Many, Many very good times at Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium., You will be missed.. A fan for 45 years.

Funny, but watching this I don't feel like cheering. Old Riverfront Stadium was a special place. It seems wrong to listen to people cheer it's destruction.

I think that they're less cheering at the destruction, and more cheering at the fact that the engineers who designed the demolition did it right, and that the building actually collapsed as designed instead of doing something wonky like standing half-up.

It is sad I never got to be alive to go to a game at Cinergy Field I was only 2 years old when they imploded it sad to rewatch a historic 30 years period come to an end I wish I was alive to see it in person.

I just saw Cam Miller’s documentary on Riverfront and even though I never got to see it, I miss it

At 00:53 the smoke looks like a beaver head! Frecky!

i remember as a kid we would travel from ft. wayne to riverfront see the big red machine back in the mid 70's. one time a guy barfed from the edge of the upper deck onto the folks below. good times.

The place where Jackie robinson made his last public appearance shortly before passing away.

Godspeed, Riverfront. We had some great times together.

0:20 son inside the stadium> "Dad, I thought there was a game today" the dad inside stadium> "Well we will get to see the players first." construction workers> "Here we go in 3,2,1,"

Thank you! The Big Red Machine, the days of the consecutive World Series Championships were wonderful memories. A VERY expensive stadium was built for a team who now can't hit the broad side of a barn with a cow chip! This IS sad!

"Scissor shaped across the bed, You are *red,* violent *red."*

I was wondering that too. It's somewhat different with old buildings, but old stadiums have stories.

Dumb people cheering they're own funeral for Big Red Machines house.So sad.

Cinergy Field was originally called Riverfront Stadium. Just to let you know.

Very sad....many historic moments gone with the stadium

I agree why do people cheer ? This was a ballpark that saw the Reds win 5 Pennats and Three WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. Two All-Star Games, Aaron's 714 th home run,Perfect Games,No-Hitters,Rose's 4192 Historic Hit and countless other Major League Baseball's historic cornerstone events. Why cheer when this grand old lady dies?

I for one was not excited to see Riverfront stadium imploded!! I have SOOOOO MANY MEMORIES at that stadium, as did many folks! GABP is a real nice ballpark and everything eventually has to be updated, just wish Riverfront could have been updated and the team stayed in there!

When Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was demolished, nobody cheered. The Braves had a lot of memories from that stadium including but not limited to Hank Aaron's record breaking homer, 1995 world series game, etc. I almost got a chance to see a game there in 1993 just before I turned 5 but the tickets were sold out I think so we went to Six Flags instead. I'm sure the Reds have a lot of memories because they have had great teams in the past. No need to cheer.

that was the best reds stadium that ever stand

I actually like Riverfront Stadium better than I do great American ballpark

Went there as part of a tour in 98'. The Reds were hosting the Cubs. While it's true alot of history took place there, there was nothing special about it.

that was pretty impressive

So many memories at river front

@davidbfitz Because it looks awesome.

Where there people taking pictures on that building or was that just a reflection of the explosion?

I remember watching this, i was 3 years old.

I just cried a little bit first time I've watched that

Northern Kentucky is much like cincinnati. This was filmed from covington. I saw the whole thing behind the crowd. This stadium is where I first viewed the amazing sport of BaseBall.

@randomname349 uh ever hear of CONTROLLED IMPLOSIONS THEY WHERE NOT TERRORISTS THEY CLEARED THE AREA.

@davidbfitz i agree

@davidbfitz Right on!

Can anyone tell me of a team that has actually won after a new stadium was built other than Cleveland

sullyd where's it at ( T _ T ) the stadium

@Mitch08320 Haha. Sounds about right to me.

Hell yes!

What really make this sad, is the Guy on LSD in the background whistling.

yes that is true. They are likly clapping for the demolition team. The demo team is not asked if they want to demo. they are just told to demo.

they put it under the how to and style category.

kinda a different feel from the demolition of Cleveland Stadium

i was in the front row watching that. very sad.thats the reds best years getting blown into the history books. were i was though most people were crying.

How do they make noise? I wanna cry !

@heatseeker213 As I recall they were building a new stadium next to it. I saw it on Discovery I think

They should've just use a Metal Gear.

I still don't understand people cheering the demolition of a building where they shared so many memories. I understand progress but if I were there I'd be sad - it would be like watching a funeral or something. To hear jerks cheering would really piss me off.

@davidbfitz I think they cheer because implosions are so cool to watch! I think the big reason why Cincinnatti wanted those new stadiums for the Reds and Bengals was because River Front was not only out of date, but to everyone else it's the most boring looking stadium ever made! Even the Oldest football fields and Baseball parks still had a nice design, but look at this! It's so bland you would have no idea what played there!

@xxRaiderxx1000 0:21 Dad in the stadium>" OH......."

Man. All the "COOKIE CUTTER"!!!! stadiums from the mid 60`s thru the early seventies went in succession: FULTON COUNTY STADIUM was 1st, then in no particular order THREE RIVERS,BUSCH MEMORIAL,VETERANS STADIUM. I won`t include SHEA ,because somebody took a "BITE"!!!!! of that apple out in left,center, & right field. Tho PITTSBURGH had more glory. RIVERFRONT to me had the best "APPEAL"!!! even tho I`m from CHICAGO. BIG RED MACHINEs` WORLD SERIES` championships & playoff appearances, as well as the BENGALS` 2 SUPER BOWL appearances in `81 &`88. I still say Kenny Anderson is still the best qb 2 put on the black & orange. Those orange stripes r "FRIGID" cool!!!!!!

@davidbfitz yeah people in cincy always know how to ruin the moment

Dec. 29, 2002

@HarvestmanMan that would be GABP

hi whats up im only doing this to hear audio preview

Some old buildings are destined to come down some time in its life.

@davidbfitz maybe they were all the rival team fans...

This is really sad to watch.

😢 the end of an era

So sad. I remember seeing this staidum everyday when I was a kid growing up in Cinci. Didnt know they demolished it tll this minute. Big bummer

MikeStanley must never have had winning memories of his teams. Because thats how you send out a Championship Stadium. By Cheering.

hahaha :21 HELL YEAH!

you don't celebrate the 4th of july do you?

why did they replace the stadium for the Great American Ballpark? Not that the new stadium isn't great

Its not an "implosion" that is a scientific phenomenon.

@davidbfitz Because they like seeing it? What are you going to do, cry?

I have a ton of good memories in that once Beautiful structure & not very many in that ugly new stadium jmo

It's too bad the Bengals weren't in the stadium at the time.

Riverfront is Cinergy Field... .. name change... thats all

now, if they could just get teams that are up to major league standards !!!

why do people clap and cheer at implosions?

Nobody seems to notice that the section on the right is still standing...

maybe theyr from the opposing team xD

ah good time... i hate red and i am a cincinnatian... when i saw it go down i cheered like hell :D

i do whats ur point?

cincinnati city council.

Don't care about memories, excuse me? The fuckin' Big Red Machine played in that stadium. If they weren't Reds fans, they wouldn't have shown up. Riverfront, or any other cookie-cutter stadium, had nice memories, but they were so ugly, and by '02 so obsolete, why not change. The memories are nice, but at the same time, I wouldn't want the Reds to play in a stadium like that forever. You just have to move on at some point. Besides, GABP is a better looking ballpark anyway.

This was clearly a terrorist attack, which makes me very suspicious as to why the people there were counting down and cheering. They should have been detained for questioning.

Why do people cheer when these stadiums are demolished

theyre cheering because its gone

i think this was not the best view

it was all politics

Bye bye cookie cutter