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in dollars) | architect = Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Setter, Leach & Lindstrom, Inc.〔(Football.ballparks.com – Metrodome )〕 | structural engineer = Geiger Berger Associates | general_contractor = Barton-Malow〔(Ballparks.com – Metrodome )〕 | tenants = Minnesota Vikings (NFL) (1982–2013) Minnesota Twins (MLB) (1982–2009) Minnesota Golden Gophers (NCAA football) (1982–2008) Minnesota Golden Gophers (NCAA baseball) (1985–2013) Minnesota Strikers (NASL) (1984) Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA) (1989–1990) Minnesota United FC (NASL) (2012–2013) | capacity = American football: 64,121 Baseball: 46,564〔 (expandable to 55,883) Basketball: 50,000 Concerts: 60,000〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.msfc.com/about.cfm )〕 | dimensions = Left Field: – Left-Center: – (unmarked) Center Field: – Right-Center: – (unmarked) Right Field: – Backstop: – Dome Apex: – Wall: – (left and center field) Wall: – (right field)〔(Minnesota Ballpark History ) Major League Baseball, 2002〕 }} The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (commonly called the Metrodome) was a domed sports stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Opened in 1982, it replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington, and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus. The Metrodome was the home of the National Football League's (NFL) Minnesota Vikings from 1982 to 2013, Major League Baseball's (MLB) Minnesota Twins from 1982 to 2009, the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Minnesota Timberwolves in their 1989–90 inaugural season, and the Minnesota Golden Gophers college football and baseball teams until 2009. It was also the home of the Minnesota Strikers of the North American Soccer League in 1984. On January 18, 2014, the Metrodome roof was deflated, signaling the beginning of demolition work. The Vikings are playing at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium for the 2014 and 2015 NFL seasons, ahead of the planned opening of U.S. Bank Stadium in 2016. The stadium had a fiberglass fabric roof that was self-supported by air pressure and was the third major sports facility to have this feature (the first two being the Pontiac Silverdome and the Carrier Dome). The Metrodome was similar in design to the former RCA Dome and to BC Place before that stadium was reconfigured with a retractable roof. The Metrodome was reputedly the inspiration for the Tokyo Dome.〔(Metrodome Memories: The last hurrah... ), KARE 11 News, October 5, 2009, Accessed January 18, 2011.〕〔Teddy Greenstein, (Tokyo Dome Has Touch Of Home For Macphail ), ''Chicago Tribune'', March 27, 2000, Accessed January 18, 2011.〕 The stadium was the only facility to have hosted a Super Bowl (1992), World Series (1987, 1991), MLB All-Star Game (1985) and NCAA Division I Basketball Final Four (1992, 2001). The Metrodome was the ninth-oldest stadium in the NFL. Locally, the Metrodome had several nicknames such as "The Dome",〔(ESPN.com MLB Park Factor )〕 "The Thunderdome",〔Holtzman, Jerome (October 9, 1987). ("Fans` Din Hits New Heights In The Thunderdome" ). ''Chicago Tribune''.〕 and "The Homer Dome".〔("Homerdome? It's more like Loserdome now for Twins" ). ''Brainerd Dispatch''. May 13, 2000.〕 Preparation for the demolition of the Metrodome began the day after the facility hosted the final home game for the Minnesota Vikings on December 29, 2013, with actual demolition beginning on January 18, 2014.〔(Tom Powers: On demolition day, Metrodome won't hold up to Met Center ). TwinCities.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-12.〕〔() 〕 The Metrodome was torn down in sections while construction of U.S. Bank Stadium began.〔(New Vikings Stadium: Transition From Old To New ). Vikings.com (2013-12-03). Retrieved on 2014-05-12.〕 ==History== By the early 1970s, the Minnesota Vikings were unhappy with Metropolitan Stadium's relatively small capacity for football (just under 48,500). Before the AFL-NFL merger, the NFL had declared that stadiums with a capacity smaller than 50,000 were not adequate for their needs. The biggest stadium in the area was the University of Minnesota's Memorial Stadium, but the Vikings were not willing to be tenants in a college football stadium and demanded a new venue. Supporters of a dome also believed that the Minnesota Twins would benefit from a climate-controlled stadium to insulate the team from harsh Minnesota weather later in the season. The Met would have likely needed to be replaced in any event, as it was not well maintained. Broken railings and seats could be seen in the upper deck by the early 1970s, and by its final season they had become a distinct safety hazard. Construction success of other domed stadiums, particularly the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit, paved the way for voters to approve funding for a new stadium. Downtown Minneapolis was beginning a revitalization program, and the return of professional sports from suburban Bloomington was seen as a major success story. A professional team hadn't been based in downtown Minneapolis since the Minneapolis Lakers left for Los Angeles in 1960. Construction on the Metrodome began on December 20, 1979, and was funded by a limited hotel-motel and liquor tax, local business donations, and payments established within a special tax district near the stadium site.〔(Cooloftheevening.com )〕 ''Uncovering the Dome'' by Amy Klobuchar (now a U.S. Senator) describes the 10-year effort to build the venue. The stadium was named in memory of former mayor of Minneapolis, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, who died in 1978.〔(Minnesota Sports Facilities Commission – History )〕 The Metrodome itself cost $68 million to build—significantly under budget—totaling around $124 million with infrastructure and other costs associated with the project added.〔 It was a somewhat utilitarian facility, though not quite as spartan as Metropolitan Stadium. One stadium official once said that all the Metrodome was designed to do was "get fans in, let 'em see a game, and let 'em go home." The Metrodome is the only venue to have hosted a MLB All-Star Game (1985), a Super Bowl (1992), an NCAA Final Four (1992 & 2001), and a World Series (1987 & 1991). The 1985 MLB All-Star Game, several games of the 1987 and the 1991 World Series, Super Bowl XXVI in 1992, and the 1998-99 NFC Championship all were held at the Metrodome. The NCAA Final Four was held at the Metrodome in 1992 and 2001. The Metrodome also served as one of the four regional venues for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009. The dome also held first- and second-round games in the NCAA Basketball Tournament in addition to regionals and the Final Four, most recently in 2009. The Metrodome was recognized as one of the loudest venues in which to view a game, due in part to the fact that sound was recycled throughout the stadium because of the fabric domed roof. Stadium loudness is a sports marketing issue, as the noise lends the home team a home advantage against the visiting team. Until its demolition, the Metrodome was the loudest domed NFL stadium.〔CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks, is the loudest roofed stadium. Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, is the loudest outdoors stadium.〕 During the 1987 World Series and 1991 World Series, peak decibel levels were measured at 125 and 118 respectively comparable to a jet airliner—both close to the threshold of pain.〔"Twins pack punch in Game 1 Homers by Gagne and Hrbek spark win over Braves", Associated Press, October 20, 1991〕〔 The 1991 World Series is considered one of the best of all time.〔Murphy, Brian. Twins' `Overachiever' Kirby Puckett Gets Call to Glory, Baseball Digest, April 2001. Quote: "it was his play in Game 6 of the '91 Series against Atlanta that cemented his legacy in Twin Cities sports history. After robbing the Braves' Ron Gant of a home run in the field, Puckett hit an 11th-inning homer off Charlie Leibrandt to force a seventh game that the Twins eventually won in what some baseball historians consider the greatest World Series ever."〕 The blue colored seat back and bottom where Puckett's 1991 World Series Game 6 walk off home run landed in Section 101, Row 5, Seat 27 (renumbered 34 after the home run in honor of Kirby), is now in the Twins archives, along with the gold colored back and bottom that replaced it for a number of years. The Twins reinstalled a gold seat back and bottom as well as Puckett's #34 on the seat where it remained until the final Vikings game of 2013 in the Metrodome when, as local media reported, a fan took the #34 plate off the seat.〔http://bringmethenews.com/2013/12/30/handful-of-seats-stolen-from-metrodome-following-vikings-game/〕 The original World Series armrests and hardware, as well as the replacement blue seat back and bottom, are now part of a private Kirby Puckett collection in Minnesota. 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「Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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