The
Silverdome is a
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d
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located in the city of
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,
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,
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, which sits on 127 acres (51 ha). It was the largest stadium in the
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(NFL) until FedEx Field in suburban
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opened in 1997.
The Silverdome hosted the
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of the NFL (1975–2001), the
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of the
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(1978–1988), the
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of the
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(1983–1984), the
Cherry BowlThe Cherry Bowl was an annual post-season college football bowl game played in the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1984 and 1985. The Cherry Bowl is noteworthy as an early attempt to bring a game to chilly Michigan, years before the successful Motor City Bowl...
, from 1984–1985, the Motor City Bowl, from 1997–2001, the
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football state finals, from 1976–2004 and four first-round games during the
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.
For the World Cup games, a natural grass surface capable of growing inside the dome was developed and installed by a team from
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. This grass surface was laid upon wooden pallets atop the artificial turf that is usually used. It was the first time that World Cup games were played indoors. The Silverdome also hosted the
1979 NBA All-Star GameGAME 29: at Detroit, Feb. 4, 1979MVP: David ThompsonCoaches: East: Dick Motta, West: Lenny Wilkens.-Western Conference: -Eastern Conference: -Score by periods: *Halftime— West, 80-58*Third Quarter— West, 104-98...
,
Super Bowl XVISuper Bowl XVI was an American football game played on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan to decide the National Football League champion following the 1981 regular season. It marked the first time that a Super Bowl was held at a cold-weather city...
on January 24, 1982, and the
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and
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Midwest Regionals.
On March 29, 1987, the World Wrestling Federation's
WrestleMania IIIWrestleMania III was the third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation . The event was held on March 29, 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan....
established for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America. The record stood until February 14, 2010 when the
2010 NBA All-Star GameThe 2010 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game between players selected from the National Basketball Association 's Western Conference and the Eastern Conference that was played on February 14, 2010 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States. This game was the 59th edition...
broke the indoor sporting event record with an attendance of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium.
On July 15, 1994,
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performed their classic album,
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, in its entirety, for the first time, since 1975.
The stadium has played host to music festivals, including The
Monsters of Rock FestivalThe Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 was a festival tour of the USA in 1988, headlined by hard rock band Van Halen as part of their promotion for their OU812 album with heavy metal band Metallica as well as other bands including Scorpions, Dokken, and Kingdom Come. It formed the first section of the...
and The Vans Warped Tour.
Conception
The idea of a major sports complex was part of a dream of C. Don Davidson, a Pontiac, Michigan resident and star high school athlete. Davidson, upon graduating from
Pontiac Central High SchoolPontiac Central High School was one of two public high schools in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. It had been an accredited high school from 1849 until its closing in 2009....
in 1947 and active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps, attended
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on a football scholarship. After earning a masters degree in urban planning and architecture, Davidson began his career as an architect and was recognized for several government and city projects throughout the south including Florida's
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. Upon returning home to Pontiac in 1965, he was shocked to see the deterioration of the city of Pontiac and its lack of a future plan. Davidson embarked upon what would eventually become an obsession for him to see his beloved city succeed. In 1966-67, he was hired as a professor of architecture and urban planning at the
University of DetroitUniversity of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi is the president. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university...
under the direction of Bruno Leon, Dean of the school of architecture.
Later on, Davidson met with various city and state authorities including
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, owner of the Detroit Lions, to discuss the possibility of a new stadium, made it a college class project to find a suitable place for a new stadium and even started his own weekly newspaper known as
The Pontiac Times, to help promote his vision. After much controversy and sparring with Detroit city officials, Pontiac was chosen as the best site for construction of what would become known as the Pontiac Silverdome. Already having a stadium concept as part of his master plan for the city, Davidson was interviewed and ultimately hired as chief project designer for the stadium project by the architectural firm of O'dell, Hewlett & Luckenbach. Initial designs included a dual stadium complex for both football and baseball that was later scrapped due to high costs. Davidson was pleased to see a part of his vision for the city of Pontiac accomplished in the building of the 80,000-seat sports complex.
Completed in 1975 as the
Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium, at a cost of $55.7 million, the Silverdome seats 80,311. It contains 102 luxury suites and 7,384 club seats.
Original silver-like roof
The original silver-like roof was built of Teflon-coated fiberglass panels, and
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inside the stadium. Although the roof has always been white in color as viewed with the naked eye, the stadium obtained the name "Silverdome" due to a silver-like reflection caused by the sun, mainly noticed from the sky. The roof was replaced by a new canvas fabric, reinforced by steel girders after a strong snowstorm on March 4, 1985, caused structural damage to the old roof. Because of the damage, the Detroit Pistons played the remainder of the 1984–85 season at
Joe Louis ArenaJoe Louis Arena, nicknamed The Joe and JLA is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Completed in 1979 at a cost of $57 million, Joe Louis Arena is named after boxer and former heavyweight...
. The accident, and the delay in repairs, partially prompted the Pistons moving three seasons later 4 miles (6 km) north to their new, privately owned, 20,000-seat sports arena,
The Palace of Auburn HillsThe Palace of Auburn Hills, often referred to simply as The Palace, is a sports and entertainment venue in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb on the northern outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Opened in 1988, it is the home of the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association...
.
Notable audience attendance numbers
The largest crowd to ever gather at the Silverdome for an event was 93,682 for a visit and Mass by
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on September 18, 1987. The second largest crowd was on March 29, 1987 for
WrestleMania IIIWrestleMania III was the third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation . The event was held on March 29, 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan....
, with a reported attendance of 93,173. Another notable audience attendance record had earlier been broken on April 30, 1977, when the English rock band
Led ZeppelinLed Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
played in front of 76,229 fans at the Silverdome. This was at the time a new world record attendance for a solo indoor attraction, beating the 75,962 that
The WhoThe Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
attracted there on December 6, 1975 for Opening Night. The
Detroit PistonsThe Detroit Pistons are a franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where...
also set numerous NBA attendance records during their time at the Silverdome; Regular Season, 61,983 vs. Boston, January 29, 1988; Playoffs, 41,732, vs. L.A. Lakers, June 16, 1988.
Marching band activities and events
The Silverdome was also the home to many marching band activities and events, including the
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State Marching Band Championships until 2005, the
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Regional championships from 2003 to 2005, and the Bands of America Grand National Championships in 1987 and 1988. Following its reopening, the Silverdome was host to the 2010 BOA Pontiac Regional Championship.
Usage after Lions' move to Ford Field
The Lions moved to
Ford FieldFord Field is an indoor American football stadium located in Detroit, Michigan, USA, that is the current home field of the NFL's Detroit Lions. It is owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. It regularly seats 65,000, though it is expandable up to 70,000 for football and 80,000 for...
at the beginning of the
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. When the
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(WHA) tried to re-introduce itself, the
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Detroit team was slated to play their home games at the Silverdome. Plans were also mooted for a
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-based
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team which could have used the dome for possible playoff games, but that team also did not materialize.
After the Lions relocated, activity in the Silverdome dropped drastically. However some usage was still present. Annually,
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used the Silverdome from the late 1970s to 2004. Due to talk of renovation in 2004, the Witnesses opted to travel to The
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in
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, and the
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in
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for their District Conventions. Between 2003 and 2006, a three-screen
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was set up in the parking lot; this theater reopened in 2010 before closing again on July 13, 2011
The Silverdome was used for
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on January 7, 2006. It was also used as a practice facility for the
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Champions
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for
Super Bowl XLSuper Bowl XL was an American football game pitting the American Football Conference champion Pittsburgh Steelers against the National Football Conference champion Seattle Seahawks to decide the National Football League champion for the 2005 season...
, with the NFL adding
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, which was later donated to a local high school.
Sale
With the city of Pontiac being in a serious financial crisis for several years and unable to continue the expensive upkeep and maintenance, several failed attempts were made to sell the stadium. In early 2008, United Assurance Company Ltd. made the highest purchase offer to date, with a bid of $18 million to convert the Silverdome into a Hollywood-style entertainment complex, following an earlier bid of $12 million by an attorney.
However, the city announced in October 2009 that the property would go to auction with no minimum bid, and that zoning regulations would be relaxed for any buyer in order to spark development. The Silverdome was auctioned by Williams & Williams auctioneers on behalf of the City of Pontiac in November 2009.
After reading about the auction in a newspaper, Greek-born Canadian real estate developer
Andreas ApostolopoulosAndreas Apostolopoulos is a Greek-Canadian real estate developer and investor best known for his ownership of the Pontiac Silverdome stadium in Metro Detroit.-Biography:Born in Kalamata, Greece, Apostolopoulos emigrated to Canada in 1969...
, CEO of Toronto-based Triple Properties Inc., submitted a winning bid of US$550,000. Real estate fees of 6% raised the price to US$583,000.
The sale of the Silverdome, completed in 1975 at a cost of $55.7 million (approx. $220 million in 2009 dollars), and sold in 2009 for $583,000 was viewed by many as a symbol of the collapse of real estate prices in the Detroit metropolitan area though many local leaders and residents claimed the sale was brought about due to the incompetence of city management and their not having a vision or future plans for the stadium and surrounding area.
Future
In the
Detroit Free Press on March 11, 2010, Apostolopoulos vowed "to revive the stadium as a big-event venue by investing millions of dollars". Owners of the Silverdome have indicated that they may eventually use the Silverdome or demolish it and build a new stadium on its site for a possible expansion team for
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.
AC Milan and
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played a friendly on August 6, 2010. On January 29, 2011,
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Timothy BradleyTimothy Ray Bradley Jr. is an American boxer, fighting out of Palm Springs, California. He is the current WBO World Light Welterweight Champion. He is rated #2 in the Light Welterweight division behind Amir Khan.-Light Welterweight:...
defended his
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light welterweight title in a unification fight against
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champion
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. The fight was aired live on
HBO World Championship Boxing, with an attendance of about 7000.
Re-opening
The Silverdome re-opened on April 17, 2010, with a
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event. The Detroit-based
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had placed its flagship franchise, the Michigan Coyotes, at the Silverdome; the team was later moved to
Wisner StadiumWisner Stadium is an athletic facility located in Pontiac, Michigan.Wisner Stadium was built in 1941 and named for Moses Wisner, the 12th Governor of the State of Michigan. Wisner, a resident of Pontiac, was a lawyer who became active in the anti-slavery movement.The stadium seats 6,600 and has...
and ultimately, due to the fact that it was located several hundred miles away from the league's other teams based in Florida and Louisiana, converted into a
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. The Coyotes could play at the Silverdome in 2012.
Significant events
- December 6, 1975 (Opening Night) - The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
(attended by 75,962 fans)
- December 31, 1975 – Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
(his very first New Year's Eve show, attended by 62,500 fans)
- April 30, 1977 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
(attended by 76,229 fans)
- February 4, 1979 – NBA All-Star Game
GAME 29: at Detroit, Feb. 4, 1979MVP: David ThompsonCoaches: East: Dick Motta, West: Lenny Wilkens.-Western Conference: -Eastern Conference: -Score by periods: *Halftime— West, 80-58*Third Quarter— West, 104-98...
- January 24, 1982 – Super Bowl XVI
Super Bowl XVI was an American football game played on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan to decide the National Football League champion following the 1981 regular season. It marked the first time that a Super Bowl was held at a cold-weather city...
- March 29, 1987 – WrestleMania III
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- September 18, 1987 – Pope John Paul II
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- 1988 – NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
- 1988 - NBA Finals
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games 3 through 5
- 1991 – NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
- 1992 - Metallica
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and Guns N' RosesGuns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
brought the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium TourThe Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour was a famed joint, co-headlining concert tour by the American rock bands Guns N' Roses and Metallica during 1992...
to the dome on July 21, 1992, with Faith No MoreFaith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...
as their opening act.
- 1994 – Hosted World Cup
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games for the 1994 World Cup
- 2010 – Aug 6th AC Milan vs Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos is a multi-sport club based in Athens, Greece. It has the shamrock as its official emblem and green and white as its colours...
football clubs In "Match of the Titans"
1994 FIFA World Cup matches
| Date |
Time (PDT The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States...
) |
Team #1 |
Res. |
Team #2 |
Round |
Spectators |
| 1994-06-18 |
11.30 |
|
1–1 |
|
Group A |
73,425 |
| 1994-06-22 |
16.00 |
|
1–4 |
|
Group A |
61,428 |
| 1994-06-24 |
19.30 |
|
3–1 |
|
Group B |
71,528 |
| 1994-06-28 |
13.00 |
|
1–1 |
|
Group B |
77,217 |
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