In spite of its "charm," Fenway Park has to go. It has some of the worst seats for viewing a game in all of professional sports. Ted Williams hated the place, and that's good enough for me.

Tropicana Field in St. Pete has definiitely got to go the way of the "Devil" in "Devil Rays".

The Astrodome is taking up space in what would be a nice parking lot next to Reliant Stadium. Blow it up!

As a former USC football season ticket holder, I have to throw the L.A. Memorial Coliseum under the bus. Its ancient, the sight lines are bad and parking is a nightmare. Some spots go for $80 for a small car, just across the street for the stadium.

Typical American attitude - not knowing much about the rest of the world, but ready to pass judgements. The Maracana is one of the legendary stadiums in the WORLD. Best to leave such venues untouched.

The three NFL stadiums in California are dumps and must be imploded.

Candlestick Park, Oakland-Alameda Coliseum and Jack Murphy Stadium (I refuse to use their corporate names) are decrepit cement hulks. The NFL doesn't have a stadium problem in Los Angeles; it has ones in San Diego, San Francisco and Oakland. Those dumps need to be imploded.

Wrigley Field. It's a dump, cloaked in public opinion that it is some sort of shrine. The obstructed views, the insanely close fences, and the twenty-somethings in bucket hats who would rather treat a baseball game like a social event underscore the need to demo this useless heap of bricks and replace it with a strip mall. Of course, Wrigley befits the team that plays there...

Fenway Park needs to go. What a dump.

Fenway Park needs to go. What a dump.

I think, in Houston, we have a lot of people that keep hanging on the the Astrodome. They tried passing an ordinance to turn it into a giant Shopping center and hotel, but Houston voted it down so it can sit and collect dust like it always has.

Check out http://sportskarma.blogspot.com/

How could you leave off Tropicana Field? It's like being in an unfinished basement!

Joe Louis Arena in Detroit needs to go. The Red Wings have been the best franchise in Detroit for the last 15 years, but play in the oldest stadium. I loved attending games at the Joe, but it's time for an upgrade.

Los Angeles Coliseum

Would be nice if it was replaced with a replica of the stadium being built in Dallas.

Just need a billion dollars.

LA Coliseum.... obviously the coliseum commisioner is the last person to realize that!

Qualcomm Stadium! For the NFL to tell San Diego they will not host until Super Bowl until they build a new stadium, you know it's bad!

Wrigley Field is a dump! Yeah, the field is beautiful, but you can only look at it from too-small, ancient, uncomfortable seats. The men's washrooms don't have urinals, they have long troughs that everyone uses at once. Plus, zero parking, so you have to pay some neighborhood thief $40 to park in their driveway. Need I say more?

How about the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.It's the reason the Expos went south.To Washington,that is. Simon in Montreal.

everyone says shea is so horrible...i dont see it. it isn't exactly nice but don't see a dump. the neighborhood is lame, but the stadium seems ok. its lightyears behind the camden,minutemaid, and others...but dump is harsh. its an' old work horse and will be sad when its gone

Here are 5 places that should be on the receiving end of some TNT:
1. Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena = it´s a building that has been dying a slow, painful death for years & looks even worse with the ultra-modern Staples Center down the street.
2. San Diego Sports Arena = beautiful location, but this joint hasn´t had a major tenant since the Clippers left way back in the 80´s.
3. Soldier Field = get rid of the spaceship look and bring back the neo-classic columns where I used to watch #34 run defenders over.
4. Veterans Stadium = unimaginative & simply ugly inside and out, but hopefully Philadelphia got rid of it already.
5. Yankee Stadium = the wrecking ball is on its way for a place that is overrated and ugly in a 70´s kind of way (might as well knock down Shea if the same wrecking ball swings through Flushing, another ugly cement circle).

RJP Spain

Death to all domes!

How is Shea Stadium not on the list? Its a warehouse with grass in it.

what about tropicana field in tampa that field makes me want to puke

Hi,
I think if you are playing football it should be on grass and outside. The dome stadiums need to open up and let the players earn their pay. The weather is part of the game. Please no more field turf. How many millions do people spend to re-create grass. Hire a crew and grow some grass, as well as grow a pair. I am sick of the announcers that start crying and complaining when the field or weather conditions aren't perfect. Oh, Boo-Hoo. The poor players are slipping or getting dirty. Football has become so much about money and so expensive it's hard for the average joe to see a live game. Plus those average Joe's are so dedicated that they will sit in what ever weather comes their way and support their team. I am a Brown's fan and have been every since Brian Sipe wore #17 in those sweet orange pants. If Cleveland ever builds a dome or puts that crappy fkae grass junk on the field instead of grass, I may give up watching football altogether. I think the players will agree real grass is the best and safest on their joints. So, tear domwn the domes and all the outdoor staiums with field turf stop dissin' the dream and come correct. The Arizona Cardinals are a little extreme but at least thei boys play on grass, to bad it's inside. The Vikings need to blow that roof off and let the elements help their home field advantage. I still wish the broowns were spray painting sand green on their fields. I could go on, but I won't.
Thanks,
Bill
Go Browns!!!

Giants Stadium is fine. Wrigley Field is a hole. Period. Same with Fenway. Yes, they are shrines, but they are holes. HORRIBLE places to watch baseball. Knock them down!

I can only attest to ones I've been to personally so I might have left some obvious ones out but here's my top 3:

1. Texas Stadium - was a bad stadium even when it was new. TV cameras make it look way nicer than it really is.

2. Shea Stadium - Amazin'ly scary place to watch a game. It's like riding the ferris wheel. You start looking at bolts, wondering when they're going to snap and the whole place will cave in. At least it'll be easy to demolish.

3. Candlestick/3Com/Monster Stadium/Park - Even TV cameras can't make this place look nice. Given all the moveable seats and parts, it was apparently designed to host a gameshow. The poor Niners... If I had to play there for home games, I'd suck too. At least the Mets and Cowboys have plans in place to replace theirs soon.

estadio azteca in Mexico City-a noisy, dilapidated death trap...

Lambeau field - just because Green Bay would then become just another Toledo....

fed ex field w/ dan in it /suck it snyder

fed ex field with little dan in it/suck it dan u ur team ur prices ur parking passes and ur little ugly face

What is with the extreme hatred for the Jets the last few days? First you say the Jets fan experience is the worst in the NFL and then Giants Stadium is the worst stadium in the country? Ridiculous.

Candlestick/Monster/3com Park in San Francisco. It's older than all of the American stadia you mentioned (Richard Nixon was Vice President when it opened). It's windy, cold, and has viewing angles designed for baseball even though the Giants have already left it.

The Pontiac Silverdome hasn't hosted an event since the Steelers practiced there for Super Bowl XL.

Easy enough.
The oldest arena in the NBA.
And the second oldest in the NHL.
Home of the Food [Additive] Network.
MSG.

ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz...

So you think Giants Stadium should be demolished, huh? Because it's boring and in the middle of nowhere? Not because THEY ARE BUILDING IT'S REPLACEMENT IN THE PARKING LOT?!!!

Fenway Park is only "quaint" & "America's Most Beloved Ballpark" to people how don't actually sit in the miniscule grandstand seats 81 games a year. What about waiting on infinite lines to relieve yourself and winding up shoulder to shoulder to two blokes critiquing your urinating style!

#1 giants stadium is being replaced, #2 you look across route 20 NOT route 3 to get to the Izod Center which leads me to #3 the building will be with out tenants by 2009-2010.
way to do your research, clown

#1 Giants Stadium is being replaced
#2 You mlook across Route 20 NOT Route 3 to see the Izod Center which leads me to #3 thats the Izod Center will be with oiut tenants by 2010.
way to do your research einstein, keep up the good work

How about Madison Square Garden, along with Isiah Thomas, James Dolan and most of the Knicks.

Bring back Riley!

The Pontiac Silverdome, the former home of the Detroit Lions and Pistons. This place was loud and intimidating at one time but has zero current tenants. Bad location, terrible access, and of course not enough luxury boxes. I would like to see Michigan and Michigan State play their annual game there before it's demolition.

Monster Park, or as it was formally known Candlestick Park. Even without the baseball infield, this is by far the worst facility in the NFL, surprisingly it is occupied by one of the leagues most storied franchises. It's time passed long, long ago. Tear it down and build a monument honoring Joe Montana.

I don't really understand why people continue to find "charm" and "intimacy" and "history" in the biggest dump in baseball; Fenway.
I guess they can continue to hang extra seats from various rafters and overhangs and call it quaint, but the place is a dump and why Boston refuses to build them a stadium is beyond me.
Of course, even though my assessment is correct-no one will agree. It's a Boston thing, I guess.

Although it is on Death Row...The Mellon Arena.

Tropicana in Tampa...this place should never be used to play baseball. Roof is too low, it's very dark and there is no reason to have a dome in Tampa.

How did the Bay Area escape this list? Candlestick Park and the Oakland Coliseum are way past their prime. Oakland's pit looks expecially brutal when the A's are playing there.

The Rogers Centre, formerly The Skydome, in Toronto needs to go. It's ugly. Baseball should not be allowed to be played in stadiums like this.

They could use the Izod Arena like they are now using the old Tigers Stadium - for sniper training. But, of course, AFTER the games.

You've obviously never been to the Trop in Tampa. That place is depressing.

The Big House in AnnArbor. Yeah, it has 107,000 people on Saturdays, but its design makes what little noise the crowd generates completly useless. I honestly think you could study for a pysch exam while watching a football game there. Give me 80K and a two tier-right on top of the field stadium any day.

The Izod Center is only on its third name, after the "Brendan Byrne Arena" and the "Continental Airlines Arena." That is not as many as Sean Combs: Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy.

Also, The Izod Center is not across Route 3 from Giants Stadium.

I agree that both venues are terrible.

How can you not add the Oakland Coliseum?

Even though this is about stadiums that need to die, maybe another story should be about stadiums/arenas that should come back--or at least pieces of them.

Who can ever forget the colorful floor of the old Milwaukee Bucks home, the Mecca.

The Big O , or is it " Owe " as in costing taxpayers more than a billion dollars in the 70's. No wonder the Expos left.

Apparently not many of you have been to Tropicana Field. Its in St. Pete not Tampa. Only comment on stadiums you've been to not what everyone else says should go. I don't like it that much either but to have ano open air stadium in Florida is tough. Have you seen how many rainouts and delays the Marlins have?

-Nathan from St. Pete

Tony Cash Memorial Stadium up in North Dakota. It has metal seats with sharp edges.

I know that people forget that they play major leage baseball in Tampa, but Tropicana Field is far and away the absolute worst venue for sports in the history of the world. No parking, no sightlines, catwalks in play, plastic grass, obstructed views, etc. This place should have been blown up while it was on the drawing board, how it ever got built is a tribute to political graft in Tampa.

Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo should be destroyed! And while you're at it, move the Bills to Toronto!

Toronto needs 2 need stadiums to replace the Rogers Centre. It was a "wonder of the world" as the first big convertible roof, but 20 years later it just looks like a big circle stadium from the 70's.

The Blue Jays deserve a baseball park and the Buffalo Bills will realize that if 2 games in Toronto per year is a good idea then 10 games would be better.

At that point the yuppies in Toronto will need 75,000 seats as a place to pour out their money.

Monster Park in SF.

RFK Stadium in DC. The Nats are leaving for good next year, but the DC United still play futbol there. Worst. Stadium. Ever.

Every time I see Giants Stadium being played in on TV, I gag a little bit. Madison Square Garden would be in need of replacement or upgrade.

However, the SkyDome is a unique stadium, and a tourist attraction. It was opened in 1989, so it would seem somewhat foolish to tear it down. It is a modern architectural marvel.

The author shows a clear anti-Jersey bias. While the Meadowlands is outside of NYC, it's not in "the middle of nowhere". If it was, they'd have trouble selling out for 2 NFL teams every week. It isn't a great stadium tho, so I'm glad to see it go.

And I'll also disagree about the Alamo Dome. It's the best stadium in the US that does not have a regular tenant.

My list...
Fenway - once you're in, it feels like a high school football game
RFK - without the NFL, it's an awful MLB park
The trop - never been, but on TV looks like baseball being played in a garage
Superdome - was a great stadium in the 80s, but now is not good enough to hold Nat'l Champ games or Super Bowls (this is why the Cards moved out of Sun Devil Stadium)
Monster Park - while still in SF, this park is in the middle of nowhere, away from downtown and in a poor undeveloped neighborhood

Fenway. During a game.

i don't see how you can say that giants stadium is "in the middle of nowhere." north jersey? do you know how many people live there? and there is nothing wrong with the stadium at all.the sight lines are first rate, its clean, it doesn't feel old at all.

Lang,

Perhaps you should take a page out of the Izod Center's book and change names as well.

Giants Stadium and the Izod Center are getting torn down in the near future to make room for the new, state of the art, Giants Stadium. Try catching up on current events.

1) Nassau Coliseum--Home fo the NY Islanders in the NHL... Dump, dump dump!
2) MSG-- Home of the NY Knicks and NY Rangers... This place needs a makeover more than most librarians
That's about it.

Four miles west of the greatest city on earth, a densely populated area with the highest (or second-highest) average household income in the country = "the middle of nowhere."

Interesting.

Route 120 -- not Route 3 or Route 20 -- divides Giants Stadium and Brendan Byrne Arena. (I refuse to call it by any other name.)

"...there's no subway stop anywhere nearby." Well, yeah, since no subway lines actually extend outside of the city.

How dare we let the facts ruin a good story...

For those of you who have ever been to the College World Series, it's time for ol' Johnny Rosenblatt stadium to come down. It amazes me that the NCAA has a marquee event like the CWS in such a rundown, delapidated stadium while there are so many other fine facilities in the country....

I go to Fenway for games and love it. With all the money the current owners have put into it, it's gonna be around for a long time. All-Star game will be there for the 100th anniversary. Mark my words.

SHEA STADIUM IS WORSE THAN A PRISON and I would know.

RFK is by far the worst stadium for a baseball game. I am glad the Nats are getting a new stadium next year.

The point of putting Maracana on this list is that it has to remain untouched. When a stadium has gotten to the point at which teams can no longer safely play in it, either it needs to go or some major work needs to be done.

Wrigley Field is a toilet. Even their own fans litter the field at least once a year!

Candlestick Park is hands down the worst stadium in the country. Bad access, parking, food, are the pluses to the worst place on earth. Right now its kinda approriate that the worst team in the NFL (49ers) plays there.

I agree with the Nov 9 anonymous comment. Fenway Park has the largest number of bad seats any stadium could possibly have. The Red Sox need a new home now!

Bank of America stadium in Charlotte. For being relatively new, it's boring and chunky looking.

Once again Lang Whitaker shows his inability or unwillingness to do research.

Yes, The Alamodome (and it is one word) is no longer home to any teams, but it still has its regulars besides the Alamo Bowl; such as The Monster Truck Roundup, The Women of Faith Conference, numerous other conventions, concerts, and ice shows and some of the best high school football in the country.

The Dome also hosted the Big 12 Football Championship game in 1997, 1999, and 2007, as well as the Texas A&M-Army football game in September of 2006 and the Dome will host the Notre Dame-Washington State football game in 2009.

The Dome also hosts the Dallas Cowboys' preseason training camp and was home away from home for the New Orleans Saints in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. The Dome has also hosted many NFL preseason games featuring the Dallas Cowboys, Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints (who also played three regular season games here in 2005) and Minnesota Vikings.

The Dome has also played host to major fights such as Pernell Whitaker vs Julio Cesar Chavez in 1993, Evander Holyfield vs Fres Oquendo in 2006, and Manny Pacquiao vs Jorge Solis in 2007.

There's also the occasional NCAA basketball tournament. The Dome was home to Men's Regionals in 1997, 2001, 2003, and 2007. It was home to the most attended Women's Final Four ever in 2002 and the third and ninth most attended Men's Final Fours in 2004 and 1998 respectively. I was at all of these except the 1998 Men's Final Four. The Women's Final Four returns to the Dome in 2010. Where will the Men's Final Four be held this year? You guessed it, The Alamodome.

It's also a great place for you and 60,000 or so of your closest friends to celebrate an NBA Championship after a few hours on The River Walk. I speak from experience as I was at three of the four celebrations, only missing 2003.

BTW, the curtain is used during basketball events because the Dome was built for football.

How do I know all of this?

Two simple reasons:

1. I live in San Antonio; and

2. Unlike Lang Whitaker, I don't mind doing a little research.

In my previous post, I forgot to mention that the Alamodome also hosted the most attended NCAA Women's Volleyball Final Four ever in 2005.

I think mellon arena in pittsburgh is one of the worst. i mean come on. it use to be a place for an orchestra. when the penguins moved in, it did not make any sense(well back then it did). former orchestra place, hockey arena, DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!

yankee's stadium because it blows

The Alamodome is still a dump, just like the day it opened. It looks like a spaceship landed in near the freeway... I suppose it fits the city of San Antonio though...

Texas Stadium is another dump. TV does wonders for it's image. Drive by it someday on 183.

I have no problems with Giants Stadium but Giants Stadium II will be way better. Hope they let fans take home pieces of the old one before demoliiton...

To the poster two above me, your words are spoken like a true Mavericks (or Lakers or Suns or to a lesser extent Rockets or Jazz) fan.

Or is it that you're a Marcus Camby fan?

"There's nothing going on there but the Spurs anyway."

-Marcus Camby on the city of San Antonio days before game 1 of the 1999 NBA Finals between his New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.

As I recall there was also one heck of a party going on in San Antonio about a week and a half later. It was something about an NBA Championship.