How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- SoFi Stadium, which opened in 2020, is the largest stadium in the N.F.L.
- league by square footage.
- It is estimated to have cost between five and six billion dollars to build and was funded by Stan Kroenke.
- Evel Knievel jumped thirteen cars, on two consecutive nights, in 1971.
- Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs competed in the Battle of the Sexes there in 1973.
- The stadium will co-host the opening ceremony of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
In April, 1966, Roger Angell attended an indoor baseball game, his first, at the Astrodome. It was not just the prospect of witnessing weatherless baseball played on Chemstrand grass under an acrylic [+4252 chars]
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