these stadium vids are the history lessons I didn’t know I needed

McCoy Stadium has been used as a COVID-19 testing site for the last two years. I’d gone to so many games there as a kid and had so many fun times there. As an adult, having to go there weekly to get tested during the grimmest days of the pandemic was beyond depressing.

Regarding the Coliseum, something similar happened with the pyramids of Giza. They used to be covered in a smooth white limestone layer topper by a golden capstone, making them gleam in the sun. But the limestone was removed for other construction projects after the Egyptian dynasties finally fell, leaving them in their present state.

Breaks my heart to see these once mighty titans of the sporting world just sitting abandoned, like the Astrodome and RFK Stadium. Keep up the great vids, Five.

I'm just glad North Wilkesboro Speedway dodged this list. One of the oldest oval tracks in the United States, and has been defunct since 1996, but thanks to the efforts of locals, it's being restored and will host racing late this year.

Thanks for including the Akron Rubber Bowl. I grew up about 15 miles from there and seen many great high school, and Zip teams win there. Oh ya, also seen a group called the Rolling Stones play there. It butts right up to the Soap Box Derby and the famous Goodyear Air Dock where all the great blimps were and still are built.

You could easily have a top 20 filled with stadiums only built for the Olympics.

Being honest I feel abandoned stadiums like this should be renovated and given to Highschool teams without a stadium or field to play on

Having part of your stadium support a boulevard seems like a devious way to make sure your stadium always gets public funding. "Sure would be a shame if the stadium didn't get renovated. You wouldn't want the street to collapse would you? Better vote for that budget increase then"

Another track worth mentioning: The bobsleigh and luge track in Sarajevo. It was built for the 1984 Winter Olympics and held, of course, bobsleigh and luge events at the games. While it did see use in the immediate few years after the games the Yugoslav Wars put a halt to it especially since Sarajevo was devastated from the war. The track itself was even used as an artillery position. It has since been abandoned, though there have been discussions with regards to renovating/rebuilding it.

I went to go see the Paw Sox play once every summer when I was a kid so it’s pretty weird seeing McCoy stadium so abandoned. Also FYI Worcester is pronounced like wuss-ter

I’m so glad/sad you included Fair Grounds Field in Shreveport. I attended many Captains games growing up in the ‘90s. It was fun because it was geared toward family fun while there were future MLB stars like Rich Aurilia, John Burkett, and Joe Nathan on that field. Unfortunately, it’s a mirror of Shreveport’s traumatic fall from grace and a reminder of what it could have been in music and sporting entertainment due to political corruption and bad backroom deals.

My hometown had two abandoned soccer stadiums. This is a "complicated" thing to explain here in Brazil, because the clubs from the majority of the major towns have their own, in general smaller stadiums, but every major city have a bigger stadium. Like "one coliseum every town". In a U.S adapted reality would be colleges having their own, smaller stadiums but hosting big schools on NFL stadiums, if the later were owned by the city or state and did not possess any element allusive to the club, like colors or chairs with the wordmark or symbol on it. Estádio Antônio Accioly is the home of the club my grandpa (and almost every grandpa in town) supports (Atlético), and was left in desrepair in the late 90's, early 2000's. The club was completely broken, in the second division of the state league (we have state leagues and the national league), without a title for 15 years and almost sold the area for a company to build a mall (the stadium is located in a major business area, to which the club and it's fanbase is much attached to). They renovated it on a campaign in 2005, won the 2nd division of the state league, came back to the first in 2006 being runner up in the championship. Ever since they did enough to earn a spot in the first division of the national league, the stadium, once small and cramped (like 3-4 thousand capacity), was expanded to a capacity of 12k and even hosted it's first international game in this current season. Estádio Olímpico was once the town's major venue. Right on city center of the state capital regarded as the heart of our country, on one of the most recognized intersections we have in town, was built pretty much along with it in the late 1930's, early 40's. Received many historical games with all the clubs of the city, even the most historical and folklorical state league final we ever had (IMO) between the two major fanbases in our state (Goiás and Vila Nova), a game that took, among power outages, fights and a penalty shoot-out well over 5 hours - a regular soccer game lasts 1 hour and 45 minutes counting halftime - according to the people that witnessed it. It's glory days ended when the Serra Dourada, a true concrete monster, was opened in 1975, and it was a true wonder of it's day. The olimpico received some minor games from there until 2007, when it was closed and demolished for the state to build a center of sports excellence that included a new stadium, a work that took 10+ years to be completed due to major corruption problems and a gangster state governor that was elected 4 times and is trying for a 5th non consecutive term. Since the rebuilding it hosted the state league final again once and hosted Atlético in part of their title winning season in the 2nd national division, with some games hosted before the rona when we had scheduling conflicts in other stadia in town

Hey Five, if you do another Baseball stadium vid, could you include Historic Duncan Park? Duncan Park is located in Spartanburg, SC. Opened in 1926, it is one of the oldest ballparks in the country and has a storied history as well. The park also houses seats from Shibe. It was added to the NRHP in 2016 and it is still operating. Although, it is closed currently for renovations.

The Rubber Bowl is my favorite place and I've been there like 50+ times so I was hype asf to see this😂😂

This makes me wanna see you do a critique on the oldest active stadium in each state, like you did on the largest.

It’s a good day when five point vids posts😩

Can't believe FPV didn't mention that McCoy stadium hosted the longest baseball game ever played (he did show the big box score inside the stadium though)

I've also been to RFK Stadium in Washington DC. Hurts me to see such a historic stadium like that falling apart. It once held the most consecutive sell out crowds record in the NFL history. I will never call the Washington's nfl team the Commanders. They will always be the Redskins to me forever.

I saw the Monsters of Rock tour (Kingdom Come, Metallica, Dokken, Scorpions, and Van Halen) at the Rubber Bowl in the early ‘90s!

I got so excited when you mentioned the Pompeii stadium cause I’m a huge Pink Floyd fan.

Worcester (Wuh stuh) yes we have the Woo Sox and it’s pronounced Woo just don’t think about it too hard. Sometimes it’s pronounced Wuh Sta it depends on if you live in the city or outside of it.

Fun fact:the access road to Akron Rubber Bowl was actually used for sanctioned drag racing events in the 1950s. My dad used to watch them race a kid. And my father-in-law saw the rolling stones there in 72. Stevie wonder opened for them.

I went to the Rubber Stadium (Akron's Abandoned stadium) in Nov 2021. I took a lot of photos there and the amount of nature reclamation of the stadium is awesome.

Don't forget there's still parts of an abandoned Racetrack in the parking lot of RFK Stadium

You should do a part two and include Cooper Field in Columbus, Ohio. It has a very interesting story!

I love these videos Don’t forget braves field in Boston It’s now Nickerson field and used daily by Boston university and league park in Cleveland The stands are long gone but the field is still there and used by many amateur teams

I played in the rubber bowl in late 80s. It was cement with a thin piece of astoturf over it. No padding. It was a super fast turf but caused a lot of injuries.

I’ve learnt so much crazy stuff and the snuffing out of old stadiums, thanks Five Points! I’m Canadian after all. All the knowledge

Hey thank you so much for featuring my footage! Very well done video!

I remember going to McCoy stadium for pawsox games, it was so fun. It’s just sad to see it in this state

Saw the Rubber Bowl on the thumbnail. I go to the University of Akron and I’ve been inside the bowl itself. Would have been great to catch a game there!

I was there at the Rubber Bowl for their last game. The Zips came back from a 4 touchdown deficit in the 2nd half for the comeback win. Fans flooded the field. Storybook ending.

I've never clicked so fast on a video when I saw the Rubber Bowl as the hook.

Hoop Crap! I’m so happy that you mentioned Fair Grounds in Shreveport. Even though it’s been sitting in disrepair, that stadium is still one of the biggest “monuments” of the area along with Hirsch Coliseum and the newly renamed Brookshire’s Grocery Arena. It’s so sad to see it be demolished when so many memories have been made there. The Shreveport Captains (the most notable tenants) will always be remembered in the area.

Old Columbus clipper stadium should be on this list. Rotting into the ground. Also notable, that (it’s believed) when build the team had to pick and choose where to put their money. So the bathrooms stalls were only 1/3 height. When you would walk in you would just see people on the can lol

The World Cup hosts have way too many to count, especially after this years World Cup in Qatar

What does Ric Flair wear on his feet? WooSox!

keep making these stadium videos lmao. we love em

RFK should be torn down and have a new facility built for Washington Redacted there. would be better than FedEx and has a metro station nearby so people can get to it.

Greece hosted in 2004, not 2014

NASCAR should make intimidator stadium into a Short track. It’s in kannapolis and is named for Earnhardt for crying out loud

As someone who drives by Fairgrounds fields all the time, it's definitely a scary sight. Looks like a war zone in there man.

Looking at the Rubber Bowl, I'm not entirely sold on the idea that they couldn't drive sheet piles in between the edge of the stadium and the boulevard to prop it up long enough to allow for the demolition of the stadium and the subsequent construction of an embankment to stabilize the road afterward. I'm sure someone who actually finished their engineering degree will come along and explain why that won't work, though.

6:22. I live in Columbia. When I worked for the City I used to drive by Capitol City Stadium everyday in my work truck. And yes indeed it looks very rough.

I feel like abandoned malls would be perfect for this type of video. Super interesting!!!

Hey Five did you know when they knocked down the Old Giants and Jets stadium, they put up the chairs for sale online? I snagged 2 for 300 bucks. Now I'll forever have a piece of history

Herndon stadium in Atlanta is within spitting distance of Mercedes and is completely in disrepair.

LaGrange Stadium in Fort Worth, TX is also a really good one. Theres constantly movements to restore it, but it'll likely never happen due to ownership conflicts and soil conditions. Absolutely insane list of hall of famers that have played there. Joe Davis Stadium in Huntsville, AL is also a good one that has had more failed renovation plans than the O.Co. Former home of names like Jason Giambi, Prince Fielder, the Canseco Brothers, and many other great ballplayers that sits empty

The one that hurts the most is McCoy Stadium. My best memories with my Dad were in that stadium. I feel like I got robbed I wanted to see one more game, but the pandemic ruined it. 😔

Awesome Video! I live in Shreveport, Louisiana and going past Fairgrounds Field is just as depressing as it looks, no joke.

I hope McCoy can hold on until expansion. Pretty sure you can slot an Eastern League (AA for the uninitiated)team in there.

The abandoned ground of Stand Athletic is somewhere i know. Its in Greater Manchester. The English county i live. Its right next to onw of the UK's premiere Heritage Railways. Thats the East Lancashire Railway. The ground was abandoned when the nearby River Irwell flooded forcing the club to move out. The cost of repairing the ground was so high that the club folded eventually and now the ground now lays abandoned and being reclaimed by nature.

I saw the Grateful Dead with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers at the Rubber Bowl in 1986.

3:50 - "We all love beach volleyball... for reasons." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

*The Roman Senate refused to comment on long over due 2000 year old Amphitheater restoration project. Fans however were overjoyed to hear that if undertaken, it will likely be the new home of the Mets AAA affiliate*

Great video, I love seeing the history behind some of these different stadiums! 🏟 🏈⚾️

Low key you could make a video just on venues from the 2004 and 2016 summer Olympic venues.

Fair Grounds Field is always so sad to see when I drive by. I saw my first baseball game there in a packed ballpark. Now I drive by it on the way to our local hockey teams arena which is on the other side of the parking lot. Up until it closed it was actually a really nice place to watch a game. It had a beer garden down the third base line and a children's play area down the 1st base line. Its being torn down soon.

During my 8th grade trip to DC, I was able to see RFK from the metro. Benning Road to Stadium-Armoury is the jump you can see it from

You should look at LaGrave Field in Fort Worth. Once the proud home of the Fort Worth Cats. The city of Fort Worth has neglected it since the team folded in 2014, claiming they don’t care about sports…then they built Dickies Arena…

The Rubber Bowl was such a unique and cool place. I wish I had been able to see a game there, or even better, have gotten to play there. MACtion is highly underrated sport.

It’s sad to see McCoy on this list… I was pissed when I heard the PawSox were moving to Worcester, cuz now instead of a 45 minute ride to the ballpark, I’ll have to drive over an hour

Fun fact about McCoy Stadium: It hosted the longest game in professional baseball history between Pawtucket & Rochester in 1981 which lasted 33 innings & had to be completed two days after the 32nd inning finished due to fears about injury.

Intimidator stadium is named after NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, as he was born and raised in Kannapolis, NC.

One of the first videos I watched on the channel was seeing the abandoned stadiums that you uploaded the first time

Jesus... That dissonant version of London Bridge's Falling Down had me rolling. 🤣

Thank god another FPV vid

the rubber bowl was awesome

There’s an abandoned minor league baseball stadium in Canton, OH. Kinda surprised it wasn’t on this list granted the Rubber Bowl is more well known here in Northeast Ohio.

I think they've finally started tearing down Intimidators Stadium here in Kannapolis. The new downtown ballpark they moved to (Atrium Health Ballpark) is really nice, probably one of the best new parks in single-A minor league. They also changed the team name from the Intimidators (which was named after Dale Earnhardt, who had a financial stake in the team that passed on to his wife Teresa when he died); when someone else bought the team she kept the rights to the name, so now they're the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers. The "Cannon" refers to the Cannon family that first built the town as an employee town for their textile mill here in 1908.

5:11 Okay, so that Fair Grounds Field looks so eerie. Maybe it is just the feeling. That evening recording of an old media room is quite spooky..

You might want to check out Potter County Memorial Stadium in Amarillo, Texas. It was built in 1948 at the Tri-State Fairgrounds, hosted a number of different minor league teams (none higher than Double-A), and was replaced by a new stadium downtown (home to the Sod Poodles. Yes. The Sod Poodles). ANY-way, the stadium hasn't been in use since 2016, and it just sits there, falling to pieces.

Drove by Fair Grounds Field on a cross country trip. Thanks for the background infromation, as I thought it looked very neglected at this point, sitting in the middle of a currently used facility.

I was fortunate enough to play in the Rubber Bowl from 97 to 2000 playing for Akron East High.

Thank you for posting the video clip.

Mccoy was my childhood

Next time you do one of these, check out El Paso, Texas. Dudley field and Cohen stadium! Cohen was retired and dismantled before it was 30!

I go to school just a few minutes from the Alamodome- it’s so sad to see it just sitting there! San Antonio needs another pro team to play in that beautiful place!!!

WHOA...props to you dude for adding Capital City Stadium. I was hoping you'd mention it. I drive by it every day thinking..."what a waste". They could renovate it and have high school or amateur baseball there, concerts etc. You forgot to mention Hank Aaron played here as a Jacksonville Brave back in the 50's. He threw out the first pitch in 2013. The trouble with this area, is that it's prone to flooding, so I can't see any retail space going there. Just hope Columbia does something with it soon!

Would love to see you do one in conjunction with a racing channel in regards to old tracks. Jax Raceways is a track I used to go to as a kid but it stopped being used in 2004. The land was going to be used for other things but like a lot of old dirt tracks it is so contaminated with oil and fuel that it is deemed unusable.

Was hoping it may have made the list, but there’s an abandoned stadium close to home for me! Fielders Stadium in Zion, IL was an 8,000 seat baseball field that hosted the Lake County Fielders for a grand total of 2 seasons. There were two failed attempts to put permanent concourse and proper facilities in, and the project was scrapped as were the Fielders. Now it just sits there.

Across from the Austin airport is the old Del Valle High School stadium which was used for the "Friday Night Lights" TV series, which put in new lights and turf. Next door, the old baseball field was turned into the East Dillon stadium for the final season of the show. Now nature is reclaiming the facility.

I've just started watching these videos by FivePoints Vids and I believe that I really enjoy them because the narrator sounds almost like the late TV presenter Huell Howser. :) :) :) :)

fun fact: Kannapolis Intimidators was once owned by Nascar Hall-of-Famer Dale Earnhardt Sr (who's son Dale jr. joined the Nascar Hall-Of-Fame 13 years later). I guess that's why the Earnhardt Family were running the Baseball Franchise and Stadium during Dale Sr.'s Nascar career at that time, btw.

I graduated from University of Akron in 2010 and went to like one or 2 games in the Rubber Bowl and freaking hated every minute of it. Also, didn’t help that our football team was trash after winning the conference the season before I enrolled lol

Can’t wait to watch this banger

Back in the 90s when I was in high school my buddy and I went to a Spurs game at the Alamodome. They dont use the whole stadium for basketball unless it's the Final Four. For Spurs games they would just use 1/4 of the stadium floor and move some seats in to fill it out. We snuck past the security guards and got into the unused parts of the stadium. We could still hear the game echoing through the halls, but it was eerie being there in the dark. We went all the way up to the top row in the corner of the stadium and watched the game from there. We snuck back into the crowd and left after the game.

The baseball stadium in Shreveport, LA I went there for a Shreveport Captains game with my grandparents in the late 80's. It was a pretty decent stadium for back then.

If you do another one of these, you just have to mention Lake Olmstead Stadium, the old home of the Augusta Greenjackets. They left after 2017 (I believe) and moved to North Augusta leaving behind a sad, decaying stadium. They tried to turn it into a concert venue and we’re halfway through completion only to find out that the ground was too soft and unstable to hold the buildings/stages/seating that had put up. The issue is that they can’t take it apart because the ground can’t support the heavy machinery needed to demolish it. Gotta love good ol’ disgusta.

My family and I went to see a lot of games at Intimidators Stadium in Kannapolis. That's sad letting a nice stadium turn into that. They dropped the Intimidator name which came from Dale Earnhardt who was a part owner before his death and are now the Kannapolis Cannon-Ballers and have a stadium in downtown Kannapolis NC.

Intimidators Stadium was so poorly and oddly designed. All of the suites, bathrooms, and press box were on the first base side. There was no awning at all, meaning there was no way to escape the heat and thunderstorms. The old ballpark is slated to be rezoned as an industrial site. The new park in downtown Kannapolis is a gem.

I was apart of an amateur football team that tried to use the Rubber Bowl as a field back in the mid 2010s. One of our coaches knew one of the investors. They didn’t protect the stadium and it got looted pretty heavily during that time frame from its death until now. Funny and sad to say the least. It was very cool when it was at its peak. Hilariously like 15-20 minutes from the University for some dumb reason.

You should put the football stadium at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. They filmed ' We Are Marshall ' there in 2006 and hosted field hockey at the 1996 Olympics. Beautiful stadium that now looks like it was built to film The Walking Dead.

If they can get the name Intimidator back to an abandon ballpark, then I guess Teresa Earnhardt aka The Wicked Witch of the South can't keep everything she sues to keep the Earnhardt name despite married into the name.

If the Phoenix Coliseum isn’t on here I’m going to be upset.

There is one "stadium" that really didn't get a chance to really do its job in Lake County, Illinois. It was a stadium built for the North Woods Baseball league's Lake County Fielders (such an original name). I believe the team only existed for 2.5 seasons. I know there is at least one video online showing some of the abandoned park. The fencing, lights and scoreboard were really the only things left the last time I was around there.

Ayeee Shreveport made it on here 😎 But honestly, it’s kinda sad to see Fair Grounds rot, especially since the city council just absolutely hates any sort of growth that costs money here (we were even slated to get a whole g-league team here that they shot down)

Its sad with Mcoy though old and sub par it was a cool stadium just sitting in the middle of a neighborhood. It had a lot of charm and every seat was a good one

another abandon stadium that i am fascinated with is buckwalter stadium in mississippi the woods around it have pretty much taken it over