America Built the World's Greatest Stadium — Now It Can't Afford to Save It [12:15] (www.youtube.com)

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It held 52,000 fans, survived a hurricane, and invented the surface under every football field in America. Then the doors were chained shut — and nobody could agree on what to do next. The math behind what happens to a building too expensive to save and too iconic to demolish.

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[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'm not trying to watch a video. Just say its name in the title. I'm guessing Superdome.

[-] YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 days ago

Its the Astrodome in Houston.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's nowhere near Strahov Stadium, Prague (56k seats + cca 200k stands)

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