Nfl Football Stadiums With Roofs

A retractable roof is a roof system designed to roll back the roof on tracks so.

Nfl football stadiums with roofs.

Eight nfl teams play their home games in domed stadiums. This article is a list of current national football league stadiums sorted by capacity their locations their first year of usage and home teams although the national football league nfl has 32 teams there are only 30 full time nfl stadiums because the new york giants and new york jets share metlife stadium and the los angeles rams and the los angeles chargers share sofi stadium. Stadiums that cover both spectators and playing field. In all there have been 216 regular season games in stadiums that currently have retractable roofs where the.

Stadiums designed for field sports such as baseball and any of a wide variety of football codes and or athletics track and field. It opened in 1924 and was used by a number of sports teams and the city until the bears moved in permanently in 1971. Tennis stadiums a traditional outdoor sport but with a much smaller playing area only domed and retractable roof stadiums are included i e. Some are retractable domes such as at t stadium in dallas and some are not such as the georgia dome in atlanta there are six other teams that play in domes.

New orleans houston saint louis detroit indianapolis and arizona. The four nfl teams with retractable roof stadiums have chosen to play almost twice as many games with the roofs closed than with them open. Sofi stadium 2020 los angeles rams los angeles chargers. This article first appeared in the weekly football stadium digest newsletter.

The oldest original nfl stadium still in use today is soldier field in chicago home to the bears. With a unique oval scoreboard and a cutting edge retractable roof mercedes benz stadium was specifically designed to change how fans interact with their environment. The chart adds figures from the other three retractable roof stadiums in the nfl. When the nfl began in 1920 there was no such thing as a dome or stadium with a roof.

With two teams playing on the field the stadium gets more football related use than many nfl facilities noted lee slade a senior principal at walter p. That lone statistic raises the question of whether the.