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Fans who attended games at Veterans Stadium, especially for Philadelphia Eagles games, gained a reputation of being among the most vociferous in all of professional sports, especially in the notorious 700 Level, the highest seating level at Veterans Stadium prior to the construction of luxury skyboxes behind that seating area. The stadium ...
Veterans Stadium seats 11,600, and are on one side of the stadium, a grandstand facing east. 7,000 of the seats are aluminum bench bleachers, with the other 4,600 seats having fixed chairbacks. The field is surrounded by a nine-lane, 400-meter track.
They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list. The majority of these stadiums are used for American football , either in college football or the National Football League (NFL).
Veterans Memorial Stadium at Larry Blakeney Field is a stadium in Troy, Alabama. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Troy University Trojans. The seating capacity is 30,470. The stadium was originally built in 1950, and has regularly been expanded, renovated and improved since then.
The largest stadium used by a professional team falls at number 15 on the list. Not included are several large stadiums used by teams in the now-defunct NFL Europa , as these were all built for and used mainly for association football , or Rogers Centre , located in Canada (although it does host occasional American football games).
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Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia , opened with the home team, the Phillies, defeating the Montreal Expos 4–1, in front of a crowd of 55,352. The first ball was dropped by helicopter to Mike Ryan .
Stadium Capacity City (state) Country Region Tenants Sport(s) Image Memorial Stadium: 90,000 [21] Lincoln, Nebraska United States: North America: Nebraska Cornhuskers football: American football: Rose Bowl: 89,702 [22] Pasadena, California United States: North America: UCLA Bruins football, Rose Bowl Game: American football: Ben Hill Griffin ...