Stadiums Demolished in the 2000s

We showcase ten iconic stadiums that were demolished between 2000 and 2009. From the NFL to the Premier League, there were some incredible stadiums demolished in this period. Thanks for watching!

[@iancypes5911]

Yankee Stadium was built where it was partially to troll the Baseball Giants. When he evicted the Yankees, Giants owner Charles Stoneham supposedly said "They could go play in Queens or some other irrelevant place". So the Yankees built Yankee Stadium directly across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds.

[@Rockhound6165]

Then, ironically, the football Giants played at Yankee Stadium.

[@findingninno2]

Your voice is not annoying man. Love your videos. As a fan of stadiums myself, I’m glad your channel exists

[@cypothingy]

For anyone curious as to why Old Yankee Stadium was torn down, it came down to simple financials. The stadium was starting to have major structural issues (such as beams falling off the roof and into the seating area) and the fan amenities weren’t quite to the level the Yankees wanted. The Yankees went to New York City (who maintained some power over the stadium since it had assisted in funding it and, therefore, was incorporated into the city’s parks department) and did an audit of how much it would cost to renovate the stadium. Between the structural repairs, upgrades to make the bathrooms and concession stand kitchens larger, putting in new and larger luxury box seats, and bringing everything up to ADA-compliance (the Americans with Disabilities Act requires that any publicly-accessible structure being built meet certain standards to allow for handicap accessibility and required any building constructed before the ADA was law be brought into compliance if more than a certain percentage of the structure is renovated or repaired) actually cost less than building what would eventually become the most expensive baseball stadium ever built.

[@mets137781]

Fascinating fact about Three Rivers. It was actually built partially on the site of the Pirates older ballpark from 1891-1908, Exposition Park (like the Polo Ground III it was built for the Players League). It hosted the first World Series game in 1903, but site would have to wait until 1971 for it's first win (the prior 3 wins came at Forbes field). It was originally abandoned due to flooding something that was solved in the 62 year gap.

[@woodencoasterfan]

So the Pirates moved out of Exposition Park into Forbes Field and then to Three Rivers?

[@mets137781]

@@woodencoasterfan Correct. The main issue at the time was flooding which happened a lot in the early 1900s. Forbes, along with Shibe Park in Philly, were some of the first modern style ballparks so not surprising that they moved. The move to 3 rivers was a result of the university of Pittsburgh (Pitt) buying the stadium as they wanted to expand. They made a deal to let the pirates stay there while a replacement was built. The Steelers had been splitting their time between Forbes and Pitt stadium (which while a college stadium was primarily 🏈 focused). Like many cities they decided to compromise and build a cookie cutter to serve both while satisfying neither. These days with PNC and Heinz that has been corrected.

[@frankym69]

@@mets137781 wasn't the third build entirely out of wood? I'm from Pittsburgh so those kind of ghost landmarks around the city fascinate me. I know it's now a parking lot below an underpass.

[@mets137781]

@@frankym69 I believe so, that was part of the impetus for the move. The 1909-1923 era was big for ballparks are nearly every team moved into their classic ground and/or their current ground was updated to concrete and steel.

[@eointhickbroom214]

You should do a video on GAA stadiums in Ireland because there is some interesting stadiums.

[@coreycaustic2133]

The fact that you started with Three Rivers Stadium made this Pirates/Steelers fan very happy

[@toogyman]

May I congratulate you guys on the win yesterday Not a steeler fan but enjoyed you putting one on the Browns

[@coreycaustic2133]

@@toogyman thanks! Didn’t used to hate the browns as much as I do now but all it took was one good season and a postseason loss… it’s hard being a Steelers fan in Ohio haha

[@CauldronOfWeird]

Go Steelers!

[@AllanJTaylor]

This is one of your best videos, talked context about the stadiums and more than just dad jokes, used multiple pictures and angles rather than just google earth models. Love it!

[@Instasamps]

1:50 Bristol Rovers getting beat at Wembley, nice touch 👌 DTG

[@crb6468]

Maine Road also still holds the record attendance in English football for a ground outside of Wembley

[@HYP3R_N0VA]

I love a refresher on the stadiums that used to exist! Love a trip down memory lane!❤️

[@toogyman]

Interesting the Don and the Babe actually met in 1932 ! The Dons batting average is the stuff of legend , nobody has ever come remotely close to it since it’s simply out of reach they worked out that the equivalent in baseball would have required a career average of .392

[@dennisud]

Thanks for including the Orange Bowl stadium and site as I grew up there and visited the old Football Bowl and the New Baseball stadium!!

[@Hogtownboy1]

you might also mention that all those odd sounding bbowl names sugar, orange ,rose were put on by the farmers collectives to promote , well,sugar oranges and flowers in the days before mass advertising

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@Hogtownboy1 Schaefer Stadium in Foxboro was actually the first stadium to sell naming rights (a whopping $150,000.00).

[@stevecooksley]

That bolt-on upper tier in the old Wembley was called the Olympic Gallery. Sat there once and it was just plain weird, it was like having an out of body experience at a football match.

[@davidtimms3201]

Should be a segment for the Hoosier/RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Home to the Colts from 1984 - 2007, it also hosted multiple NCAA Final Fours. It was replaced by Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008 and imploded in December that year.

[@TheCyborgXD]

An extra special thank you? Wow, it's like receiving a special delivery. Makes me feel extra special.

[@machinesofgod]

Cool video! Thank you!

[@trevorlewatle1886]

Lovely selection of grounds

[@johnwalters4792]

Maine Road was the beating heart of football in the city of Manchester. Big and noisy and full of personality. I just call it home.

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

You have a voice as smooth as Morgan Freeman wolfing down a Vegemite sandwich. Our collective cochleae are honoured

[@MaksB.]

Sad to not see Highbury here.

[@MrCrab52841]

i have much respect for him putting 3 rivers first

[@dougherty7]

Thank you for making my day today is my birthday

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

Happy birthday!

[@giampieroviteri1023]

I like the new video, I'm digging the new music too, good thing you changed it because the old one was getting tired. Love the idea of this video I don't know if there's other videos like this with the same concept. I want more of it, I'm sure you can make two or three videos just on this decade, there's so many stadiums in the world.

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

I'll make at least one more video for this decade. Maybe two. Cheers!

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums You left out Foxboro Stadium. Somebody already posted a video: "Foxboro Stadium, the Barebones Stadium." It was built by the Patriots for the incredible, bargain-basement price of only $7 million. It consisted mostly of aluminum benches, was extremely uncomfortable, had weak plumbing, massive traffic jams on Route 1...but excellent sightlines for watching football.

[@Rockhound6165]

Three Rivers was built in the era of multipurpose stadiums. Similarly, Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati and Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia were built around the same time. All 4 were similar in function and design with some variances. But all 4 had little personality and were just grey ghosts. I'm more familiar with Veterans Stadium which smelled like stale beer and piss most of the time but because of it's design could get very loud for an outdoor stadium. It was also pretty easy to sneak in, LOL. The biggest drawback of these stadiums is the lack of intimacy as the fans were pretty far away from the action. I saw Paul McCartney at the Vet and sat in the 700 level(which was the highest level, the cheap seats if you will) and we were so far away that while looking through binoculars you can see them playing but you'd hear the music a second or 2 later, LOL. Oh, as for the Vet, Eagles fans were so surly that they literally put a jail underneath complete with a judge. I'm not making that up. Judge Shamus McCaffrey presided.

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

Interesting! Veterans Stadium will be in part 2. I'll be sure to mention the jail.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums LOL, hard to believe but it's true.

[@willmarshall4766]

Seeing as you included Waverley park in this one you gotta have Olympic Park in the next one!

[@bender7565]

Very entertaining and clever,

[@dangermus74]

Cool. And I have actually been to three of these before being pulled down. Kansas on, Wembley and Waverley.

[@mavgolf]

Hello! I love your content!

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

Cheers!

[@mavgolf]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums :)

[@chuckpuckett7288]

Pittsburgh has built a monument to the "Immaculate Reception" on the site where it happened between Heinz Field and PNC Park. I only saw because I was walking away from a football game to where I parked in a museum parking lot (there are a lot of museums in that part of Pittsburgh, and their parking charges are low).

[@mets137781]

You forgot one team on the Kingdome. The NBA Seattle Supersonics (RIP now the OKC Thunder) won their, and Seattle's, first championship in 1979 actually playing at Kingdome, drawing nearly 40k to one of the finals games. They would play regularly there from 78-85, although they still played several games at the Seattle Coliseum (now Climate Pledge Arena home of the Kraken). The issue was that the Coliseum was quite small in those days until being renovated in the 1990s and again before the Kraken arrived.

[@m.kennedy342]

I miss the Sonics! Went to so many games at the coliseum growing up there.

[@pdxcalibur]

You missed Foxboro Stadium, which was built as Schaefer Stadium and was also known as Sullivan Stadium. The demolition of Foxboro Stadium had to be delayed because of the Tuck Rule Game. This hole in the ground was replaced by Gillette Stadium.

[@christopherclark453]

Forgot to add Veterans stadium. It also held a courthouse and jail for any rowdy fans.

[@richardwani2803]

I remember those dolphin riots quite well lol

[@gusbenson8162]

Great Video, As an Aussie I was really hoping Waverley would get a feature and it did! Yeah Man Go Hawthorn! #flaghawks2022

[@davidlafleche1142]

He left out Foxboro Stadium, which was both the best and worst stadium in football. It was built incredibly cheap: only $7 million, and looked like it.

[@justinjacob9743]

Your voice is fine dawg

[@phillippereira955]

Benfica old stadium was massive and demolished in the 2000s

[@victorcharlap1756]

Funny fact about the Kingdome. King County was still paying off bonds it took out to pay for the construction and renovation of the Kingdome for 15 years after the stadium was demolished.

[@jwbolin]

Bring on the RCA Dome for part 2!

[@haileduque6371]

I think you should do a video on ancient stadiums. An Example includes the Circus MaximusIt would be awesome to learn a bit of ancient history.

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

That's a good idea. I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@TheWideWorldofStadiums ...like Fenway Park, the oldest continually-used stadium of any kind. The Red Sox have played there so long, they've played the St. Louis Cardinals three times in the same ballpark, while the Cardinals have played in three different ones.

[@parkerwinghart7070]

You should make a SEC Baseball Stadiums video .. and then do other conferences after as well

[@semipenguin]

Excellent video. Right up the road from Three River Stadium was Candlestick Park. It hosted a few NFC Championship games.

[@raytaylor6412]

Is San Francisco (home of Candlestick Park) just up the road from Pittsburgh?

[@semipenguin]

@@raytaylor6412 Just a few miles down on I-80

[@gazzaman28]

If you do any more of these, please mention Highfield Road, Coventry, last used in 2005 & now demolished for housing. Coventry City FC played 34 consecutive years there in the English Division 1/Premier League between 1967-2001. The record attendance was 55000+ in 1967.

[@fredrikjelkefors9336]

Dont forget Live Aid 85 and Queen Magic Tour 86 at Wembley....ELO 1979 etcr

[@bronxsportsfan]

You forgot Shea Stadium, located in the borough of Queens in New York City and home of the Mets. Just like its crosstown rival venue, Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Shea was demolished in 2008. Citi Field was built across the street from Shea in the Queens neighborhood of Flushing.

[@kewrock]

Shea was a run down dump and a cheap stadium to begin with. Plus there was nothing really historical about the place. It needed to be replaced. Yankee Stadium on the other hand was actually pretty nice. It had been renovated and updated over the years. As a Met fan in Queens, I had only been in Yankee Stadium once back in the early 80s. I went one last time their final year there. I was surprised how nice, clean and modern it seemed compared to Shea Stadium. It's too bad. It had a lot history there. It should have been preserved. At least they kept the name. Imagine "Walmart Field Home of the Yankees".

[@kewrock]

Soon my favorite concert venue growing up and old home of the NY Islanders Hockey will be on this list. The Nassau Vet's Memorial Coliseum. It was closed down for a few years. Now it hosts a Lacross team that no one follows and occasional Bollywood concerts. Sometimes it'll go a month or two with no events on the schedule.

[@SanTM]

Could see where I grew up in those Wembley Stadium pictures. Things like the old Wembley market, the crappy signage and the big W for Wembley's logo had that 80's look about them. The area around the stadium was an industrial estate, and parts of it still remain as it's become gentrified to within an inch of its life. While it doesn't stink of piss any more near the stairs leading to the concourse, it's lost a lot of soul in the area. The old market, the businesses that have been driven away for big franchises and outlet stores.

[@shawnbarrett4803]

Is veterans stadium in Philadelphia going to be in part 2?

[@J6ixway_]

W videos

[@Footy_Fan]

I know I am going to most likely be one of few here, but I really miss Stadio delle Alpi. I think it is because I became a footy fan around Christmas of 04, and that stadium, being home to one of the world's giants (Juventus), really impressed me. I just always really liked it, although my top two favorite stadiums in the world are....#1- San Siro (which looks like it is about to be replaced, as well). My 2nd favorite is going to draw questions, but Newcastle United's St. James' Park comes in at #2.

[@WydK2]

you should do the Big South Conference stadiums

[@NYGiantsFan139]

The New York Giants NFL team played at Yankee Stadium until 1973 and played two seasons at the Yale Bowl until Giants Stadium opened in 1976

[@mhbbej1]

The Giants home stadium was Shea Stadium in 1975. Shea was the only stadium to be the home of 4 teams at once in 1975. The Mets, The Jets, The Yankees and the Giants. Yankee Stadium was being renovated In 75. That's why the Yankees and the Giants shared Shea in 1975.

[@helpinghal]

@@mhbbej1 Yes, you are correct. The Giants only played one year at the Yale Bowl (1974, lost all their games there) and then played the next year (1975) at Shea along with the Yankees, Mets and Jets as you mention. As I recall, the Giants wanted to play at Shea in 1974 but after the Mets made the World Series in 1973, there were concerns about an overloaded stadium schedule in October should either the Mets or Yankees make me playoffs in 1974. So the Giants had to hit the road. Of course, the Yankees made the World Series when they moved back into the renovated Yankee Stadium and the Jets ended up eventually moving into the new Giants stadium in New Jersey.

[@mhbbej1]

@@helpinghal I was very lucky. I grew up in Queens and I had a 15 minute subway ride to Shea. In 75 I went to a ton of Met and Yankee games at Shea. I was a big Jet fan and went to 5 or 6 Jet games and 2 Giant games at Shea that year. I was a big Jet fan but when they moved to Jersey and still call themselves the New York Jets I refuse to root for them. I have nothing against Jersey. My favorite hockey team is the Jersey Devils.

[@colonelfares3857]

Too bad that Highbury wasn't in this list. Loved it.

[@suzannen594]

Can we get an episode about old AFL/VFL Teams Stadiums, it would be cool

[@TheMothdemon]

Three rivers stadiums sight is now Stage A&E a outdoor concert venue who's hosted some pretty big name acts plus parking so I wouldn't say nothings there

[@johnnyboy8832]

You should include shea stadium in part 2

[@Footy_Fan]

What about the RCA Dome here in Indianapolis? We got the incredible Lucas Oil Stadium to replace it.

[@RichardCJohnson]

Amazing to think the Delle Alpi was only used for 16 years! Also, I’m not sure they are the same A frames as the newer ones look much thicker than the originals.

[@toogyman]

It had horrendous sight lines for football and was just unloved from the beginning

[@RichardCJohnson]

@@toogyman especially compared with the beloved Communale

[@toogyman]

@@RichardCJohnson Yep spot on !

[@jmed412]

Three Rivers was sterile charmless and always smelled like beer and mustard, but on a Steeler Stadium it was rocking. I actually have a chunk of the stadium

[@davidlafleche1142]

Those "cookie-cutter" stadiums were terrible.

[@CreightonRabs]

The Kingdome, as I recall, also hosted some Seattle Supersonics games in the 1980s.

[@freakyfornash]

And in the very early 90's, along with the 70's too.

[@LoneCourier2281]

This is a random suggestion, but you’ve done high schools before, you should do the BIIF football stadiums (Big Island Interscholastic Federation) in Hawai‘i. There’s some interesting stadiums with some cool views there

[@LoneCourier2281]

Especially since Waiākea’s Stadium has no lights and they don’t intend to put lights so every game has to be played in the baking sun.

[@SaadHaque72]

voice is great

[@callumhall3872]

I was waiting on foxboro stadium

[@LordDavid04]

Stadio Delle Alpi was supposed to have hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics, but they chose to renovate the Stadio Comunale instead, which sealed its fate once and for all.

[@tommyliangwei3724]

1st November 2016

[@RJsModernLife]

You should do a video on NBA G-league arenas. This year for the first time, there are teams across 3 continents (US, Canada, Mexico)!

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

It's in the works.

[@mattlangro9244]

What about Busch Memorial Stadium being demolished for Busch Stadium 3 in St. Louis?

[@rkupiecjr]

Fiscally responsible stadiums like 3 rivers are what we need to go back to

[@jamesgill3759]

I was at the last ever club game at the old Wembley. Came home unhappy though.

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

Villa fan losing to Chelsea in the cup final? Or was it the play offs? Or Charity Shield? (Was that United v Chelsea in 2000?)

[@jamesgill3759]

P. H. Diaz (old) Division One play off final.

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

@@jamesgill3759 I’m off to Wikipedia to see who didn’t get promoted then ☺️

[@KOles0KOles]

Poland - Stadion Dziesięciolecia. It was demolished and in this place was build Stadion Narodowy

[@Kris-ge4rb]

🏈

[@barontaylor7139]

What about Taylor Field in Regina Saskatchewan?

[@luisenriquepadilla6422]

About the Miami Orange Bowl ... From 1990 to 1991 or 1992 this Stadium was used for baseball with the Caribbean Baseball Series ( Serie del Caribe in Spanish ) but this stadium is the worst park about baseball and this situation on put the Caribbean Series in US is for attracting US citizens to view baseball and a possibility of giving a winter league in Florida

[@Paddyboro]

You have a good one too bud.

[@DknowsStuff]

You totally missed Busch Stadium in 2005!!!!

[@alk61695]

No mention of Shea Stadium in New York?

[@MilosBozino]

Can you make video about f1track?

[@sagittated]

I've been to games at both the Kingdome and the Orange Bowl. Both were in the bottom tier of stadiums I've been to, a level they share with Philly's Veteran's Stadium. None of those has the olden charm of, say Wrigley or old Comisky in Chicago. Or Michigan Stadium or Notre Dame Stadium (last century.)

[@EthanRKassel]

Aw, you're a Hawthorn fan? Thanks for Ceglar!

[@woodencoasterfan]

The Orange Bowl was really at the end of its life when the Orange Bowl Committee move the game to what is now Hard Rock Stadium. There were leaks everywhere and concession stands were never really given enough supplies. It also was in a really, really bad section of town.

[@slllloraxxx]

But the leaky old place was a great place to witness the end of the Miami Hurricanes as a legitimate contender, as well as the odd soccer game. It was a dump but it was our dump. And Little Havana wasn't *that* bad (although nearby areas and getting to/from the nearest metro could be tricky)

[@dougherty7]

Veterans Stadium was demolished in 2003 (former home of the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Philadelphia Phillies).

[@rs-df7qy]

Please do the Metrodome out of Minneapolis

[@freakyfornash]

That wasn't demolished until 2014 though.

[@rs-df7qy]

@@freakyfornash ah nvm den

[@owenwoolnough7654]

Highbury Stadium 2006

[@mpetersen6]

One not as famous as a lot of others. Milwaukee County Stadium. Now parking for Miller Park (I don't care what they call it now, it will always be Miller Park). The photo on the cover of the first issue of Sports Illustrated was taken there as Eddie Mathews strokes hit into right.

[@PeteTheRock2002]

What about Milwaukee County Stadium?

[@reptilfanatikern5234]

riposare in pace 🖤💚Stadio delle Alpi. 💚🖤

[@rjrball1227]

9:29 DOLPHIN TANK

[@aviationanimations5000]

I am used to being inside at a football game. Marvel stadium is just like this.

[@metowl15]

you missed Estádio da Luz (Benfica) and Highbury Park (Arsenal)

[@TracksideViews]

Also enjoy a good stadium video

[@jonathanjones2835]

What about the arms park in Cardiff that was replaced by the millennium stadium?

[@jonathanjones2835]

Arguably the greatest try of all time was scored at the old arms park, barbarians v nz, and the new stadium is one of the best rugby stadiums in the world 👍

[@mark123655]

Think he had to hold some good ones back for Pt2.

[@FanSteBNS]

What about Highbury Stadium?

[@toogyman]

Benficas old Stadium of Light Once held 135000 for a game in the eighties

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

I couldn't tell why but I thought you were a Hawks fan, East Melburnian ig

[@bruceh9105]

Shea Stadium didn't make the cut?

[@ArgentinaFan76]

There's actually a flagpole base of the twin towers of old wembley in St Raphael's estate

[@dvferyance]

Where is the RCA Dome?

[@Looscannon94]

You missed Old Mile High Stadium :(

[@Losingsince]

It was a crime to demolish old Yankee Stadium. It was an icon to the sport of baseball, and keep in mind I hate the Yankees....

[@epicoliver4008]

It was also a dumb when the Tigers left Tiger Stadium for Comerica Park and this is coming from a Pirates fan

[@m.kennedy342]

Both the old Yankee Stadium and Tiger Stadium were amazing and so full of rich baseball history. Truly like being in museums. Tiger being my favorite.

[@nathankelleher948]

Highbury stadium got demolished in the 2000s

[@anb7408]

This video would’ve been better (and shorter) had the boring history of the stadiums been left. I just wanted to see them blowing crap up!