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1 posted on 11/20/2017 8:39:25 AM PST by BenLurkin
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That was a very nice football stadium in almost mint condition. What a waste of money.


2 posted on 11/20/2017 8:42:11 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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Disposable stadiums.


3 posted on 11/20/2017 8:42:23 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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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?


4 posted on 11/20/2017 8:43:16 AM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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the falcons imploded that place years ago.


5 posted on 11/20/2017 8:43:20 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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Must have been something toxic inside.


6 posted on 11/20/2017 8:44:12 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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25 years. My washer and dryer have a longer life expectancy than that.


7 posted on 11/20/2017 8:44:54 AM PST by IronJack
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I guess they needed a bigger venue to hold the diminishing number of fans.


8 posted on 11/20/2017 8:46:02 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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Here, in Washington State, the same thing was done a number of years ago. A perfectly good domed stadium was demolished after a new inside roof was installed and not even paid for.

What a waste, especially now that we have these ingrates dissing the anthem and flag.

10 posted on 11/20/2017 8:47:09 AM PST by Parmy
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Updating a phrase: “If they build it, we won’t come.”


12 posted on 11/20/2017 8:48:49 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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Mercedes-Benz Stadium

That makes two for them now. The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is where the Saints play, that I do not watch anymore.

18 posted on 11/20/2017 8:51:18 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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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.


20 posted on 11/20/2017 8:56:24 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Silverdome is next, by this same firm(according to wiki).

The Pontiac Silverdome...the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of abandoned stadiums.

26 posted on 11/20/2017 9:07:44 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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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.


28 posted on 11/20/2017 9:10:54 AM PST by chrisinoc
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Dodger Stadium is the third oldest in MLB after Wrigley and Fenway. Seems impossible to believe.


30 posted on 11/20/2017 9:12:52 AM PST by hanamizu
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That thing collapsed faster than the Falcons did in last year’s Super Bowl.


32 posted on 11/20/2017 9:20:09 AM PST by BusterDog
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Explode not implode?


44 posted on 11/20/2017 9:29:31 AM PST by keving (We the government)
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It only lasted 25 years. We build to waste so we can fill someones pockets after the government pays its share of our money.


49 posted on 11/20/2017 9:41:06 AM PST by Herman Ball (2)
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including All o’the Snackbar?


66 posted on 11/20/2017 10:26:15 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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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...........


68 posted on 11/20/2017 10:30:21 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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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.


74 posted on 11/20/2017 11:18:05 AM PST by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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