Curated category
NFL venues
- Allegiant StadiumAllegiant Stadium opened in 2020 on roughly 62 acres of land in Paradise, Nevada. It became the home field of the Las Vegas Raiders and the UNLV Rebels…
- Levi's StadiumIn 1997, San Francisco voters approved $100 million in city spending to build a new stadium and an attached shopping mall at Candlestick Point.
- Acrisure StadiumAcrisure Stadium drew 73,117 fans on the 17th of June 2023, setting the record for the highest-ticketed event in Pittsburgh history.
- MetLife StadiumAt approximately $1.6 billion, MetLife Stadium was the most expensive stadium built in the United States at the time of its completion.
- Lincoln Financial FieldLincoln Financial Field opened its doors on the 3rd of August 2003 with a soccer match that drew 68,396 fans to watch Manchester United defeat Barcelona 3-1…
- NRG StadiumNRG Stadium in Houston, Texas opened on the 24th of August 2002 with a preseason football game that the visiting Miami Dolphins won 24-3.
- Empower Field at Mile HighEmpower Field at Mile High sits exactly where its name promises: one mile, 5,280 feet, above sea level in Denver, Colorado.
- Gillette StadiumGillette Stadium sits in Foxborough, Massachusetts, 22 miles southwest of Boston and 18 miles northeast of Providence, Rhode Island.
- Hard Rock StadiumHard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida has worn more names than almost any other venue in American sports history. Joe Robbie Stadium. Pro Player Park.
- Highmark StadiumHighmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York is a $1.7 billion project that will become the most expensive taxpayer-supported facility in the history of the…
- M&T Bank StadiumM&T Bank Stadium sits in Baltimore, Maryland, pressed right up against Oriole Park at Camden Yards, making the two venues neighbors in one of the most…
- Northwest StadiumNorthwest Stadium sits in Landover, Maryland, just 2.5 miles east of Washington, D.C., on land that was once a working dairy farm.
- Paycor StadiumPaycor Stadium's naming rights agreement, finalized on the 9th of August 2022, produced one quiet consequence for the rest of the NFL.
- Arrowhead StadiumArrowhead Stadium sits on the eastern edge of Kansas City, Missouri, near the interchange of Interstate 70 and Interstate 435, and it holds a record that has…
- Lumen FieldLumen Field sits in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood, one mile from downtown, and it has held a Guinness World Record for the loudest outdoor stadium crowd twice…
- Caesars SuperdomeLouisiana Governor John McKeithen walked into Houston's Astrodome in 1966 and started planning the Caesars Superdome. He turned to those beside him and said…
- Ford FieldOn the 20th of August 1996, the Detroit Lions announced their intention to build a new stadium in Downtown Detroit. Voters approved a referendum for the…
- Lucas Oil StadiumLucas Oil Stadium opened on the 16th of August 2008, and it did so by replacing something Indianapolis had relied on for nearly a quarter century.
- Raymond James StadiumIn 1995, new owner Malcolm Glazer purchased the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a record $192 million. He immediately declared the existing twenty-eight-year-old…
- Wembley StadiumWembley Stadium opened in 2007 atop a peculiar piece of buried history: when excavators dug down for the new pitch, their machines hit the concrete…
- Huntington Bank FieldThe evening of the 12th of September, 1999 saw the Cleveland Browns play their first regular-season game at Huntington Bank Field.
- Lambeau FieldLambeau Field sits in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a city of modest size in the north central United States, yet it holds a stadium that ranks as the second-largest…
- Soldier FieldSoldier Field sits on Chicago's Near South Side, and on the 23rd of August 1938, its lawn nearly disappeared under a crowd nobody had planned for.
- U.S. Bank StadiumU.S. Bank Stadium sits on the east side of downtown Minneapolis, on the exact ground where the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome stood for more than three decades.
- AT&T StadiumAT&T Stadium's first NFL regular-season game ended with Eli Manning writing on the visitor's locker room wall: "First win in the New Stadium." The crowd that…
- Mercedes-Benz StadiumMercedes-Benz Stadium rose from a parking lot in Atlanta's Vine City neighborhood at a cost estimated at US$1.6 billion, making it one of the most expensive…
- State Farm StadiumState Farm Stadium sits in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb west of Phoenix, and it has hosted more defining American sports moments than almost any other…
- Tom Benson Hall of Fame StadiumThe year 1937 marked the start of a massive construction project in Canton, Ohio. Federal workers poured concrete and raised steel beams under the direction…
- EverBank StadiumEverBank Stadium has worn five different names since it opened in 1995. Each one marks a deal, a sale, or a shift in who claimed ownership over what the…
- Nissan Stadium (Nashville)Nissan Stadium wasn't always called Nissan Stadium. On the 16th of April 1998, a tornado tore through its construction site in downtown Nashville.
- Estadio AztecaEstadio Azteca sits 7,200 feet above sea level in the Coyoacán district of Mexico City, where the thin air and the roar of nearly 88,000 people have shaped…
- Bank of America StadiumBank of America Stadium sits in the Uptown section of Charlotte, North Carolina, holding 75,037 people and serving as home to two professional sports…