USA - Stadium and Arena Development News

[ArchMadness]

This shrine to the baseball Gods will be completed by the 2006 season. Best of all PRIVATELY FUNDED!!!

I feel sorry for those suckers with higher taxes now












Here's a link: http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/NAS...ewballpark.jsp

[hngcm]

how are they going to build it without interrupting the season?

it overlaps Busch Stadium

[ArchMadness]

Originally posted by hngcm

how are they going to build it without interrupting the season?

it overlaps Busch Stadium

The construction teams will do all the ground work and parts of the stadium that do not overlap first. Then, after 2004 ends with a World Series celebration they start demolishing the parts that do overlap. I think then they plan on playing 2005 in a busted up Busch and then in a partially finished new Busch. 2006 rolls around with another win and the new stadium is done. Then the plan for the old stadium is to knock the rest down and build condos that overlook the new stadium. *I think* I read this about 6 months ago and I assuming that it is still the plan. I think the new Cincinanati stadium was built the same way.

[Sounder]

1. Michigan Stadium - Ann Arbor, MI - 107,501 seats



2. Beaver Stadium - State College, PA - 107,282 seats



3. Neyland Stadium - Knoxville, TN - 104,079 seats



4. Ohio Stadium - Columbus, OH - 101,568 seats



5. Rose Bowl - Pasadena, CA - 98,636 seats



6. LA Memorial Coliseum - Los Angeles, CA - 92,000 seats



7. Tiger Stadium - Baton Rouge, LA - 91,600 seats



8. Sanford Stadium - Athens, GA - 86,520 seats



9. FedEx Field - Landover, MD - 86,484 seats



10. Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL - 86,063 seats



11. Stanford Stadium - Palo Alto, CA - 85,500 seats



12. Bryant-Denny Stadium - Tuscaloosa, AL - 83,818 seats



13. Legion Field - Birmingham, AL - 83,091 seats



14. Florida Field - Gainesville, FL - 83,000 seats



15. Memorial Stadium - Clemson, SC - 81,474 seats



16. Notre Dame Stadium - South Bend, IN - 80,795 seats



17. Kyle Field - College Station, TX - 80,650 seats



18. Royal-Memorial Stadium - Austin, TX - 80,082 seats



19. Giants Stadium - East Rutherford, NJ - 80,062 seats



20. Doak Campbell Stadium - Tallahassee, FL - 80,000 seats



21. Arrowhead Stadium - Kansas City, MO - 79,451 seats



22. Camp Randall Stadium - Madison, WI - 76,634 seats



23. Invesco Field - Denver, CO - 76,125 seats



24. Pro Player Stadium - Miami, FL - 75,540 seats



25. Memorial Stadium - Berkeley, CA - 75,028 seats



26. Ralph Wilson Stadium - Orchard Park, NY - 73,967 seats



27. Memorial Stadium - Lincoln, NE - 73,918 seats



28. Bank of America Stadium - Charlotte, NC - 73,500 seats



29. Sun Devil Stadium - Tempe, AZ - 73,379 seats



30. Cleveland Browns Stadium - Cleveland, OH - 73,200 seats



31. ALLTEL Stadium - Jacksonville, FL - 73,000 seats



32. Oklahoma Memorial - Norman, OK - 72,765 seats




33. Lambeau Field - Green Bay, WI - 72,515 seats



34. Husky Stadium - Seattle, WA - 72,500 seats



34. Orange Bowl - Miami, FL - 72,319 seats



35. Spartan Stadium - East Lansing, MI - 72,027 seats



36. Reynolds-Razorback Stadium - Fayetteville, AR - 72,000 seats



37. Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego, CA - 71,000 seats



38. Soldier Field - Chicago, IL - 70,904 seats



39. Kinnick Stadium - Iowa City, IA - 70,397 seats



40. Citrus Bowl - Orlando, FL - 70,188 seats



41. Rice Stadium - Houston, TX - 70,000 seats



42. Reliant Stadium - Houston, TX - 69,500 seats



43. 3Com Park - San Francisco, CA - 69,400 seats



44. Memorial Stadium - Champaign, IL - 69,249 seats



45. M&T Bank Stadium - Baltimore, MD - 69,084 seats



46. The Coliseum - Nashville, TN - 68,799 seats



47. Lincoln Financial Field - Philadelphia, PA - 68,532 seats



48. Gillette Stadium - Foxboro, MA - 68,000 seats



49. Commonwealth Stadium - Lexington, KY - 67,530 seats



50. Seahawks Stadium - Seattle, WA - 67,000 seats



51. Ross-Ade Stadium - West Lafayette, IN - 66,295 seats

[TexasBoi]

Great Pics and Thread
Most of the big stadiums are College Stadiums where the best of the game of football is played and most of the smaller stadiums are from the NFL

I think this is a international forum, for a better understanding it s better to call Fottball (=soccer) as Football and American Football as American Football. Without this "international" calling system we talk not from the same if we say here "Football". It s the same sense of decency to speak here english or at least to try it in this international forum part and not to talk e.g. in German with you.
Maybe for some Americans it s difficult to understand and respect other systems than them own.

[Sounder]

In the U.S.A. football is football & that boring sport in which they kick a ball around is soccer. The thread is about the U.S.A. if you didn't read the title.

[JacobRit]

Ha ok, so A) Football should be the game where you use your feet!
B) what can be more boring than 20 seconds of play and 5 mins of adverts for 5 hours?
and C) Football is the most popular sport in the world! American football does not come anywhere close

so think before you get into your one dimensional US Centric mindset!

Pratt!

And the funny thing about American Football: its Rugby, but with:

a) Lots of breaks to regain energy
b) Lots of padding, helmets and the like to ensure no actual contact and to ensure mummy's boy doesn't get hurt

On another note, I don't need to repeat what the enlightened JacobRit said other than that nobody in the wide world who is sane watches NFL or any other anally retentive American sport - now that is funny

[TexasBoi]

The great thing about that is we dont care what you think or say because we are not here to please you or cater to you.
Funny, i have talked to many rugby players that has played Football and they say Football is about as physical if not more than rugby. You see what you see on tv and you think hey this is like rugby yet you probably never played a minute of the game.

[TexasBoi]

Originally Posted by JacobRit

Ha ok, so A) Football should be the game where you use your feet!
B) what can be more boring than 20 seconds of play and 5 mins of adverts for 5 hours?
and C) Football is the most popular sport in the world! American football does not come anywhere close

so think before you get into your one dimensional US Centric mindset!

Pratt!

after all that you just said Football is still Football...Soccer is still Soccer...does it hurt you so much that we will not call it what you want us to call it lol..Football games never go 5 hours
Harly anybody in the US Disrespects your sports..why do you disrespect ours??

I've not played professional - I'm simply not that good. I play wing and have played for ooooohhhhh for around 7 years. Luckily the worst I've had happen to me, is studs in the eye, being winded on several occasions and having an unfortunate incident when my crown jewels came into contact with a right royal of a kick (all better now ). I have however seen some awful acts - legs splitting right in two (ie a full clean snap with splintered bone ejecting out the leg - made half the team sick), awkward fulls with ankles twisting 90 degrees of more. My dad saw a guys eye pop out while he played, peoples faces being cut up like they had just been knifed. Its an awful game, but when played right it is a brilliant game.

The reason we disrespect your sport, is because you disrespect our sport by calling it soccer when its football. I dont call you a tossing loser do I - because you probably aint!!!!! So if you wanna be nice and not be the odd one out IN THE WHOLE WORLD then you really ought to understand where we are coming from.

[TexasBoi]

I know different people from different parts of the world that calls your sport soccer not just Americans...so its not just us

[Sounder]

Why do you guys have to ruin this great thread? Americans call football football and call soccer soccer. Deal with it. Now back to the topic....

[rantanamo]

You can move Sanford up the list above LA Memorial Colisseum after the new expansion

[TexasBoi]

sorry about that Sounder
I believe Oklahoma is renovating as well to get more seating

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by Sounder

[15. Memorial Stadium - Clemson, SC - 81,474 seats

What freaks me out is how some of these stadia have such large capacities with whole ends missing - I'm trying to imagine how large the above would be if it the side stands were continued all the way round to form a bowl...

[Kaneda]

It would be interresting with a thread about the biggest FOOTBALL (the real football) stadiums in the US, or is it mostly played in American Football stadiums?

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by nick_taylor

The reason we disrespect your sport, is because you disrespect our sport by calling it soccer when its football. I dont call you a tossing loser do I - because you probably aint!!!!! So if you wanna be nice and not be the odd one out IN THE WHOLE WORLD then you really ought to understand where we are coming from.

Nick - association football ("soccer") is only "football" colloquially in the parts of the world where it's the dominant code of football. In most states in Australia "football" is Aussie Rules, in NSW and QLD it's rugby league, in New Zealand it's rugby union, in Ireland it's Gaelic football, in the USA it's gridiron, in Canada it's Canadian football etc. etc. Even in the UK you'll find entities like "Leicester Football Club" (rugby union) and "Hull F.C." (rugby league) which were founded before the rules of soccer were established...

Where I think you're coming from is the misguided belief that the code of football you follow is the only (or original) form of football, and North Americans and Australasians have "stolen" the game, unfortunately it just makes you look ignorant and intolerant...

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by Kaneda

It would be interresting with a thread about the biggest FOOTBALL (the real football) stadiums in the US, or is it mostly played in American Football stadiums?

AAAARGH!!! There is no "real" football - football is a generic term for ball games played on foot. This argument is akin to beef and pork fans arguing ownership of the word "meat"...