San Diego Stadium demolition Some sped up video of Stadium being demolished from 09-20-20 and Hyperlapse. Music: "Shine Your Little Lite" by the Mini Vandals
Heartbreaking. I’m not a Chargers fan either. This was one of my favorite trips when my team would come to San Diego. Lots of places to visit in the area, some of the best home fans and a beautiful stadium. Lots of good memories. Watching this was truly sad.
@@xxGravyBabyxx I mean it was "Usable" like a donut is usable to drive on for a bit. The stadium has been kind of trash since the early to mid 2000s. There's a reason why the NFL refused to host another superbowl in SD after Oakland vs Tampa - remember the NFL (in the last 25 years) loves hosting the Super Bowl in warm weather environments or in domes so they can avoid the winter weather (well except for that one year in New York lol). Amenities were below average, parking was atrocious (like if you've ever been to Dodger Stadium, it's pretty much just like that. At least Dodger stadium has the excuse of it being in LA where traffic is just bad in general), and it just was a giant concrete eyesore. I'm a Chargers fan and SDSU Alumni, so I've been to this stadium about a dozen or so times. It just wasn't a good stadium. It was outclassed by university venues already (Like the only major football stadium up and down the Pacific Coast that was worse than Qualcomm would probably be the LA Coliseum, but at least there is some cool history attached to that).
@@xxGravyBabyxx It was in better shape than the Coliseum, but it needed about $100 mil worth of deferred maintenance. Usable for sure, but lots of work to make it great. It probably still could have worked for SDSU if they had just demolished the additions, restored it to its original configuration of 50K and renovated the rest of it. All of its issues were fixable. But everyone wants new and shiny so that was never going to happen.
Oh man, I loved watching the surfer bros fight the pirates in the parking lot as a kid hahaha. Not gonna lie, hated Oakland fans, but I did respect their passion. Feels like SD Charger fans and Oakland Raider fans are now a bit friendlier with both our teams taken from us. We're like the two grandpas who hated each other in their youth, but as they got older realized they actually had a lot in common and are now just both in their rocking chairs on a porch reminiscing about the past while still throwing in the occasional light hearted jab, but we just now laugh it off. Anyways, salute to you guys. At least with the Raiders moving to Vegas you can make a fun weekend trip to watch them. I love LA myself (born SD, but my whole family is from LA), but can't say I would look forward to watching a game in a practically empty stadium that has more away fans than Charger fans lol.
As a former chargers fan, I miss this so much. But also aa a former chargers fan, I wish the Raiders nothing but Good Luck anytime they play the traitors that moved to LA.
Wow, it’s crazy to see the shell of the stadium before it meets the wrecking ball. Fwiw, I loved the design of this stadium. The flags of each NFL/MLB that were hung on the top facade were a nice touch.
Being someone born in San Diego, I still never went here. It hurt to see my dad cry. I heard him say that when he would walk down the spirals, he’d always here someone shout “GO PADRES!” and then more people would shout it to. My dad is also watching it on our tv. This freaking sucks. My mom said when we go back to San Diego, it’s gonna be sad seeing it not being there. Edit : I turns out I have been there when I was 2, according to my mom.
@@otaviofrn_adv I think you're right. And with single use back in fashion, unlikely to ever happen again. LA Coliseum, Metrodome, and Joe Robbie each had both, but not in the same year.
@@agrofindastation yes. The Metrodome came really close. Hosted the 1991 World Series and Super Bowl 26 in 1992. Now it's unlikely, the cookie cutter era is gone
Watching the demolisher knock apart the elevator tower made me really sad. I always thought those elevator towers, corkscrew ramps, and the light ring made the stadium look like a parked spaceship, such a neat design.
Wow! Couldn’t stand the chargers and their “Saan Dieego Super Chargers” song! Was a raiders fan and my first game at the Murph was in 84! Good times and a shame that stadium had to be torn down. Lots of history! Hopefully the chargers return back to SD where they belong!
SOOOO many good memories there, from KGB's Sky Show for a long time, to the many many Padre games...including the very last one there... supercross events, Charger games and even events held in the parking lot. I was fortunate enough to be shown on the Diamond Vision during a Padre game making a spectacular home run catch on the run. Gonna look weird with that thing not there anymore.
The Broncos won their first super bowl there. So many great games from the Chargers to the Padres. Lot of great memories. I can still hear Dick Enberg saying oh my! 😎☉
Well, thing is, it was built in the 1970s so it was way below earthquake code and the lowest seating areas were rusting away. It is a shame, but the new stadium will be safer and have a way larger green.
Parking was always bad at that stadium. Every time you would drive down there to see the Dodgers play the Lowly padres the parking lot was full and they charge you an arm and a leg to park.
I can still picture Padres announcer Jerry Coleman saying "You can hang a star on that one!" whenever a great play was made, and dangling a large gold star from the press box.
October 13, 2002 was my first pro football game I saw, and I have to say that was “one hell of a game”. So many memories at that stadium will miss going down there to see my Raiders play! Was there for the final Raider Charger game!
So sad. I have purposely not driven past this. I don't want to cry. I moved to San Diego in 1992 and saw many games here, Padres and Chargers and a couple SDSU games. It is always sad to see a place that has brought so much joy and entertainment to people just be torn down. It is about 55 years old but it could have still been used. Oh well. RIP Murph.
Wow I didn't realized they tore this stadium down. Back in 1995 I actually got to perform in the Holiday Bowl halftime show with my high schools marching band along with the "Legends in Concert" show. Memories!!
So many great times at that stadium. My very 1st game was a 2005 pre season game vs the packers. A good friend who had 6 season tickets for years sold me 4 his seats from the 2007-2009 seasons. Got to see all the greats. We sat in section 12 rows 3 and 4 seats 1 and 2 right on the isle field level literally feet from the cheerleaders next to the west endzone. The previous year we got to witness L.T. make history breaking the single season touchdown record. We live in Imperial County and would drive 2 hours to San Diego at 6am on Sunday mornings for the games. Stadium would open up at 8am for tailgating at which time we would pop our 1st beer as we unloaded our grills and canopies. Those were some of best times of my life. Just hanging out grilling, drinking some beers, laughing with close friends and family. I swear I could go on for hours talking about the days. Though I haven't been to San Diego in a while it's still heartbreaking to see the stadium demolished. Guess what they say is true, all good things eventually have to come to an end😟 Thanks for the memories Qualcomm/Jack Murphey Stadium
It was only a nice stadium when viewed from afar. The damn thing was ancient otherwise (built in 1967) and should've been replaced at least 10 years ago.
@@joshingram071 To go to a city that already has a team and whose NFL fans don't want you? Yeah that's brilliant. The Chargers should've accepted the new stadium San Diego had on the table and was willing to partially pay for.
It was wearing out and outdated from what I've heard. The REAL waste was demolishing the Georgia Dome (for Mercedes Benz Stadium). The new stadium is nice, but there was nothing wrong with the GD that I can tell. THAT is how you waste taxpayer money.
Not only games at The Murph, when in 2003, it became a shelter for all. I attended my first Monster Jam, first SuperCross, first Padre game (the last game held in The Murph). Also, the drag race track in the parking lot. Tailgate parties. I have a question for any life time resident of San Diego, Did the high school football kids play their final games inside The Murph?
For all it's faults imma miss the Q. I remember my dad taking my cousin and I to a Pads game back in 03 and it was awesome. Farewell Murph, you were great even up to demolition day.
My heart aches....so many greats played there...Tony Gwynn, Dave Winfield, Nate Colbert.....Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, DREW, LT.......RIP Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium...and one big prayer as well for our last great coach, MARTY SCHOTTENHEINER...😢😢😢😢😇😇😇
From what I've heard , there were things like asbestos and PCB's in the Stadium. And they were worried about the dust. www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-stadium-demolition-explained/509-18add0f9-13f4-46b2-9e50-0288bbc3df87 Plus there are Giant fuel tanks holding roughly 28 million gallons of fuel just outside the parkinglot.
The first thing I thought when watching this video. Thanks for the answer. I spent many days and nights at the Vet. Was there for the first game. Phillies/Expos April 71. The Vet was a dump, but it was our dump!😀 Greetings from South Jersey!
In the Summer of 1978 my Father took us to see the MLB All Star Game, remember the Captain & Tenille singing in the center field. I went with some co-workers to see a Soccer Match between Mexico vs. Croacia in the Fall of 1993, it was a full capacity stadium. Sad, but That´s Progress.
My band "Hot House" played a gig there once for the Moores family on opening day. Big banquet room. Then free tickets on the first base line. Truly a magical day. So sad to see the Murph torn down.
Oh, that’s so sad. All the summer days I spent there. Seeing Tony Gwynn perform his magic. Listening to Jerry Coleman say, you can hang a star on that. Oh well, time keeps moving.
To the Cement Monstrosity of Mission Valley: thanks for the memories. Got to meet the late Senator John McCain and the vice chief of naval operations at the Poinsettia Bowl in 2005, saw many a Sky Show and Padres game there and I ran a 5k on the field.
And to think it's Tony Gwen's college team that's doing it makes it even worse they could have put the money into it it's where Tony played his whole career and I just think that it's a huge mistake and I miss this place so much this from a former dodger fan who loved that stadium that much it was one of a kind architecturally it wasn't cookie cutter and looked Petco's pretty but it doesn't have that special something that the mirth had and it never will
Wow I used to pass by all the time when I lived nearby. I happened to catch this on my suggestion videos and was shocked to see it demolished so quickly. Oh well, out with the old and in with the new.
If you’ve been to the stadium before, you’d know that it’s literally in the smack middle between a hotel complex and a neighborhood. I don’t think they’re allowed to make that much noise lmao
Nah that's all Spanos, he's a greedy fucking clown. Faulconer tried to work with him, even offered to help finance a new stadium at the Murph site. (along with a loan from the NFL). Spanos wouldn't even entertain the idea, it was either Downtown, or he's moving to LA. He never dealt in good faith from the beginning.
I grew up a Rams fan but did support the SD Chargers because they're in So Cal. I will never get used to them being the LA Chargers, even though that's how they started out. Like the Oakland Raiders, NY Yankees, Chicago Bulls, etc, certain team names, mascot, colors, uniforms and logos need to stay in that particular city. The San Diego Super Chargers are one of those teams. This stadium was their home, it's a crime that they're both gone from the city and fan-base that loved and supported them. so sad, sorry SD. :(
This makes me kind of sad. I had so many good times through out the years here; it's like they're destroying my memories of the good times I had there, especially as a kid - many concerts, baseball games, and The Chargers and I drive by here everyday and it has been a constant reminder to me all these good times - now there's nothing there.
Next time I visit my home city of San Diego it's gonna be weird not seeing that iconic stadium there. From Race Legal to the Big 3 swap meet it's an end of an era.
Yep it would have been nice if they would let us in one last time instead of just ripping it apart and giving the fans nothing some of us love this place it was my favorite place in the whole world
I’m a Charger fan from West Virginia and I still can’t believe they left for L.A. We already had hardly any fans and this reduced that even further. I understand the move from a business perspective but this isn’t how you treat a loyal fanbase.
The Murph is no more. As an ex san diegan, I have tons of memories back to the late 70's. Still have a bunch of old Chargers ticket stubs and Padres memorabilia. Sucks to see it go
Hyperlapse is the opposite (sped up) Hyperlapse/ timelapse Is made by moving the camera slow and taking a picture every 2 to 6 seconds.....I took most of these hyperlapse / timelapse at 2mph and 2 second intervals using the DJI mavic air 2 drone..... It takes an average of 1 min. to take 1 sec. of video.
saddening; such a cool stadium with lots of history. i went there for international football ⚽️ matches in the late 90s when i was a child. san diego folks should’ve pushed so it could have been remodelled and not demolished.
Parts of it will be college campus with retail and business centres. Also I think a 30 thousand seat stadium is being built with the option to extend if a NFL franchise decides to move to San Diego again.
Even though I don’t live in San Diego, I’ve had so many great life events inside of this stadium. Obviously, it needed to go, but there’s a small part of me that is really bummed out. I will always feel this way about Seau’s former restaurant also. Life goes on, but a part of me is a little bit gone as well. Sad day when the Spanos family dicked over the city like they did. One final cheers for “The Murph”.
That’s correct. SDSU just got their own stadium built last season I believe. I could be wrong, but their campus stadium is much safer than this and nicer.
Heartbreaking. I’m not a Chargers fan either. This was one of my favorite trips when my team would come to San Diego. Lots of places to visit in the area, some of the best home fans and a beautiful stadium. Lots of good memories. Watching this was truly sad.
It was obsolete, not to mention it was built with now illegal materials.
So Fi Stadium is a massive improvement.
Same with Petco Park
@@RYMAN1321 SoFi? That's in LA. You're thinking of snapdragon.
I was a kid growing up in S.D. when that stadium was built. I never thought someday it would be torn down
Was it still a usable stadium? The stadium looks like it wasn't in bad shape like Oakland Coliseum.
@@xxGravyBabyxx I mean it was "Usable" like a donut is usable to drive on for a bit. The stadium has been kind of trash since the early to mid 2000s. There's a reason why the NFL refused to host another superbowl in SD after Oakland vs Tampa - remember the NFL (in the last 25 years) loves hosting the Super Bowl in warm weather environments or in domes so they can avoid the winter weather (well except for that one year in New York lol).
Amenities were below average, parking was atrocious (like if you've ever been to Dodger Stadium, it's pretty much just like that. At least Dodger stadium has the excuse of it being in LA where traffic is just bad in general), and it just was a giant concrete eyesore.
I'm a Chargers fan and SDSU Alumni, so I've been to this stadium about a dozen or so times. It just wasn't a good stadium. It was outclassed by university venues already (Like the only major football stadium up and down the Pacific Coast that was worse than Qualcomm would probably be the LA Coliseum, but at least there is some cool history attached to that).
@Rayan Grayson Yup, have been watching on instaflixxer for years myself :D
@@xxGravyBabyxx It was in better shape than the Coliseum, but it needed about $100 mil worth of deferred maintenance. Usable for sure, but lots of work to make it great. It probably still could have worked for SDSU if they had just demolished the additions, restored it to its original configuration of 50K and renovated the rest of it. All of its issues were fixable. But everyone wants new and shiny so that was never going to happen.
Neither did I
As a Raiders fan, I miss watching my team play the Chargers there. The rivalry isn't the same without the two teams playing there once a year.
Oh man, I loved watching the surfer bros fight the pirates in the parking lot as a kid hahaha.
Not gonna lie, hated Oakland fans, but I did respect their passion.
Feels like SD Charger fans and Oakland Raider fans are now a bit friendlier with both our teams taken from us. We're like the two grandpas who hated each other in their youth, but as they got older realized they actually had a lot in common and are now just both in their rocking chairs on a porch reminiscing about the past while still throwing in the occasional light hearted jab, but we just now laugh it off.
Anyways, salute to you guys. At least with the Raiders moving to Vegas you can make a fun weekend trip to watch them. I love LA myself (born SD, but my whole family is from LA), but can't say I would look forward to watching a game in a practically empty stadium that has more away fans than Charger fans lol.
As a former chargers fan, I miss this so much. But also aa a former chargers fan, I wish the Raiders nothing but Good Luck anytime they play the traitors that moved to LA.
Wow, it’s crazy to see the shell of the stadium before it meets the wrecking ball.
Fwiw, I loved the design of this stadium. The flags of each NFL/MLB that were hung on the top facade were a nice touch.
The flags were really cool, beautiful stadium sad to see it go.
Ikr, so sad
I like this video because it has dates. I drove past it on Feb 1st and I was stunned to see that it’s almost gone!😱😭
Being someone born in San Diego, I still never went here. It hurt to see my dad cry. I heard him say that when he would walk down the spirals, he’d always here someone shout “GO PADRES!” and then more people would shout it to. My dad is also watching it on our tv. This freaking sucks. My mom said when we go back to San Diego, it’s gonna be sad seeing it not being there.
Edit : I turns out I have been there when I was 2, according to my mom.
So much history there
Holiday bowl for 50 years
2 super bowls
A world series
Chargers games
Three Super Bowls
Two World Series
@@otaviofrn_adv including the first time a super bowl and world series were in the same stadium in the same year (98)
@@agrofindastation precisely. And I think that's the only time
@@otaviofrn_adv I think you're right. And with single use back in fashion, unlikely to ever happen again.
LA Coliseum, Metrodome, and Joe Robbie each had both, but not in the same year.
@@agrofindastation yes. The Metrodome came really close. Hosted the 1991 World Series and Super Bowl 26 in 1992. Now it's unlikely, the cookie cutter era is gone
Watching the demolisher knock apart the elevator tower made me really sad. I always thought those elevator towers, corkscrew ramps, and the light ring made the stadium look like a parked spaceship, such a neat design.
That stadium is so big, it's crazy chargers fans can't even fill up the LA galaxy stadium now.
Just wait till the visiting fans take up 70-80% of the stadium 🤣🤣🤣
It's because all of the Chargers fans are still in San Diego. And they don't wanna go to L.A. to watch their team. lol.
Wow! Couldn’t stand the chargers and their “Saan Dieego Super Chargers” song! Was a raiders fan and my first game at the Murph was in 84! Good times and a shame that stadium had to be torn down. Lots of history! Hopefully the chargers return back to SD where they belong!
That not qualcomm stadium
@@Barbariandisks im pretty sure it was
San Diego Stadium (1967-1980), Jack Murphy Stadium (1981-1997), Qualcomm Stadium (1997-2017),
SDCCU Stadium (2017-2020). It's all the same.
True Chargers fan will always call it Jack Murphy Stadium.
@@BaffinSailor yup. Jack Murphy Stadium. Farewell.
Kinda sucks to see it go.
Mostly in the way it happened. For what Aztec Stadium will bring to SDSU, it's not NFL.
Maybe, but it was wearing out and was outdated in many ways. A lot of these 1960s and 70s built pro stadiums did NOT age well.
SOOOO many good memories there, from KGB's Sky Show for a long time, to the many many Padre games...including the very last one there... supercross events, Charger games and even events held in the parking lot. I was fortunate enough to be shown on the Diamond Vision during a Padre game making a spectacular home run catch on the run. Gonna look weird with that thing not there anymore.
The Broncos won their first super bowl there. So many great games from the Chargers to the Padres. Lot of great memories. I can still hear Dick Enberg saying oh my! 😎☉
Who did the Broncos beat?I remember when they lost to Washington.
@@michaelcedillos5061 Packers in Super Bowl XXXII.
This stadium had history a shame they tore it down. Glad I caught the final Raiders v Chargers game in this bad boy surreal energy.
Well, thing is, it was built in the 1970s so it was way below earthquake code and the lowest seating areas were rusting away. It is a shame, but the new stadium will be safer and have a way larger green.
Parking was always bad at that stadium. Every time you would drive down there to see the Dodgers play the Lowly padres the parking lot was full and they charge you an arm and a leg to park.
My respect for the person flying the drone for that much days 📈📈📈📈📈
And my respect to you and all who watch this video
I can still picture Padres announcer Jerry Coleman saying "You can hang a star on that one!" whenever a great play was made, and dangling a large gold star from the press box.
The Murph is a beautiful building, I love brutalist architecture.
October 13, 2002 was my first pro football game I saw, and I have to say that was “one hell of a game”. So many memories at that stadium will miss going down there to see my Raiders play! Was there for the final Raider Charger game!
So sad. I have purposely not driven past this. I don't want to cry. I moved to San Diego in 1992 and saw many games here, Padres and Chargers and a couple SDSU games. It is always sad to see a place that has brought so much joy and entertainment to people just be torn down. It is about 55 years old but it could have still been used. Oh well. RIP Murph.
Wow I didn't realized they tore this stadium down. Back in 1995 I actually got to perform in the Holiday Bowl halftime show with my high schools marching band along with the "Legends in Concert" show. Memories!!
I was there to watch a game between the chargers and dolphins in 2009. WOW!!!
Thank you for documenting this. Lots of memories from The Murph. Sad to see it go.
Glad you enjoyed it
So many great times at that stadium. My very 1st game was a 2005 pre season game vs the packers. A good friend who had 6 season tickets for years sold me 4 his seats from the 2007-2009 seasons. Got to see all the greats. We sat in section 12 rows 3 and 4 seats 1 and 2 right on the isle field level literally feet from the cheerleaders next to the west endzone. The previous year we got to witness L.T. make history breaking the single season touchdown record. We live in Imperial County and would drive 2 hours to San Diego at 6am on Sunday mornings for the games. Stadium would open up at 8am for tailgating at which time we would pop our 1st beer as we unloaded our grills and canopies. Those were some of best times of my life. Just hanging out grilling, drinking some beers, laughing with close friends and family. I swear I could go on for hours talking about the days. Though I haven't been to San Diego in a while it's still heartbreaking to see the stadium demolished. Guess what they say is true, all good things eventually have to come to an end😟
Thanks for the memories Qualcomm/Jack Murphey Stadium
Well put awesome times 2004 to 2009
Not a chargers fan, or live anywhere near San Diego. But this is SAD! 😔
San Diego has always been a dead city, definitely not for sports venues.
A lot of heartbreak happened in that stadium for the Chargers.
So many great memories there ..sad to see it go
This seems like such a waste, it’s still a nice stadium
No need for it after the Chargers left & you see the big stadium their in now w Sofi Stadium it was the right choice
It was only a nice stadium when viewed from afar. The damn thing was ancient otherwise (built in 1967) and should've been replaced at least 10 years ago.
That stadium was one of the worst NFL standards, only the dump in Oakland was worse , both needed demolishing
@@joshingram071 To go to a city that already has a team and whose NFL fans don't want you? Yeah that's brilliant. The Chargers should've accepted the new stadium San Diego had on the table and was willing to partially pay for.
It was wearing out and outdated from what I've heard. The REAL waste was demolishing the Georgia Dome (for Mercedes Benz Stadium). The new stadium is nice, but there was nothing wrong with the GD that I can tell. THAT is how you waste taxpayer money.
After all these years 3 Super Bowls being played in San Diego 22, 32 & 37. 2 World Series appearances after all these years later it's all gone.
Goodbye Venue! This arena will be very sadly missed! it's a very sad day in San Diego! R.I.P. San Diego Stadium!
What? That stadium sucked big time.
@@robertgardner7470 that's why your ex chagers left for l.a.! how did that stadium feel inside? they must have built it wrong!
Not an arena. /
Not only games at The Murph, when in 2003, it became a shelter for all. I attended my first Monster Jam, first SuperCross, first Padre game (the last game held in The Murph). Also, the drag race track in the parking lot. Tailgate parties.
I have a question for any life time resident of San Diego, Did the high school football kids play their final games inside The Murph?
My first NFL game was here 🙌 sad to see it gone!
Dang so sad to see the RAIDERS away stadium being torn down😄😄😄
Home stadium
Many battles hard fought in the Murphy...good times
Go Bolts
I didn’t knew that the stadium 🏟 was demolished I haven’t been to SD for a while have good memories of that stadium
For all it's faults imma miss the Q. I remember my dad taking my cousin and I to a Pads game back in 03 and it was awesome. Farewell Murph, you were great even up to demolition day.
My heart aches....so many greats played there...Tony Gwynn, Dave Winfield, Nate Colbert.....Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, DREW, LT.......RIP Jack Murphy/Qualcomm Stadium...and one big prayer as well for our last great coach, MARTY SCHOTTENHEINER...😢😢😢😢😇😇😇
:-(
Junior Seau, LaDainian Tomlinson, Kellen Winslow, Lance Alworth.....sad
Sooooo many wonderful memories around that stadium . So very sad it's gone.
@alawsonsd, Why didn't they do an implosion (i.e. Veteran's Stadium in Phila.)?
From what I've heard , there were things like asbestos and PCB's in the Stadium.
And they were worried about the dust.
www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-stadium-demolition-explained/509-18add0f9-13f4-46b2-9e50-0288bbc3df87
Plus there are Giant fuel tanks holding roughly 28 million gallons of fuel just outside the parkinglot.
@@LiftOff_Media Understood. The Vet was pretty much an "All Concrete" edifice, not unlike Three Rivers Stadium, Busch, etc. The "Bowl" Stadium era. ⛲
The first thing I thought when watching this video. Thanks for the answer. I spent many days and nights at the Vet. Was there for the first game. Phillies/Expos April 71. The Vet was a dump, but it was our dump!😀
Greetings from South Jersey!
In the Summer of 1978 my Father took us to see the MLB All Star Game, remember the Captain & Tenille singing in the center field. I went with some co-workers to see a Soccer Match between Mexico vs. Croacia in the Fall of 1993, it was a full capacity stadium. Sad, but That´s Progress.
This stadium was best known for hosting:
Super Bowl XXII
Super Bowl XXXII
And the Pirate Bowl, Super Bowl XXXVII
R.I.P. Qualcomm Stadium
1967-2020
My band "Hot House" played a gig there once for the Moores family on opening day. Big banquet room. Then free tickets on the first base line. Truly a magical day. So sad to see the Murph torn down.
Oh, that’s so sad. All the summer days I spent there. Seeing Tony Gwynn perform his magic. Listening to Jerry Coleman say, you can hang a star on that. Oh well, time keeps moving.
To the Cement Monstrosity of Mission Valley: thanks for the memories. Got to meet the late Senator John McCain and the vice chief of naval operations at the Poinsettia Bowl in 2005, saw many a Sky Show and Padres game there and I ran a 5k on the field.
Bears fan here. I feel bad for SD Chargers fans who attended many games and seeing their stadium demolished :(
They knocked down "The Murph?"
What a bunch of scumbags.
And to think it's Tony Gwen's college team that's doing it makes it even worse they could have put the money into it it's where Tony played his whole career and I just think that it's a huge mistake and I miss this place so much this from a former dodger fan who loved that stadium that much it was one of a kind architecturally it wasn't cookie cutter and looked Petco's pretty but it doesn't have that special something that the mirth had and it never will
Man San Diego fumbled this one. Perfect location.
How much money in water was used just to control the dust? And there's a drought ? 👀😱
Probably reclaimed water, not drinking water ya foole.
Wow I used to pass by all the time when I lived nearby. I happened to catch this on my suggestion videos and was shocked to see it demolished so quickly. Oh well, out with the old and in with the new.
Ann Marie 2006 , one of my favorite Sunday’s of all times
That stadium looked amazing.
They should’ve blown it up with dynamite. It’s more exciting to witness.
If you’ve been to the stadium before, you’d know that it’s literally in the smack middle between a hotel complex and a neighborhood. I don’t think they’re allowed to make that much noise lmao
@@liavbar9218 they blew up the RCA dome with explosives and it was right next to other buildings. Watch the series called blowdown
Agreed
This place had a lot of memories for me
What are they building there behind the old stadium?
Thanks to the mayor, the Chargers are gone and there will be no more Super Bowl in San Diego.
Meh I don't miss them all that much.
Nah that's all Spanos, he's a greedy fucking clown. Faulconer tried to work with him, even offered to help finance a new stadium at the Murph site. (along with a loan from the NFL). Spanos wouldn't even entertain the idea, it was either Downtown, or he's moving to LA. He never dealt in good faith from the beginning.
@@TheThunderbird63 Truth, Spanos never wanted to stay in SD.
Gotta that the people of SD for not stepping up too. Now our team is gone forever. Smart! 👻🇺🇸
@@adammiller6606 Spanos didn't care about us, why should we care about him?
Sad to see it go! Many band competitions here!!
As far as I'm concerned, they should tear down all 32 of these stadiums and replace them with affordable homes for the financially challenged.
No lol😂😂😂
Saw my first D1 college football game there. UCLA vs SD State.
Does anyone know what's being built on that property?
Goodbye stadium of the Aztecs
Great drone work!
Thank you for watching!
I grew up a Rams fan but did support the SD Chargers because they're in So Cal. I will never get used to them being the LA Chargers, even though that's how they started out. Like the Oakland Raiders, NY Yankees, Chicago Bulls, etc, certain team names, mascot, colors, uniforms and logos need to stay in that particular city. The San Diego Super Chargers are one of those teams. This stadium was their home, it's a crime that they're both gone from the city and fan-base that loved and supported them. so sad, sorry SD. :(
This makes me kind of sad. I had so many good times through out the years here; it's like they're destroying my memories of the good times I had there, especially as a kid - many concerts, baseball games, and The Chargers and I drive by here everyday and it has been a constant reminder to me all these good times - now there's nothing there.
Me too. Heartbroken
great video.
i thought they would do one of those vegas implosions like they did with texas stadium.
Next time I visit my home city of San Diego it's gonna be weird not seeing that iconic stadium there. From Race Legal to the Big 3 swap meet it's an end of an era.
My Bucs won their first super bowl in that stadium so sad to see it go 🥺🥺😭😭
This is the End.
My Beautiful Friend.
This is the End.
I'll never sit into your seats again....
Yep it would have been nice if they would let us in one last time instead of just ripping it apart and giving the fans nothing some of us love this place it was my favorite place in the whole world
I went to The Murph to see a Dodgers vs. Padres game in 1984 with my dad.
From SoCal that will always be The Murph. Damn shame it had to go.
The Murph is gone⁉️i saw the ROLLING STONES VOODOO LOUNGE TOUR & a 🏈RAIDERS @ CHARGERS⚡️ game there back in da day.😔
What do they plan on doing with the space now?
Lots of memories at the "Murph".
Just went to take a look at the "Snap". Gonna be nice.
GO AZTECS!😝
I’m a Charger fan from West Virginia and I still can’t believe they left for L.A. We already had hardly any fans and this reduced that even further. I understand the move from a business perspective but this isn’t how you treat a loyal fanbase.
So sad so much history disappearing many memories there as well as many other venues that are gone forever.
So are gonna built something else? Or just built condos like everywhere else?
Weird but the music you're playing at the start of this is what they used to introduce the Padres to.
Soo many memories in that stadium... Asamblea Internacional 2010
The Murph is no more. As an ex san diegan, I have tons of memories back to the late 70's. Still have a bunch of old Chargers ticket stubs and Padres memorabilia. Sucks to see it go
No Transformers were hurt in this video
Qualcomm was destroyed?
RIP - The Murph
Imagine being an artist and performing in stadiums like that
Imagine having enough money u can do shit like this.
....white......supremacy
"Clubbed to Death" by Rob Dougan. Seems fitting.
Does hyperlapse mean slow motion
Hyperlapse is the opposite (sped up) Hyperlapse/ timelapse Is made by moving the camera slow and taking a picture every 2 to 6 seconds.....I took most of these hyperlapse / timelapse at 2mph and 2 second intervals using the DJI mavic air 2 drone..... It takes an average of 1 min. to take 1 sec. of video.
What was wrong with it? Could they have not just left it there?
End of an Era
That's where the Doug Williams led WFT won Super Bowl 22. 5 touchdowns in only 14 plays in the 2nd qtr!!!
saddening; such a cool stadium with lots of history. i went there for international football ⚽️ matches in the late 90s when i was a child. san diego folks should’ve pushed so it could have been remodelled and not demolished.
the first section they tore down was the last one I sat in for the Holiday Bowl :(
Me and my wife had many great times going to games there. Sad to see it go.
why did it have to be torn down
Simple, perfect,uniformly distributed, universal...
Hope upcoming 1 with better features...
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thank-you for making.
My great memory is the Buccaneers winning their first SUPER BOWL in this stadium. It was almost all the down when they won their second. GO BUCS!
And what are they going to build there instead?
They are building Aztec Stadium
ua-cam.com/video/AIYY50mVMVk/v-deo.html
Should be completed by September 3, 2022
WWW.aztecstadium.com
Does anyone know what will happen to the land after demolition?
Parts of it will be college campus with retail and business centres. Also I think a 30 thousand seat stadium is being built with the option to extend if a NFL franchise decides to move to San Diego again.
Even though I don’t live in San Diego, I’ve had so many great life events inside of this stadium. Obviously, it needed to go, but there’s a small part of me that is really bummed out. I will always feel this way about Seau’s former restaurant also. Life goes on, but a part of me is a little bit gone as well. Sad day when the Spanos family dicked over the city like they did. One final cheers for “The Murph”.
Why didn't they use dynamite?
So it looks like SDSU Aztecs will play their home football games at their on-campus stadium. Am I correct?
That’s correct. SDSU just got their own stadium built last season I believe. I could be wrong, but their campus stadium is much safer than this and nicer.
What is the song in the first 50 seconds
"Shine Your Little Lite" by the (mini Vandals) found it on UA-cam's free audio library.
why didn't they implode it??
Why
Too many concerts and Chargers games.
I hope they build a good stadium for football here.
I believe my last concer there was GunsNRoses , all stadium smelled like a huge dispensary.
Even Axl said that everyone was getting medicated