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The Pontiac Silverdome (also known as the Silverdome) was a stadium in Pontiac, Michigan.It opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres (51 ha) of land. When the stadium opened, it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure, the first use of the architectural technique in a major athletic facility.
The Silverdome crowd minutes before the Detroit Lions' playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys in Pontiac on Jan. 5, 1992.
Apostolopoulos made international news in 2009 when his investment company purchased the Pontiac Silverdome at auction for $583,000. [5] A low purchase price for an 82,000-seat stadium that had been constructed in 1975 for $55.7 million ($220 million in 2009).
The game was played on January 24, 1982, at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was the first Super Bowl to be held in a cold-weather city. The domed stadium saved the crowd at the game from the cold and snowy weather, but the weather did affect traffic and other logistical issues related to the game.
The town of Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, sold the 80,300-seat Silverdome on Monday, along with 127 acres of nearby land. The massive stadium complex, which once hosted the Detroit Lions ...
The Pontiac Silverdome was sold this week at auction for $583,000, or about 1% of the $55.7 million it took to build it. What a difference a year makes. Or 34 years. Take your pick. Either way, it ...
Pontiac Silverdome 11,279 6 Sunday April 10 at New Jersey Generals: W 21–6 2–4 ABC Giants Stadium: 17,648 7 Sunday April 17 Chicago Blitz: W 17–12 3–4 ABC Pontiac Silverdome 11,634 8 Saturday April 23 Los Angeles Express: W 34–24 4–4 ESPN Pontiac Silverdome 13,184 9 Sunday May 1 at Boston Breakers: W 28–24 5–4 ABC Nickerson ...
Pontiac High School, which is located at the former Pontiac Northern High School, was created in 2009 by the merger of both Pontiac Northern and Pontiac Central high schools. Wisner Stadium was one of the practice locations for the Detroit Lions and George Plimpton in 1963, as he was writing his book Paper Lion .