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The Steelers notified the Pittsburgh Stadium Authority in December 2010 of their intention to add up to 4,000 seats to the lower southern end of the stadium. The plan would increase seating up to 69,050 as soon as the 2012 NFL season. [103] Seating was added in that section for the 2011 NHL Winter Classic, which had an attendance of 68,111.
Pitt Stadium was an outdoor athletic stadium in the eastern United States, located on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Opened in 1925 , it served primarily as the home of the university's Pittsburgh Panthers football team through 1999 .
A proposal for a new sports stadium in Pittsburgh was first made in 1948; however, plans did not attract much attention until the late 1950s. [9] The Pittsburgh Pirates played their home games at Forbes Field, which opened in 1909, [10] and was the second oldest venue in the National League (Philadelphia's Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium was oldest, having opened only two months prior to Forbes).
Pitt broke the 100 win mark on November 22, 2008, with an 86–60 win over Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the 200 win mark on December 30, 2014, vs. Florida Gulf Coast University. In 2006, the Pittsburgh Xplosion, a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association, played its first game at the arena. The team ...
Pittsburgh native, Art Rooney founded his NFL team under the name the Pittsburgh Pirates, on July 8, 1933, for $2,500 ($58,843 in present-day terms). [94] [95] The franchise's first game, against the New York Giants, was held on September 20, 1933, [96] at Forbes Field. [97] The Giants won the game 23–2 in front of 25,000 people.
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium: NFL Madrid Game: Madrid, Spain: 81,044 Hybrid grass: Retractable roof 1947 [h] [69] Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium: Hall of Fame Game: Canton, Ohio: 23,000 FieldTurf Classic HD Open 1938 [i] [70] Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: NFL London Games: London, England: 62,850 Artificial turf Open 2019 [71] Twickenham Stadium ...
The NFL preseason (thankfully) is around the corner, so there's no better time to rewrite the stadium power rankings entering the 2015 campaign. Scroll through the gallery above and find the old ...
The 1958 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 26th in the National Football League. Coming off a 6–6 result in 1957, the Steelers moved to a new venue, the University of Pittsburgh's 60,000 seat Pitt Stadium , a significantly larger facility than the 40,000 seat Forbes Field .