Stadiums built in the middle of nowhere

[@vegasr8iders43]

Dodgers Stadium wasnt built out in the middle of nowhere. They kicked the people living in Chavez Ravine out of their homes that they lived over decades to build the stadium.

[@alanchristie368]

Did they kick them out, or maybe they purchased their homes?

[@vegasr8iders43]

@@alanchristie368 regardless, it was a force sale. They used imminent domain. They had no choice. Ie, kicked out.

[@jesalvarez680]

⁠@@vegasr8iders43 cry about it

[@diosaesme]

@VEGAS R8IDER your correct but the name hurts…go raiders.😢

[@dionpierre5847]

@@jesalvarez680 🤡

[@theawesomer8587]

No mention of Foxboro or Rich Stadium or Giants Stadium. Dodger stadium was built in a neighborhood that was completely bulldozed for the stadium. Anaheim Stadium was right next door to Disneyland. Truist Park was built right next to an office park.

[@martincruz8319]

I went to Anaheim Stadium, now known as Angel Stadium of Anaheim. The Big A has that rock formation out in the outfield. There are more scenic venues to be sure, but for an older ballpark and a former football facility, the fix-up at Anaheim Stadium was definitely worth it.

[@MrUnsolvedMystery]

Thanks for sharing the early photos of met stadium in minnesota. So many memories for twins and Viking fans. The place was literally a dump years later falling apart but growing up as a kid going to games will never forget.

[@SweatPantsJoeEATS]

The Buffalo Bills stadium was also built in the middle of nowhere. And over 50 years later theres still pretty much nothing around it.

[@z0tw]

The Braves stadium is actually in Cumberland Mall area which is a decently modernized mall in south Cobb County and also almost crosses over into Northwest Fulton county. The stadium was built in a very densely populated apartment community and a business hub. Note the many businesses that surround the skyline with the park itself. It isn't exactly in the middle of nowhere, being right up against I-75 and 285. I-75 of course is one of the most traveled interstates in the country and 285 loops around the perimeter of the city of Atlanta.

[@griffinmaxwell789]

It's like he did minimal research for this whole video. "Cumberland County" lmfao like it isn't even hard to find out the Braves play in Cobb County. Dude's been getting corrected by over half the comments on here.

[@CreightonRabs]

4:22 Met Stadium, much like the old Arlington Stadium in Texas, was originally built for minor league baseball in 1956 prior to the Twins relocating from Washington in 1960 (shortly after the Braves relocated from Boston to Milwaukee). The Metropolitan Sports Center (Met Center) arena opened in 1967 ahead of the arrival of the expansion Minnesota North Stars (who relocated to Dallas in 1993). Oddly enough, the Old Met was owned by the City of Minneapolis for the first 20 years - despite the fact that the stadium itself was located in Bloomington - before being taken over by the state-managed Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission (the predecessor agency to today's Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority). 5:13 The name of the area is called Cumberland, but it's *Cobb* County. And I know you were talking about stadiums, but the best example of an arena built in the middle of nowhere would be the old Richfield Coliseum near Cleveland. The Palace at Auburn Hills might be a close second (though I'm pretty sure Auburn Hills, Mich. was built up more than Richfield, Ohio was at the time the arena opened).

[@tperk]

Suburban Chicago Allstate Arena (formerly Rosemont Horizon) not exactly in the middle of nowhere but directly beneath the approach path for jet aircraft at O'Hare. Walking through the parking lot was a terrifying experience with the low flying planes, and since the arena was a barn you could feel the timbers shaking once you took your seat inside. Unsettling.

[@micycles1200]

You can't really say Dodger Stadium was built in the middle of nowhere and then show construction footage of it being surrounded by the entire city of Los Angeles. I mean, that site was specifically chosen, in part, due to its proximity to the city and the fact that pretty much the entire site was already in the middle of 3 different freeways.

[@lamontbradford4630]

Dodger Stadium is just outside Downtown L.A. Depressed Ginger is a dummy that don’t know anything.

[@dennisznaniecke490]

Agreed

[@sparksk8er]

Plus it was already home to hundres they kicked out

[@torunit4620]

It sits between three different freeways now. Yeah they had plans on the books, but a couple of the freeways opened after the stadium.

[@GregoryFariss]

Absolutely, it’s surrounded by the city and minutes away from downtown.

[@thechurchoflogic1670]

Truist is located in Marietta GA. A very good thriving city in the ATL Metro Area

[@christopherpellerito5883]

The Met was planned to be a AAA stadium for the Millers, with the idea that it could easily be expanded to MLB specs if they were able to convince a team to relocate (which the Senators eventually took them up on.) It had about 18k seats when it opened, and once the Twins moved in (from Washington) and the Vikings were founded, they quickly expanded it to 40k+. Putting the stadium out in the sticks made the "build small now, but on an expandable footprint" plan plausible.

[@stephenhassler4596]

The property it was on then became the Mall of America

[@bluejaysbaseball]

Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa was entirely surrounded by farmers fields when completed, it is nowhere near downtown, they built a shopping mall and auto park around it but it’s still on the very edge of the city

[@ecwfaithful]

Isn't it also in a place that public transit doesn't run?

[@bluejaysbaseball]

@@ecwfaithful There’s busses that run to and from the game but that’s it. It’s a driving nightmare. Parking lot is a standstill for 30+ minutes after every game

[@ecwfaithful]

@@bluejaysbaseball It's a lot of the same issues the arena in Sunrise has

[@lil_bear]

I heard that’s why their attendance is horrible who wants to drive a half hour out of the way just to catch a game?

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@bluejaysbaseball Giants don't have that problem. Half the people attending any Giants game get there by Cal Train, that comes up from San Jose to two blocks of Oracle, or the ferry from Oakland, or the Muni light rail inside The City, or BART from the East Bay and a Muni ride up Embarcadero. I DO NOT ever drive to a Giants game! Parking is $60!

[@alanchristie368]

Dodger Stadium opened in 1962. Not quite 75/80 years ago.

[@marblox9300]

LOL. You right - this dude just spews out anything without much thinking.

[@geneseofootball1915]

​@@marblox9300or maybe he just misspoke

[@stephenhassler4596]

I guess when I hear “in the middle of nowhere”, I think more of the Richfield Coliseum between Cleveland and Akron, which was built in the 1970’s on a rural state Highway. It was eventually abandoned and torn down and is now part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Many of the ones cited here already had development nearby when they were built. Truist Park is in Cobb County, near Cumberland Mall.

[@richardkammerer2814]

And that was the end of professional hockey in NE Ohio.

[@stephenhassler4596]

@@richardkammerer2814 Didn’t the Cleveland Crusaders of the World Hockey Association play there? I also remember the Cleveland Barons that used to play in the old Cleveland Arena downtown, but I think that team folded prior to both the construction of the Richfield Coliseum and the existence of the Crusaders.

[@reesejabs1895]

This video really shows how impressive stadiums like Target Field and Petco Park are. They were really built to fit the area they are in, and have good transit options.

[@Hogtownboy1]

Dodgers intentional opposed a subway stop at the Chevez because the parking is the most profitable part of the stadium

[@matthewburris769]

Dodgers suck! Dodgers suck! You're either driving to that game or you aint going.

[@kenelkins1787]

The Dodgers don't own the parking lot. That Boston parking lot king who bought the team from Fox and ran it into mediocrity, Frank McCourt, wouldn't include the parking lot when MLB forced him out and he sold the team and the stadium. And no, the lot isn't designed to look like a palm tree. The stadium is built into a hill and O'Malley wanted season ticket holders to be able to walk from their cars directly into the level their seats were located on.

[@Hogtownboy1]

@@kenelkins1787 so does McCourt still own the lots

[@kenelkins1787]

Yes he does.

[@tevster1316]

There’s a really great book called “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City” that goes over the history of ballparks. You’d definitely enjoy it.

[@josephfromtheatl9113]

The Atlanta Braves play in Cobb County, Georgia and it’s near Smyrna, Georgia.

[@carlstieren5437]

Werner Park in Omaha (well Papillion, NE) home of triple A Kansas City Royals affiliate the Omaha Storm Chasers......It now has a few housing communities and a school next to it but was originally built in the middle of nowhere to give the baseball team a place to play other than the downtown stadium the city built for the college world series when Rosenblatt Stadium was retired. The downtown stadium was too large and would have wanted more money for parking than a baseball ticket typically would cost you.

[@karnubawax]

You know what's in the middle of nowhere? Every NASCAR track except for Daytona!

[@jamesfields2916]

Especially Talladega.

[@ZDoko602]

Back when Arizona was debating where to build a new stadium for the Cardinals and Coyotes, everyone thought that some empty farmland way out on the west end of Glendale was way too far from the city, but of course after those stadiums got built, the city grew up and sprawled out around them and now it's a bustling entertainment district with resorts and high rises all around.

[@rockvilleraven]

Capital Centre which sucked because there was no public transit and you were forced to pay to park. Not to mention searching for your car afterwards.

[@jordanking6939]

To explain, stadiums that were built around that time, people were living in suburban areas outside city limits (car driving, freeways, express ways were the trend). The term "retro-classic" was to bring a stadium back to the city (1992 Camden Yards), but sports were different in the 60s and 70s when it came to economics. Angel stadium and Dodgers stadium are perfect examples.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Candlestick Park too. And before its demise, the Muni light rail was extended to Candlestick and in fact the same line goes to Oracle Park. Chase Center is on that same line, the T. Cal Train runs between San Jose and San Francisco and most Giants fans take it to games, because the last stop is a block or two from Oracle Park. Also there's the ferry that crosses over the Bay from Oakland, or BART that runs under the Bay and then one gets off and hops on a Muni to Oracle. No need to drive there!

[@jordanking6939]

@@ldfreitas9437 I was at Angel Stadium today and you need a car to live in Anaheim, Fullerton, Santa Ana, Irvine. Arlington, TX with the Dallas Cowboys is an exception (first super stadium). There is no public transportation in the City of Arlington. Fort Worth and Iriving is in same situation.

[@matthew01234]

Trust Park is not in Atlanta. It's in Cobb county. They wanted it there because they wanted to build it up. Also, Cobb county is a generally wealthy area. They wanted to build the park around people who could afford to go to the games. It seems to have workes since they have been top 1 or 2 in attendance since they opened. That might be part of the reason the A's no longer want to be in Howard Terminal under the government requirements. The mayor was demanding that if they developed the land around the stadium it would have to be "affordable housing." I'm not sure what they mean by that but people who live in areas they would consider "unaffordable housing" are obviously more likely to spend more money on going to games at a hundred or ao dollars per person per game. Teams end up much better off when they put themselves in walking distance of people who have money to burn. I'm not against "affordable housing" whatever that means but it's obviously better for the team itself to surround it's stadium with people who don't care about affordability. I went to Truist Park and it was very expensive. The people who live around there don't care though. They don't mind spending $200 per person every night. That's gotta be great for the team and I'm sure it's a reason the Braves player payroll has skyrocketed in recent years. They also make money off renting and leasing to all the people who work and live directly outside the stadium. If you want to be successful don't put your stadium in a big city around people living in "affordable housing." Go to a wealthy area and then build your own city around the stadium.

[@lakerskid2013]

Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts is still in the middle of nowhere even with the plaza that’s been built around the stadium. I had the chance to at least visit the outside of the stadium when I got to see my aunts that live around Boston and going north on US 1, you would literally see nothing and then all of a sudden is this huge stadium just there and really out of place if anything. There’s only one Boston suburb that’s anywhere close to that stadium (didn’t know this at the time until looking it up on a map now) but South Walpole is the only other place around the stadium which isn’t saying much. I think you should’ve mentioned Gillette Stadium as an honorable mention.

[@antoinecarter5812]

The Mall of America (once the largest mall in America) was built on the Metropolitan stadium footprint. If you visit the Mall of America the home plate location is located within the amusement park.

[@Member15201]

In Pittsburgh before the put up Three Rivers one of the design option was to have one over the Allegheny River in the middle of a sort of bridge. It was just about the same park but over the river.

[@stevepalmberg5905]

Metropolitan stadium Bloomington MN Now unbelievable build up

[@darryljorden9177]

Mall of America

[@lakerskid2013]

@@darryljorden9177 I actually got to visit the Mall Of America last year for the first time ever and it was so crazy seeing the home plate in the theme park area showing that used to be part of a baseball field

[@kdwaynec]

Dodger Stadium construction 75, 80 years ago? It opened 2 years after I was born and I'm 65.

[@pringlized]

Can believe you brought up CandelQuake Park. Well played!

[@PrinceAnt722]

Somewhat surprised that you didn't mention Meadowlands Sports Complex in the video. Also, another ballpark built in the middle of nowhere but somewhere: the ballpark at Fort Bragg.

[@EnjoySackLunch]

One of my favorite stories is how Kent Hrbek could see the lights of Metropolitan Stadium from his bedroom window as a child.

[@dustinmorrow8184]

Don't forget about the Trop. It's like 30 minutes from downtown Tampa, just sticking out there in the bay.

[@alanchristie368]

Arrowhead is getting renovated to meet FIFA World Cup standards as they are a host city.

[@DavidZinselmeier]

arrowhead needs to be torn down, its old, boring and ugly

[@johnfitzpatrick3094]

​@@DavidZinselmeier Don't tell that to Chiefs fans. They love Arrowhead Stadium.

[@donkraemer50]

​@David Zinselmeier I'm guessing you've never been

[@marblox9300]

They need to rename the Kansas City Chiefs to "Crusaders". It is offensive to the savages we kicked out.

[@mikefargo4339]

Dodger Stadium was built in a community of poor Mexican-Americans. Over half the residents refused to sell and the county board of supervisors had them removed at gunpoint, as the bulldozers leveled their homes.

[@marblox9300]

The Mexicans in my apt complex refuse to recycle plastic. And their garbage is usually disgusting. Just sayin......................

[@76carmel]

If you want an arena that was built in the middle of nowhere, there is an arena known as The Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio. The old home of the Cavs before Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse was built. Richfield is located between Cleveland and Akron. Ultimately, it’s no more, and since it has become part of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

[@lucasa6253]

A lot of minor league ballparks are built in the middle of nowhere. One of my favorite examples is The Castle which was the home of the Charlotte Knights from the 90s-early 2010s. Ironically it was built in Fort Mill, which is actually in South Carolina. They moved to Truist Field a little under a decade ago and it has a beautiful view of the city

[@joezegers]

Also Shoretown Ballpark

[@chalesgolding5314]

Really enjoy you’re channel Bro , Thank you…

[@de-fault_de-fault]

Pretty much any stadium built from the 1960s until the early '90s, with a handful of exceptions, could go in this category. They were all-in on the idea that people really liked watching a 3 hour game and then spending 2 hours trying to get out of the parking lot, so the more remote the location, the cheaper the land, the more parking spaces to charge people for using even though they have no other way of getting there, the better.

[@justthinkin5956]

Surprised Schaefer Stadium, now rebuilt as Gillette Stadium, wasn’t mentioned. When opened in 1971 it was halfway between Boston and Providence and nothing was near it for at least 5 miles.

[@katherineberger6329]

A friend of mine who is a fan of the Braves refers to Truist Park as "Lester Maddox Field," because whether anyone will admit it or not, it was probably built out in the suburbs to get it away from Black people in Atlanta proper.

[@williammiller6795]

That's a good one, though most people today don't know who he was.

[@marblox9300]

Do you blame them.???

[@marblox9300]

They need to rename the Atlanta Braves to "Crusaders". It is offensive to the savages we kicked out.

[@matts7019]

@@marblox9300 They're actually named after the Tammany Hall political machine (Boston affiliate). They could keep the name and lose the imagery.

[@blacksunshine1089]

Why do some people have to make everything about race? The issue with Turner Field was that it was located in an economically depressed area that people had to go out of their way to get to. It’s part of why attendance was mediocre even during their good years.

[@jeremiahpadilla2822]

There used to be a nieghborhood there before dodgers stadium was built the LAPD evicted all the tenants of that nieghborhood to build it

[@LukeBCtown]

The Florida Panthers arena always seemed on its own to me. Its right by the everglades and it looks like they built malls and suburbia around it afterwards

[@premiumnapping5627]

Sawgrass Mills opened almost a decade before the Arena

[@jamesfields2916]

Truist Park is in the middle of everything! Dude come on. It was built there because the vast majority of their fan support lives there. It's right off two major freeways.

[@detroitgotnext7240]

The palace of auburn hills was known for being "in the middle of nowhere".

[@BradDietz]

Mall of America was built on the Metropolitan Stadium site

[@tony_m_km6mzp]

DG, you showed a picture of boats ferrying people to the game and they still do that at Oracle Park with the Ferry dropping people off at the Center field entrance

[@djerome4453]

Not Cumberland county, but Cobb county for Truitt park. Definitely was nothing there in 2015 and now it's too much around what was just interchange interstate grassland years ago

[@wmw3629]

Just one of his many mistakes!

[@benshappell6339]

You still see this for most racetracks, though tbf they take up a ton of space, usually have a ton of noise, and don't get used at full capacity most of the year

[@gmaneis]

Depressed Ginger, a simple Google search would have lead you to this statement of fact. "Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers. Opened in 1962." The people living in that neighborhood were forced out of their homes, and 1962 is not, as you say, 75 or 80 years ago.

[@royboy1984]

It's Cobb County! Read a map!

[@turkeybowlwinkle4440]

And it's not in the middle of nowhere. One of the more congested areas outside of Atlanta just a block or so from Marietta.

[@jamesfields2916]

​@@turkeybowlwinkle4440its funny the stadium is still closer to downtown Atlanta than Marietta town square.

[@lonewolfjedi493osswfan]

Here’s something about Dodger Stadium, because the property is still owned by former owner Frank McCourt, most fans park elsewhere and take public transportation

[@matthewburris769]

bwahahaha, yeah right.

[@Hogtownboy1]

Yeah he lobbied hard to not have Hollywood line of the subway come close to the stadium. I mean LA may be the only city that didn’t start the planing of a Metro from the Stadium and then decide where to go. It yhe same for So-Fi

[@lonewolfjedi493osswfan]

@@matthewburris769 it’s true, I work near one of the places that has a shuttle to the stadium. Most fans don’t want to give him any money after what he did to the team

[@lonewolfjedi493osswfan]

@@Hogtownboy1 Yeah, now MTA has a free shuttle to and from the stadium. As for SoFi and Staples Center(and yes, I still call it that), it costs upwards to $500 to park

[@srikothur2845]

It's not hard to find out what county where Truist Park is located. Why don't you look shit up rather than make incorrect guesses?

[@Ottonic6]

The one at 08:56 looks like something you would see in Dubai.

[@YautjaHunter3]

I live in ATL, and have been to a few games at Truist Park, that area is not isolated or middle of nowhere. Your areal photo at 5:59 shows the 2 freeways that innersect just to the SE of the park. The 2 buildings just below the park in that pic have been there for decades. Across the freeway is a large Mall that is still quite active. And Cobb Parkway to the left in the photo has been a major shopping area since before I moved to ATL in the late 90s. It looks isolated because that plot of land where the stadium was built is surrouned by trees. But there are apartment buildings on the other side of the trees. There has been a good bit of new develpopment since Truist opened, but it wasnt in the middle of nowhere. Just to the left of the stadium is all new buildings that came with the stadium. The trees just above the stadium in the areal photo is currently under construction I noticed when I drove by a few weeks ago. Looks like maybe hotel space or some other event space carved into the hill between the parking deck and the road. A big reason the Braves left Turner Field is the incompotant Atlanta city Govt, (they promised to develop the area around Turner Field for 20 years and never did anything. This site is in Cobb County, though it has an Atlanta address. Traffic in ATL near the football stadium on event days is horrific, when the Braves are playing at Truist, you can drive up Cobb Pkwy and only be effected by people crossing the street in large groups. Cobb police handle traffic WAY better, and the area around the stadium, even outside the stadium footprint is much more vibrant.

[@robertlee6781]

I remember when the Braves announced they were moving to Cobb Co. The Braves had a heat map of their ticket sales superimposed on a heat map of the violent crime. The crime was all around the Turner Field location and the ticket sales were in Cobb and Gwinnett. Yep good move Braves!

[@chrisconley8583]

I think where he’s referring to in by the way, I got it wrong when he said it “Cumberland County” is where the actual park sits was just a field and a road even just 10 years ago. I had a job that would take me from Doc’s Bar to E. Cobb ,basically that stadium now just takes out a perfectly good shortcut that you could avoid a lot of Atlanta area driving BS.

[@fishingthelist4017]

You have to drive a long way from Atlanta to find the middle of nowhere, but some people there will still say they live in Atlanta.

[@copycatjsh]

And the reason that particular area was undeveloped for so long was the gasoline pipelines were underground there. It took a big project like a new stadium to be worthwhile to move them!

[@YautjaHunter3]

@@copycatjsh Ahhh I dindt know about the pipeline, guess thats the line going to Austell.

[@Hogtownboy1]

Bills Stadium is still in the middle of nowhere

[@bufnyfan1]

and the new Bills stadium scheduled to open in 2026 is right next door to the current Highmark Stadium-so it will still be in the middle of "nowhere". The city of Buffalo said building a new stadium in downtown Buffalo would add an additional $1 billion+ to the cost of the stadium. The state/city wouldn't fork up money for new infrastructure to build it so they will build it near the old stadium

[@michaelleroy9281]

That first one was Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington MN which was a minor league park from 1956 -60

[@jackofallgamesTV]

"They'll build it up"... Ask the Cleveland Cavs and The Richfield Collosseum. That was the only modern building on State Route 303. NOTHING got built around it. It got demolished, and then became part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

[@mnwildfan97]

You should include NHL more. Canadian Tire Center is in the middle of no where and is home to the Ottawa Senators

[@jimihendrix991]

'' Lambeau Field, 81000 cap.: All Packers (home) games have been sold out since 1960. The current waiting list for Green Bay Packers season tickets is over 140,000 people, according to the team. This means that a person who adds themselves to the list (in 2023) will be up for tickets in roughly 1,400 years. ''

[@torunit4620]

Candlestick got the reputation as the worst place to go to a game. It had the worst weather in San Francisco. Yeah San Francisco is tiny but that corner seemed to attract cold winds blowing past the garbage dump that just weren't in the rest of town at the same time, so it stunk, literally.

[@ronpeacock9939]

Should have looked at Rich Stadium (now called Highmark Stadium) in Orchard Park.. home of the Bills... it was built back in the late 60's/early 70's and it's still pretty out there.. not much around it... probably was like Chavez Ravine back then.

[@jtfritz9169]

Evergy Field, Salina, Kansas (a stadium I made in MLB The Show)

[@mindphaserxy]

HOFFENHEIM is a Bundesliga team that's basically in the middle of nowhere....literally they are located in a tiny town. But for a really remote stadium look up Henningsvær Stadion. No pro teams play there but wow...middle of nowhere.

[@ianfurness8875]

You have really cherry picked your photos to tell your story. I mean, its Cleveland MUNICIPAL Stadium. It was built by the lake on reclaimed land. Dodger Staduim was built in a ravine - Greater LA surrounded the entire staduim. And KC and MN stadiums were built a block from the suburbs. Heck, if Kauffman wasn't surrounded by interstates it would have been a sprawling city.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Another stadium built out in nowheresville: Levi's. It's next to an area at the very south end of the San Francisco Bay called Alviso, now part of San Jose, but just south of that is another area that was called Agnews. It was where there was a mental state hospital for really dangerously deranged people. Few people lived out in that area decades ago, where there once were some orchards and dairies. Yes, it's been built up nearby, especially with hi-tech and condos, to the south of Great America and the stadium. It's a flood plain too.

[@crgray1979]

Richfield coliseum the former home of the Cleveland Cavs was build in the woods

[@kdwaynec]

Except for the highway interchange there is no trace of it now.

[@williammoore27]

They're new MLS expansion teams to be: New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Vegas, Indy, Cleveland, Detroit, San Diego & possibly somewhere in US & Canada!⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

[@stephenhassler4596]

San Diego just got an expansion team and will begin playing in 2025. All of the other cities on the list are speculative.

[@rayspooner1982]

I feel like Lambeau is the Fenway of football.

[@telephilia]

For NFL football you could probably build a stadium anywhere - the sport is so popular and they only play once a week.

[@DavidRamirez9054]

That's why there's really no such thing as a small market city in the NFL. Look at Green Bay, Buffalo and Kansas City

[@OldRustySteele]

Matter of fact, you’re probably better off with a football stadium in the burbs and not downtown. Tailgating is a big tradition in football and you can’t do that on downtown streets or in parking garages.

[@DominicMazoch]

The Astrodome was built on open land south of the Medical Center.

[@Alex-DB14]

CoolToday park in North Port for Braves spring training looked pretty funny back when it was completed but now the neighborhoods are closing in on it

[@matthewkester3677]

ARCO Arena in Sacramento

[@johnletendre3292]

You forgot the most OBVIOUS "in the middle of nowhere"? Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium for the Patriots!!!! How could you forget that??

[@ivokarmely453]

You are completely right John!

[@henryca03]

Also the fact that the city of Foxborough, Massachusetts is closer to Providence, Rhode Island than Boston.

[@kellypringle9815]

I was thinking Field of Dreams when you were foing through the different stadiums. I always see tops of buildings around stadiums. Lamade Stadium and Volunteer Stadium is built around nothing. These are stadiums for the Little League World Series. It is exciting to see people sitting on the hill at Lamade Stadium.

[@Damianoutlaw]

Truist Park in Atlanta is not in the middle of nowhere. Its located at the intersection of two major highways in North Atlanta. That area has always been heavily populated This is not one of your better videos.

[@eleven8948]

Only if all the hispanics knew what the city of L.A. did to get dodger stadium built.

[@blacksunshine1089]

What, 61 years ago? I don’t think it would affect anything at this point. Most people in general don’t get caught up in identity politics.

[@eleven8948]

@@blacksunshine1089 Really? All I hear from the california media is giving reparations for something that happened over 150 years ago. I think if people saw how people were dragged out of their homes, they may have a different opinion than you

[@blacksunshine1089]

@@eleven8948 I’d be willing to bet that the majority of people who are “offended” by this were born in the 90s and 2000s, and only feel that way because it’s trendy. Literally every place has a dark aspect to its past, so what do we do? Nuke the planet?

[@herbertpetrillo485]

original yankee stadium and municipal stadium in Cleveland had elegant exteriors

[@adam_mcguire24]

Are you planning on making a video on the Padres Bally Sports situation ?

[@johnlewisiii2076]

Can you do one on airports and interstate highways next?

[@matreimer]

Gillette stadium should have been included on this list

[@trewells]

5:44, I'm a transplant Padres fan living in metro Atlanta. There were plenty of offices, business complexes and expressways where Truist Park was built. That area is congested big time on game day.

[@travisscavoni369]

Gillette Stadium (and Foxboro Stadium before it) is more in the middle of nowhere than some of the places you mentioned.

[@TheIranianAvgeek]

In my country there is a stadium called "Takhti Stadium" and it's the home field of Foolad Khuzestan F.C. and it's bulit in the outskirts of Ahwaz near Kianshahr And imagine if u live in the other part of the city and u want to watch a soccer match there you'll be late and there are tickets sold out😂

[@jonboxleitner7354]

The Dodger Stadium parking lot is supposed to look like a baseball glove from an aerial view. I think.

[@DuecePiece]

Penn State is definitely in the middle of nowhere. Come around the hill on the highway and there the giant stadium sits amongst farms and cornfields

[@gregd6706]

What??? Farms and cornfields??? When were you there? 1961???

[@michaelherring1944]

How about the Astrodome?

[@OldRustySteele]

Aha, Michael - great point. Younger people or those unfamiliar with Houston wouldn’t know it by looking now, but when the Dome was finished in 1965, there wasn’t much around it on the south side of Houston. Of course, Houston has exploded in growth since 1965.

[@michaeldunham1968]

COBB County, not Cumberland.

[@kc2dc444]

I really hope the Royals move Downtown and the Chiefs do a massive renovation to Arrowhead to make it more in the same league as the new stadiums while keeping the original bowl. But it's time for the Royals to move to an urban neighborhood. That is just a terrible location for a baseball stadium.

[@lizzyfan1986]

Royals will move from KC at some point, inevitable

[@kc2dc444]

@@lizzyfan1986 how do you figure? That might happen only if the city drags its feet on a downtown stadium and the Royals are basically the A's for the next ten years.

[@briancanterberry3085]

The Braves are 🚫 T in Cumberland county. COBB COUNTY. GO BRAVES

[@terreniskelley7191]

They can tear down Soldier Field, build a new one on Lake Michigan...I thought that was a rendering of it or an idea until you didnt mention it.

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Kaufman had the same seats as arrowhead when it opened up?

[@donkraemer50]

Yes. They had orange, yellow, and red. The Royals had orange foul poles as well until the early 90s renovation when they changed the turf for grass and added the jumbotron.

[@GregoryFariss]

Angel stadium was located in orange groves, not a forest. There’s a reason why it’s called Orange County. The Big A is awesome and a landmark, not ugly.

[@drewmusolino3032]

Woah bro.... I've been watching your videos for awhile. How da hell you don't know about Dodger stadium?? They kicked out that whole neighborhood like Palestine style.. and then plowed it into a giant field. Not emptiness.. a destroyed former residency dude. Chavez Ravine. Watch the Fernando Valenzuela 30 for 30. Covers the dark side of the history with the Dodgers and the Mexican community. I'm a Mets and my family were Brooklyn Dodger fans. Walter O'Malley.. hope he's rotting in hell.. lol

[@willisapril]

Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium should have been on this list.

[@jasonr.6428]

Very cool vid!!

[@z0tw]

That first image is just hilarious

[@matthewburris769]

Would it have been too difficult to show us some NOW photos? Just for perspective?

[@Z64sports]

I've never heard of someone complain about too much parking before

[@matthewmolkentin6230]

Angels Stadium is now in the middle of a tent city. The cost of living in California has become so ridiculous, the middle class there is becoming extinct.