The Worst NFL Stadiums of All Time

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[@andrewpadaetz5549]

PS It's KEY (like former MLB pitcher Jimmy)-zar for the SF stadium. It also was featured in the original Dirty Harry movie when Callahan confronts the Scorpio killer.

[@bgraham928]

The Yale Bowl is a great place to watch a game. The sight lines are perfect and the Harvard /Yale game (every other year) is well attended.

[@doubledown0411]

I'm shocked the Vet wasn't on this list. That thing destroyed countless knees and in Michael Irvin's case, his spine. Now they're saying it might have given players literal Cancer!

[@jamesturner44]

I came to the comments to say this, yep. Shocked 5 passed an opportunity to hate on the Eagles 😂

[@Yeen125]

It was also where Eagles fans earned their infamous soccer-hooligan like reputation.

[@dohanddonuts5716]

​@@Yeen125It had its own jail.

[@dohanddonuts5716]

There is nothing wrong with a field where you can see cement. It's football.😅 My dad called it asshole turf. It was bad surface now matter where you played but The Vet took it a step forward where someone said we should look into fixing that gap.

[@pgee4342]

The Vet had its charm for sure though. I prefer the Linc but I do miss the Vet sometimes.

[@LCSteeler16]

Stadiums that used astroturf should be on the list, getting injured on concrete sounds nicer than getting hurt on astroturf

[@sstorey79]

Astroturf was juju a thin plastic carpet on top of concrete lol

[@DaveCompton5150]

Dennis McKinnon of the Bears tore ACLs in both knees after jumping for a ball at the old Vet in Philly

[@kaybevang536]

Try the Vet they tried to also compact dirt over and under the turf even in the 2000s when adding grass turf didn’t help the fact the concrete is still under the damn thing

[@kevinmc4500]

Your ads suck….too long

[@PrinceRoyceFan667]

Not to mention the asbestos

[@moffjerjerrod1579]

Kezar may have been bad but its also where Dirty Harry Callahan shot the Zodiac Killer in the leg and we got that great pull back shot.

[@dudfourthree]

That was the Scorpio Killer (in the movie) but he was based off of the real Zodiac killer.

[@ldfreitas9437]

Kezar and Candlestick were great places to watch the 49ers. Anyone who says otherwise if full of BS! It's Levi's that sucks! Not in SF or even on the Peninsula of San Francisco for one thing. It's an erector set, like Stanford's stadium that replaced the old one.

[@vpolite1]

​@@ldfreitas9437You must not live in the Bay Area. Candlestick completely sucked.

[@JohnOdermott]

First of all, it's pronounced KEE-zar Stadium, not KAY-zar. During the Niners' years at Kezar, it often happened that in the late afternoon the seagulls would start bombarding fans and players with bird poo. Lovely.

[@richardspinosa6277]

harry to his partner “ go on outside and eat some linguine fatso “

[@virginiavet68]

Only good thing I've been able to take away from Sun Devil Stadium is that it's the forever football home of Pat Tillman, having played for both ASU and the Cardinals. May he rest in peace.

[@Zark_Moneybags69]

My dad got into a fight with vikings fans at that stadium when I was a kid

[@heartlandauthor]

It also is, as far as I know, the only stadium with the word "devil" in its name to host a sitting Pope (John Paul II held Mass there in 1987), which required the temporary removal or covering up of any depictions of ASU's Sun Devil mascot or the word "devil" in and around the stadium.

[@yottabyte6146]

"watch OJ Simpson slice up defenses" 💀

[@RedRaiderLobo20]

FivePoints makes the best references

[@matthewscruggs7104]

You mean Nicole and Ronald not defenses. Lol

[@bobma6342]

@@matthewscruggs7104 That joke is used on every video OJ is on I don't even notice it any longer

[@WingDiamond]

"Hey Joose... Was it harder to rush for 2000 yrs in one season or slice two necks in one night?"

[@AJHyoton]

I went to outdoor Vikings games at the college stadium, and whether for NFL or college, it is a great place for a game. We did not think we would get a playoff game there, with the traditional, outdoor durability factor coming into play. After the game, I was so damn sad, not just because of the shanked kick, but because I knew I would never go to another outdoor Vikings game. I wandered around Minneapolis all night, in sub-zero weather, feeling like a ghost.

[@kaybevang536]

And Blair Walsh never recovered but it’s still somewhat his fault if not the only one at fault closes kick of his life and the team rely on him shows the kinda guy he is never recovered

[@fvw1187]

*weather

[@retrogaminggenesis6102]

Seriously hope Cleveland doesn't rob us of that

[@13jorino]

​@@fvw1187whether is correct.

[@mrterp04]

Speaking of the Yale Bowl… The Giants played in four different home stadiums across four years: Yankee Stadium (first few games of 1973) Yale Bowl (rest of 1973 and 1974) Shea Stadium (1975) Giants Stadium (1976) This means that the Giants played as the home team in three different states (CT, NY, NJ) from 1974 through 1976

[@TPTGopher]

And in 1975, the Yankees, Mets, Giants and Jets all played at Shea.

[@mhbbej1]

​@@TPTGopherI was lucky enough to see all four teams play at Shea in 75.

[@kurtwicklund8901]

You missed Milwaukee County Stadium which hosted 2-3 regular season Packer home games for decades. The seats were far away as it was designed for baseball. Perhaps 20% were good football views. The seats along one sideline were so low, fans could not see over the players and coaches. So both teams' benches were on the opposite sideline. This was the only NFL stadium which had to do this.

[@Yeen125]

Fun Fact: County Stadium was directly responsible for the construction of Lambeau Field; since the old City Stadium in Green Bay was so obsolete that the NFL threatened to move the Packers to Milwaukee full time unless a new stadium was built in Green Bay.

[@davidlafleche1142]

No, Metropolitan Stadium had to do that, too.

[@beckydoesit9331]

I actually played at Milwaukee County Stadium. I actually enjoyed it, but I can see how someone in the seats may not have had the same experience.

[@bobma6342]

Tiger Stadium in Detroit had to do that

[@connorchil]

He did say it needed to be for a full season which is probably why it didn’t count

[@stevenlevesque4270]

Was a little surprised not to see old Foxboro Stadium on here.

[@drdank101]

Me too!!! That place was a dump and no better than a high school field. My first NFL game as a kid, my old man took me there. Not only did the Patriots get killed but I watched 3 guys (and one woman) piss on a guy that passed out in the parking lot

[@lougiacobbi725]

I can't believe that none of the world's biggest ashtrays - Three Rivers, The Vet and Riverfront - weren't on this list.

[@Sacto1654]

Those "cookie cutter" stadiums were *TERRIBLE* for everyone after a while. No wonder they were all replaced by _proper_ stadiums in recent years.

[@412StepUp]

They were the worst.

[@patrickmcgowan696]

Fun fact about war memorial in Buffalo: baseball scenes in "The Natural" were filled there.

[@eyechartny]

My late brother went to a filming, and at one point while filming stopped they threw autographed baseballs into the stands. He caught one, so we have a baseball autographed by Robert Redford.

[@le4421]

It’s pronounced “key-zar” and it’s actually a super nice stadium! Maybe for nfl standards it lacks but it’s right by Golden Gate Park and it’s a good environment. (I’m talking before the renovation too)

[@marklipson]

looks very pretty

[@fredaaron762]

As a fellow Mets fan, I'm surprised you left Shea Stadium off the list. My cousin had Jets season tickets in 1977, and I remember going to games in September and October where the outside temperature was in the 60s and 70s, but having to wear every article of clothing I owned because it always felt like 20 below at Shea. The sightlines were awful since most of the seats were meant for baseball, and having the stadium open to the water caused a nasty wind to always blow in. It made passing difficult when going toward the open end, and field goal kicking next to impossible. We all thought kicker Pat Leahy stunk until the Jets moved to Giants stadium, and he was able to show off his skills. By the way, much maligned Kezar Stadium made an uncredited appearance in the first Dirty Harry movie.

[@richardspinosa6277]

i also remember one game in particular i believe jets were playing the dolphins or bills , but wat i remember is the jets lost 14-12 because pat leahy missed two extra point when the ball was spotted at the 2 and kicked from the 9 yard line . the upright were in back of endzone so 19 yards he mikes both amd they lost . and it was november amd felt like i was in the article circle

[@Jleed989]

Having Joe Namath was a bright spot

[@aclarkedesign]

I remember going to Shea as a kid. Odd place and all I remember is the airplanes loud sounds.

[@richardspinosa6277]

i been to shea hundreds of times and absolute dump even when it was new it was put directly in the flight path of two airports laguardia ( literally across street on other side of grand central parkway) and jfk a few miles away . the. noise and sight of planes was a huge distraction . and then for football one the wind whipping off flushing bay was brutal. just a dump

[@fredaaron762]

@@aclarkedesign The story was that Jay Horowitz was sent to the area they were looking at for Shea on a winter's morning to see if it was affected by air traffic from nearby LaGuardia. Jay was a little hard of hearing & the traffic patterns in the winter are different from the summer, so he didn't have any problems and gave the green light for the project.

[@fansince68]

Interesting that your video didn't touch on sight line, which is more relevant for football than aesthetics which comes into play more for a baseball game. As much as you bashed the Oakland Coliseum, before Mount Davis was added the sight lines in that stadium were fantastic! Also fyi Kezar Stadium is pronounced KEEzar, not KAYzar.

[@1funsun1]

Some more about Sun Devil Stadium (recently renamed "Mountain America Stadium" but no one calls it that): It's gone through some major renovations since the Cardinals left. It was once all metal benches, but the seats on the sidelines have been replaced by actual chairs, with the end zones (student section), some of the away sideline, and upper deck remaining as bleachers. The south end zone seats were once detached from the rest of the stadium, as seen at 3:18 but have since been integrated into the lower bowl to completely close it. The north portion of the upper deck was removed due to concerns about structural integrity, with the jumbotron now occupying that space. Capacity went from ~74,000 to 53,599. Ironically it's probably better suited for NFL games now than when the Cardinals actually played there. Except for the heat, of course. That's still there.

[@jamesfields2916]

Went to my first game at Sun Devil Stadium in 1977 when end zone upper deck was under construction.

[@davidwarburton2915]

I cannot imagine metal bleachers in that Sun. Sun Devil and Cardinal fans must have been practically cooked alive.

[@jamesfields2916]

@@davidwarburton2915 ASU always played a majority of night games. It was still warm but by October it would be a pretty pleasant evening weather wise.

[@silmarian]

Not only is Mall of America built on the former Met Stadium site, there’s a metal home plate where the old home plate was. It was not a good stadium for baseball either, having been a minor league park that they just kind of added on to over the years.

[@higgy04]

And there is a chair on a wall near what was in 2007 a Log Flume ride marking the longest home run at the stadium. I wish they had painted the floor with both the baseball diamond and the football gridiron for historical reference.

[@beckydoesit9331]

Yes! I totally remember that! I used to play at Met Stadium. I didn't know about the metal plate. I did know about Mall of America because I loved shopping there and they had a kickass roller coaster. I'm going to look for that metal plate because I slid into it so many times when I played. Get my photo with it and stuff.

[@corwintipper7317]

It's after the Lego sculpture

[@cuesunny]

​@@higgy04as a so cal kid my mom grew up in MN so in the 90s and 00s we always go to the mall and I remember seeing that chair haha. Uncle told me the story which was very interesting and creative

[@henryca03]

Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium, the Falcons' first home stadium (although AFCS was more associated with the Braves), should've been on this list. It was literally built in 12 months, had a janky football configuration, and was the first among the much-maligned "cookie cutters" to meet the wrecking ball.

[@shanestanton8]

The Orange Bowl was the Miami Sharks’ home in “Any Given Sunday” War Memorial Stadium also hosted a lot of minor league baseball. It was the NY Knights’ home in “The Natural”

[@darryljorden9177]

The Orange Bowl was also the venue threatened by a murderous blimp(!) in "Black Sunday".

[@jdore8]

Kezar Stadium was used in Dirty Harry.

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

@@darryljorden9177 and also where Ace Ventura tried to figure out what happened to Snowflake (during the early years of the Dolphins the team actually did have a tank in an end zone and used Flipper of TV show fame as its mascot).

[@corvetteusa01]

You kill me with the OJ jokes

[@cattibingo]

Is your name ron goldman?

[@joermnyc]

#1 was also in Dirty Harry, as it was where the Scorpio killer worked and lived, and where Harry basically tortured him to get a confession because he had someone buried alive somewhere. Guess using that stadium was fitting for how dark and bleak Dirty Harry was.

[@wolfiehatesgoogle]

At least the Cardinals can find solace knowing that they are no longer the only Arizona pro sports team to squat in an ASU stadium

[@MrBlazemaster525]

Sun Devil Stadium looks decent compared to the Sun Devils hockey barn 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fixpacifica]

@@MrBlazemaster525 Jeez,, the hockey arena in Fairbanks, Alaska is bigger than where the Coyotes are playing now.

[@HorneATL]

8:26 I know it’s baseball, but no reference to “The Natural” for Buffalo’s War Memorial?!?! That is where much of the game action was filmed and is one of the charms of this selection.

[@NickCC23]

Yale Bowl doesn't have lights either. I remember watching a Harvard Yale game that went into multiple OT with darkness creeping.

[@evog35viii]

Pats fan here.... how in the blue hell did Foxboro Stadium not make this list?!!

[@davidlafleche1142]

Because Foxboro wasn't as bad. The sightlines were perfect, the best in the NFL.

[@evog35viii]

@davidlafleche1142 I've been there. 3 games, to be exact. There's a lot more to just having good sight lines if it means having a good fan experience.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@evog35viii Oh, well. At least the Patriots paid for both of their own stadiums with no taxpayer funding (Proverbs 22:16, KJV).

[@bob494949]

Foxboro was a mansion compared to the Oakland colosseum, the big A, and Kezar. I feel honored to have watched games at all of those.

[@evog35viii]

@bob494949 The local football field with the 10 capacity stand and single Porta potty near my home is also a mansion compared to Okland coliseum, lol.

[@zeebaa6]

"Mercifully imploded " 😂

[@rafaelrivera9346]

Forgot the Vet stadium. Concert floor with gaps and a crappy astroturf. Our family called football at the vet “concrete combat”. Many knees, toes and spines sacrifices happen in that place. Teams were scared to play at the vet.

[@CreightonRabs]

5:00 Mount Rosenbloom was basically Mount Davis before Mount Davis was built. 9:09 I'm surprised Candlestick didn't make this list. I get that Kezar was worse, but Candlestick wasn't exactly the greatest venue on earth either. Then again, few, if any, of the true outdoor cookie-cutters (Three Rivers, Veteran's, Busch 2.0, Riverfront) were particularly great. And I'm also surprised that the Silverdome didn't make the list. 10:02 You're damn straight I made it to the next one.

[@dohanddonuts5716]

Candlestick was a dump but it was our dump. One minute you're sitting under nice blue skies the next minute the sun ducks under rim and your freezing your ass off. There is a story that if the stadium was move a certain number of feet over the wind would have pass right by. Oh and don't forget about night games August. I don't know what team you follow, I'm assuming Bay Area, but Al Davis fucked up the Oakland Coliseum. No one else. Al Davis. Come get me Raider fans. It use to be a great stadium. Easy to get to. Though I'm a Card's fan from the Bay Area, the A's where also my team. They were great to see in the 80s. You could see the whole field. Even the bleacher seats were great. Once the A's leave, they'll bulldoze the who area.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@dohanddonuts5716 Problem: If Candlestick Park had actually been built where you suggested, then 65,000 people would have been killed in the earthquake. That plot of ground has less wind, but also too little bedrock. As it was, Candlestick held up quite well.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@coldsnap5742 The USA has been fortunate with earthquakes. When that one hit in 1989, the Athletics and the Giants were in the World Series. The entire state celebrated by closing schools and businesses early, giving everyone time to get home to watch Game 2 on TV (start time: 5:15 P.M.). As a result, traffic was far lighter than normal. BUT...! Suppose the Chicago Cubs and Toronto Blue Jays had been in the World Series instead? That would have made history, of course; but for California, it would have meant business as usual. The highways would have been packed...and the death toll could have been half a million. Next time, they may not be so lucky. (See link: "Plate Tectonics," homepage/about.)

[@davidlafleche1142]

@coldsnap5742 The worst was Alaska, 1964. The magnitude (9.2) and the damage were enormous, but the death toll was amazingly low (134), only because it was a holiday weekend.

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@dohanddonuts5716 No, leave it to the citizens. They'll tear it down in a day or two.

[@kevinkearns7719]

How is Cleveland Municipal not on this list? It was literally the worst venue in the NFL in the 1990s.

[@petemartin295]

I was about to say the same thing. The “Mistake on the Lake” was horrible.

[@gmwdim]

Good job to the Pontiac Silverdome for managing to avoid this list.

[@Jleed989]

It should have been on there

[@maxswenson6605]

Going to The Rock Pile in Buffalo, getting neck spasms from all the twisting and turning trying to see past support girders…..good times for sure

[@sportsmaster1364]

And of course, the Orange Bowl was replaced by... Marlins Park. So now nobody goes out there.

[@dohanddonuts5716]

First, it 's Key-zar not Kay-zar. This was a blue collar stadium. They had to put a chain link fence over the opponents entrance to the field because the fans use to throw beer bottles at them.

[@brianpack5479]

Don't say "of all time" if you're admitting to ignoring the first 50 years of league history. It doesn't work that way.

[@saxon6749]

Why does everyone assume that the cold is an issue? If anything, we have decades of data to back up that fans in cold weather states show up to NFL games in the winter and don't think much of it.

[@nowl775]

Didn't realize Kezar stadium was that low on the rankings. I actually got a chance to play at the now renovated Kezar Stadium back in 2008 while playing for my high school JV football team. I don't know if they still play high school football there, but it was still a cool experience.

[@EvanEscher]

I saw SF Dragons lacrosse games there years ago. It's a neat little stadium now with a track around it.

[@willleon9165]

Candlestick got lot of hate during its time surprised that never made list🤣🤣

[@Boomhower89]

Carroll Rosenbloom “Accidentally” drowned? Look it up

[@OneHitWonder383]

2:32 -- The Kingdome. Those ramps look like ribs, which is why we always called it the Con-dome. And...it is pronounced _KEE-zahr._

[@davidlafleche1142]

The Kingdome was originally designed to have an ornate outer wall to cover up those ramps, but it was already over budget, so they cut that out. Critics called it the Concrete Cupcake.

[@jamespyle777]

Wrigley Field, Milwaukee County Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium, Franklin Field, Fenway Park would have been the ones most forgotten to reach the Super Bowl era.

[@tygrkhat4087]

War Memorial Stadium was the Bills' home for 13 seasons; 10 AFL seasons from 1960-69, and 3 NFL seasons from 1970-72.

[@bakerfsu]

The Vikings had a tremendous advantage playing outside they haven’t had since. 4 Super Bowl appearances. None in 47 years.

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

Similar to the Dolphins as all 5 of their Super Bowl appearances came while playing at the Orange Bowl. None since the move to Hard Rock.

[@bakerfsu]

@@andrewpadaetz5549 The OB dripped with tradition and history which more than made up for its lack of amenities. I grew up in Tampa and went to FSU, but adored and miss the Orange Bowl.

[@jroggs85]

I actually appreciate the humbler design of some of these older stadiums, at least for practicality. The exorbitant expenses (which are forced onto taxpayers and fans) to build and maintain a modern stadium are a bigger problem than "visually dull" venues, especially when you're there for the sports/ events rather than the building itself. And so what if a bunch of multi-millionaire athletes have to walk a tenth of one mile from the locker room to the field? Is avoiding first world problems like that worth the hundreds of millions demanded from the taxpayers, or ticket prices that combine with parking, concessions, merchandise, and other expenses to make bringing the family to a football game more expensive than a week-long vacation?

[@davidlafleche1142]

Oddly, the Astrodome was built for the bargain price of $34 million, while a horror show like Veteran's Stadium cost $60 million.

[@Dr-Jan-itor]

Kingdome ceiling didn't collapse. Just a few tiles came down. Including a couple while the Mariners were actually playing.

[@ryanm4013]

Tiles came down = tiles from the ceiling collapsed.

[@johnharris6655]

Three Rivers, Riverfront, Busch Stadium and The Vet. All Cookie Cutter stadiums with bad turf should be on this list. My wife went to see the Raiders play the Seahawks when she was a kid in Seattle, the seats at the Kingdome were so steep you had to be careful not to fall down because you would not stop rolling.

[@hackeroftoday]

The Buffalo war memorial stadium has been transformed into an athletic complex where the original entrance to The Rockpile still stands

[@xp7575]

It's a gorgeous park in a nice neighborhood and it is WILD to think of what it would be like if they still played right in th middle of the city 💪🦬💪

[@hackeroftoday]

@xp8969 it would be horrible for parking and traffic, in my opinion, 10 times worse than leaving a Sabres game. Go Bills!

[@Six4Sure]

Kezar was also in Dirty Harry!

[@erakfishfishfish]

I was at Sun Devil Stadium for the Fiesta Bowl on 12/31/96. It was perfectly fine by late 90s standards. Coming from the east coast, having a mountain directly behind the stadium was a pretty cool novelty. That was the day I learned Kansas St fans are super nice.

[@Coyotek4]

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Veterans Stadium in Philly didn't make this list! Ask Wendell Davis what he thought of the turf there.

[@lemmiwinks09]

Hopefully the only instance we ever see where a player blew out both knees on the same play.

[@gabingston3430]

2:08 TCF/Huntington Bank Stadium did host for two full seasons, 2014 and 2015.

[@mitchtellers2547]

TCF was honestly pretty good compared to the Metrodome. ...Other than being without a roof in the dead of winter, of course. But even then, the Vikings did a good job "banking" on it and turned freezing your ass off at a football game into nostalgia bait.

[@DrSkull1939]

Say what you want about Metropolitan Stadium, but that stadium saw their greatest era of success from say 1968 to 1978. 10 years of my younger life that I will never forget.

[@Kingfisher1215]

Who is “their”?

[@timothynaugle1326]

I totally agree! They gave up that weather advantage at old Met Stadium when they moved into the Metrodome, not to mention, never returning to another Superbowl after that. Also, if it's supposedly SO awful playing outdoors, then why are the Packers & Bears still doing it in 2023-24? 🤔

[@toastman6420]

Surprised RFK, LA Memorial, or the Astrodome weren’t on

[@psychoniner]

Games at the Orange Bowl were tough even before you got into the stadium. You ended up parking on someone's lawn then after the game had to wait for other people to come back before you could leave. One Hurricanes game, it was so hot out (That place had like no shade inside the stadium) they ran out of beer. Since stadium was off campus they sold beer. But I will say I have seen some legendary games there too. I was very young, but I was at the Dolphins game there when they ruined the Bears chance at an undefeated season in 1985. FSU missing a field goal right in front of me was a great moment.

[@senton412]

No shade, and no cover when the humidity rain comes down. Poor drainage = flooding. No parking at the stadium - bonanza for people who could rent out their yards in Little Havana. No direct public transit - when I went to the U, there were special buses from the Metrolink stop to the stadium. Joe Robbie/ProPlayer/LandShark/WhatEver was very welcome.

[@minigalen7599]

The Met was the source of Bud Grant's power. Its home field advantage propelled the Vikings to 4 Super Bowls.

[@L34VITT]

*Losses*

[@fredh.1255]

Unfortunately for the Vikings, none of the Superbowls were played there.🤷‍♂️

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@fredh.1255 Bud Grant never figured out why they lost every time. The winning teams simply kept Fran Tarkenton in the pocket and dared him to win with his ARM...which he never did. The Vikings never even tried to adjust.

[@RedRaiderLobo20]

I live across the street from the Yale Bowl. Such a strange venue, man. To this day, there are no lights, which I much appreciate as a neighbor of it.

[@skittlecar1]

"No temporary homes." Then shows the Yale Bowl. 🤦‍♂️

[@wildcard9370]

Exactly! This guy is on crack

[@Cha-y412]

YEP

[@amazonstorm]

These are the kinds of videos I love from your channel

[@thomaslove6494]

The yale stadium didn't have adequate air conditioning?😅... Its an open air arena....lol

[@spartacus3250]

I'm confused on your criteria for this list because you said TCF Bank Stadium dosen't count even though the Vikings played 2 full seasons there.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Too bad that you had to qualify that it was Super Bowl era only, because in the 1920s, the Hartford Blues played all of their home games in a literal velodrome, where the field could barely fit inside the cycling track. It looked hilariously awkward

[@FivePointsVids]

oh, that's another video - sifting through all those shitty stadiums would have taken WORK lol

[@griselame]

I think Seattle fans have a fondness for the old Kingdome

[@ken33461]

Memorial Stadium Baltimore was playing on dirt. Wrigley Field hosted the Bears through 1970 with a brick wall off an end zone that was shortened since it was not big enough for a full field.

[@astrodome1994]

Video starts at 2:00. #SkipTheDamnAd

[@MrDman21]

The Yale bowl sounds like a nightmare for sports teams

[@raytaylor6412]

The stairways in Yale Bowl open up onto the field, which probably aided the student protest at halftime of the Harvard-Yale game in 2019 and the conclusion of the game was played in almost total darkness, which the only people who were watching the game was on TV when ESPN (yes, they carried the Ivy League in those days) switched to the daytime filters on their cameras.

[@S1apShoes]

8:26 Oddly enough, War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo served as a NASCAR track in the 1950's and even played host to one of Richard Petty's first starts as a young kid in 1959.

[@FivePointsVids]

Once again an absolute nugget of info

[@UnchainedAmerica]

My grandfather helped build Angels Stadium back in the 1960. He recall going to the Angels game during its first season and said the baseball stadium was very nice.

[@davidlafleche1142]

They didn't need to move the Big-A scoreboard. They could have built around it.

[@UnchainedAmerica]

It was iconic. You can see it from the freeway.@@davidlafleche1142

[@chrisj.9882]

No mention of The Vet? I figured that would earn a mention, just for the horrible turf alone.

[@EthanRKassel]

It’s pronounced KEY-zar, btw. If you’re ever in SF, check it out when you’re at Golden Gate Park! It hosts a bunch of high school games, including the oldest rivalry west of the Rockies between St. Ignatius and Sacred Heart Cathedral! And most of the seats have been replaced with old Candlestick seats. And a pre or postgame stop at Kezar Pub is always a good decision. That said, it’s hard to find parking when a few hundred people are there. Getting there when it held 60,000 must gave been a nightmare. Not to mention bottles were regularly thrown at the visiting sideline.

[@sammyrhoads265]

I’m surprised that Tulane stadium wasn’t on here since in the later years it was real bad

[@carseye1219]

Maybe I'm romanticizing it but I used to go to Cleveland Browns games in the 1970s/1980s. I knew it wasn't well thought of but I'd really rather freeze my as* off on a wooden seat at "the Stadium" among the working class diehard fans of that era than be pampered in creature comforts in SoFi among venture capitalists discussing their golf games.

[@Jleed989]

Most of those people are in private suits sipping wine

[@chrisguardiano6143]

In addition to football, baseball & basketball, the Kingdome was also home to the Sounders of the NASL from 1976-1983 & hosted the national championship game for NCAA men's college soccer in 1985. It even hosted a World Cup qualifier between the USMNT & Canada in 1976 (the first international soccer match to be held indoors) & FIFA even put it on the shortlist to host games for the 1994 World Cup though it was not selected. As for Anaheim Stadium it too was also used for soccer from 1978-1981 as it was the home of the California Surf of the NASL & was actually even worse as a soccer stadium than it was for football because they simply added the goals & kept the lines for baseball & football as part of the soccer field.

[@fixpacifica]

Watching a game in the Kingdome was like watching a game in a giant parking garage.

[@DrSkull1939]

I thought you were going to call Kezar Stadium Scheisse 😂. Technically you did

[@tgreen9825]

Sun Devil stadium was awful for NFL games, but that hill next to it is “A Mountain” and it made for a free seat to watch the games. Also got to watch McCown destroy the Viking’s playoff dreams from that stadium so it’ll always hold a special place in my heart

[@willisapril]

Schaefer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium 1971-2002 should have been on this list and it should have been #1

[@SeanWinters]

God I'm so glad we're not talking baseball here, Tropicana gets so much abuse but Raymond James is great! The sombrero, though I'm too young, sucked ass.

[@menzel17]

We need an updated NHL/NBA arena ranking

[@BroadwayJoe99]

FWIW, the Kingdome was actually quad-use, as its first tenant was neither the Seahawks, Mariners or Sonics, but instead the OG Sounders of NASL 1.0. Even the US National Team played in the Kingdome in the lead-up to the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

[@jamesfields2916]

Kansas City Municipal Stadium was pretty much the same layout as Minnesota Metropolitan Stadium. One of the greatest games ever, Kansas City/ Miami in 1971 was the last game played there.

[@SandBoxJohn]

That game also happened to be longest game played in NFL history ending in the Dolphins defeating Chiefs 27-24 at 7: 40 mark of the second overtime.

[@GhostfaceYT2]

Bro did the commanders dirty 6:39

[@ThatOldSWDude]

Funny story, Kezar was almost a baseball stadium also, when the Dodgers were looking for a west coast home, San Francisco offered them a home at Kezar stadium until Candlestick could be built, but the Dodgers wanted to build/own their stadium. When the Giants moved, the Seals were leaving for Phoenix, so the Giants used their stadium until Candlestick was built.

[@charlesmurphy3222]

You should cross check with your buds at Dorktown. Their documentary on the Vikings is epic. And why The Met may have been the best home field advantage during it's 20+ years of service. I think the players liked it as well. The fans were quite a distance away from the sidelines. Shannon Sharpe would've needed a bullhorn to call in the Minnesota National Guard. 🤣 For a baseball stadium, Tiger Stadium in Detroit was great for football sight lines. Especially the upper deck.

[@seesar77]

It's pronounced Key-zar, not Kay-zar. But that had do be a fun experience in the late 60s Go to a game a Kezar and be a few blocks away from Haight-Ashbury. 🚬

[@MrConverse]

FivePoints, I get that you don’t like multi-use stadiums and I even get why. But could you please do a video about the best ones? It would be very interesting to see the different ways that teams rearranged things when going from one sport to the other and about some of the oddities that resulted. For example, I grew up in Pittsburgh and when Three Rivers Stadium was configured for football there was a section of seats at one end zone that stood oddly alone. Which multi-use stadium looks the best when configured for baseball? Which one looks best when configured for football? Which one was the least worst overall? Thanks!

[@FivePointsVids]

that's actually not a bad idea

[@davidlafleche1142]

Fenway Park and Mile High Stadium worked better than any other.

[@diggsfather]

fenway's not really a dual use stadium since it's only used for football every once in a while anymore. and it was designed and built before the nfl was even invented

[@davidlafleche1142]

@@systemofanup Funny you should put it that way. Look at a photo of RFK Stadium. When you see it from above, it resembles a toilet.

[@ronflatter1235]

How Wrigley Field did not make this list is curious, especially since it could not accommodate an entire gridiron. Most notably the end zone near the first base dugout had a jagged line because it did not fit.

[@MikeSuth4040]

There's a high school football team that plays at Kezar stadium as well.

[@NWOWCW4Life1]

Love the stadium videos as usual.

[@MrDan708]

So many wonderful games were played in the Orange Bowl, but as with any other concrete stadium, the concrete starts to deteriorate after so many decades. I do miss the dolphin tank in the open end of the stadium, though.

[@Jleed989]

According to Larry Csonka, he would have rather played in the asphalt parking lot

[@kenricva]

The configuration of Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis had both team benches on the same side of the field. I remember watching the games when I was a kid and finding that to be rather odd. I don't recall any other fields being set up like that.

[@mattduke8550]

Fun fact: The Robert Redford baseball movie The Natural was filmed at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo

[@gregsmith7428]

Kezar SFO, I remember as a kid watching 49er games on TV. All game long, seagulls would glide all over the field and on the tv screen! 😵‍💫

[@jessewolgemuth]

Did you forget about Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia?

[@cuesunny]

Haha angel stadium!! I remember getting to walk the field every year because my little league was just a few miles away. That old stadium was huuuge. Now its pretty lame but still big when driving by on freeway!

[@mandospence]

Did the Patriots play at Fenway Park during the Super Bowl era? I know they did for several seasons in the 1960s when they were in the AFL. One of the best baseball stadiums ever, sure. I can’t imagine playing football there was very charming though.

[@HHSGDFootballJPD]

I think that in the late 60s, they moved to Harvard Stadium. Foxboro stadium I think opened for the '71-'72 season.

[@Jleed989]

Joe Kapp and the Boston Patriots

[@StevenEveral]

The Kingdome was a piece of crap, but it was OUR piece of crap.

[@13jorino]

I loved watching football games in outdoor dual purpose stadiums when the weather was bad. Especially Oakland and Buffalo

[@BC-xs8dc]

How is Veterans Stadium not on the list? What a shit hole!

[@MrCHAIRMANOFTHEBORED]

The old Cleveland Stadium used to have the baseball field still in use during the 1st few games of the BROWNS season back in the day,i do miss the old stadium a bit 🏟️👍

[@rogerhuggettjr.7675]

I loved the old Met Stadium in Bloomington having grown up 2 miles west of there. It's a shame they didn't insist on sticking all the sports teams in downtown and replaced the stadium with the Mall Of America and the North Stars' home around from them, the Met Center, with an Ikea. Thus ended tailgating in Minnesota.

[@KippinCollars]

Kezar Stadium (pronounced Key-czar) was actually awesome. It's right in the heart of the city. It would have been amazing to see a game there back then.

[@andrewmartinez9992]

Facts he doesn’t know what he’s talking about

[@ryanm4013]

I’ll pass being in the heart of San Francisco. Too many bums and too much poop on the ground. Proof policies can destroy a once great city in a matter of a few elections

[@kaceecruson9532]

O.J. Simpson... slice up defenses.... 😂I see what you did there!