[www.sercan.de]

Tennessee Volunteers

College
2x Champion:
1951, 1998

opned 1921 and renovated 2000

 

[en1044]

this stadium is a perfect example of expansion over and over and over and over

 

[Goothrey]

Probably the ugliest facade in the USA though besides Kyle Field.

 

[bing222]

It must of taken an age to cover the whole field

 

[Goothrey]

KNOXVILLE - Neyland Stadium (102,037)

Before:

Renovation:

pdf: http://fishtrap.sslpowered.com/vols/other/vasf/club-seats/08-NSupdate.pdf

 

[en1044]

^^ Its about time. All those additions made that stadium God ugly from the outside.

 

[Benn]

Yeah now it will only be the 3rd or 4th ugliest in the country

 

[Ganis]

why is only half the stands covered?

 

[bing222]

That is a massive stadium and when is construction starting

 

[Goothrey]

I didn't know where to find this thread.

 

[Bobby3]

The roof on one end kinda makes it awkward.

 

[www.sercan.de]

I didn't know where to find this thread.

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http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=651017

 

[GNU]

Good proposal.
Anyhow, its already a beautiful stadium this, mainly thanks to its setting.

 

[Scoots71]

Good proposal.
Anyhow, its already a beautiful stadium this, mainly thanks to its setting.

Only thanks to the setting. That stadium is a giant erector set.

 

[salaverryo]

Looks like you got the capacity wrong, Sercan & Goothrey. The News Sentinel article says 104,079. It must be the biggest football stadium in the US, correct?

 

[kanye]

Looks like you got the capacity wrong, Sercan & Goothrey. The News Sentinel article says 104,079. It must be the biggest football stadium in the US, correct?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_football_stadiums_by_capacity

 

[www.sercan.de]

Capacity:
102,037 - Largest football stadium in the South, third-largest college stadium in the country. Has undergone 17 additions/renovations since the West stands were built in 1921, seating 3200. Latest addition East Side club seat area completed in 2006.

http://www.utsports.com/facilities/neyland-stadium.html

 

[Topher51]

why is only half the stands covered?

The endzone upper deck with the roof was built in the late 1990's. The sections the roof covers are all chair-backed, NFL style seats and at the time, were the only ones in the stadium outside of the press box. My guess is that they wanted to keep the wealthy alumni who were paying for those seats dry.

As for the reduction in capacity, the entire stadium is being renovated, not just the exterior. They are/have built several club seating area, which is reducing the capacity since you can fit a lot more butts on bleacher seats than you can the chair-backed seats. I believe the entire east side upper deck is being converted as part of the press box rehabilitation that Goothrey posted pics of.

 

[Goothrey]

Sources suggest the official capacity has been lowered to 100,011.

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/mattingly/2009/08/the_incredible_shrinking_stadi.html

This would suggest that Texas Memorial Stadium has surpassed Neyland for 4th place in the US among football stadiums.

 

[Goothrey]

Found this on google images: