16 Weirdest Stadium situations you forgot about

Discussing weird stadium situations with MLB, NFL, NBA, teams

[@lynntempleton9640]

The Seattle SuperSonics played in the Kingdome, and later in the Tacoma Dome while KeyArena was being redone. The Sonics played playoff games at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on the University of Washington campus (capacity 9,000). Speaking of Seattle, can't forget the one year of the Seattle Pilots (1969) playing in Sick's Stadium.

[@roberta.5967]

Honorable mention: The San Antonio Spurs played at the 64,000 seat Alamodome from 1993 until 2002 (when they moved to the Frost Bank Center).

[@kristiaanstolt6931]

Yeah, and didn’t they sell it out once, setting the record for highest attended NBA game?

[@91_C4_FL]

How about Tropicana Field also being home to the NHL's Lightning, Arena Football's Storm, and a few practices for the Buccaneers before their indoor facility was completed.

[@ricotheofficial]

With that Atlanta Hawks situation… I believe one game (in 98 vs the Bulls) drew over 60,000 fans at the Georgia Dome.

[@thenets1]

I was at that game. Jordan played. My cousin got me to come down from NY for that game

[@ryankazmierczak1335]

Jordan’s expected last game in Atlanta. I believe the one Skydome picture with good attendance was a similar situation.

[@TrocarSlushWeasel]

One thing you missed about those 2 Hawks seasons at the Georgia Dome was they also played about 25 games at Alexander Memorial Coliseum at Georgia Tech, with a capacity of only 9k at that time.

[@mahtinp]

The Expos split season between Puerto Rico and Montreal, and the Jays Covid seasons playing in Dunedin/Buffalo are two notables not mentioned as well.

[@traviszick]

TCF Bank stadium was nice but those December Sunday night football games stinked! So damn cold

[@jamielumm9583]

The Sonics played in both the Kingdome (‘78-‘85) and the Tacoma Dome (‘94-‘95).

[@user-ks9uc1ts2x]

3-time vacancy Champions

[@Colin_1977]

I went to that Vikings playoff game. Will never forget Bud Grant coming out in a polo. Oh my goodness was it cold.

[@billhull6842]

I was at the Miller Park game. It was $10 tickets for any seat. I was 4 rows off the field for that game Nobody was really interested in the game, but the crowd had fun with the wave and other stuff. It was fun to see other teams playing. There was a sign a fan brought that said What is the DH and what does it mean? The upper deck was closed off because they didn't expect to sell out the ballpark. My buddy who we were managers for Westen Illinois University with was working for U of I football that year. He said on Sunday they were at the office and the office overlooked the field. He was able to sit at his desk and watch the Bears play.

[@danimalman3]

I'd say the trop hosting the 1999 final four was weird, the Sonics playing in the tacoma dome for a year. The new orleans jazz playing in the superdome, the Phoenix suns old arena that had a ceiling that made it look like an office. And I think my favorite is the Sacramento kings playing in Arco Arena 1, a temporary 10k seat arena.

[@splashnskillz37]

Arco Arena was the Kings home for years

[@cypher515]

The Trop hosting anything can be weird. The Royal Rumble looked off because of the outfield. Even though it was the announced record for the building and unlike some announced wrestling attendances I believe it.

[@danimalman3]

@@splashnskillz37 I'm talking about the smaller one from 1985-88. It was temporary and soon turned into an office building.

[@djstarion]

One thing people forget too how the Expos and the Marlins played a series at Comiskey Park

[@joaoflintino]

Bro what i didn’t know most of these. The grizzlies played in the pyramid and the panthers played at clemson??? 👀 northwestern needs to play at soldier field would be so cool

[@garydavis8213]

Great info. I had no idea about the “California Wrigley Field.” Too bad it’s gone. It looks a hell of a lot cooler that Angels’ Stadium.

[@kjorlaug1]

The Hawks split games between the Dome and Alexander Coliseum at Georgia Tech

[@motown991]

Vikings at the Gophers stadium was sick. I love outdoor football

[@noydb-1]

You left out the Astros being forced to play "home" games against the Cubs in Miller Park due to Hurricane Ike. They got no hit in front of Cubs fans since the players had other things on their minds, like leaving their families in a hurricane zone. Also having to play the Rangers at "home" in Tropicana field since the Rangers wouldn't switch home dates of 2 series to accommodate the Astros during Hurricane Harvey.

[@Lancer21]

1:52 I remember going to one of the games for that series when I was little. It was interesting to see two different teams play at your home ballpark for sure

[@jeremysilber7484]

Never understood the pistons playing in the Silverdome when they had either Joe Louis Arena, Auburn Hills, or Cobo arena at the time

[@mikematson6323]

Wrigley in LA was named after William Wrigley. He owned the stadium and the PCL Angels. The designer of this stadium also did Wrigley and Comiskey in Chicago. (Wrigley was originally known as Weeghman Park until 1920 and then CUbs Park until 1926) The LA one was built after Weeghman, modeled after it.

[@_-Achilles-_]

DG, you should design your own stadium and show us what you think would be the ultimate stadium

[@jg2977]

The Yankees called Shea Stadium their home in 1974-1975 while Yankee Stadium was being renovated. And in 1998 the Yankees played one game in Shea after a piece of concrete fell from the Yankee Stadium upper deck. In that game Darryl Strawberry drilled a home run in his return to his former home park.

[@jbosc7382]

I actually went to one of the Angels-Indians games at Miller Park

[@BrettShadow]

Funny how so many "neutral site" games ended up in the Selig owned stadiums

[@kylerose3174]

In 2010 - 2011 the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps played in an entirety temporary 27,000 stadium. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Field

[@blublur76]

June 25, 2010: Citizens Bank Park hosted the first regular-season game in a National League stadium in which the designated hitter was used; Major League Baseball moved the Phillies' series against the Toronto Blue Jays from Rogers Centre to Philadelphia, citing security concerns for the G-20 Summit. Ryan Howard served as the first DH in a National League ballpark. Despite playing in their park, Philadelphia was designated as the road team.

[@DoctorEw220]

I remember seeing the Cleveland series in Milwaukee on TV. I'm pretty sure they played "Wild Thing" because "Major League" was filmed at Milwaukee County Stadium.

[@dvferyance]

They did I was at that game.

[@rockvilleraven]

The Baseball scenes in Major League 2 were filmed at both Baltimore ballparks, the home scenes for the Indians were at Oriole Park at Camden Yards and their road games were at Memorial Stadium which was home of their AA affiliate Bowie Baysox in 1993 while their stadium was being built down there.

[@blueptconvertible]

The Miller Park example I would have used was the Cubs-Astros series that was moved here because of Hurricane Ike. But also because on Sept. 14, 2008 Carlos Zambrano threw a no-hitter.

[@DebitAdams]

Shea Stadium hosting Yankees, Giants, Mets, and Jets all in the same season in 1975

[@logandetwiler4483]

How about the fog game at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in 1970s

[@Raykibb1]

The Louisiana Superdome was used by the New Orleans Jazz for a couple of years before they bolted to Utah. A local shoe chain, ShoeTown, offered incredibly cheap upper deck tickets. LSU would schedule games just to break NCAA attendance records in the Dome. I think we did it against Notre Dame in the mid-‘80s. LSU also was in the 1981 NCAA SE Regional in New Orleans at the Dome, and LSU students made the upper deck a football game, including the band being there.

[@Lcngopher]

Pistons actually went to the nba finals at the silverdome in 1988. The next season was their first at the palace of auburn hills, during which they won their first of back to back titles. They would win one more in 2004 before leaving the palace for little caesars arena in 2017

[@vlad2838]

The 1984 Pistons ended up playing their first-round playoff matches at Joe Louis Arena. Turns out that the Silverdome was previously booked for motocross competition. Talk about embarrassing…

[@willkorslick8126]

I can say i went to multiple games at the SkyDome to watch raptors. We always sat in upperdeck behind the net. Cheap tickets like 10 bucks. Saw Michael, Kobe, Iverson and Shaq. We knew where the raptors players drove out and we got multiple autographs

[@scotttild]

And Oakland is still paying for Mt. Davis 15 plus years on, the interest on the original bonds keeps growing and they are only making the very minimal payments, and now they have no revenue to cover them. Exactly why Cities should stay out of the stadium business. They gave Al Davis a free hand out with that.

[@kristiaanstolt6931]

One to possibly add to this soon, aren’t the jags gonna live at Daytona for a little bit while they completely rebuild their stadium?

[@purpraid451]

Northwestern won't be playing at Wrigley field due to that field goal post being right on the way with no safety space. The last game there they ended just playing on the opposite side of the 50 yard line for both teams.

[@Frederick0220]

Did this guy really just call LA "tropical" LOLOL?!

[@CreightonRabs]

9:12 The Titans played the 1997 in Memphis after relocating from Houston and that went over about as well as a lead balloon. The original plan was to play two seasons in Memphis, but the Titans were beset by poor attendance, hence the move to Vanderbilt. Even to this day, the Titans don't seem to have much of a fanbase in Memphis or West Tennessee compared to the rest of the state.

[@SpeedyFire229]

The Palace of Auburn Hills opened for the 1988-89 season so the 1988 NBA Finals had games played at The Silverdome

[@franciscocolin2008]

You forgot the Seattle Seahawks played in the Washington Huskies Stadium

[@geneseofootball1915]

I hate these "you forgot" comments in videos like this. They didn't say this video included ALL stadium situations like this. 🙄

[@franciscocolin2008]

@@geneseofootball1915 would have been cool because it was feature in the first Madden NFL game for the PS2 console, a little early 2000s nostalgia.

[@brandedmcgowan9414]

The Pyramid in Memphis Tennessee was first the home of the NCAA Memphis tigers before both the grizzlies and tigers moved to FedEx forum in 2004.

[@paulcarlson754]

That charger one was the weirdest, a 20 k cap nfl stadium in the modern era, crazy

[@lynntempleton9640]

27,000

[@thebestbaseballguy]

As a native of Tacoma I'm obligated to point out that you missed a really weird one with the NBA, the Sonics played in the Tacoma Dome for a year or two when I was really little, must've been the mid 90s.

[@realalbertan]

Wrigley X2 ?? We're hard up for naming rights up here : Rogers Centre (Toronto MLB), Rogers Place (Edmonton NHL), Rogers Arena (Vancouver NHL), Scotiabank Saddledome (Calgary NHL), Scotiabamk Arena (Toronto NHL). Also funny TD has naming rights in Boston and not Toronto 😂

[@michaelbaucom4019]

The West Coast Wrigley Field was also used as the field for the 1950s/1960s(someone check the date) baseball TV show " Home Run Derby "

[@lynntempleton9640]

26 episodes filmed in December 1959 and played in 1960. It was a who's who of MLB sluggers. Mantle, Mays and Aaron hit the most homers. Aaron won the competition.

[@roseymour2440]

Great video. FYI one forth (1/4) is mostly called a quarter

[@DougWilliams06]

The Pistons saw the largest crowds in the nba in the silverdome in the early days of the bad boys era.

[@sportsmaster1364]

You missed the easy NHL reference- the Lightning playing three full seasons in a dome built mainly for baseball is still very weird, and the Lightning still hold a playoff attendance record from that 1995-96 season right before their current rink opened.

[@freakyfornash]

They also played at a state fairground during their very first season in 92.

[@truejacksonveep]

The pics you used for the Timberwolves using the Dome are actually from when the Dome and Minneapolis hosted the Final Four in 1992.

[@jg2977]

I was in the Central Connecticut State University pep band in 2000. We played against Iowa State at the Metrodome in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. That place got loud!

[@drewcarlson3395]

You missed the years that the seahawks played at husky stadium while their stadium was being built

[@bigdubya001]

The L.A. Wrigley field was actually the oroginal., in name.

[@grapefruitsodags8387]

9:47 there is no MLS stadium in Chicago. Chicago fire FC plays at soldier Field

[@marcomacias3960]

how ironic, in Major League, the Indians had to use Milwaukee's stadium for the film. now i learn they use another Milwaukee stadium for their regular games.

[@jeremysilber7484]

You also forgot to mention the Tampa Bay Lightning starting out at the Trop

[@freakyfornash]

They also played at a state fairground during their very first season in 92.

[@justinhicks306]

What about the Spurs in the Alamo Dome, or the Lightning in the Trop?

[@freakyfornash]

The Lightning also played at a state fairground during their very first season in 92.

[@anthonytippett5997]

How would there be no record of a game that happened in 2007?

[@wilderac2250]

Wait so Kansas university is temporarily playing home games in Missouri?!

[@CarolinaJackpot]

That is weird.

[@Pratttattack]

The Chargers should have gone to the Rose Bowl for 3 years

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Why not play at solider field lmao?

[@pauldavis1943]

1994 Sonics played in Tacoma Dome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_Seattle_SuperSonics_season