"...obscure events like tennis, *soccer* "

The LA coliseum hosting NASCAR gotta be one of my favourite ones

The NY Football Giants played at Yankee Stadium for almost 20 years. Also hosted boxing and wrestling. Definition of multi use.

Bristol Motor Speedway turned in to a football stadium. College football. Something like 150,000 showed up.

The Bears played in Wrigley until sometime in the 70s.

The Lightning used to sell out the Trop during regular season. The fanbase was incredible.

Surprised you didn’t include any winter classics Anyways, great video as always. Love your content man

At Wrigley, there wasn't enough room by NCAA standards to use the end zone with the outfield wall, so every time possession changed, they flipped the field and scored all the touchdowns in the same direction. A fine example of poor pre-game planning.

In 1991, the Kings and Rangers played an outdoor game in an impromptu arena behind Caesar's Palace. The Kings won, and Tie Domi tripped on a grasshopper.

You missed the Raptors first few seasons where they were playing at Skydome/Rogers Centre (home of the Blue Jays) while Air Canada Centre (now Scotiabank Arena) was being built

The OG Yankee Stadium should count as a multi-purpose because its RF bleachers were designed to be angled properly to face a football field and its CF and LF we positioned deep enough to accommodate football. Obviously, it wasn't an ideal football venue, but just as the Superdome was a multipurpose facility that was truly only meant for one sport, so was the 1923 Yankee. If you look at early overhead photos of the 1923 Yankee looking in from past LF, it is obvious it was built for two sports.

You should do a video on the RCA Dome aka "Hoosier Dome" !

Great Video DG! If you do a part two to this, make sure to add AT&T (Oracle) Park hosting the 2018 Rugby Sevens World Cup. It has held during the 2018 MLB season and the San Francisco Giants players said that the fieldwasn't the same afterwards. And don't forget about the L.A> Coliseum hosting a pre-season NASCAR Cup Series dirt race.

Can do a ton of these. Just off the top of my head, ski jumping at Fenway and Dodgers Stadium, Red Bull Crashed Ice at Fenway, baseball at the LA Colosseum, I think I remember an NBA game at Indian Wells, the Raptors played several seasons at SkyDome, football and Irish hurling at Fenway, NHL on a golf course in Lake Tahoe...

We're getting the Winter Classic on January 2024 at T-Mobile Park. They also hosted a Wrestlemania back in 2003, and had a Bowl Game in 2001.

Another weird thing that Miller Park (yeah I still don’t like the name change) hosted was a bowling tournament

Awesome video. Thanks for the content and research. Oracle Park in SF hosted Cal Football games during renovations at Cals football stadium. It has also hosted soccer games there.

Shoutout to Fenway Park, host to football, hockey, soccer, boxing, even ski jumping in addition to baseball

In 2018, the current Yankee Stadium hosted college football regular season game between Notre Dame and Syracuse. In fact, Notre Dame wore unis that look similar to the Yankees unis. In 2010, Notre Dame played Army at the current Yankee Stadium as well.

they had a Rugby Sevens World cup at the SF Giants stadium before. Sevens rugby is . 7 on 7, instead of the traditional 15 and the matches are about 20 minutes in length (inc halftime, stoppages, etc) so they crammed the entire tournament there in one weekend.

Anthony Bass is under some hot water for supporting the Target boycotts would love to hear your take on it

I laughed when you guessed the Lightning played a playoff game in Tropicana Field. They were terrible their first few years; that packed stadium was definitely one of their first games.

Love the videos. Busch Stadium hosted more than just baseball for years. St. Louis Cardinals (MLB) (1966-2005) St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) (1966-1987) St. Louis Stars (NPSL / NASL) (1967-1974) St. Louis Rams (NFL) (1995)

8:34 if memory serves, the baseball convertibility was a requirement for the Vikings to get public funding for the ballpark. City makes money hand over fist renting to high schools and colleges for early season games.

Miller Park and AT&T Stadium also hosted men and women's professional bowling.

Great video bro! You should do a on Turner Field turning into a college football stadium for Georgia State

the red bull crashed ice event they did at fenway a few years ago was pretty interesting. They set up massive ice jumps that people did on ice skates, I didn't even know such a thing existed at the time.

I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Miller Park hosted the 2007 USBC Masters Finals (bowling)

You totally missed the world snowboard championships this year at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. They built a massive ramp from the top of the stadium down to field level and it looked terrifying!!!

I remembered in the original xfl when san francisco had a team and they played their home games at pac bell park (long before it became oracle). And all the nhl winter classic games in football and baseball stadiums.

The Alamodome was large enough to host Canadian Football League games and it did for one year. And don't forget the NHL Winter Classics. Outdoor hockey around New Year's Day.

Churchill Downs (KY derby) hosted a louisville basketball game. Last year our AAA stadium hosted an outdoor louisville basketball game too

Chase field hosting the Royal Rumble was an interesting configuration I got to see in person. Also was at that ASU/WV game there

Osaka Stadium in Osaka,Japan once had an ice skate rink. They also hosted a model house exposition. Lots of houses were built in the field during the off season.

Cool shot of the Polo Grounds 9:37 My childhood stadium going there from 1962 - 1963 to watch the Mets play there. I wonder it this was a New York Titans game being played there of the old American Football League

Wrigley Field was home of the Chicago Bears for 50 years from the early 1920s- to the early 1970s. It was before my time but I have seen several photos of Wrigley hosting Bears Games and one of the end zones was slightly smaller that a normal end zone due to the dimensions of the park.

There was no curtain in the Superdome when it hosted baseball. Other than a small handful of MLB exhibitions and I think one season of Pelicans minor league baseball, the most baseball it hosted was the annual Winn Dixie Showdown which had LSU, Tulane, and UNO facing 3 schools from another state.

I could have sworn a lot more recently than the 1980's... there was a series at Superdome, usually LSU/Tulane, it was annual and sponsored by Winn Dixie

Pac Bell (or whatever it's called now - where the SF Giants play) hosted the XFL Demons (in 2000? or 2001?). That was an interesting setup with temp stands in LF. But it seemed to workout pretty well. IIRC, the first few games were well-attended.

The most interesting example I think actually happened in Croatia. They used Pula Arena, which is a Roman colosseum for two random hockey games. I don’t even know how they managed to play hockey there since Pula is a really warm place.

Two of the most famous football games ever played were played at Yankee Stadium. 1946 Army Notre Dame and 1959 Baltimore New York.

Miller Park also hosted a bowling tournament! Can't forget Supercross at Big Arenas! Part 2 is needed

At lot missed here. BC Place for baseball, Alamo dome for basketball and Arena football, SkyDome for basketball, Fenway for multiple sports, Citi field for soccer, old Busch stadium for the St. Louis Rams, Oracle for XFL Football to name a few off the top of my head

Fenways had some weird ones over the last few years. Liverpool played Sevilla a few years back as well as the bowl games like Yankee Stadium does ex. Wasabi Bowl. And they’ve also had a snowboarding arena setup for public use in the winter sponsored by Red Bull

Notre dame played they’re shamrock series game at Yankee stadium a couple years ago. They wore baseball styled football uniforms

You missed when they did "Big Air" snowboarding at SunTrust Park in Atlanta. I think they did it at Fenway, too. Kennesaw State played a football game at SunTrust, too.

Great video! I sat in the third deck of the old Pontiac Silverdome on the Detroit Pistons 'Punk Rock Night' in the 1980's. You got the n for five bucks if you wore a black leather jacket. Seriously. Hilariously far from the action, but one helluva party.

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When Wrigley hosts football now they flip the field when possession changes so the offense is always going to the same endzone, since one is right up against the wall they make the offense run to the endzone with a bigger buffer zone

The fact you did a video in stadiums hosting weird events and you didn’t include the LA coliseum running a NASCAR race inside is it, is crazy

I remember when the Spurs played at the Alamodome for several years including their '99 championship season with the large curtain on one side.

4:38 imagine Los Angles FC or Los Angles Rams playing at Dodgers Stadium

You left out Shea Stadium with The Jets games, WWWF/WWF wrestling with Superstar Billy Graham and Andre The Giant back in the late 1970's-early 1980's, and of course The Beatles Concerts At Shea Stadium in 1965 and 1966. You also left out Citi Field. There was a International Test Match for the Cricket fans in 2016-17 if i recall correctly.

The Sky dome hosted a NBA game once. It was the largest crowd till last year when the Alamo dome beat it. Also no outdoor hockey games. In the 70s Las Vegas would host boxing matches in their parking lots.

WWF's Showdown at Shea in 1980. Also WrestleFest at County Stadium in 1988.

Tropicana Field also had wrestling there for WWE during Covid. Ironically they also called it the Thunderdome

The LA Coliseum has also hosted spring training games with jacked-up dimensions

Yo I actually remember going to the snow days in progressive field, I kind of wish they brought it back

the Syracuse Orange played Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium during regular season only a few years or so back

Hopefully there's some photos out there, but at one point Daytona Intl. Speedway hosted football games and currently have a soccer event that goes on every march.

Busch also hosted an NHL Winter Classic a few years ago.

One I always liked when the Fenway Bowl and if notice they would leave MLB east baseball standing on the scoreboard.

Corrections: 1) New Or-luh-ns 2) The baseball configuration was available until the 2011 renovations

This was a good one

Tropicana Field also hosted a Final Four. The Silverdome hosted NBA games.

I saw a video of hockey players trying crashed ice when it was set up at Fenway Park.

6:16 That WVU / ASU Bowl game at Chase Field (will always be 'The BOB' to me!) was notable for starting with the roof open and it started raining. So, they played the beginning of the game in the rain...in a domed stadium! Haha! 7:10 One of the Bowl games at Wrigley Field a few years ago, they had to have both teams run offense in the same direction because the officials determined the clearance in the end zone wasn't safe for play. Also, both teams' sideline was on the same side of the field!!! It was crazy.

My Boilers played NU at Wrigley in 2021. I heard they’re going to play a home game there every other year? Not sure if that changes with their new stadium plan.

The court at Petco Park was tennis, not volleyball, and it was for the Davis Cup in 2014 - US vs GBR as shown in one of the pictures

forgot to show Rogers Centre hosting the Raptors before they moved into what is now Scotiabank arena - similar look to the Kingdome except the seating was concentrated around the first base line

As a San Diego State alumn and supporter I hated the Petco Park game from the beginning. And sure enough it cost us an NCAA Tournament bid that year. You never give a sorry team like USD a gimmick game like that to give them a chance.

Soccer at Busch was interesting because good seats for baseball became bad seats for soccer and vice versa.

The MLB made the ruling based on when the Los Angeles Coliseum was the first home of the Dodgers when the team left Brooklyn for the west coast. The original name of Tropicana Field (before the ThunderDome) was the Florida Suncoast Dome. BTW, a number of venues also hosted NHL games (Winter Classic, Stadium Series, Heritage Classic) like Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field and the Cotton Bowl. The next Winter Classic is in Seattle on New Year's Day 2024.

A cool example that wasn't in the video was a snowboarding big-air event inside the Braves ballpark a few years back

0:17 I vote a Major League Baseball team in New Orleans with a new Stadium instead of Mercedes Benz Superdome

I went to several MLB exhibition games in the 1980's and 4-Final Fours in the superdome. The inability to configure into baseball is a very recent thing. The Superdome is 48 years old for this upcoming football season.

A division three regular season football game was played there this past year

Thunderdome in Tampa hosted the Arena Football too before the arena was build there. Tampa Bay Storm

If any MLB team is going to play in San Antonio, it'll probably be the Astros, not the Rangers. The Astros seem to have a stronger fan base in San Antonio, and to a lesser extent Austin, than the Rangers.

Hard Rock stadium hosts the Miami open in tennis

That tennis at hard rock stadium is fire

Toronto Roger's Center (formerly Skydome) that was built for baseball and football was odd enough transitioning between the two but then for a couple of seasons it also had Raptor's basketball until the Raptors arena was completed. The basketball was even weirder to see there.

They’re called the gimmick games

I know that you're young, Ginger, but the NY Giants played their games in the original Yankee Stadium from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. As for Wrigley Field, the Chicago Bears played their home games there for half a century!! According to research, Wrigley was their home from 1921 to 1970! The 1963 version of the "Super Bowl," then known simply as the NFL Championship Game, was played in Wrigley Field. ... with the brick wall directly behind the end zone!

The empty seats look better than tarp. We understand that the venue is capable of offering the maximum capacity.

There was the USBC masters bowling at Miller park.

Yankee stadium hosting soccer is always a weird event. Great baseball stadium. Worst MLS stadium.

Wtf the Lightning played at that dump

How about the Astrodome hosting a basketball game in the late 1960's with Elvin Hayes for Houston against Lew Alcindor of UCLA. Epic. Good show De.

Can you do a video on how you would design the ultimate modern multi sport stadium?

That was a great shot of the old Polo Grounds with the old H shaped goal posts. Depressed Ginger says the Polo Grounds was not known for football and he's right. And, even though the NY Giants football team (and later he NY Jets) played there for years, It became best known for hosting NY Giants baseball. It's original purpose was, as the name states, a stadium for playing polo -- a sport that simply never caught on much in America.

Turner Field was built to accommodate the Olympics then to be converted into a baseball stadium following the Olympics. Everything in the "left field and center field" areas was more or less temporary structures for the Olympics then taken down and the permanent baseball outfield bleachers were built

The weirdest thing I've seen was the trop hosting the final four besides the basketball game at American family field.

This was a fun video. Depressed Ginger was right not to bog this video down with those many outdoor NHL games every year where part of the novelty is to intentionally play in stadiums not designed to host hockey games. As a side note, there could be an entire video based just on the experience behind having the Northwestern Wildcats play that initial game at Wrigley Field. There was so much to it, including, as Depressed Ginger pointed out, placing the end line virtually right up against the right field ivy. As a result of that, all offensive drives for both teams throughout the game had to go from east to west. No offensive drives could go toward the right field wall. It was considered to be to dangerous for the players.

Any pro wrestling event in a baseball stadium looks weird which has happened several times for some reason.

Minnesota stadium was required to be suitable for baseball so U of Minn could play preseason games indoors. NCAA season starts early when there is still snow in Minn. it’s not up to MLB standards.

Truist park had a ski slope there 2 years ago and it was taller than the stadium it’s self

Miller Park hosted a professional bowling event back in the early 2000’s

I was always fascinated by the Packers playing at County Stadium

Busch Stadium also did a college football game once.