I’d argue that LA Colosseum is not primarily remembered or known as a football/baseball multi used stadium. It’s well loved as a football/Olympic stadium.

*undepresses your ginger*

I can't believe you forgot to mention the best multi-purpose stadium of all time--Rogers Centre, Toronto, Canada. Rogers Centre was the last of the cookie-cutter multi-purpose stadiums. The field-level seats on the baseball field are movable to create a rectangular field suitable for watching a football game. Previously, it was the home field for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadien Football League. Additionally, the Buffalo Bills of the NFL played an annual game at the stadium as part of the Bills Toronto Series from 2008 to 2013. Rogers Centre was never a perfect fit for both baseball and football, but it is still the best multi-purpose stadium of all time. Also, there were two other U.S. multi-purpose stadiums that never had a major league baseball tenant. They are (1) Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, which opened in 1976, and (2) the New Orleans Caesars Superdome, which opened in 1975. Some major league teams played exhibition games at Aloha Stadium and at the New Orleans Superdome, but no official regular season major league games were ever played in those two facilities.

Hot take: I actually liked the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Sitting up in the left-field nosebleeds with a Dome Dog in one hand and a Budweiser in the other was a classic ballpark experience.

Maybe it makes the most sense to think of multipurpose as an era, rather than a type of stadium. On the one hand, it's not clear why your list should exclude Wrigley (which the Bears and Cubs shared for 50 seasons) but include LA Coliseum (which the Dodgers and Rams shared for only four seasons.) MOST of the jewel box MLB parks hosted NFL at some point (Wrigley, Comiskey, Tiger Stadium, Forbes, Shibe, League Park, Ebbets ...) but they were all older than the NFL, so they couldn't have been built with pro football in mind. Maybe you can say that the "multipurpose era" really begins with Cleveland Municipal Stadium which opened in 1932, and it ended with Camden Yards (1992) which was clearly intended to be baseball-only.

SkyDome and Anaheim Stadium were pretty big misses.

I loved Atlanta Fulton County Stadium! It was a joyful atmosphere. The Braves of the 90’s helped overshadowed the looks of the stadium. It got very loud when fans war chanted and did the tomahawk chop.

so no rogers centre?

6:27 It's strange seeing how different that area looked 60-70 years ago, considering that it's all built up today (with the Mall of America at the site of the stadium).

No skydome/Rogers Centre?

Not only, as mentioned by others, was Anaheim Stadium mentioned. It was another stadium that received a massive renovation to remove seats.

u forgot the rogers centre - also if your not ranking yankee stadium why rank cleveland

You should do this with the NHL and NBA arenas too

What about Mile High Stadium Denver?

It was hideous, cold and miserable but Exhibition stadium holds such great memories between Grey Cups, 85' Blue Jays and the biggest concerts of the summer during the Ex.

RFK's bleachers that moved on the railroad tracks... they bounced. Looked amazing on TV. Was fun to be in at a game.

Would love to see a video addressing how the old multi-purpose stadiums dealt with the problem of reconfiguring the playing field for baseball and football. I know some stadiums had retractable seats while other ones had whole sections of seating that moved on wheels to re-position. These modifications also affected overall seating capacity.

You ranked The Stick number 2? The only ballpark where you could get a sunburn and frostbite during the same game. Busch, when it had Astroturf, often got searingly hot. There was an NBC game of the week (against the Dodgers, IIRC) during the mid 1980s when it was so hot on the field that every camera, except the one upper deck cam that was meant to record base runners on first and second, burned out. After about the third inning, that was the only angle for the rest of the game. Qualcomm, before they built the upper deck beyond right field, always had a very comfortable, cooling breeze flowing through the stadium. And if they were intending to tear down the Oakland Coliseum anyway, the city should have started with Mount Davis after the Raiders left for Vegas. At least the A's would have a better venue until their stadium deal was settled.

So where does the Rogers Centre rank? You put Exhibition stadium but not the Rogers Centre?

Didn't a lot of baseball players lose sight of flyballs / pop-ups in the Metrodome because of the white roof?

When I was a kid, I really looked forward to the Pirates playing in the Astrodome. It was the first stadium with an animated scoreboard, and the Pirates broadcast would often show the animations. It made me really look forward to Three Rivers Stadium after I learned that the Pirates were going to build it.

I think Busch stadium looked really good after the renovations and conversion to grass.

Finally you included my hometown stadium that doesn’t exist, Milwaukee County Stadium!

I'm confused why you included Exhibition Stadium, but not Rogers Centre/Skydome? Especially because it was designed for both football and baseball. The EX was a football stadium that they just slapped baseball onto.

The current Yankee Stadium is multi purpose. It hosts MLB, MLS, College Football, & Concerts.

I’m going to rank every depressed ginger video

I'm shocked the Vet wasn't last...it's problem was that it was bad for both sports. If you sat in the upper deck in the outfield, you couldn't see if balls were home runs or not. If you sat up there in the endzones for football, you couldn't see the endzones. Then there was the 100 Level seats that were good for baseball but useless for football.

The L.A. colosseum was never intended on being multipurpose, it was only the home of the dodgers for 2 years while dodger stadium was being built in the late 50’s

I think LA Colosseum should be a bit high since the product of nascar racing there has been great

My dad was in the centerfield seats, eight rows from where Willie Mays made “the catch” in the 1954 World Series. He loved the Polo Grounds.

This guy is the coolest guy around. The way he expresses his opinions are absolutely hilarious.

Love those Rank videos!

I might not agree with your rankings but this was great nostalgia.

Good list and pretty agreeable. I grew up in St. Louis and went to quite a few Cardinals games; both baseball and football. It wasn't until 1996 that they took all the outfield seats out and replaced the turf for grass. Before then, it was very much like the other cookie cutters but they did sell out a lot for baseball. Quite a scene with that place packed for a world series and loud as heck. One other thing....the Astrodome was so much better before they added the upper deck outfield seats. It was one big ass scoreboard from foul pole to foul pole and had very memorable graphics during Astros and Oilers games.

A sports venue like Candlestick Park would have been perfectly fine if it was actually remodeled for San Francisco 49ers!

This was actually great video - way better than i expected it to be. Ill have to show it to my dad as he loves talking about how many of these old stadiums were complete DUMPS LOL

Did you ever actually see a game in these stadiums? I went to Riverfront and Fulton Co stadiums to watch baseball, not to soak in visual imitations of old ballparks. There wasn't a bad seat in most of these. Sightlines were good. Nobody cared where they watched the Big Red Machine in the mid-70s.

One thing is for certain, the current Busch Stadium is much better than the previous Busch Stadium. I never liked the concrete ashtray era of sports in general.

My favorite Cookie Cutter Stadium ist RFK and second Shae Stadium. They look different than the others. Riverfront looks better than the Metro in Minnesota or the old Baltimore one...

Some of these were built before 1070 and seats were added while plans were made for new stadiums. Having been to the Met in Minny and CNE in Toronto I never had an issie with them. I also loved football being played over infields back in the day. The new stadiums are just as cold as the ones you criticize side note....I loved being in the elements, wheter playing or spectating

Cleveland Municipal Stadium - “the center field bleacher section was not used for football” …. WTF? That was the original Dawg Pound, home of the true Browns die hards. I assure you it was used, and very loudly, for football.

I really liked RFK stadium 🏟️ and Fulton County Stadium, because they had natural grass and the overall design.👍

the Kingdome was epic, indoor baseball is something you have to experience just once

This is the first time I heard you talk about the Oakland Coliseum and mention the OLD true Oakland Coliseum pre-Mt Davis. THAT was a FAR better stadium for both sports and most people's memories of the great years in the 1970s of Oakland A's and Oakland Raiders came from that era. It was fantastic. Just once I'd like to see you post a picture of the pre-1995 Oakland Coliseum in baseball season looking out toward the Oakland hills. You are correct-Mt Davis was a colossal tragic mistake of the most epic proportions.

Great video. But I don't understand why la coliseum is on the list and angels stadium isn't.

To be fair, the upper deck in the Astrodome didn't encompass the entire stadium until the late 1980's. It was added because their total capacity for football was under 50k and they had the smallest stadium in the league.

I have a lot of fond memories of seeing games in the Kingdome. Everyone from other cities constantly told us how terrible it was, but there was a kind of atmosphere that the Kingdome had that T-Mobile and Lumen lack.

I would also throw in Mile High Stadium and Aloha Stadium for consideration in rankings.

Mile High Stadium. Look into it. It’s #1 Also left off Anaheim Stadium and Skydome And I know it didn’t host any major pro teams (just pro bowl and a AAA team) but Aloha stadium was one of the more unique multipurpose stadiums. Would have been fun to rank as a wild card

You Forgot the SkyDome in Toronto. It was used for CFL Football along with MLB Baseball from its opening until 2015. Another venue that could qualify for this would be BC Place in Vancouver. Broaden your horizons bru to the rest of North America (including our Mexican cousins as well) and you will have an plethora of further DG content to push out for us masses. Cheers.

So you left our Skydome, BC Place, the Superdome, Aloha Stadium

Enjoyed Memorial Stadium..the stadium was tall and massive..the light towers even more so. Great times in late 70s..Orioles packed over 50,000 on many ocassions. Oriole Park has never been loud like MS...

One of the problems with the “Cookie Cutter” stadiums was that they all had artificial turf and that was murder on player’s knees not to mention “Turf Toe”

What about Skydome(Rogers Centre) in Toronto or BC Place in Vancouver?

The Murph was my childhood stadium.

Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, MD: ”The House of Magic” of the 70’s early 80’s (Orioles Baseball) and “The World’s Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum” as named by the old B-more Colts opponents of yesteryear due to how LOUD the place was at that time to play in, long may she be in the cherished memories of so many. Holy ground that old place was.

You forgot Angel Stadium. It looked like a carbon copy of Candlestick when the Rams played there.

RFK 17? You got to be kidding me. It's the only one with a unique roof design and the seats bounced!

Exhibition Stadium was so named for its location, near the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (basically our equivalent to a State Fairgrounds). Yes it was a poor fit for the Jays but saying the name is ridiculous is like saying Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway has a stupid name.

The Vet actually had fountains in the outfield along with Phil and Philis statues when it first opened

Candlestick Park's movable right field seats had a "Kop" look to it, even though it was not in the end zone. About the only thing interesting there.

I have been sat watch baseball games in some of those stadiums. I saw MLB games at Busch Stadium Olympic Stadium and growing up around Philly the Vet. I have watch Orange Bowl game in Miami Iowa vs GA Tech. I feel old

Not defending Three Rivers at all. It was a concert monster. But as a kid going to many games in the 1970s I was at a good number of games where the upper deck was fairly full. I think it originally held around 54,000. I know i was at one with more than 50,000 people and quite a few games with 45,000 +. And it was nothing to have 35,000 people there. Night games 20,000-30,000 was common. But the Pirates were a great team from the late 1960s to the early 80s. Always in the mix. It was a joke when they covered seats. Made no sense. .. I usually sat in the lower outfield seats. . except for some of those higher attendance games. The complete outfield both lower and upper deck was general admission. .so first in got the best seats... I believe when the stadium opened youth general admission was $.65 adult was $2.50. It was like that for a while.. it went up to $1,00 for youth in the mid 1970s. Later in the Late 1980s. The lower outfield became reserved.

Cool Video!

I'm a little surprised that Candlestick Park is rank so high. Most opponents that played baseball could not stand playing there because of the wind.

How come there's nothing about the SkyDome that's currently in use?

Rank the MLS stadiums. Top 5 would be ATL, Nash, STL, LAFC, and Minn. The worst would be yankee stadium.

They built so many of these back in the 60s and 70s. They didn't turn out to be as economical as they thought they would be. It took a crew of 200 workers 12 hours to convert the field from baseball to football and back. It turned out to be just as economical to give both your baseball and football team their own stadium.

The Blue Jays where horrible in 1977 to 1981 playing in that stadium. They where much better in the late 80's but the stadium was not.

Someone ( not me) actually ghinks multipurpose stadiums should return. I get the absurd costs of building ONE stadium. Here on Chicago we have two teams ( the Bears are White Sox) wanting new stadiyms ABD public funds to help pay for them. Someone suggested that they " share" a stadium. While that might be more palatable cost wise, this list proves that shared stadiyms don't work. In almost every case, both baseball and football teans got new stadiums. Some that didn't keft or sre leaving town ( Oakland ). The Colts left Baltimore for Indianapolis, the Cleveland Browns left for Baltimore. The Oilers left Houston dir Nashville . The Cardinals left St Louis dor Phoenix.

Where is the SkyDome ?

Mass wall of seating! 😅

I miss The Vet in Philadelphia, was just a simple nice stadium 🏟️ with good food 🥘

I agree with having the polo grounds at 1 for the legendary status of the stadium, but in my opinion no stadium fit football and baseball as good as shea stadium. Look up a picture of when the Jets played there and you’ll understand my take. I have not seen a stadium fit both sports that well.

0:42 - why on Earth are you complaining about the name of Exhibition Stadium. The stadium was located at Exhibition Place, home of the Canadian National Exhibition and other events. As such, the name Exhibition Stadium makes total sense.

Your list is good EXCEPT for #2. You CLEARLY have never been a 49ers game at the Stick. If you were unfortunate to sit in the Red and Gold Section, which is the section that wraps around the visitors' side bleachers you could only see half of the field. So to see the other half of the field you had to turn around and look at the smaller of two jumbotrons in order to see what was happening on the other side. The restrooms were ridiculously tight too and heaven help the visiting team and the walk they had to get to the field from the locker room.

I never noticed the massive rail yard next to the polo grounds.

RFK Stadium was the greatest of all multipurpose stadiums

Ik most people hate on it, it had alot of bad seats, and was a str8 up icebox, but im a lifelong browns fan and ive never met an older fan that didn't absolutely love cleveland municipal. something about that stadium's energy was just special and new browns stadium just can't recreate it

Three Rivers had the Allegheny Club. Well before it’s time and iconic views down the first base side. Set it well apart from its peers.

What about Anaheim stadium?

1990 went to a Jays / Indians series in Cleveland. Around 6,000 fans in a ballpark that seats over 70,000.

If old Yankee stadium isn't on this list, then the LA Coliseum shouldn't be on here too. The Dodgers only played there while Dodger Stadium was under construction.

I dispise the St. Louis Cardinals, but they had some really nice stadiums over the years

Number 12 was called "The mistake by the lake"!

This life long baseball and football enthusiast enjoyed getting to see even the Polo Grounds listed! This will make you really laugh; but could you ever do stadiums ever in use for pro ball along with their stories alongs with the teams that considered them home? Yeah, I know... ...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

When do we see NBA building ranks?

Cinergy Field / Riverfront Stadium actually was better at the end when they removed the outfield sections because they got more natural light, and they installed natural grass.

Not everyone’s a stadium guru and not everyone has a good memory so it would be nice to know which teams played at these stadiums. Yes some are obvious and yes all might be obvious to some people, but for your average joe most people won’t know who or what is playing there

Why do you always forget that Anaheim Stadium was multipurpose stadium and that they renovated it three times?

Missed Mile High stadium. A baseball stadium first, then football with MiLB til 1993 then baseball for two years with attendance records set

The Polo Grounds was horrible for baseball 1. Too much foul territory. 2. Over 50% of the seats were in the outfield. 3. The outfield seats were not directed to the infield. Of the cookie cookie cutters Atlanta was the worst. The football field went from foul to foul pole leaving the home plate seats at the 50 yard line. Thus means that the allegedly best seats were a minimum of 40 yards from the sidelines. The original Yankee Stadium was originally designed as a multi-purpose stadium. When it opened it even had a running track. From the stand point of being able to accommodate baseball and football with acceptable sight lines for both sports the best were probably Kansas City and Baltimore and the worst were Atlanta, Minnesota, and Oakland (check out the amount of foul territory).

The grandstand part of Exhibition Stadium (the part with the roof) must of had 1 woman washroom, I remember seeing women lined up from 1 end to another waiting for 4 innings to take a leak, it was also windy and cold in April because it was beside the lake and there was a lot of bleachers, the stands by the 1st and 3rd baselines were super close to the field

Da. How about the Univ. Syracuse Dome Stadium? Holds 60 K for football, and 35 K for basketball. What the whatthe?

I thought Three Rivers stood out among the other cookie cutters because it had the best organist. But growing up and going to games for 30 plus years at Shea Stadium, you can understand my bias when it comes to this ranking.

Aloha Stadium? Hosted the NFL Pro Bowl, NFL Exhibition, WFL Team, MLB exhibition and a AAA team.

Why are you ranking stadiums that look exactly the same

Wow that proposed Three River Stadium 😂

Great videos Ginger! Stop 🛑 being depressed!! 😅

I loved all those stadiums. They all look like gladiator coliseums to me