You Know He Ain't Done Yet

Come late June, our beloved QB will try every which way he can to land a spot on the Vikings. When that happens, I doubt the supporters on Long Island will be nearly as heartbroken as the faithful at Waupun Assembly of Brett.

Who's got lotsa history?

Spaghetti and I were arguing with T— at work tonight over whether the Spaghetti's beloved Vikes really need a new stadium. This led to an argument about what's the oldest stadium, which led to the discovery that a listing of NFL stadiums sorted by age was nowhere to be found on ye olde Internette. Since we here at the 'Noog strive to provide our readers with all kinds of important information, we figured no time like the present to rectify that little oversight. All facts and figures courtesy of Wikipedia, so grain of salt and all that.

Favregnugen: we're here for you, America.

Stadium	NFL Team(s)	Former Name(s), most recent listed first	Current Football Capacity	Year Opened
Soldier Field	Chicago Bears	Municipal Grant Park Stadium	61,500	19241
Lambeau Field	Green Bay Packers	City Stadium	72,928	1957
Candlestick Park	San Francisco 49ers	Monster Park, San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point, 3Com Park at Candlestick Point	70,207	1960
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum	Oakland Raiders	McAfee Coliseum, Network Associates Coliseum	63,026	1966
Qualcomm Stadium	San Diego Chargers	Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego Stadium	71,294	1967
Texas Stadium	Dallas Cowboys		65,675	1971
Arrowhead Stadium	Kansas City Chiefs		79,451	1972
Ralph Wilson Stadium	Buffalo Bills	Rich Stadium	73,967	1973
Louisiana Superdome	New Orleans Saints		72,968	1975
Giants Stadium	New York Giants, New York Jets		78,741	1976
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome	Minnesota Vikings		64,111	1982
Dolphin Stadium	Miami Dolphins	Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium	76,500	1987
Rogers Centre	Buffalo Bills (Toronto)2	SkyDome	54,000	1989
Georgia Dome	Atlanta Falcons		71,228	1992
Jacksonville Municipal Stadium	Jacksonville Jaguars	Alltel Stadium	67,164	1995
Edward Jones Dome	St. Louis Rams	Dome at America's Center, Trans World Dome	66,965	1995
Bank of America Stadium	Carolina Panthers	Ericsson Stadium, Carolinas Stadium	73,778	1996
FedExField	Washington Redskins	Jack Kent Cooke Stadium	91,704	1997
M&T Bank Stadium	Baltimore Ravens	PSINet Stadium, Ravens Stadium at Camden Yards	71,008	1998
Raymond James Stadium	Tampa Bay Buccaneers		65,857	1998
Cleveland Browns Stadium	Cleveland Browns		73,200	1999
LP Field3	Tennessee Titans	The Coliseum, Adelphia Coliseum	68,798	1999
Paul Brown Stadium	Cincinnati Bengals		65,790	2000
Heinz Field	Pittsburgh Steelers		65,050	2001
Invesco Field at Mile High	Denver Broncos		76,125	2001
Gillette Stadium	New England Patriots	CMGI Field	68,756	2002
Reliant Stadium	Houston Texans		71,500	2002
Ford Field4	Detroit Lions		65,000	2002
Qwest Field	Seattle Seahawks	Seahawks Stadium	67,000	2002
Lincoln Financial Field	Philadelphia Eagles		68,532	2003
Soldier Field II	Chicago Bears		61,500	20031
University of Phoenix Stadium5	Arizona Cardinals	Cardinals Stadium	63,400	2006
Lucas Oil Stadium	Indianapolis Colts		63,000	2008
Dallas Cowboys New Stadium	Dallas Cowboys	Seriously? That's the name? We all know it's gonna be Jerry Jones Stadium, right?	80,0006	20096
Meadowlands Stadium	New York Giants, New York Jets		82,5006	20106

Notes:

Corporate names in italics.

1. Soldier Field was mostly torn down in 2001; da Bearce played at U of I's stadium in Champaign while a new structure was built on the site of the old one, retaining a few of the details on the outside, but that's about it. The stadium is listed twice so you can make up your own mind as to whether or not it's still really the oldest stadium in the league.

2. The Bills played their first game in Toronto in 2008, with plans to play more in the coming seasons. If you're a doom-and-gloom Bills fan, you assume it's just a matter of time before the team makes it their permanent home.

3. For some reason, this stadium's nickname is not "the Album" or "the Record". How unfortunate.

4. I suppose it could be debated that this isn't really a corporate name because the Ford family owns the team. Whatever, fuck the Lions.

5. Yeah, really, that's a corporate name. U of Phoenix is a for-profit continuing ed school that pays for the name and has no sports teams. Also, Shaquille O'Neal got his business degree from there. Seriously.

6. Projected.