USA - Stadium and Arena Development News

[Sounder]

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?

This is a thread about the biggest football stadiums (we call that boring sport in which they kick a ball around soccer). If you wanted to see soccer stadiums in the U.S.A., you would see a bunch of pictures of puny high school football stadiums because soccer is not that popular in the U.S. Columbus, OH & Carson, CA have a nice soccer stadiums but that is about it.

Enough with the off topic semantics & soccer talk....



BTW, a correction to the above:

33. Lambeau Field - Green Bay, WI - 72,515 seats in a recent remodel (edited in above)


Here are the football stadiums that missed the cut:

Raymond James Stadium - Tampa, FL - 65,657
Texas Stadium - Irving, TX - 65,639
Paul Brown Stadium - Cincinnati, OH - 65,352
Lane Stadium - Blacksburg, VA - 65,115
LaVell Edwards Stadium - Provo, UT - 65,000
Heinz Field - Pittsburgh, PA - 64,450
Mountaineer Field - Morgantown, WV - 63,500
Network Associates Coliseum - Oakland, CA - 63,132
Liberty Bowl - Memphis, TN - 62,380
Faurot Field - Columbia, MO - 62,000
Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium - Oxford, MS - 60,580

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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... 


Yes, and you are damned right, it counts only what 99.99% of the
mankind (in your opinion USA; Canada, Australian, New Zealand) understand of this word. The rest of the world doesn`t exist. I always have the mention that English or American is a international language which is spoken over the world, not only in this ones, which it is the mother tongue.
So I ask me what the Asians, Africans, South Americans, Arabs, Japanese and all the rest of the world understand under the word "Football" and not only whats written in a american encyclopedia.

[The Game Is Up]

Here's a link where you can learn more about MLS stadia:

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106000


Anyway, I think the reason why the ends on some of those college football stadia are open is because they want to keep them open so that they'll work on expanding on the sides. Once they achieve maximum capacity on the sides then they'll go filling up the ends, achieving maximum capacity for the whole stadia. That's how Penn State's stadium was expanded. Norte Dame's stadium already started off as a bowl, so they'd just add rings of sections on top of the others.








P.S.: Remember the old maxum that just because something's popular doesn't necessarily make it right.

And please stop whining.

[hngcm]

I don't like big bowl stadiums

lack architecture

oh and

Soccer > You

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by Basiliensis

Yes, and you are damned right, it counts only what 99.99% of the
mankind (in your opinion USA; Canada, Australian, New Zealand) understand of this word. The rest of the world doesn`t exist. I always have the mention that English or American is a international language which is spoken over the world, not only in this ones, which it is the mother tongue.
So I ask me what the Asians, Africans, South Americans, Arabs, Japanese and all the rest of the world understand under the word "Football" and not only whats written in a american encyclopedia.

In case you hadn't spotted, I'm English, I live in England (which does exist in my opinion), and I don't own an American encyclopedia. I just happen to understand that football describes a number of different games - it's perfectly valid for our American friends to talk about the stadia pictured in this thread as "football stadiums", just as the Sydney Football Stadium is a perfectly valid name for the ground where you'll see rugby league and rugby union being played at the moment...

I agree with your sentiment that confusion should be avoided wherever possible, but surely the best solution is to qualify which code of football is being referred to wherever it's not clear (in this thread it's pretty obvious), rather than starting a flame war pointlessly arguing that one game or the other is the real "football"...

[JacobRit]

How many of these stadia have actual individual seats? and how many are bleacher, bench style seats! i much prefer individual folding down seats myself, with the benches a capacity can change depending how many lard arses turn up to the game!

[TexasBoi]

I think that most college stadiums are bleachers and most professional stadiums are fold down seats. Thats why college stadiums can seat more people than pro stadiums.

[rantanamo]

College stadia give tickets the same way pro stadia do. The benches have seat numbers. The seating capcity doesn't change depending on lard asses. Colleges use them mostly because they don't take up as much space with arm rests and for cost reasons. Yes that is a two inches you are saving, but that adds up to plenty of room for a person ever 6-10 seats. This is necessary because large universities have millions of alumni and already have trouble with over demand. That's why you see Neyland at 106,000 or Daryl K. Royal with plans to expand to 114,000. There are seats in these stadia as well though. Some of the upper decks are entirely seated as well as areas infront of luxury suites(known as boxes). That's another area where more people are able to fit into college stadia. Luxury boxes take up a lot of space, and when you have 361 like Texas Stadium does, you could probably equate that space to 10-15,000 more seats.

[CharlieP]

Holy crap - how big would these be if the side stand design was continued around all four sides?

Originally Posted by Sounder

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



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



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

[waj0527]

Clemson is expanding. Im not sure by how much, but they're adding on to one of the endzones.

[Mr. T]

I dont know why. They have a horrible football program, their coach is only known as "Bobby Bowdens son". GO MARYLAND TERPS FOOTBAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[waj0527]

Thats the spirit!!!! Go Terps!!!!!!!

Maryland Basketball can get some love too.

[yyyves]

I wasnt aware the you guys have that many huge stadiums...
fantastic stuff...I dont know what the discussion is all about, i dont give a f..k what is the real football or who calls what how and why...

[BrizzyChris]

You guys have way too many sports teams to follow!

[yyyves]

there are never enough games to watch and teams to follow

Rgds yyyves

[dynamoultraclean]

LOL, bloody sooks. I came into this forum expecting to see Gridion stadiums as I understand that when an American says "football stadiums" they usually mean stadiums in which Gridion is played.

As for the stadiums themselves, I am not a huge fan of their appearance but am impressed with the capacities of them. They're huge!

[pwright1]

What happened to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas? I know it should be on the list somewhere?

[DeMaFrost]

I hate the Tards, but anything will be better then Busch Stadium where my Cubbies always seem to have a hard time winning. Looks like a beautiful stadium though and the good fans of St. Louis (I guess) deserve a new park.

[Kampflamm]

How many cookie cutter stadiums are still left standing?

[rantanamo]

Busch might be the last.

What were they? Busch, Riverfront, Three Rivers, Fulton County, the Vet (to an extent), oh, forgot about San Diego, though its all football now, ummmm, Anahiem, though it was nice renovated and doesn't resemble the cookie cutters now. Can't think of anymore.

Anyways, like the new stadium. Yes, the MLB parks use a lot of bricks, but each one has its own feel and style.