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The Historic New Orleans Collection - hnoc.org

Before the Superdome, There Was Tulane Stadium

The venue played host to Tulane Green Wave games, the New Orleans Saints’s first few seasons, and three Super Bowls.

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Wikipedia:

Tulane Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in the southern United States on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It stood from 1926 to 1980 and was officially the Third Tulane Stadium, following the "Second Tulane Stadium", which was located where the Telephone Exchange Building is now.[1]

The former site is currently bound by Willow Street to the south, Ben Weiner Drive to the east, the Tulane University property line west of McAlister Place, and the Hertz Basketball/Volleyball Practice Facility and the Green Wave's current home, Yulman Stadium, to the north.

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Tulane Stadium - Wikipedia

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This is more or less the footprint of Tulane Stadium. Currently a quad, parking garage, athletic center, and dorms. built through the years.

As an alum I would have appreciated having a team that could fill out a 70k stadium, but from everything I've seen, it was an unsalvagable mess after decades of "upgrades." Easily the crappiest stadium to host a Super Bowl.

 

[Poison]

I understand the rationale for demolishing stadiums which are immediately adjacent to the site of their replacement (i.e. the Georgia Dome), but what on earth is the rationale for razing places like Candlestick Park (even if the venue is triggering to Saints fans) and Texas Stadium? It seems kinda pointless to just demolish places that are so steeped in history only for the sites to be left vacant.

As an aside, I am always astounded by the amount of space occupied by parking lots at these stadiums as shown by the aerial shots. Places like the Superdome (which still has a decent allocation in and around the site) feel like the exception rather than the rule on that front.

 

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Of those listed I have been to Shea numerous times. I have been to Busch once (saw Lou Brock play on Lou Brock Bat Day).

I saw Sam Mills run back a handoff at the Meadowlands.

I wish the Polo Grounds was still up when I was around.

 

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Of those listed I have been to Shea numerous times. I have been to Busch once (saw Lou Brock play on Lou Brock Bat Day).

I saw Sam Mills run back a handoff at the Meadowlands.

I wish the Polo Grounds was still up when I was around.

After the original New York Giants MLB team left and relocated to S.F. in the late 50's, following in the footsteps of their once-crosstown rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers, their wasnt really much of a need or major functional purpose for keeping the Polo Grounds or Ebbets Field around anymore because, by the mid-late 50's, both stadiums were close to or over 40 years old, had crumbling bleachers, stands, were terribly out-dated, some of their amenities were typically found in late 19th century MLB ballparks. IIRC, the Polo Grounds did serve as a temporary home stadium for the expansion New York Mets while their then-new stadium, Shea Stadium, was being constructed for them and also the 1964's World Fair.

What's interesting is that if Dodgers had accepted Robert Moses offer of a new stadium in Queens ( close to the eventual Shea Stadium), the New York Mets are never created as a sort of substitute for the departing Dodgers, Walter O'Malley and Moses didnt have a great working, professional relationship and O'Malley's insistence that any new stadium for the Dodgers had to be in Brooklyn, rather then anywhere else in NYC, doomed any remaining chance of Dodgers ever remaining in Brooklyn.

Before the original Meadowlands opened up for the 1976 NFL season, the New York Giants were sort of a homeless, desperate, vagabond team who didnt have a home stadium or played in 3-4 different places from the early 70's to 1976 as they moved out of Yankee Stadium as it was being renovated in 1973-74 (?). Since NYC had some well-publicized, documented financial issues concerning public funds and the fact they were tens of millions of dollars in debt by mid-70's, moving to the north Jersey suburbs, swamps of Bergen County seemed like a very rational, sensible move.