RFK Stadium: First and one of the Last of its Kind…
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For the next video can you talk about the Georgia Dome? It has hosted so many events in just a short amount of time and was replaced in just 25 years.
I agree
No he should talk about that piece of shit MetLife Stadium
And took a direct hit from a tornado.
How about the Miami Arena? Housed 2 new expansion teams (Heat, Panthers). Lasted 10 years. I saw Nick Faldo & Phil Mickelson hit balls at halftime of a Heat game. Tiger was there, too. The Doral PGA tournament was there at the time. 10 years is nuts.
I strongly agree I didn’t see anything wrong with the Georgia Dome
The best thing about RFK was the relatively convenient access/central location. Tons of parking, freeway access and when the metro opened about 1976 the Stadium/Armory subway site. Because the stadium was there long before the Metro, they were able to custom build the subway station specifically for the large crowds as it was/is the largest station in the system. In addition, the station was located on the orange and blue lines - 2 of the busiest - which provided relatively quick and convenient access from the more populated portions of the suburbs. So when they build the new football stadium I hope they put it on the RFK site.
RFK Stadium witnessed so many glorious moments in Redskins history - so many legendary games, five NFC Championships, countless incredible memories! The highest scoring game in NFL history, the "seat cushion" game, and who could ever forget the 1982 NFC Championship against the dallas cowgirls, 45 thousand people chanting "We want Dallas! We want Dallas!", the entire stadium shaking and rocking and going up and down...those were the days! Hail to the Redskins!
I bet it's still in better shape than FedEx lol
Don't forget the memorable Grateful Dead shows !
Pink Floyd, The Who and the dead in 1988.
When the who were there, the whole upper level literally rocked up and down at least one foot in each direction. During Baba O'Reilly.
Lot of redskins history joe riggens everything is over anyway. So might as well tear it down.
It wasn't the whole stadium, it was just the retractable metal seats that make it a football or baseball field.
Stadiums have been a curious concept since the Roman times. For me, the perplexing thing is if you attend them for the sport you watch, you think they are the pulsing life-spirit of a community. But if you wander past in the 95% of hours when a game is not on, they are a void, bleak wasteland.
And the new stadium will be called Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium Memorial Stadium, a stadium remembering the stadium it replaced.
RFKMS Memorial Stadium for short
LMAO.. NO CHANCE!! It will be named for whatever company pays big money to put their name and logo on it
@@BBAKER22 im guessing it will be sponsored byRaytheon, Boeing or some other military industrial complex corporation.
@@j.w.4514 Or GEICO
One reason that the Expos moved to DC and became the Nationals was that RFK Stadium could be used as a temporary facility until Nationals Park was ready.
I remembered seeing RFK Stadium when visiting DC last summer. It’ll sadly be demolished next year, but it gives the opportunity for the WFT to play in DC again in 5-7 years.
I see them moving to NoVa honestly
Now it's time for Hollywood to do one final throwback film set in early 70's DC as an excuse to film inside RFK one last time! Maybe a Vince Lombardi film about his last full year of coaching when he led The Redskins to an over .500 win-loss record before his death...
I’d love to see a more in-depth look at the concrete donuts of the sixties and seventies. For all of their shortcomings, a lot of memorable moments from a rich bygone era happened in those stadiums.
There is a book called "Ballpark" by Paul Goldberger. Okay, it's baseball focused. The book starts from the 1800's up to Atlanta's Truist Park. A history of all thinks MLB baseball park.
Great fucking book, can't recommend it enough.
See "Modern Ruins" series by LaBreeceTV
You conveniently left out the fact that RFK Stadium was lifted into the air and dropped around the White House in 1973
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Would you all be so kind as to let me in on this?
There’s a scene from the movie X Men Days of Future Past (2014) that involves RFK stadium. It involves time travel and that’s why a 2014 movie shows something from 1973.
@@fc1114_ LOL! Got it! Thanks!
So many great memories there. My dad took me to the 82 NFC championship game against Dallas… incredible!! No stadium has ever had the personality that RFK has.
I was think of it like Highbury for the Arsenal Gunners. It was a small venue but for Arsenal and Washington it was a house of pain for the opponents. The Redskins lost ONE time in the playoffs at RFK and it was against the Bears in 1984. So EVERY year they played a home game in the playoffs at RFK 72,82,83,86, 87,91 they won every time. 72,82,83,87,91 they played the NFC championship at home and they made the Super Bowl. For Arsenal and Washington once they moved out those stadiums, they just were not the same. Washington has had won ONE time at Fed Ex at home since 97 which was 1999 in the wildcard game against the Lions.
Damn I never thought of it like that! I am both a native Washingtonian and a Redskin and Aresenal fan. I have been to Highbury and you are right. Perfect comparison
I was a Cowboys fans who grew up in MD, but went to many Redskins games during their heyday as my family had season tickets dating back to Griffith Stadium. RFK was the definition of a home field advantage. But once they moved to FedEx, the energy was gone. And my family's seats had gone from being pretty decent (upper deck but only 10 rows back, 25 yard line) to way up high up in the end zone. My grandfather gave them up after one season and passed away soon after. I can't even blame Snyder for it because he wasn't the owner yet.
I drive by this stadium everyday, lot of memories there. Sad to see the state it sits in today.
I read an extraordinary account of a Stones concert there in the summer of 1972. Barricades were put up in front of the stage as a security measure for the Stones. Except the barricades had actual spikes protruding outward towards the audience. When the crowd surged forward as the Stones came on, the people in the front were pushed forward by the people in back and were impaled by the spikes. There were no deaths but many injuries and bloodshed. Insane.
My proposal after demolition: Build a stadium similar to either Lucas Oil Stadium or US Bank Stadium. This way the DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia area) can host Super Bowls, concerts, and other major events like NCAA Final Four or WWE events. This should definitely bring revenue to the area and actually bring back the soon to be named Washington football organization back into the city because FedEx Field is definitely a crappy stadium
i like this idea from the economic side, but idk theres just something about playing football in an open stadium. yea sure it limits a lot you can do but if the footballs good (probably wont be) the site becomes iconic, like lambeau with the cold, patriots games with snow, miami games with heat and rain.
@@ofclown9458 . True.
Yeah DC has slightly better weather than New York so that helps
The hurdle is gonna be that there's a housing shortage in DC right now, while I wouldn't rule out a new stadium, I think the chances that DC builds a neighborhood there are also a real possibility.
@@mattbalfe2983 True. Especially when the need is affordable housing. I've seen them build up NOMA around NY Ave over the 10 or so years I've lived down here. If they do decide to tear down RFK I would not be surprised to see them build some high priced condominium buildings at the site given its proximity to the Metro (Armory station is a 5 to 10 minute walk) and DC 295.
As a DC area native, RFK was THE stadium for years. Lots of concerts. I saw U2 there in August 1992. It was the first show that had floor to ceiling media boards with multimedia. Incredible show.
I saw Pink Floyd, GnR, Metallica, the HFStival, Grateful Dead multiple times.
I saw the 92 show there, if that was the one with the trabants. Zooropa? Then I went to the Pop Mart tour in 97 or 98.
I’m from dc and this place is legendary
Hey Forgotten Places like the history have a good Christmas Break.
So many memories in RFK. My father knew John Kent Cooke. I met so many people there. I became friends with Cheif Zee. I'm crossing my fingers that they will decide to rebuild RFK and bring back the team back to D.C. That Stadium use to get really loud and the stands was bouncing. When Dallas came to RFK that stadium god rowdy inside and outside. When my father brought home those home tickets (He always get free tickets). I use to fight with my sibling all the time over the Dallas tickets, lol.
Went there several dozen times in 2005-2006-2007 when it served as the Washington Nationals' baseball stadium. Looking around at the park, I could not imagine what it must have been like for a jam-packed, sold-out Redskins game. The concourses were all narrow, the bathrooms were small, etc. On the other hand it had a huge parking lot for tailgating, which a lot of new stadiums don't have since they're built downtown.
I got to see the Nationals in ‘05 when we were visiting family. Having gone to Fulton County Stadium growing up, it was nice to experience this type of stadium one more time.
The greatest concert ever at RFK happened on July 4th, 1990 and I was there !!!! Paul McCartney was still young at just 48 years old and he put on a show for the ages.....
That was nice and to the point. Great video
that last bit about building a new stadium over top of it frustrates me, cuz everything about the WFT is corrupt as they come, whether it's the owner, how they've maintained FedEx Field despite being built in 1997! Or the team itself! But whatever, if they build a new stadium there I hope they don't spend $1+Billion on it with another retractable roof/fancy dome...
Sorry, new stadiums just bug me, even though I still support Cowboy's Stadium's construction and necessity vs Texas Stadium, I blame Jerry Jones for the increase in new stadiums costing over $1B, the difference is that Jerry's World LOOKS like it costs $1B, every other stadium looks like Money Laundering.
Plus, as much as I hate the Cowboys, Jerry paid for his instead of raiding the public purse.
Interesting video! Enjoyed it! 👍🏼
I loved getting cheap tickets in the front row of the outfield those early years the nats played here. Plus it was right off i395. Miss those days
Same. As a day one Nats fan, RFK was a fascinating trip back in time.
Got the dual experience: for 20 games a year had 8th row season tickets (still remember the "We Want Dallas!"-sequel stands shaking after Zim's homer walked off the Yankees) and other days if my friends and I felt like going we could pay 8 bucks for a seat in the outfield, then on the way home realize how fucked up the Metro could be (my friend stayed on the Blue Line while I transferedto the Yellow Line at L'Enfant - and he got to Braddock Road first).
I will never forget watching DC United and National’s games at RFK with my dad
Busch stadium was the nicest looking out of them all - gotta love those arches.
Living in DC for a while I have good memories of this stadium.....Saw both DC United and the Nationals play.....Last time I was there was back in 2018 for a Rugby match between Wales and South Africa......Good times
I really wonder how a MLS game was in this stadium especially when people looked down on the league at the time
@@DC3Johnson A lot of it was just the fact that DC United won 3 out of the first 5 MLS Cups.....They were the premier team in MLS....Sill averaging about 15,000-17,000 fans per game during it's history. DC being a being a big multicultural city helps as well. People will go see top tier soccer if the talent is there.....And with enough investment in MLS at the time.....DC was one of the top cities
@@RedBeardedLife Also, one thing that made DC United games such an overall awesome experience was the yuuuuge amount of space in Lot 8 for pre- and post-game tailgating. And that our drums really echo'd well in the corridor. Audi Field is an awesome place to watch soccer for sure, but it reminds us that a space like Lot 8 in the middle of a city is a rare luxury.
I spent a lot of great time in that stadium as my dad was a season tickets holder for the Redskins and the Senators since the 50's when Griffith stadium was in use. When they moved to D.C. stadium they let him hand pick our seats as he was the Lincoln National Life Group insurance representative for the players health plan. 2nd level, shady side, front row, 30 yard line above the owners box. Best seats in the house. I went 11 seasons without missing a single Redskins game as the only way you could see it back then was to be at the stadium as TV blacked it out for local viewing. Great memories. That stadium would rock and we could get so loud that the opposing quarterback couldn't think. We lost the Senators as people didn't want to go to the night games as the D.C. police wouldn't provide the security needed.
HFSTIVAL concerts that used to held there were awesome
In the late 90s and early 2000s, 99.1 Hfs use to hold their annual HFStival concert there. I guess it's time for it to go.
Old Yankee Stadium was opened in 1923 and it was designed for both baseball and football. That was seen in the asymmetrical outfield fences.
Multi purpose stadiums tend to work better for basketball and hockey than they did for football and baseball.
Not gonna lie. Back in the 2000s when these cookie-cutter stadiums were still being used, I found it oddly cool to see a baseball diamond in the middle of a football gridiron.
Hockey ices and basketball courts have fairly similar dimensions; baseball and football fields have very different dimensions.
Yeah, and it was like fitting a square peg into a round hole with baseball & football sharing a stadium. That along with what a crummy site it was from the top, where you felt like you were a mile away from the field, with many seats having badly obstructed views for that matter too.
Barclays Center had crappy sightlines for hockey though.
@@roguelead72 Well that arena is meant for da Nets not. Hockey
My best memories were seeing The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd there.
1988.
I didn’t realize this stadium was still around. Wow!
Oh yeah, I drive by it daily when I travel I 295, Seeing it in person you can see how it has aged especially since it's no longer in use by anyone.
I remember going to the last DC United matches here. When we jumped, the floor felt like it was going to cave in.
I saw The Joshua Tree Tour there in 1987. Still the best live show I’ve ever attended.
This place will eventually no longer be with us
Its being demolished in 2022
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@@akummooo And it will rebuilt in 2026 I think
@@harounfarissi it might be
As a Baltimorean, I’m glad one of these concrete donuts didn’t besmirch our city.
Instead we have the equivalent of concrete donuts running our baseball team
The fact that not having a football team to share a new stadium with allowed the O's to build Camden Yards may well take a few few degrees off the fires burning Robert Irsay in Hell.
Wasn't Memorial Stadium dual-use?
@@vtpanda yeah but not a cookie cutter stadium kinda similar to Cleveland or the LA rams of the time of 49rs that they used a multi purpose stadium but it wasn't a cookie cutter stadium
Sure it was a concrete donut, but how many concrete donuts or even nicer stadiums have whole parts of the building rock up and down by at least a foot. RFK had a great atmosphere as bad as everything else was about it.
Merci
You forgot to mention the Vet in Philly. The Vet is classic hard astro turf and out of control fans
Philly still has the out of control fans.
Didn't mention three rivers as well.
@@paulanderson6634 Yeah, even if the fan behavior isn't quite as violent at the Linc as it was at the Vet, but still though!
The Vet had a jail cell in it.
Plus it was in such a nice section of the city, one could walk safely from a night time event and be totally safe walking to the metro or where ever.
Lol. I know you were being sarcastic. But it actually was very safe.
I probably went there a couple hundred times. I think the two most notable events I attended were the '69 MLB ASG and the '71 NFC Championship when I saw the Redskins beat Dallas 26-3. I was also there for the final Redskins game.
Only 2 dual-use stadiums left, the Oakland Coliseum and the Rogers Centre. Both only used for baseball as their American and Canadian football teams have moved out.
Anaheim Stadium and the LA Memorial Coliseum had both sports for regular season competition as well. The Big A for baseball (though not originally constructed for football) and the Colts for the Olympics... though it has held baseball (Dodgers) and football (Rams. Raiders, Southern California)
A video about your predictions for the far future of stadiums would be cool , like 50 -100 years from now , will capacity be 1/3rd of what it is today and most seats be suites and made for TV? I disagree with this take because I think the general population will always want to attend but its a interesting theory.
I beleive theres a video somewhere on youtube called like SuperBowl 100 that talks ab this
Riverfront was a crummy park. Anybody with a sorry excuse for a camera was allowed onto the field one very, very sunny day. Dave Concepcion is a really big guy! My lasting memory looking up into the stands in somewhat claustrophobic surroundings: tremendous HEAT bouncing off the fake turf. Wow. Imagine spending hours down there, maybe playing extra innings or even double-headers in such extremely warm weather.
And the fact that so many teams are gravitating back to artificial turf of some kind should be very troubling for players unions.
LMAO...ANGER issues?
No venue that saw such great sports moments deserve to be forgotten, but certain aesthetic choices certainly do.
Never attended a sports event there. However, I did see Paul McCartney & Wings in concert.
How about a vid about Reunion Arena and/or the Sportitorium in Dallas Texas, two venues assosiated with World Class Championship Wrestling or one about the Mid South Coliseum in Memphis
Sportatorium was greatness. There's a UA-cam out there somewhere whereKevin Von Erich takes the viewer on a tour pre-demolition.
Of the cookie cutters, RFK was most unique for me. The seating a little more intimate for baseball than the others, not quite as big, and odd shape inside. Place was very loud for football
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Reminds me of the original Busch Stadium in STL.
You left out one major event held at RFK. In 1994, it was one of the venues for the men's World Cup; the first time soccer's biggest tournament had ever been held in the US.
I saw the Washington Diplomats there when I was a kid ~1980.
This is a weird request, but could you talk about Hara Arena in Dayton?
Not mentioned was that one section of seats inside RFK moves on rails when changing from football to baseball. After the second Senators baseball team left, the seats were put into football configuration and left there for like 20 + years. They even played a demo or old timers game in the football configuration.
So, when the Nationals were created, there was a lot of worry that the seats would have stuck in the Football configuration. But apparently, they were well built for apparently the seats moved around pretty easily.
But all-in-all, it was a pretty bad stadium.
While held to today’s standards, you can say it was bad, but when designed, built and used, it was great. It was sewn into the city with roads and public transportation. Was a good stadium to watch games in. Grass surface. The upper deck seats were closer than the new baseball stadium. FedEx isn’t loved that much. RFK didn’t have the suites and all (what 60s stadium did?). But for the average fan, the suites just push the cheap seats further away from the field.
I also think those seats made a lot of noise when the fans synchronously stomped on them with a great booming sound.
Huge soccer history. World Cup and other international games in addition to the NASL and MLS.
Jeez, multiple sport stadiums are the only way to go. Standards are mostly stupid, but shared good ideas are not.
I saw so many concert festivals there in the early 2000’s. The stadium it’s self was not too bad. The parking situation was the major draw back. There was always ridiculous long traffic jams getting in and out.
One of my favorite concert memories was in the summer of 1995?-94? maybe.... [edit: ya, it was 1994] a friend and I hitched rides from MA to DC to see the Grateful Dead play. We got there just in time to hear them warm up and roll into their set on the last day they would be there. The crowd was huge. We took up every part of that first black and white overhead photo at the start of the video. Bob Dylan played with them for the encore. I was only fifteen years old at the time, and had never been to such a massive event. I think the biggest event prior, was perhaps close to thirty thousand, but this one dwarfed any of those. We sat and listened to the music under the shade of that tree in the foreground, against the stadium, in the last photo of the video. Great place. Fond memories!
@@Inertia888the grateful dead also played at rfk stadium in 1973 (:
Not forgotten by me, of course, watching John Riggins take the Redskins to the Super bowl or Frank Howard hit home runs for the Senators but yeah, thanks for the update, I did not know it was scheduled for demolition in this year 2022. Not surprised and not really torn up about it it's been a long time and things change but good memories. It's an interesting piece of property to be sure on a line with the Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall, the Capitol Building and I guess part of L'Enfants original plan of DC whatever gets put there would be an interesting bookend on that side of DC. think carefully folks. You can say they got their money out of it.
I have copy of the Washington Redskins Game Day book - December 22, 1996 Redskins vs Cowboys HAIL to RFK
The Senators never moved to Dallas. The Texas Rangers have always played in Arlington, Tx.
Ackchyually
was there a statue or something related to Senator RFK in that stadium?
In order to even be able to play in it, the Redskins had to integrate, making them the last NFL team to integrate and the only time the government forced a team to do so.
We're Indians allowed in?....given the team name and all...
@@jamestepera3356 Preston Marshall was a racist, so I would assume not, viewing integration as a distraction against the Soviets, probably not realizing that they were using the nation’s race relations to their advantage propaganda-wise. Unless they looked white enough.
As someone who was never at the place, I always thought this was a pretty stadium. It is very unfairly
lumped in with and described as one of the "cookie cutter" stadiums. Those ( Riverfront, Three Rivers, Atlanta Fulton County, and actually even Shea Stadium) were truly ROUND
and had the Half moon shaped stands on the 1st and 3rd base sides which slid to a parallel position for the football gridiron. While D.C. Stadium also had the sliding seats, anyone can clearly see that when set up for baseball it had the (slightly modified) "V" shape of the surrounding seats that define a baseball park. The undulating roofline and the lights that followed it (a first for stadiums because of a D.C. sightline regulation) gave it a sleek and modern as well as a unique silhouette. Hardly cookie cutter. This stadium had the misfortune to exist while dealing with two very un-
fortunate circumstances. The baseball team that it was built to accommodate stunk for it's entire residency, so it was never able to create or be associated with any cherished memories and so was never able to acquire a fondness or "beloved" status. It was also owned and run by the District of Columbia. The Taj Mahal would be a dump if it was never maintained, and since the District is the epitome of "Government management and maintenance" it was allowed to fall into a state of seediness, disrepair and dirt. Had this stadium been taken care of like Dodger Stadium, Anaheim Stadium or Kaufman Stadium it would still be a nice place for a baseball game. Yes, it was designed before luxury boxes and many other amenities that the so-called "fans" of today need to take
their mind off the fact that they have gone to a sporting event, but those things could most likely be addressed even easier than they were at Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.
D.C. (Sorry,RFK.) Stadium will pass away shortly, but I will at least be one voice who will speak to the fact that it was a nice looking place in it's time...and could have remained so with a little bit
of care.
They just permitted its demolition a couple days ago.😢
They should go back to shared stadiums. Major adverse impact on the environment and they trash them after 25 years. For comparison, the Roman coliseum was used for 500 years.
The only two multi use stadiums I’ve been to are Anaheim Stadium, and Jack Murphy Stadium. The first is now a baseball only stadium. The second is probably demolished.
The Murph was demolished in early 2021.
@@Bruce12867 Thanks. Wasn’t sure. I really like the stadium. Went to a few Padre games and an Iowa vs BYU Holiday Bowl.
I think aloha stadium was designed to open up like a clam on its side for baseball games.
foo fighters and ll cool j mudbath on july 4th 2015 at rfk was prob the best concert i’ve ever been to
Veterans Stadium in Philly is the KING of Cookie cutters and the biggest. More metric tons of concrete were used to complete the Vet than any other similar fully enclosed multipurpose stadium ( Fulton, Busch, Riverfront, 3 Rivers). The Vet dwarfed them. Cleveland Municipal was a monster but not fully enclosed.
I loved this stadium. I was about 9 years old and went to see the Redskins play the Raiders with my grandfather. He was the biggest Redskins fan I ever met and it was my first sporting event. He passed away about two years later. Now the team doesn't play there, or even In the city, the team name doesn't exist, the owner is trash and I no longer feel the connection to the team that I once did. I went to a few Nationals and DC United games, mostly just to return to RFK.
Please do a video on Veterans Stadium!!!
I saw Dexter Manley and OJ Anderson get ejected on the first drive of the game at RFK . Took my Dad to the game . It was pretty cool .
RFK Stadium had an awesome atmosphere for football & very loud
Not to mention soccer, Dips in the NASL, DC United in MLS,. World Cup matches
my home stadium
One thing for sure , that middle deck would sway . I mean really sway , you could see it , kinda scary . Hats off to the engineers .
I felt it during a who concert. It was a foot up, and a foot down. And it went on for about ten minutes during and after baba O'Reilly. I was on the verge of getting motion sickness.
2 appearances at RFK. Hog Era football game and Dylan, Petty and the Dead concert on a sweltering day.
I think that Dead show was July 5 or 6 in 86. It was incredibly hot and they hosed down the crowd
I saw the very first Nats home game there. RIP
What about the 1971 rebuild after Magneto picked it up an moved it?
So glad the Argos didn't have to play on the dirt at Skydome.
Cool video! Only thing: where is the stadium? You never mentioned where in metro DC it is. I’ll go to Wikipedia now…
Well? BYE.
Reminds me of Veterans Stadium a bit
I’ve some how never been to this stadium I think the reason why I wasn’t into MLS I got into the MLB in 2009 when the nats were already in nats park
RFK had zero airflow on hot and humid summer days...Sitting in the nosebleeds (free for Pentagon employees) meant all the heat and funk wafted up and made it nearly unbearable after four or five innings. I was happy to see the Expos move to their current, heavily gentrified area, but at the same time, there was a bit of charm to RFK...Even if the post-game Metro was the smelliest train in the world.
Shea Stadium was was semicircular not round. There is a difference.
It was designed to be easily doughnutted, but with the Jets abandoning it for Jersey that never happened.
Um, was this a reupload? Because I remember your video.
No, ive never done a video on rfk before
Don’t forget the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (which opened in 1966) is still around and still being used by the MLB team the Oakland A’s.
“One of the last”
@@forgottenplaces9780 Just saying a shout out to it would’ve been nice since you did mention others that were built during the same time (which they no longer exist btw while the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum does and still operates). That’s all, mate.
You should do longer videos
Saw the Grateful Dead there in 1989.
It will be named Bob Barker Stadium. The game show host died so any new stadium will be named after him.
I always thought RFK looked the most like my hometown cookie cutter Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
The football team may rebuild there a new stadium in 2026.
Short, moved them to Arlington, Tx
Correct. Dallas was never involved in the Rangers.
I think it would be really cool if an NFL team or baseball team made a modern version of the cookie cutter stadium just for nostalgia purposes. Of course make the amenities and fan experience much better but some of these cookie cutter stadiums had so much character to them just from fan atmosphere. I miss the coliseum looks to stadiums.
Make a video for the silverdome and the palace….
It is time for it to go. Being somewhat local to the area, it is a complete eyesore and time has claimed the stadium. Flaking paint, it already looked abandoned.
I had a friend who was a news announcer on VOA (Voice of America) that lived and worked in DC. He absolutely LOVED RFK Stadium and would tell me tales of how the place literally shook during Redskin games he saw there.
Wow. Pretty swoopy for 1961.
Interesting, it is the last of the cookie cutter stadiums still standing. I don’t include Oakland’s stadium as cookie cutter. You couldn’t tell the difference between Riverfront, The Vet, Busch, Three Rivers.
Goodness was it loud there