21 Facts About Kingdome

Kingdome was a multi-purpose stadium located in the Industrial District neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

The Kingdome's reputation contributed to the NFL's 1989 vote in favor of enacting a rule penalizing home teams for excessive crowd noise; it was especially loathed by Seahawks fans during preseason games, with fan displeasure throughout the league leading commissioner Pete Rozelle to soften enforcement of the rule before the start of the regular season.

However, despite five bids over 12 years, the Kingdome was never awarded the opportunity to host a Super Bowl; its closest chance was in 1989 for Super Bowl XXVI, which was awarded to the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Seattle and Tacoma Police Departments played a yearly game named the Bacon Bowl to raise money for charity from 1980 to 2005; the Kingdome hosted it from the beginning until 1982, then had a one-off in 1985 during a nine-year span in which the Tacoma Dome hosted the rest of the games.

The Kingdome hosted the game again from 1992 to 1994 before it returned to the Tacoma Dome; the game came back for one final time in 1999 before the stadium was demolished.

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Part of the problem was that the Kingdome was not a multipurpose stadium in the truest sense.

Additionally, the Kingdome's acoustics created problems for stadium announcers, who had to deal with significant echo issues.

Kingdome was not the first venue in Seattle to host the Final Four; Hec Edmundson Pavilion had previously hosted it in 1949 and 1952.

However, the Kingdome is credited with helping shape the Final Four into an event with a stature comparable to that of the Super Bowl because of its large capacity.

The 1995 edition was the last time that Seattle hosted a Final Four, and it will likely remain that way for the foreseeable future since the Kingdome's successors were not designed with a controlled environment in mind; it remains the last time that the Final Four was held on the West Coast.

Kingdome hosted the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Finals twice in consecutive years.

Kingdome was additionally considered in Seattle's bid to be a host city for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but it was rejected in favor of Husky Stadium because of concerns over its indoor environment and its turf; the bid ultimately failed in part because of apprehension from the University of Washington.

Largest crowd to attend a single event in the Kingdome came early, during an eight-day Billy Graham crusade in 1976.

Kingdome hosted a round of the AMA Supercross Championship from 1978 to 1999.

Kingdome's roof had been problematic from the beginning because of a design flaw.

Kingdome found a potential buyer in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who stipulated that a new publicly funded stadium had to be built as a condition of his purchase of the team.

The Kingdome was the first large, domed stadium to be demolished in the United States; its demolition was the first live event covered by ESPN Classic.

Kingdome was demolished before the debt issued to finance its construction was fully paid, and as of September 2010, residents of King County were still responsible for more than $80 million in debt on the demolished stadium.

The Kingdome was mentioned again in 1998 during the sixth season of NBC sitcom Frasier, which was set in Seattle.

Kingdome was not limited to just television mentions; numerous songs mentioned it in their lyrics.

The Kingdome made an appearance in the 2007 RTS game World in Conflict, in which it was destroyed by Soviet artillery during a Soviet invasion of Seattle in an alternate timeline.