NFL question


Michigan being a prime example of this....think they just started with a bowl and its got bigger and bigger apart from a minor issue recently where they lost some capacity due to have to redesign some bits for disabled access. Saw something on social media once that suggested Michigan held some record of having had consecutive 100,000+ sell outs dating back to the late 70s\early 80s.

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Yeah, I was thinking about Michigan in particular. It’s not known as The Big House for nothing. Despite being for college sport, it’s the third largest sports stadium by capacity in the world. 🥹
 
Yep its ridiculous how big some of the college stadiums are, currently 8 of the top 10 biggest stadiums in the world are college stadiums :-
I've been to a game at Sanford Stadium, home of the the University of Georgia Bulldogs.

Athens GA is a town not much bigger than, say, Hartlepool. Yet it has a 93,000 capacity stadium! You drive along these suburban streets then turn a corner and BANG! it's there in front of you. Enormous.
 
I've been to a game at Sanford Stadium, home of the the University of Georgia Bulldogs.

Athens GA is a town not much bigger than, say, Hartlepool. Yet it has a 93,000 capacity stadium! You drive along these suburban streets then turn a corner and BANG! it's there in front of you. Enormous.
Lambeau Field where Green Bay play is the same....capacity of just over 80,000 with Green Bay where its situated have a population of just over 100,000.
 
My guess would be Minnesota.

Edit: ignore me, I think they are enclosed.
Prob the ones that get the coldest and snowiest are Lambeau, Soldier Field (Bears), Highmark/Orchard Park (Buffalo), Gillette (Pats) and Mile High (Denver). No wonder Minnesota went indoors. I can’t imagine what it’s like there in mid January.

There’s nothing even remotely like it in (our) football.
Aye, rugby with motorcycle gear on
That’s a very simplistic view, as I am sure you’re aware 😉. Players are on average way quicker, way heavier and way nastier. I once interviewed a very famous NFL running back called LaDainian Tomlinson who said that every game he played was like him being involved in 30-40 car crashes.

I love rugby, but American football is an absolutely brutal, crazy sport.
 
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Why do most of the stadiums not have a roof? Must be an absolute bugger for the ones located in cold northern areas in the middle of Winter.

Local council and towns make billions on hosting super bowls, not many teams in cold weather without a roof ever get given it. Can only think of NY that did.

All about the luxury n comfort and great experience nowadays - not many built for home field intimidation / advantage anymore. I'd exclude Seattle n Minnesota from the list.

All new build stadiums in bad weather areas now have roofs that a can think of, can't remember last new stadium built in poor weather without a roof - probably Boston or Seattle.
 
Thats mainly because the grounds are miles from anywhere with massive car parks and they all drive there. This is an aerial view of Metlife which is over in New Jersey but not that far from New York and despite being an 80,000 seat stadium its swamped by the car parks around it!

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Swamped and meadowlands in the same sentence
 

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