant Warsaw Ghetto

Also, Metropolitan Stadium was NOT a multipurpose stadium! It was a baseball park by design that happened to be adapted for use by a football team.

Thank you.

Since it’s the original, one-of-a-kind domed stadium, I don’t think they’re in a rush to get rid of it.

Yup, I totally agree Dale. Many of these youtubers have such an annoying and grading voice, and dont know what they are talking about...This gentleman clear, calm and informed. Enjoyable.

It actually decided the last election for county judge in Harris County. The Astrodome right now is a rat infested dump. They had a plan to change that but it would have cost a lot of money The huge floods that hit Houston in 2016 and 2017 changed all that People wanted that money to be spent on flood control. Flooding is something people in Houston have to deal with but the streets turning into waterways is very different than that water getting into people's cars, homes and places of business. We will see what happens... Because something needs to be done but the people in Houston don't want to spend the money

I figured the whole building was yeeted into the sun last week & I just hadn't read about it yet

@@danielsavitz5774 Practice on your sarcasm because it sucks.

If the A's 🐘 ⚾️ don't get a new stadium, MLB gives them the 🟢 light to move to Las Vegas 🎲🎲

@@marcusjohnson7772 And Oakland won't have any major sports teams left.

Olympic Stadium in Montreal is like a oval shaped stadium.The Expos and Alouettes played there.

Boston Railfan....guess again! Until Al Davis had them build the 'Mt Davis Grandstand' (that is now covered in tarps) for his Raiders Oakland-Alameda Coliseum was a concentric ring stadium!

I adored the old busch....but with that being said the Cardinals would have not financially competed because of the lack of luxury boxes and club seating at the old Busch..moving into the current place they were able to build a district surrounding it.

@@crawford371 The old busch stadium was literally ringed with luxury suites. My dad rented one for his retirement party. The Cardinals are one of the last teams in the league that need to worry about financially competing.

Oakland is the most egregious example of all the problems of a Multi Purpose Stadium.

@@iancypes5911 Chewing up the field was the reason why the Red Sox evicted the Pats from Fenway Park. And Fenway has done offseason college football, hockey, extreme winter sports, and summer concerts when the Sox are on the road.

Oakland? Seattle? Toronto? Minnesota? Anaheim? Baltimore? Cleveland? those were all multipurpose stadiums, each in the American League. that doesn’t include the Royals before they got a new stadium or the Senators before they moved to Texas. hell, the Yankees played in Shea Stadium for a couple if years and hosted the Giants until 1974! The Red Sox hosted the Patriots for much of the 60s! Same for the Tigers and Lions!

This is about whats left, in those cases there really wasnt much of anything left to show

@@forgottenplaces9780 -- Perhaps pictures of what is at those locations now.

folks assume that the movable seats were added later but there’s a reason that the Marlins never moved out until they extorted...i mean convinced Miami to build them a new stadium

Aptly named after Joe Robbie. Besides football, it could accommodate soccer & baseball.

I have forbes in another vid about the jewell box ballparks

@@forgottenplaces9780 i didn't think that you mentioned multi purpose in that, but it was a while ago when i watched it. So I could be wrong. I know my uncle who went to many Steelers games there (free)( my grandfather was friends of Art Rooney Steelers owner. They played on a sandlot baseball team together in the 1920s). My uncles said Forbes Field was good for Baseball, not so good for football. Later the Steelers moved to Pitt Stadium. A much better football experience.

My only question is how did Turner Field and the Georgia Dome both become outdated after being built in 1993 and 1996?

Didn’t that stadium also play the part of Knights Field, in the movie ‘The Natural’?

@@gvs376 it did...

This was covering former stadiums, not ones currently still in use.

Cant wait to see that...building a athletic complex...are they are gonna build a softball field on the site also

@@crawford371 I'm not a 100 percent sure on that but I think so

I've been to a couple of Georgia State college football games at Turner Field since the Braves left. One of those games was in the first year that Georgia State played there, so there hadn't been any modifications to seating and field areas. The other game I went to was after the modification.

My only question is how does a stadium become obsolete after only being built in 1997?

@@jasonrandom372 I went to one of the last Braves games at Turner Field, and when a vendor tried selling me souvenirs commemorating "the end of the era," I said, "No thanks, I'll just wait the 20 years until the next move." I certainly didn't think there was anything wrong with Turner Field (or the Georgia Dome for that matter).

Nice stadium, but crappy area of town! I liked that MARTA trains got close, with busses right to the gate, but no neighborhood bars or eateries, and no one wanted to linger after games. The Braves were magnificent for many years at Turner - a nice improvement over Fulton Co Stadium.

@@jasonrandom372 Good question. It was not obsolete, but the fan base was in Cobb and other areas that did not like coming to the south of downtown location.

Giants and Giants played @ Polo Grounds Indians and Browns played @ Municipal Stadium Athletics, Phillies and Eagles played @ Shibe Park

Three rivers

He is mostly talking about abandoned and demolished stadiums, the coliseum is still in use.

That wasn’t a true dual-use stadium, that was just a baseball diamond shoved onto a football field, it’s was really a football field and wasn’t meant to host baseball long-term, the only true dual-use stadium still in operation is the RingCentral coliseum, which is more commonly known as the Oakland coliseum, it has continually hosted the a’s since 1968 and has hosted the raiders from 1966-1980 and then again from 1995-2020

Same with Angel stadium and the Oakland Colliseum but those Stadiums are now MLB only stadiums.

@@jasonrandom372 Oakland is the only stadium that’s still in dual-use form, hard rock was a football field that would have a baseball diamond crammed into it during the spring and summer months with hard rock always being a football only stadium, and Angel stadium went from baseball only from 1966-1980 then went to dual-use from 1980-1997 and went back to baseball only in 1997 has has been ever since.

@@arandomdudeontheinternet5792 it actually was built for baseball and football, it’s the only one where it wasn’t circular but was built wider than normal so that baseball could be played

@@jasonrandom372 Angels became dual after the Rams moved in, it spent 15 or so years as a regular baseball stadium before renovations

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Ryan you also forgot Hard Rock Stadium, and Angel Stadium are also still in use. Angel Stadium like the Oakland Coliseum is now and MLB only Stadium. Hard Rock Stadium is now an NFL only Stadium.

The Superdome would occasionally host a baseball game, too. But it’s been many years since that happened last. I expect it’ll end up being one of the last surviving stadiums built in the 1970s. The outer shell is extremely durable, and the location is perfect.

The Braves are also on their 2nd stadium since leaving Fulton Turner field 1996-2016 and Truist park 2017-pres

My only question is how did the Georgia Dome and Turner Field both become obsolete after being built in 1993 and 1996?

@@jasonrandom372 turner is still used for college football, it isn’t gone.

@@jasonrandom372 often stadiums built for Olympic purposes are not ideal for maximizing revenues over time. They are built quickly with little planning and mainly for the Olympic events. At stadiums they don't seem to have great track records.

@@jasonrandom372 Turner become Georgia University's property. It's gonna be redeveloped soon.

This is for stadiums that have something left to show and not just a home plate marker also ones that arent still in use.

@@forgottenplaces9780 ...Anaheim is still in use, still standing, with the mark of where the football impact was still visible. Joe Robbie was built as a multipurpose stadium, it’s online dozens of places regarding the construction of it with baseball as a secondary tenant. Oakland is still in use, it was always a dual purpose stadium but it took until the 90s for the second tenant to get prominence there.

@@bostonrailfan2427 arent still standing

It was Metropolitan Stadium not Minneapolis Stadium, and was referenced in the final scene as that is now the current site of the Mall of America.

Pittsburgh and cincy did, but theres really nothing much left, cle and oak werent really cookie cutter, the cookie cutters are complete circles cleveland stadium was more oval and oaklands was basically a baseball stadium with football played in it, at least at first

Olympic Stadium in Montreal is like a space ship to me. The Expos and Alouettes played there.

Wrigley is a jewel box baseball stadium, not a dual-use stadium

The Bears used to play at Wrigley Field, Gale Sayers, Dick Butkus, Richie Petitbon and them guys. Long time ago.

David Steinle; Good point - Wrigley Field was built for baseball and retrofitted for football. The gridiron barely fit in the place - one end zone butted right up to the ivy covered brick wall.

@@denisceballos9745 The north end zone that butted up to the left field wall was only 8 yards deep

I am hoping the football team returns to the site

@@crawford371 Would love to see them renovate RFK and not tear it down. Remove a portion of the stadium so there’s a clear view of the Capitol. That would be spectacular. Let’s face it, the Skins don’t need a high capacity stadium anyways - nobody goes to the games.