The Stadium In The Desert - State Farm Stadium

State Farm Stadium is home to the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. The Stadium opened on August 1st, 2006 as a replacement for ASU’s Sun Devil Stadium, where the Carinals had played for nearly the first 20 years of their existence.
College stadiums are often used as the temporary homes of NFL teams while their new stadiums are being constructed. A recent example of this is when the Minnesota Vikings played at the University of Minnesota’s football stadium while U.S. Bank Stadium was being constructed. When the Cardinals moved to Phoenix, they had the same plan. They would temporarily play at the outdoor Sun Devil Stadium until a new stadium could be built in the next few years.
What the Cardinals didn't foresee was the savings and loan crisis of the early 1990s. The crisis sent funding plans for the stadium into total chaos, and plans were postponed indefinitely for the new Cardinals Stadium until the financial situation stabilized. At the 1990s went on, the Cardinals began to express frustration as they were the only team in the NFL to continue to be permanently based out of a college stadium. This cut off major funding streams that every other team had access to.
On November 8, 2000 Arizona voters gave the approval for the $331 million dollar stadium, a relative bargain compared to modern stadiums even when adjusted for inflation. The stadium plan was approved after rumors began circulating that team owner Bill Bidwill would move the team to San Antonio or Los Angeles. Eventual costs of the stadium rose to $455 million dollars, with $143.2 million dollars coming from the Cardinals, and the rest coming from public funding. With the new stadium funding in place, HOK Sport (now Populous) was hired to design the complex.
The stadium has an ultra modern design with a retractable roof. Capacity for the stadium is a respectable 63,400 although this is expanded quite often to well over 72,000 for events like the Super Bowl. Other unique features include the stadium’s retractable grass field. Yes you heard me right. The Cardinals, unlike many other NFL teams, prefer to play on a natural grass field. Walper P Moore company was tasked with designing a way to have a natural grass field in the middle of a desert, that would often have to be moved around with events like Monster Jam and concerts taking place. Their solution was a massive rolling surface that the natural grass field would sit on. The grass can soak up the Phoenix sun and sprinklers when outside, and will be healthy and ready to go when its rolled inside. Its an absolutely incredible site to see and truly an engineering marvel.
The stadium aside from its technological wonder rolling grass field has large LED video and ribbon displays from Daktronics, 88 luxury suites with room for 16 more, a 25 acre Park surrounding the stadium for activities and tailgating, as well as a 14,000 spot parking lot. Due to careful design work by Populous, the stadium has no obstructed views anywhere in the stadium from general fan seating.
As mentioned previously, the roof is retractable. The roof is made out of a special high strength fabric designed by Birdair and opens in only 12 minutes. It was also the first retractable roof on a stadium to be built on an incline.
Since opening, State Farm Stadium has had three different names. The first was simple Cardinals Stadium, which only lasted for its first two months of operation. For the next 12 years the stadium was named the somewhat confusing University of Phoenix Stadium. The name lead some to believe the online school had a football team that played at the venue. This name was dropped in 2018 for its current name State Farm Stadium.

[@TJCards]

Sweet video. I used to live 5 minutes away from the stadium. Watching the stadium get built and the area around it grow has been crazy!

[@JDP2104]

As an Arizona fan I feel privileged to have a stadium this nice. I've been to at least 30 games there by now. Just wish we had a team that was worthy of such a nice venue...

[@rockerseven]

It also hosted Wrestlemania 26. The seats are also colored to match the exterior design (the gray seats match the large window panels, and the spiral design). It was also designed specifically to resemble a barrel cactus.

[@robfreedman6496]

Thank you for making this video of my team's stadium, State Farm Stadium! Go Cardinals and Be Red See Red all year long! Your videos are amazing! You will have to come to Glendale, AZ for a Cardinal game! It is an amazing venue to see a game at!

[@ArchiveofEverything]

Thanks for watching and sharing! Not sure if you stuck around to the very end but you get a bit of a shout out!

[@robfreedman6496]

@@ArchiveofEverything I did watch the end and that made the video even more special to me and my mom! I shared it on my Facebook page, Twitter page and my Cardinal group on Facbeook, AZ BirdGang Nation!

[@bballer191]

Great stadium with a cool and unique atmosphere. I dig it.

[@tsunamipapi1343]

great stadium, been there like four or five times, but I c it almost every week, I hope they never demolish it

[@AZsportshut]

It hosted Westlemania, Fiesta Bowl, BCS National Championship, Super Bowl, and hosted many other events.

[@moneyonfleek1992]

So has Hard Rock stadium in Miami

[@cardinalsgang645]

@@moneyonfleek1992 yea but that stadium is a dump!!! state farm gang

[@moneyonfleek1992]

@@cardinalsgang645 despite phoenix hosting this year’s superbowl ..Miami has hosted the most in the league. Of course cardinals stadium will be more better cus it was recently built lol Miami stadium was build in the 80’s but they have obviously done some upgrades. Plus the city of Miami is better 😅😆

[@cardinalsgang645]

@@moneyonfleek1992 nah i was kidding i like hard rock especially with the renovations really made it a beautiful stadium with the aqua seats and roof, that being said phx is better then miami 😁

[@moneyonfleek1992]

@@cardinalsgang645 yea I’m currently in Mesa, Az recently moved to Phoenix I like it here.

[@sebastianbelcher5354]

Moved to Goodyear 2 years ago and so glad to live 15 minutes from a pro stadium. Not the biggest cards fan but it’s still awesome. Just bummed the coyotes moved east.

[@ericewing6545]

Excellent video! Thx

[@techi9]

I toured it 2 years ago. Nice place

[@jordanwelch3832]

Going to a game there this month; been to it but only saw the outside. I’m sure it’s fun!

[@redmanr5522]

570 days til Super Bowl 57 in Glendale, Arizona. Sun 2/12/23 on FOX. tonight is Thu 7/22/21.

[@Spvceman333]

Lol u still counting down the days

[@barryallen6378]

1 month to go

[@MrAuzzieboi]

great vid, love all cardinals content. as an aussie you need to check out the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) and the history in the great stadium.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Hosted the greatest Super Bowl of all time.

[@reveresearles7527]

Pls do the footprint center in Phoenix, Arizona

[@MOCskoden]

This stadium would make modern new indoor NFL stadiums popular

[@ivanroa5988]

5:37 LMAO Bender.

[@Marklujan20]

I call State Farm the Giant toaster because to me it looks like a toaster.

[@inscripcion.380]

I wonder what percentage of the money was destinated to the grass moving plataform

[@howardhamlin5091]

Number 15: Burger king foot lettuce. The last thing you'd want in your Burger King burger is someone's foot fungus. But as it turns out, that might be what you get. A 4channer uploaded a photo anonymously to the site showcasing his feet in a plastic bin of lettuce. With the statement: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." Admittedly, he had shoes on. But that's even worse. The post went live at 11:38 PM on July 16, and a mere 20 minutes later, the Burger King in question was alerted to the rogue employee. At least, I hope he's rogue. How did it happen? Well, the BK employee hadn't removed the Exif data from the uploaded photo, which suggested the culprit was somewhere in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. This was at 11:47. Three minutes later at 11:50, the Burger King branch address was posted with wishes of happy unemployment. 5 minutes later, the news station was contacted by another 4channer. And three minutes later, at 11:58, a link was posted: BK's "Tell us about us" online forum. The foot photo, otherwise known as exhibit A, was attached. Cleveland Scene Magazine contacted the BK in question the next day. When questioned, the breakfast shift manager said "Oh, I know who that is. He's getting fired." Mystery solved, by 4chan. Now we can all go back to eating our fast food in peace.

[@MrAkenuts]

Is this a State Farm commercial?

[@ArchiveofEverything]

Yes!

[@GloriaGrothe]

In Pixar Cars franchise is "Like a Good Neighbor State Farm is there"

[@mamaluigi2064]

What blows my mind it is it only cost half a billion dollars

[@joeyhernandez7908]

Litteraly. Seeing it in person you would think it’s surely atleast 1-2 billion

[@tommyparsons5846]

Do First Energy Stadium

[@TheSwanlake2009]

Why cant the Philadelphia eagles have a stadium like this?

[@crispyclipz4904]

I was supposed to have my graduation ceremony in State Farm stadium but because of covid it didn’t happen 😕.

[@javierdonaire6877]

watch new Santiago Bernabeu stadium

[@nathonthill4390]

USBANK stadium please MN Vikings

[@mondop5270]

I wanna go to america

[@domfiore]

88 home games, huh? Big season.

[@TimFrith24]

Following the 2023 NFL season, Michael Bidwill will sell a 55% stake in the Arizona Cardinals to Utah Jazz and Real Salt Lake owner Ryan Smith for $1.25 billion. Following the 2024 NFL season, Ryan and Michael will pay a relocation fee of $550 million to relocate the Cardinals from the Phoenix area to Salt Lake City prior to the 2025 NFL season once the Cardinals opt out of the lease of State Farm Stadium in Glendale, so the Cardinals will use Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus as their temporary home venue until their new $1.1 billion, 80,000-seat domed stadium is built adjacent to Salt Lake City International Airport in time for the 2027 NFL season.

[@Itshadow306]

I agree 100% I really want a Salt Lake City NFL Team as well but the Cardinals are staying in Phoenix the team that should move to Salt Lake City is the San Francisco 49ers because Utah has a ton of 49ers fans I say the Jazz and Real Salt Lake Ownership purchase the 49ers and move them to West Valley City, Utah in 2026.

[@tsunamipapi1343]

hell fucking no

[@ti994apc]

I am not a fan of Stadiums taking on sponsors.

[@royce9018]

Lol 😂😂

[@GloriaGrothe]

Every Sponsors have main headquarters in each city in North America