Ghost Stadiums
 

Saw this story and thought it was cool.
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/aban...pid=1855129643

:clap: Good stuff George.

Teams should be FORCED to tear down those blighted old stadiums as part of the deal when they first build.

Yep, the Astrodome still stands right next to NRG Stadium in Houston. On one hand it is cool to see up close, on the other, it is just sitting empty and deteriorating. It really needs to come down.

There's plans underway to save Kemper Arena for youth sports in the old stockyards in KC. Municipal Auditorium in Downtown KC has amazing history. It's hosted more NCAA final fours than any other building. And it's a beautiful art deco structure. Just an amazing place.

In the same vein, images of former Olympic venues.

http://www.businessinsider.com/aband...into-disuse-33

Heh. I watched Hulk Hogan beat HHH for the belt there awhile back. That was the last time I've watched wrestling.

Good times.

I look at the Silverdome and see so much waste. That filed turf could have been torn up and used for nice youth field somewhere and all those seats could have been reused for something else. I had to see usable things like that wasted.

The Astrodome was the coolest place I ever watched a game back in the day. It was pretty posh. It is amazing how far stadiums have come now.

When I was a kid-Arrowhead was a Ghost stadium.

ROFL - that was the place where I saw live wrestling live my one and only time. Got to see Junkyard Dog [my maternal grandma's HERO], and got close enough to high-five Michael 'PS' Hayes.

Never really was much into wrestling, but when we watched, it was Mid-South, not WWF or the 'hollywood' stuff, because my grandma [and mom's whole side of the family down in LA really] watched Mid-South forever.

They all still look better than where the Raiders play.

I though the Astrodome was owned by Joel Osteen. Guess not.

It is a shame how these places look. What will Sochi and the Olympic areas of China and Brazil look in 10 years?

just think, some of those stadiums were built and now abandoned since the last time the Chiefs won a Super Bowl

Waiting for the day you get banned !Sick of your shit !

Houston just voted to turn the Astrodome into a parking lot

Mid-South was the promotion of the hardcore fan in those days. The guy who ran the territory, Bill Watts, was so old-school that if one of his wrestlers got in a bar fight and lost, he'd fire him because he'd lose credibility in front of the audience.

I read 5 or 10 years ago that the Silverdome was sold at auction to a small company for $200,000. Then when they realized that it was going to cost them many millions in commercial taxes and maintenance they defaulted and filed bankruptcy. They couldn't even afford to demo it.

Funny I thought mile high stadium was going to be there.

i say turn the old stadiums into farmers gardens/markets :D

Old stadiums need to have new breath of life. Either try to rebuild or indeed tear them down.

am curious if the stadium trusts ever paid back the portion of monies taxpayers put towards it?

i absolutely hate that professional sports asks for taxpayer monies for funding. i mean what other sport are you going to get in their that can cap out at 80 thousand people a week.

its a backhanded slap to the fan, and to those that would never go to an event.