28 Facts About Metrodome

Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome was a domed sports stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Metrodome was similar in design to the former RCA Dome and to BC Place, though BC Place was reconfigured with a retractable roof in 2010.

The Metrodome was the inspiration for the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

Preparation for the demolition of the Metrodome began the day after the facility hosted its final home game for the Minnesota Vikings on December 29,2013, and the roof was deflated and demolition began on January 18,2014.

The Metrodome was torn down in sections while construction of US Bank Stadium began.

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Construction on the Metrodome began on December 20,1979, and was funded by a limited hotel-motel and liquor tax, local business donations, and payments established within a special tax district near the stadium site.

Metrodome is the only venue to have hosted an MLB All-Star Game, a Super Bowl, an NCAA Final Four, and a World Series.

The Metrodome served as one of the four regional venues for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1986,1989,1996,2000,2003,2006, and 2009.

Metrodome was recognized as one of the loudest venues in which to view a game, due in part to the fact that sound was recycled throughout the stadium because of the fabric domed roof.

The Metrodome served its primary purpose: to provide a climate-controlled facility to host the three sports tenants in Minnesota with the largest attendance.

Major League baseball, the Metrodome was regarded as a hitter's park, with a low left-field fence that favored right-handed power hitters, and the higher but closer right-field Baggie that favored left-handed power hitters.

The Metrodome was climate controlled, and protected the baseball schedule during the entire time it was the venue for the Minnesota Twins.

When opened in 1982, the Metrodome was appreciated for the protection it gave from mosquitoes, and later the weather.

Twins baseball, the address of the Metrodome became 34 Kirby Puckett Place, an honor given to one of the most famous Minnesota Twins players.

In 1996, a section of Chicago Avenue in front of the Metrodome was renamed Kirby Puckett Place by the city of Minneapolis.

The Metrodome Plaza was added along Kirby Puckett Place before the 1996 season.

For baseball, the Metrodome informally has been called "The House That Puck Built".

The Metrodome carried a memorial decal on the backstop wall for the remainder of the 2007 season.

Concert capacity of the Metrodome was around 60,000 people, depending on seating and stage configurations, which made it a profitable location for stadium tours during the late 80s and 90s.

Metrodome was constructed in an area of downtown Minneapolis known as "Industry Square".

The Metrodome existed among several parking areas built upon old rail yards, along with defunct factories and warehouses.

The Metrodome was not connected to the Minneapolis Skyway System, although that had been proposed in 1989 to be completed in time to host Super Bowl XXVI.

Metrodome will be remembered in NFL history as the site of four of the longest NFL touchdowns in history in terms of yardage.

Returns can go longer than 99 yards, the Metrodome had seen the record set for longest return at the maximum possible total of 109 yards.

The connection between Mall of America and the Metrodome is notable because Mall of America is built on the site of the former Metropolitan Stadium.

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Twins management claimed Metrodome generated too little revenue for the Twins to be competitive; specifically, they received no revenue from luxury suite leasing and only a small percentage of concessions sales.

On February 23,2014, the remaining ring beam and corners of the Metrodome were brought down with 84 explosive charges of dynamite.

Demolition of the Metrodome was formally declared complete six days later—a month ahead of schedule—as the final truckload of rubble was loaded up and removed from the new stadium construction site.