"...obscure events like tennis, *soccer* "

@danimalman3

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 I know what he means but that's hilarious out of context.

@AlexSilver9

Жыл бұрын

Never heard of these events, they entertaining? 🤣

@Qwnntm

Жыл бұрын

As a MLB / NFL fan, I'd like to know: what are these events? They sound interesting

@lewatoaofair2522

Жыл бұрын

Only in America.

@tajr7153

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

The LA coliseum hosting NASCAR gotta be one of my favourite ones

@mityace

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm surprised DG missed that. It's a temporary track laid down each of the last two years. Some of the idea came from the legendary Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, NC. However, Bowman Gray has a permanent, paved 1/4 mile track around the football field where running tracks are at many high school stadiums.

@meadster308

Жыл бұрын

On the flip side, a college football game was hosted at Bristol Speedway.

@filipek6401

Жыл бұрын

And the Stadium Super Trucks in 2013. That track was really cool.

@firelynx1108

Жыл бұрын

not to mention Hard Rock Stadium being the paddock area for an F1 race

The NY Football Giants played at Yankee Stadium for almost 20 years. Also hosted boxing and wrestling. Definition of multi use.

@meadster308

Жыл бұрын

Ken Norton best Muhammad Ali at Yankee Stadium.

@robbarbieri8676

Жыл бұрын

@@meadster308 No, Norton lost a split decision, obviously very controversial. They showed the fight on one of the networks a few days later with a bunch of sportswriters watching. As I recall, they were pretty much split as to who won. I thought Norton clearly took the last round which would have made him champ. Norton did win the first fight against Ali (a non-title fight, Foreman had the belt) in San Diego, I believe.

@jbj7599

Жыл бұрын

​@meadster308 nope that was in California

@jbj7599

Жыл бұрын

​@@robbarbieri86762nd was in Inglewood

@giovannipieve5603

11 ай бұрын

but it wasn't built as a multipurpose. It was built for baseball and everything else is shoehorned in. Multipurpose is designed to accommodate multiple sports comfortably

Bristol Motor Speedway turned in to a football stadium. College football. Something like 150,000 showed up.

The Lightning used to sell out the Trop during regular season. The fanbase was incredible.

Surprised you didn’t include any winter classics Anyways, great video as always. Love your content man

The Bears played in Wrigley until sometime in the 70s.

At Wrigley, there wasn't enough room by NCAA standards to use the end zone with the outfield wall, so every time possession changed, they flipped the field and scored all the touchdowns in the same direction. A fine example of poor pre-game planning.

@meadster308

Жыл бұрын

Which is weird because the Chicago Bears played at Wrigley for a number of years.

@ymcairedellbball

Жыл бұрын

@@meadster308 the rules were different back then. Player safety wasn't nearly as big of a concern. Think leather helmets and very little padding.

@TimmyTickle

Жыл бұрын

IIRC, one defensive TD was scored in the outfield endzone

@timelymirror7826

Жыл бұрын

is that true

@ymcairedellbball

Жыл бұрын

@@timelymirror7826 yes

You should do a video on the RCA Dome aka "Hoosier Dome" !

In 1991, the Kings and Rangers played an outdoor game in an impromptu arena behind Caesar's Palace. The Kings won, and Tie Domi tripped on a grasshopper.

Great Video DG! If you do a part two to this, make sure to add AT&T (Oracle) Park hosting the 2018 Rugby Sevens World Cup. It has held during the 2018 MLB season and the San Francisco Giants players said that the fieldwasn't the same afterwards. And don't forget about the L.A> Coliseum hosting a pre-season NASCAR Cup Series dirt race.

You missed the Raptors first few seasons where they were playing at Skydome/Rogers Centre (home of the Blue Jays) while Air Canada Centre (now Scotiabank Arena) was being built

@BusMaxx

Жыл бұрын

I think the real question is what hasn’t been held at skydome. Argos and the Bills, cricket test matches, then that weird track event with Donovan Bailey ….

Awesome video. Thanks for the content and research. Oracle Park in SF hosted Cal Football games during renovations at Cals football stadium. It has also hosted soccer games there.

@meadster308

Жыл бұрын

Oracle used to host a college bowl game a number of years ago.

@SFTrafficObserver

Жыл бұрын

XFL - San Francisco Demons in 2001

Great video bro! You should do a on Turner Field turning into a college football stadium for Georgia State

Can do a ton of these. Just off the top of my head, ski jumping at Fenway and Dodgers Stadium, Red Bull Crashed Ice at Fenway, baseball at the LA Colosseum, I think I remember an NBA game at Indian Wells, the Raptors played several seasons at SkyDome, football and Irish hurling at Fenway, NHL on a golf course in Lake Tahoe...

@gregsells8549

Жыл бұрын

Going further back, ski jumping at Soldier Field and the LA Coliseum, bullfighting at the Astrodome along with rodeo (which is now at NRG Stadium), an ice show at the LA Coliseum, and a Mardi Gras parade in the Superdome. A couple of stadiums in Australia hosted parades during COVID: the LGBTQ Mardi Gras at the Sydney Cricket Ground and a Christmas pageant at the Adelaide Oval. There's also a Christmas parade at the McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in Texas. The Buccaneer Days parade in Corpus Christi formerly started at the city's Buccaneer Stadium, and during COVID took place in the American Bank Center arena.

@fennrysha

Жыл бұрын

@@gregsells8549 definitely a lot of fodder for more of these types of videos!

The OG Yankee Stadium should count as a multi-purpose because its RF bleachers were designed to be angled properly to face a football field and its CF and LF we positioned deep enough to accommodate football. Obviously, it wasn't an ideal football venue, but just as the Superdome was a multipurpose facility that was truly only meant for one sport, so was the 1923 Yankee. If you look at early overhead photos of the 1923 Yankee looking in from past LF, it is obvious it was built for two sports.

@markd2344

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The third base stands when it first opened always seemed to me to be configured to handle football. When it opened 1923, Yankee Stadium’s capacity far exceeded that of almost all college football stadiums, so there were plenty of “good” seats to go around.

@cypher515

Жыл бұрын

That's a bit interesting. You could say that of the Polo Grounds, too, couldn't you? And at least one cookie cutter I'd say was a lot more adequate for one sport than another, because I think Shea feels like it was _abysmal_ for football.

@markd2344

Жыл бұрын

@@cypher515 The Polo Grounds' layout was due to the parcel size. There were 2 parcels in Coogan's Hollow. The Giants had built one on the south parcel, which they leased. A team from the short lived Player's League built another park on the north parcel. The Player's League quickly folded and the Giants took over the new stadium and the lease. However, they didn't maintain a lease on the south parcel. As they rebuilt and expanded the ballpark, they were hemmed in by the shape of the parcel. That the Polo Grounds was configured so well for football was more of coincidence than anything else. The wikipedia article on the Polo Grounds is surprisingly accurate.

We're getting the Winter Classic on January 2024 at T-Mobile Park. They also hosted a Wrestlemania back in 2003, and had a Bowl Game in 2001.

Chase field hosting the Royal Rumble was an interesting configuration I got to see in person. Also was at that ASU/WV game there

Another weird thing that Miller Park (yeah I still don’t like the name change) hosted was a bowling tournament

I laughed when you guessed the Lightning played a playoff game in Tropicana Field. They were terrible their first few years; that packed stadium was definitely one of their first games.

In 2018, the current Yankee Stadium hosted college football regular season game between Notre Dame and Syracuse. In fact, Notre Dame wore unis that look similar to the Yankees unis. In 2010, Notre Dame played Army at the current Yankee Stadium as well.

@reverend_wintondupree

Жыл бұрын

Rutgers and Army have also played and hosted seperate regular season games at the current Yankee. It has also hosted FCS games (Lehigh/Lafayette, Fordham/Holy Cross) and even DIII Ithaca/Cortland.

Love the videos. Busch Stadium hosted more than just baseball for years. St. Louis Cardinals (MLB) (1966-2005) St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) (1966-1987) St. Louis Stars (NPSL / NASL) (1967-1974) St. Louis Rams (NFL) (1995)

I remembered in the original xfl when san francisco had a team and they played their home games at pac bell park (long before it became oracle). And all the nhl winter classic games in football and baseball stadiums.

Love your content

the red bull crashed ice event they did at fenway a few years ago was pretty interesting. They set up massive ice jumps that people did on ice skates, I didn't even know such a thing existed at the time.

Shoutout to Fenway Park, host to football, hockey, soccer, boxing, even ski jumping in addition to baseball

@user-bb3yv8dy7q

Ай бұрын

My dad saw a Football Game at Fenway during WWII.

Pac Bell (or whatever it's called now - where the SF Giants play) hosted the XFL Demons (in 2000? or 2001?). That was an interesting setup with temp stands in LF. But it seemed to workout pretty well. IIRC, the first few games were well-attended.

@SFTrafficObserver

Жыл бұрын

A few Bowl Games before going to Levi's Stadium

Osaka Stadium in Osaka,Japan once had an ice skate rink. They also hosted a model house exposition. Lots of houses were built in the field during the off season.

they had a Rugby Sevens World cup at the SF Giants stadium before. Sevens rugby is . 7 on 7, instead of the traditional 15 and the matches are about 20 minutes in length (inc halftime, stoppages, etc) so they crammed the entire tournament there in one weekend.

@rwboa22

Жыл бұрын

Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania (where the MLS Philadelphia Union play their home matches) has hosted the Rugby Sevens Championships as well as the "Battle of the Blues" football games (being Villanova University v. the University of Delaware; both being NCAA Division I-AA) so the pitch (being of standard FIFA dimensions) can easily accommodate both rugby and American Football.

Churchill Downs (KY derby) hosted a louisville basketball game. Last year our AAA stadium hosted an outdoor louisville basketball game too

Cool shot of the Polo Grounds 9:37 My childhood stadium going there from 1962 - 1963 to watch the Mets play there. I wonder it this was a New York Titans game being played there of the old American Football League

Great video! I sat in the third deck of the old Pontiac Silverdome on the Detroit Pistons 'Punk Rock Night' in the 1980's. You got the n for five bucks if you wore a black leather jacket. Seriously. Hilariously far from the action, but one helluva party.

There was no curtain in the Superdome when it hosted baseball. Other than a small handful of MLB exhibitions and I think one season of Pelicans minor league baseball, the most baseball it hosted was the annual Winn Dixie Showdown which had LSU, Tulane, and UNO facing 3 schools from another state.

You totally missed the world snowboard championships this year at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. They built a massive ramp from the top of the stadium down to field level and it looked terrifying!!!

@geneseofootball1915

2 ай бұрын

Where did he say that EVERY stadium is in the video? 🙄

The Alamodome was large enough to host Canadian Football League games and it did for one year. And don't forget the NHL Winter Classics. Outdoor hockey around New Year's Day.

Anthony Bass is under some hot water for supporting the Target boycotts would love to hear your take on it

Miller Park also hosted a bowling tournament! Can't forget Supercross at Big Arenas! Part 2 is needed

Fenways had some weird ones over the last few years. Liverpool played Sevilla a few years back as well as the bowl games like Yankee Stadium does ex. Wasabi Bowl. And they’ve also had a snowboarding arena setup for public use in the winter sponsored by Red Bull

You missed when they did "Big Air" snowboarding at SunTrust Park in Atlanta. I think they did it at Fenway, too. Kennesaw State played a football game at SunTrust, too.

The most interesting example I think actually happened in Croatia. They used Pula Arena, which is a Roman colosseum for two random hockey games. I don’t even know how they managed to play hockey there since Pula is a really warm place.

8:34 if memory serves, the baseball convertibility was a requirement for the Vikings to get public funding for the ballpark. City makes money hand over fist renting to high schools and colleges for early season games.

Hopefully there's some photos out there, but at one point Daytona Intl. Speedway hosted football games and currently have a soccer event that goes on every march.

Miller Park and AT&T Stadium also hosted men and women's professional bowling.

Notre dame played they’re shamrock series game at Yankee stadium a couple years ago. They wore baseball styled football uniforms

Yo I actually remember going to the snow days in progressive field, I kind of wish they brought it back

6:16 That WVU / ASU Bowl game at Chase Field (will always be 'The BOB' to me!) was notable for starting with the roof open and it started raining. So, they played the beginning of the game in the rain...in a domed stadium! Haha! 7:10 One of the Bowl games at Wrigley Field a few years ago, they had to have both teams run offense in the same direction because the officials determined the clearance in the end zone wasn't safe for play. Also, both teams' sideline was on the same side of the field!!! It was crazy.

@rwboa22

Жыл бұрын

Just imagine in the days when the Bears played their home games at Wrigley Field before the AFL-NFL Merger forced them to relocate the Soldier Field (as teams had to play in stadiums with at least 50k seats). The same held true for the Boston/New England Patriots when they played at Fenway Park and college venues before moving to (the bare-bones) Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium in 1971.

Wrigley Field was home of the Chicago Bears for 50 years from the early 1920s- to the early 1970s. It was before my time but I have seen several photos of Wrigley hosting Bears Games and one of the end zones was slightly smaller that a normal end zone due to the dimensions of the park.

You left out Shea Stadium with The Jets games, WWWF/WWF wrestling with Superstar Billy Graham and Andre The Giant back in the late 1970's-early 1980's, and of course The Beatles Concerts At Shea Stadium in 1965 and 1966. You also left out Citi Field. There was a International Test Match for the Cricket fans in 2016-17 if i recall correctly.

I could have sworn a lot more recently than the 1980's... there was a series at Superdome, usually LSU/Tulane, it was annual and sponsored by Winn Dixie

Busch also hosted an NHL Winter Classic a few years ago.

At lot missed here. BC Place for baseball, Alamo dome for basketball and Arena football, SkyDome for basketball, Fenway for multiple sports, Citi field for soccer, old Busch stadium for the St. Louis Rams, Oracle for XFL Football to name a few off the top of my head

I saw a video of hockey players trying crashed ice when it was set up at Fenway Park.

This was a good one

WWF's Showdown at Shea in 1980. Also WrestleFest at County Stadium in 1988.

When Wrigley hosts football now they flip the field when possession changes so the offense is always going to the same endzone, since one is right up against the wall they make the offense run to the endzone with a bigger buffer zone

One I always liked when the Fenway Bowl and if notice they would leave MLB east baseball standing on the scoreboard.

I remember when the Spurs played at the Alamodome for several years including their '99 championship season with the large curtain on one side.

My Boilers played NU at Wrigley in 2021. I heard they’re going to play a home game there every other year? Not sure if that changes with their new stadium plan.

Tropicana Field also had wrestling there for WWE during Covid. Ironically they also called it the Thunderdome

A division three regular season football game was played there this past year

How about the Astrodome hosting a basketball game in the late 1960's with Elvin Hayes for Houston against Lew Alcindor of UCLA. Epic. Good show De.

@richshort8120

11 ай бұрын

I remember watching the Billie Jean King age 29 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs at the Astrosdome in 1973

I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Miller Park hosted the 2007 USBC Masters Finals (bowling)

The Sky dome hosted a NBA game once. It was the largest crowd till last year when the Alamo dome beat it. Also no outdoor hockey games. In the 70s Las Vegas would host boxing matches in their parking lots.

Can you do a video on how you would design the ultimate modern multi sport stadium?

you cover niche topics that most sports casters don’t even think of.

Thunderdome in Tampa hosted the Arena Football too before the arena was build there. Tampa Bay Storm

A cool example that wasn't in the video was a snowboarding big-air event inside the Braves ballpark a few years back

The LA Coliseum has also hosted spring training games with jacked-up dimensions

Tropicana Field also hosted a Final Four. The Silverdome hosted NBA games.

Two of the most famous football games ever played were played at Yankee Stadium. 1946 Army Notre Dame and 1959 Baltimore New York.

There was the USBC masters bowling at Miller park.

That tennis at hard rock stadium is fire

4:38 imagine Los Angles FC or Los Angles Rams playing at Dodgers Stadium

That was a great shot of the old Polo Grounds with the old H shaped goal posts. Depressed Ginger says the Polo Grounds was not known for football and he's right. And, even though the NY Giants football team (and later he NY Jets) played there for years, It became best known for hosting NY Giants baseball. It's original purpose was, as the name states, a stadium for playing polo -- a sport that simply never caught on much in America.

forgot to show Rogers Centre hosting the Raptors before they moved into what is now Scotiabank arena - similar look to the Kingdome except the seating was concentrated around the first base line

This was a fun video. Depressed Ginger was right not to bog this video down with those many outdoor NHL games every year where part of the novelty is to intentionally play in stadiums not designed to host hockey games. As a side note, there could be an entire video based just on the experience behind having the Northwestern Wildcats play that initial game at Wrigley Field. There was so much to it, including, as Depressed Ginger pointed out, placing the end line virtually right up against the right field ivy. As a result of that, all offensive drives for both teams throughout the game had to go from east to west. No offensive drives could go toward the right field wall. It was considered to be to dangerous for the players.

@davidscillufo8545

11 ай бұрын

I believe in that Northwestern game when teams got past certain yard marker they switched ends not to run into wall at right field endzone.

The fact you did a video in stadiums hosting weird events and you didn’t include the LA coliseum running a NASCAR race inside is it, is crazy

I went to several MLB exhibition games in the 1980's and 4-Final Fours in the superdome. The inability to configure into baseball is a very recent thing. The Superdome is 48 years old for this upcoming football season.

Surprised you didn’t mention the finals of the 2007 USBC Masters Tournament held at Miller Park

Busch Stadium also did a college football game once.

Iwas liked the Wrigley football config. The goalpost connected to the wall. You went out for a pass and would disappear into the ivy.

Turner Field was built to accommodate the Olympics then to be converted into a baseball stadium following the Olympics. Everything in the "left field and center field" areas was more or less temporary structures for the Olympics then taken down and the permanent baseball outfield bleachers were built

@rockvilleraven

Жыл бұрын

Now Turner Field is Center Park Stadium, home of Georgia State Football and was home to the AAF Atlanta Legends. If the XFL or USFL ever puts a team there, this is more likely where they’d play.

I went to a soccer game at Candlestick park just before the stadium was demolished

National Finals Rodeo and World Series, both in same stadium, Dallas during covid

@gregsells8549

Жыл бұрын

That would be Globe Life Park in Arlington, which also has Army-Air Force football and some high school playoffs. Its predecessor, Globe Life Field (now Choctaw Stadium) is now used for football and soccer. And AT&T Stadium hosts a rodeo annually.

Truist park had a ski slope there 2 years ago and it was taller than the stadium it’s self

Do a video on USF getting a football stadium

Bankers Life Field House (I know the name has changed) hosted a swimming competition once.

The court at Petco Park was tennis, not volleyball, and it was for the Davis Cup in 2014 - US vs GBR as shown in one of the pictures

I was always fascinated by the Packers playing at County Stadium

The weirdest thing I've seen was the trop hosting the final four besides the basketball game at American family field.

Toronto Roger's Center (formerly Skydome) that was built for baseball and football was odd enough transitioning between the two but then for a couple of seasons it also had Raptor's basketball until the Raptors arena was completed. The basketball was even weirder to see there.

I went to a regular season Notre Dame-Army game at Yankee Stadium. So yeah…

0:17 I vote a Major League Baseball team in New Orleans with a new Stadium instead of Mercedes Benz Superdome

Soccer at Busch was interesting because good seats for baseball became bad seats for soccer and vice versa.

One forgot about the old Pontiac Silverdome being used as the home court for the Detroit Pistons before moving to The Palace of Auburn Hills in 1988.

Semo Played SIU at Busch Stadium. I forgot what year but I was there!

@Mosaintsfan

Жыл бұрын

In football

Wrigley also was home to the Chicago Sting soccer team.

Gotta look up when killer park was used for bowling.

Hard Rock stadium hosts the Miami open in tennis

Pitt and Syracuse play a football game at Yankee stadium this year