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in dollars) | owner = Stadium Management Corporation (New England Patriots, 1970-1988) Robert Kraft (1988-2002) | architect = Robert M. Berg Associates Inc.〔http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/NewEnglandPatriots/index.htm〕 | general_contractor = J. F. White Construction〔 | former_names = Schaefer Stadium (1971-83) Sullivan Stadium (1983-89) | tenants = New England Patriots (NFL) (1971–2001) New England Revolution (MLS) (1996–2001) New England Tea Men (NASL) (1978–80) | seating_capacity = 60,292 }} Foxboro Stadium, originally Schaefer Stadium and later Sullivan Stadium, was an outdoor stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, United States. It opened in 1971 and served as the home of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) until 2001 and also as the home venue for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer (MLS) from 1996 to 2001. The stadium was the site of several games in both the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Foxboro Stadium was demolished in 2002 and replaced by Gillette Stadium and the Patriot Place shopping center. ==History== The stadium opened in August 1971 as Schaefer Stadium, primarily as the home venue for the renamed New England Patriots of the National Football League. The team was known as the Boston Patriots for its first eleven seasons 1960–70,〔(New England Is Their Third Name )〕 and had played in various stadiums in the Boston area. For six seasons, 1963–1968, the Patriots played in Fenway Park, home of baseball's Boston Red Sox.〔(They Played at Four Different Stadiums In Their First 11 Years )〕 Like most baseball stadiums, Fenway was poorly suited as a football venue. Its seating capacity was inadequate—only about 40,000 for football—and many seats had obstructed views. The Boston Patriots played the 1969 season at Alumni Stadium at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, and the 1970 season, their first in the NFL, at Harvard Stadium in Boston's Allston neighborhood.〔 The site was selected when the owners of Bay State Raceway donated the land, midway between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. The general contractor who built the stadium was a Massachusetts-based company named J.F White Contracting Co. Ground was broken in September 1970.〔(FOXBORO STADIUM )〕 It cost only $7.1 million〔 (or $41.3 million in 2015 dollars)〔(Inflation Calculator )〕—only $200,000 over budget. Even allowing for this modest cost overrun, it was still a bargain price for a major sports stadium even by 1970s standards. This was because the Patriots received no funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the town of Foxborough; indeed, it was one of the few major-league stadiums of that era that was entirely privately funded.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foxboro Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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