Seattle Kingdome: Worst Dual-Use Dome Ever
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2020
- The story of the Seattle Kingdome, one of the few dual use domes of the MLB and NFL, that aged quickly and was replaced quickly.
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Even if it was a shitty stadium, I'm glad I got to attend a game there while we still had Griffey in his prime
Damn thats bad ass
Ditto. Still remember opening day in ‘95 seeing Griffey crush a home run to right. Didn’t know at the time whah a magical season that would end up being
Astrodome in Houston is still standing tall
The Kingdome crowd was also awesome, just genuine baseball fans who loved the game and the team. Safeco catered a lot to the corporate crowd (gotta make that money, right?) and the old ambiance didn't last long because of that.
Paul Allen was a great owner. Saved the Seahawks, had deep pockets, and most importantly he didn't interfere with how the team was run
@Rowdy Jr. Unfortunately money IS the god of our world.
Underrated comment
deep pockets dont mean shit. its the coaches, the scouts, the drafting in the nfl, every team has to spend so much and cannot spend beyond the cap. paul allen was a business man and ran the team like a business, not a fantasy football team!
@Rowdy Jr. what is he supposed to do stay in seattle and lose money? people who say money is not god are usually losers and broke! money is power and power brings all good things when used right!
@Rowdy Jr. yep , thats it! im the boogie man! 🤦🏿♂️
THANK YOU FINALLY. Even though it wasn’t the best stadium it still served its purpose and got us the sports teams.
Hmm
A packed Dome was loud as hell.
Even though it may have been a dump, it holds great memories for me having attended many Mariners games during the prime of Griffey, Edgar and the Big Unit. Of course my favorite game there being Game 5, 1995 Division Series against the Yankees. Still to this day my favorite and most memorable game I've attended in person.
We share many of the same memories bud. That particular season was fucking magical
Best memory for me was when a tile hit my head while I was cheering for the Seahawks. I was out of commission in the hospital for a few months. Second best memory was seeing it get imploded while watching it from my hospital bed.
i'm actually fond of the old school stadiums like the kingdome, the astro dome, shea stadium etc. so many childhood memories of games. mariners broke my heart when they beat the yankees there in 95
I agree, I'm the same age. They should have never demolished any of these old stadiums.
At least Turner Field got repurposed
At least the Astrodome still stands... even if its abandonned
When I think of the Kingdome, I think of Randy Johnson and Jim Zorn.
GAME 5 agaist the Yankees
The Mariners have had very little success as a whole, but they had more success in the Kingdome than they have had at Safeco!
2001 tho bro!
I'm sorry but it is the sad existence of us seattle mariners fans 😔
Ouch!
In terms of playoffs, absolutely but as of early this year the mariners played as many games in the new stadium as they did in the king dome, and actually have a better record over all.
@@attmlb And even in Playoffs, they have had one more Playoff game in Safeco than they had in their years in the Kingdome.
@@bridgerdeschamps that....that I did not know and frankly didn't believe could be possible. Fuck.
Watching a game in the Kingdome was like watching a game in a big parking garage.
I went to a baseball game at the Kingdome back in 1998. The people that compare it's ambiance to a basement are absolutely right.
To honor our bogus president, we could rename it The Joe Biden Basement.
@@l.rongardner2150 Trump lost. Get over yourself.
@@paulj6756 nah, they just said he lost
@@paulj6756 nah
@@l.rongardner2150Typical disgusting Rethuglikkklan hatred 🖕🏽🖕🏽
Also the Sonics won a championship in 1979 while playing in the Kingdome.
Although wasn’t that championship won in DC
@@Ryguy-lg2xz That is correct! The year before, 1977-78 season, the Sonics lost the championship to the Bullets in Seattle
@@Ryguy-lg2xz they clinched it in DC but they played home games in the Kingdome during that season.
@@MultiBrian1986 They played one game in the Kingdome in the 1978 finals due to a scheduling conflict.
In DC the Sonics and Bullets opened Capital Centre in 1973 on December 2. Bullets-Wizards owner Abe Pollin scheduled both teams on the same Dec. 2 date at the opening of the MCI Center in downtown DC in 1997.
Now there the Oklahoma City Thunder.
the kingdome was loud af
Better for baseball than Sick's Seattle Stadium.
LUMEN Field is louder
@@videonut1988 It would be louder if people went there
Most indoor arenas are loud. Arco in sacramento was tiny but famous for noise
@@videonut1988 I have been 2 both. Dome was louder
As long as team owners don’t pay for the stadium
They will always want shiny new toys
The Mariners expressed concerns about the artificial turf and outfield walls of the Kingdome, as their star, Ken Griffey Jr., and other players, were hurt many times because of the field (the turf had nothing but concrete underneath, and the walls were poorly padded).
Not quite. Sounds more like the Meadowlands issues. It was more about the zippers in the turf. See Curt Warner.
@@jasonpaul5 The Meadowlands had horrible turf and I'm glad the Giants moved. The turf at Veterans Stadium in Philly was the worst. I got to play an exhibition game on it in high school and I would had rather played on concrete or bricks.
I saw the Rolling Stones in the Seattle Kingdome upfront on the floor in 1981, one of the best of many concerts over my life! I'll never forget it!
Rolling Stones put on great shows. I miss Charlie Watson. RIP Charlie
Yeah, the Kingdome was crap, but when the Mariners were good in the 90s, it really gave the feel of "Arena Baseball" especially when Ken Griffey, Jr was either hitting homers or going for highlight-reel catches at the wall.
Describe arena baseball
@@seamusmckeon9109 Baseball inside a closed building which gave you the sense that you were watching it inside of a basketball, and/or a hockey arena, than a stadium? Granted the Kingdome was in a sense kind of like being in a place like Veterans, Three Rivers, or Riverfront Stadium, but with a roof over your head instead, but you know what I mean by that I'm sure though!
Regarding places that deteriorated quickly, tell us about the Omni in Atlanta. Opened in 1972, and was falling apart before it was even twenty years old.
The Omni (and Aloha Stadium in Honolulu) was built with "weathering steel." The theory was that the steel was intentionally designed to rust, but only on the surface, and that rust was supposed to be a paint-like protective coating. Well, whoever thought of that idea, he was an idiot! The steel never stopped rusting; and, with the salt air in Hawaii, and the humid climate in Georgia, both arenas began to fall apart. The Omni was the first to go, and nobody missed it. The "Waffle Iron" was the ugliest arena in U.S. history.
Where the legend of the 12th Man was born
Regarding the falling ceiling tiles.
Ok, so the compound that had previously been used to fill in the cracks on the roof was failing and needed to be removed before being replaced.
So the contractors thought, somehow, that pressure washing a ceiling full of cracks was a good idea.
How anyone thinks that pressure washing a cracked and leaky roof is a good idea baffles me to this day.
They were trying to be sure that it didn’t look like the top of the super dome after Katrina
And the tragic thing was, someone fell to his death while working on his roof.
Don't pressure anything with seams that is intended to repel water.
Great synopsis and really enjoy your content! It would help to add that the ‘95 Mariners playoff run (first playoff ever for the franchise) really skewed public favor for the team staying in town and gaining more traction for public funding.
I remember a weekend series when the Red Sox were supposed to play the Mariners in Seattle but chunks of concrete started dropping off the Kingdome roof onto the seats. The two teams had to quickly pack up and fly to Boston. They played the entire series at Fenway Park instead of the Kingdome. Since no tickets had be pre-sold they let fans into Fenway for only $10 and you could sit in any unoccupied seat.
I remember this!!!
"Hold my beer" The Oakland-Alameda county coliseum.
Not a dome
I’ve been there, it is indeed an all concrete, oddly-shaped, old-as-dirt bowl of sadness
Candlestick Park - 49ers & Giants
@@SFTrafficObserver Candlestick park was in such bad shape that the City was going to renovate it for safety after the 1989 baseball season. Turns out the contractor used substandard material during the construction of the upper bowl. In Some places you had one bracket doing the work of 4 because the other 3 had rusted away or there was one bolt not six. A city engineer made them fix it during the off season before the 1989 season. If they had not done that the entire upper bowl might have collapsed during the earthquake and would have landed on all the spectators in the lower seats.
@@johnharris6655 For the last 10 years of its existence, it felt like the city had abandoned Candlestick and not sunk any money into it. Terrible place to watch baseball, and there were lots of seats where you couldn't see the whole football field. But when the 49ers were winning and the stadium was full, that place rocked.
I'm a Twins/Vikings fan. Back when they played outdoors, having to deal with inclement weather of the upper midwest made attending some games pretty bad. When the Metrodome was built, it was welcomed as you had perfect weather all the time. I was there once during a Twins game when a severe thunderstorm went through. Despite the loudness in the dome, you could still hear the rain hitting the roof. About 4 inches of rain fell in a one hour period but the game was completed. But as time went on, people longed for "good 'ol outdoor baseball" again. So they have Target field where once again cold springs and autumns play a role. But it's a nice stadium. The dome got old quickly.
All of my memories of the Dome are good ones. I had season tickets for a year in which Griffey Jr, A-Rod and Randy Johnson were all playing together. That was an exciting season. As a fan, I was always just fine with the Kingdome.
That "worst ever" dome was our ticket to Pro NFL, MLBaseball, NASL soccer, Monsters Trucks, Monsters of Rock, Wings Over America, AutoRama, etc. Loved it as a kid. Any true Seattle-ite knows Led Zeppelin cracked the roof on the last note of Stairway To Heaven in 1977. Dont get a bustle in a hedgerow, dude.
Because Led Zeppelin sounds like shit.
I loved the kingdome and the wave . Bill the beer man .
Freeze your teeth, give your tongue a sleigh ride
Great video! I love learning about all these old stadiums !
The king dome is beloved when you put more context behind its existence. It was the *ONLY* large stadium in the entire pacific northwest. If there was any event that needed a stadium bigger than an NBA or Hockey stadium, the kingdome is where it happened. I'm from Portland and even to us it's rather legendary.
I was heartbroken when it was demolished.💔
I remember going to the Mariners games..I got to see Ken Griffey Jr.. Alex Rodriguez.. Randy Johnson..jay buhner.. Dan Wilson play
Been binging your videos. You gained a new subscriber. Keep up the great content!
The Kingdome was dope.
T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field are also dope.
Come on people, it's about the teams, and the game you're watching. Not the building they're playing in.
tell that to the crap infested Oakland Coliseum
The venue is actually a huge part
I didn't know Jesse Eisenberg narrated random UA-cam videos.
I’ve watched 4 of his videos & that’s who I pictured too!
Everybody thinks it looks hideous, but I think it stands out as unique and very interesting.
It looks alright.
Like a giant hamburger.
@@shytownmofo Lol it kind of does, I thought the roof looked like a clam shell while the rest looks like a hamburger.
It was called "The Concrete Cupcake."
I moved from Chicago to Seattle in 1981 and while the city was certainly a literal breath of fresh air, coming from a baseball temple like Wrigley Field to the Cruddome was very disheartening. I have been to about 45 MLB parks past and present and the Kingdome ranks either worst or 2nd or 3rd (Tropicana in St Pete and Joe Robbie, the former Marlins home are the only ones in the same league).
The claim about bad weather is the most spurious. Yes, games in April could be problematic, as they are in most northern cities, but from May through Sept. Seattle enjoys some of the best weather on the continent--summers are near perfect and the last thing that you want to do is spend it under a dome.
In addition to the poor maintenance, they made some colossal blunders like a Mariners game that was to feature post-game fireworks--yes, indoors. The place filled with smoke, people started coughing and getting to the exits was made tougher by them having turned down the lights.
I HATED when they did pyrotechnics in there lol. It did make it unbearable at times. But that's also the stadium I grew up visiting and holds a special place in my heart.
Once I watched a Monster Truck event in the Kingdome - waaaaaaay better than the baseball game I saw there
Was Truckasaurus there?
@@stumarston6812 Unfortunately, Truckasaurus was not in attendance.
The Kingdome was built cheaply and it looked it. The issues with the current stadiums in Seattle are this. The Mariners Ballpark is like watching with an umbrella. Early and late season games can be in the 40 degrees so it's chilly. With no retractible roof stadium, Seattle will never host a Super Bowl, a NCAA Basketball Final Four (with the Kingdome, they had 3) and large concerts can only be held in the Summer. Don't get me wrong, the two stadiums that Seattle has now are fabulous but the flaw of not having one of them with a retractible enclosed roof hurts all around useage.
I thought the Mariners stadium did have a retractable roof
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 No, it's a rolling roof. The sides are open to whatever the temperature is outside. Think of the roof as an umbrella. Keeps the rain off the fans and the field but it can still be 40 degrees inside and windy. It's a great stadium for Baseball Fans, so much better than the Kingdome.
The roof over the baseball field works super well. Who needs a perfectly climate-controlled arena?
Plus, football is definitely meant to be played outside. Screw these billion-dollar entertainment venue monstrosities. CenturyLink/ Lumen Field is firstly a football venue- feels very collegiate.
@@jefffinkbonner9551 The problem is Seatle will never host a Super Bowl and will never host another NCAA Basketball Final Four. These are BIG revenue generators for a City, County and State that won't happen here. I'm not crazy about sitting in a 40 to 45 degree TMobile Park Stadium watching Mariners Baseball in April. No major concert venues are able to be done between Mid October to Mid May.
I loved it the Kingdome Stadium it looks so classic I wish there will build another one that same design as the kingdome
I am from Southern California, but my family and I were vacationing in Seattle in the early 1980s and we went and saw a Mariner’s game. They were having a lousy season that year, but they did happen to win the night we were there!
My mother made the comment that the Kingdome “ had all the ambience of a parking garage.”
I’m used to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. With all due respect, The Kingdome was no Dodger Stadium.
Saw many a Mariners game there when I was stationed at Ft. Lewis in the early 80’s.
I have so many great memories from the Kingdome. Literally hundreds of them.
Do the Salt Palace in Utah. Where Stockton to Malone was born.
I think Salt Palace had a hockey team there at one time
@@danielr4640 Salt Lake Golden Eagles. After they moved to the Delta Center (now Vivint Arena) they were sold by the Miller family in 1994 and became the Detroit Vipers.
@@danlower7834 yep Golden Eagles
I always loved those old dome stadiums
I got a couple other Stadiums you can do now that this one was done. Candlestick Park, The Georgia Dome, The Metrodome, Shea Stadium, and Veterans Stadium. Thank you for doing the Kingdome finally.
Also SDCCU Stadium.
@@samdoggtheinfamous253
The Murph.
Travis Dotseth yeah that’s what SDCCU stadium was called in the beginning.
Too bad it doesn’t CONSTANTLY rain in the northwest.
It's been a pretty wet start to 2021 here in western Washington
That one game when it snowed, when the Seahawks played the Packers. How apt.
Actually from July to mid September Tucson AZ will on avg get more rain than Seattle
@Jake southwest coast would vehemently disagree
@@irongoatrocky2343 yeah but let’s talk about October thru June. And don’t forget about the 9 month of gray and 4:15 sunsets in winter
When my family moved to the Seattle area in 1982, "WTF" best described our initial impression of the Kingdome. Like there was a half-ass job in designing and building the stadium. The nearby overpasses to nowhere didn't help either.
Ah yes, the overpasses of the I-5 Spokane St/ West Seattle Bridge interchange that remained half-complete for a few years there is what you’re referring to, right?
Half-ass job also describes Seattle freeways perfectly as well.
Great video about the Kingdome
It had a lot of faults, but was majestic as well in the 70s style
Looking at it for the first time I immediately guessed it was built in the '70s lol.
I’m born and raised in Washington state. I miss the kingdome for nostalgia reasons but honestly it really was a giant rusty shit box lol
It was pretty bad that watching a game at Old Husky Stadium was an upgrade over the King Dome
Remember diamond vision, or back in the 80s when you could buy a king beer at the kingdome for five bucks. It was a whole souvenir cup full of beer! They had to stop because the games turned into one big bar brawl.
CenturyLink field makes me scratch my head. Shouldn't they have at least built a retractable roof, or do the Seattle fans consider the rain a good home-field advantage? It is obviously a very loud place.
Yeah! The cheap seats are the only ones covered.
The Seahawks wanted exposure to the elements as a home-field advantage, like the winters at Lambert Field. Also, not having a roof was an enticement to the soccer fans, whose votes were needed to get the stadium initiative passed. Grass surfaces are a non-negotiable must for soccer (too many injuries, and the ball bounces too high and fast on the fake stuff), and you need open air for grass. However, the Seahawks insisted on the then-revolutionary Field Turf for the 2002 opening, and the MLS Sounders have had to put up with the improving but still inferior-for-soccer artificial surfaces since their 2009 inaugural year.
Domb stadiums have no place in football
Football was meant to be played out in the elements. Enough of these climate-controlled entertainment venues. Century Link is a football environment. Stands are close to the field, very collegiate feel to it. It’s modern but has a certain rawness to it.
Funny enough it rarely rains during games there. There was some crazy streak of years of no rain during Seahawks games
The kingdome is not forgettable to many. I have lots of great memories going there as a child to watch the Mariners play. Anyone remember the peanut man? The guy that would throw peanuts behind is back.
I always thought it made the skyline pop .
I remember going to a mariners game at the king dome and seeing chunks of the roof falling apart.
Like all other fixed-dome-roof stadiums, it had artificial turf which was out of favor by the 90's. It was often blamed for leg injuries, true or not.
What is the song that plays from about 2:37 until the end of the video? Thank you!
I think it might be ambient extraordinaire Greg Pittz, but I could be wrong.
One thing you missed was the Kingdome hosted 3 Final Fours in 1984, 1989 and 1995.
In 1989 Michigan beat Seton Hall in the men's Final Four at the Kingdome. I wanted to go for my birthday but my parents couldn't afford the tickets so we went to the women's final four which was happening at the same time at the Tacoma Dome.
Cool video about the kingdome, I’d like to see one about memorial stadium in Baltimore.
I remember watching the King dome demolition when I was a kid
Playing Baseball in the Kingdome was like playing in a Tuna Can with a domed roof!....;althoughhave to admit it was better than Tropicana Field in Tampa!
Does anyone know what song is in the 2nd half of this video?
We enjoyed many Sounder Soccer games there. I remember watching Pele play with the NY soccer team vs the Sounders.
I loved this old place.
I miss the Kingdome. So many good memories in that place. 100's of M's games and season tickets for the Hawks. Also saw the Sonics play Chicago with Jordan and Boston with Bird. And the Monsters of Rock in 88.
I saw a game there 1981. Played the red Sox. Had a kingdome beer. Large large.
I think that the ocean's salt in the atmosphere might have caused the roof of the Kingdome too deteriorate very "slowly" as it aged! The architect's of the stadium should have realized that a concrete roof would not last a long time in a wet climate like Seattle!
You only mentioned the ceiling tiles and leaking as issues, what else made it obsolete?
Fond memories of going to many Mariners games there. I love Safeco Field though.
I'm paused at 2:04... IIRC, the Kingdome was also used for the NCAA Final Four in 1989 and 1995.
At least they got their roof repaired. The Metrodome wasn’t so lucky.
😂
The Kingdome was an engineering marvel. Trouble was, it was built on the cheap, the roof was leaky.
The roof worked. It was damaged by idiots with pressure hoses.
Loved the Kingdome! Spent many days (and nights) watching the Sounders. Saw the M's, Hawks and Sonics as well.
Haven't set foot in Safeco or Century Link, or whatever they call them now.
And never will.
Your missing out then especially if you’ve never experienced a Hawks game at Lumen Field especially in the loud atmosphere there for an outdoor stadium granted we all remember the loudness of the dome it was awesome but the stadium that replaced it is way better.
You should do something on Montreal's Olympic stadium, also known as the Big Owe to locals
I remember when the stadium opened when I was a kid and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Little did I know. :)
I have very good memories of the kingdome
The worst thing about the kingdom was the bathrooms. The lines to the women's room where awful and took forever.
I always thought the green KingDog was the worst thing about the Dome.
I remember seeing those lines when I walked to the men's room trough
You apparently never read about Schaefer Stadium's less-than-grand opening (1971).
Kingdome and the "Big Owe" in Montreal. Two of the worst stadiums.... EVER
I’d throw Tampa Bays Tropicana dome in as well. My God it’s atrocious!
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome has entered the chat.
@@patrickwhelpley1745 I was told that Tropicana got the naming rights because for most of the Rays' history, they've regularly been beaten to a pulp
@@almostfm damn thats good!!
@@almostfm RCA Dome is holding!
I saw The Rolling Stones and The Who there. It was lousy for baseball. When I moved away and went to a game at Shea Stadium I said to myself I’ll never watch another baseball game inside.
Sonics won the championship in 1979 playing in the Kingdome.
The Seattle Kingdome should have never been replaced.
Make a tacoma dome vid now lol
I enjoyed watching the Seahawks, Mariners and Sonics all in the Kingdome. Fun times!
The Kingdome also hosted the Final Four in 1984, 1989, and 1995
That’s what I was about to type! How did he miss that??
No mention of the Seattle Pilots?
They didn’t play there
No, they played at Sicks Stadium in 1969, their only year in Seattle before moving to Milwalkie and becoming the Brewers in 1970.
I saw the Packers play the Seahawks in 1996 the year the Packers won the Super Bowl and it was such a dump and the walk to moon it felt like on the outside uncovered part of the stadium was ridiculous
Grew up going to games here. It was terrible and ugly but awesome at the same time.
Since it rains as much as it does in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, building a dome stadium was a good idea when Seattle pursued professional sports franchises in the 1970s. However the Kingdome was poorly constructed and was obsolete only a few years after it was built. The current stadiums for the Mariners and Seahawks are much better constructed and more attractive to the fans. Sports fans in the Pacific Northwest can be fickle. They will support a team but that support can dry up if the team is not successful or if they lose interest.
We really do have the worst bandwagon fans in all of professional sports
TD Petersen No, we don’t. If that were true, the Mariners would have no fans left after their two decades of nothingness. And the Seahawks wouldn’t have sold out every home game (with the exception of last season) since 2003.
The idea that Seattle sports fans are nothing but bandwagoners is just bullshit made up by fans of other teams who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. It’s just part of people ripping on the City of Seattle in general, even if they’ve never been there and know practically nothing about it except that it has the Space Needle.
@@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333 I grew up in Seattle- or more accurately was forced to spend most of my childhood in America's most overrated city, then the first time I left my asshole father nagged me into moving back. I remember Seachicken home games in the early 90s being blacked out on local TV because they didn't sell out (because the team sucked) and in the last ten normal MLB seasons, from 2010 to 2019, the Marginals have been in the bottom third of attendance nine of those years. Shit-attle fans are bandwagon fans. They'll pack Safeco Field (or whatever it's called now) when they win but will have a half-empty stadium when the team sucks.
And you never were there were you? Oh, it's not forgotten. A lot of people have memories in the King County Domed Stadium, the official name.
I remember that mess of a stadium
At first I thought that the stadium wasn't actually that bad and the problem was the shoddy maintenance practices. However, it is the responsibility of the designers and engineers to properly communicate and emphasize which things can and should be done for maintenance, and which things can cause damage.
I always liked the kingdome and the astro dome in Houston
Thank you Paul Allen RIP
As soon as the dust settled I realized that ticket prices were gonna be 3 times what it was. I can no longer afford to watch a live game anymore. No more final 4's or big concerts either.
Turn it into CHAZ/CHOP 2.0--and film the "Lord of the Flies" drama that would ensue.
And have another summer of love
Spot on there!
1:41 to 1:58 and 3:46 to 3:50 I noticed a Marlboro sign, which would never be allowed at stadiums today.
I went to the last game the hawks played there against my dad's favorite team Miami dolphins in the playoffs. I was a kid
I attended many Seahawk games in the Kingdome. If you sat in your seat and watched and screamed the stadium was great. If you did ANYTHING ELSE, (food, bathroom etc) it was a fricken nightmare.
Hi Rays fan here. Are we going to act like the trop isn't a thing??? Keep your "worst" status in check!
Already a video...
The Superdome in New Orleans was made right! One of the best venues I’ve ever seen.
I agree
I hope Hurricane Ida didn’t do any damage to it
Actually, the Kingdome looks a lot like the Superdome, especially the upper deck. The Superdome was originally designed to fit a baseball field, and some games were played there; but it was even worse than the Kingdome, and MLB never even considered it for expansion.
I always liked the Kingdome. Saw Reggie Jackson hit back to back Homer's one day. Saw the Mariners/Beach Boys double header....the M's lost and the Beach Boys were terrible. My son and I went to Monster truck Jam with a George Straight concert....amazing!
I saw George Strait a few years ago at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, one of the best shows I ever went to…
The Kingdome definitely had flaws, but we are sadly seeing a trend of stadiums around the country being declared obsolete and needing billion-dollar replacements after only around 25 years. The Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers up and replacing perfectly good ballparks that opened only in the 1990s are among the biggest examples of this trend. Not to mention St Louis' domed stadium being declared obsolete tat the Rams left and moved back to Los Angeles after being in St Louis for only 20 years.
Being born & raised in Northern California & seeing Giants & A’s games in a normal outside stadium with grass field, it was weird feeling seeing baseball in a dome when I later moved to the Seattle area in the late 90s. So yeah, the Kingdom was a concrete piece of crap.
The biggest Kingdome Memory in Motorsports was Jimmie Johnson winning one of the Last Mickey Thompson Off Road Races in 1993.