That was a very nice football stadium in almost mint condition. What a waste of money.
Disposable stadiums.
What is with this nonsense of destroying perfectly fine 25yo stadiums just to replace them with these multi-billion dollar abstract monstrosities?
Who’s making all the money from these deals?
the falcons imploded that place years ago.
Must have been something toxic inside.
25 years. My washer and dryer have a longer life expectancy than that.
I guess they needed a bigger venue to hold the diminishing number of fans.
What a waste, especially now that we have these ingrates dissing the anthem and flag.
Updating a phrase: “If they build it, we won’t come.”
That makes two for them now. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is where the Saints play, that I do not watch anymore.
Crazy isn’t it?
The original Atlanta stadium opened in ‘65 I believe? Braves moved to Atlanta in ‘66. That stadium lasted only 30 years, to he replaced by the Georgia Dome and Turner Field in the mid 90s, I believe? Then after barely 20 years for both Braves and Falcons in those stadiums, it was decided that both needed new stadiums.
The Kingdome in Seattle lasted only about 20 years also.
Stadium life expectancy is getting shorter and shorter.
The Pontiac Silverdome...the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of abandoned stadiums.
At least the Los Angeles area sports venues seem to last:
Memorial Coliseum (1923)
Dodger Stadium (1962)
Angel Stadium (1966)
Rose Bowl (1922)
Even the Sports Arena lasted 57 years.
Dodger Stadium is the third oldest in MLB after Wrigley and Fenway. Seems impossible to believe.
That thing collapsed faster than the Falcons did in last year’s Super Bowl.
Explode not implode?
It only lasted 25 years. We build to waste so we can fill someones pockets after the government pays its share of our money.
including All o’the Snackbar?
My answer to the 9/11 conspiracy theorists is that it took a professional demolition crew a month to place the explosives and run the wires on the Hudson building in Detroit before they took it down...........
I remember that place. I designed and installed a two way radio system in that place before the astro turf was completed. Walking across that structure that goes across the top allowed a great view of the field.