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NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, USA. NRG Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,795, a total area of with a playing surface. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, host to many international soccer matches for the USA National Soccer Team, and other events. The stadium served as the host facility for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004 and WrestleMania XXV on April 5, 2009. NRG Stadium is part of a collection of venues (including the Astrodome), which are collectively called NRG Park. The entire complex is named for NRG Energy under a 32-year, $300 million naming rights deal in 2000. The stadium was constructed at the cost of $352 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=March 30, 2008 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=March 30, 2008 )〕 NRG Stadium is the first facility in the NFL to have a retractable roof.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=March 30, 2008 )〕 NRG Stadium will host Super Bowl LI in 2017.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/sports&id=9110662&rss=rss-ktrk-article-9110662 )〕 It will also host all 10 of the University Interscholastic League's Texas high school football championship games at the conclusion of the 2015 season. ==History== The Houston NFL Holdings group came to Populous (then HOK Sport) to begin the schematic design for the first-ever NFL retractable roof football stadium in 1997. The intention was to create a football stadium to replace the Astrodome that would operate like an open-air facility but have the intimacy and comfort of an indoor arena. With the design for football and the square footage requirements of the rodeo, the building was designed in the range.〔 Groundbreaking for the stadium was on March 9, 2000 and the building was officially topped off in October 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=March 30, 2008 )〕 The stadium opened on August 24, 2002, with a preseason game between the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans which the Dolphins won 24-3.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=September 17, 2011 )〕 The stadium hosted its first regular season NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans on September 8, 2002. Construction was completed in 30 months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=March 30, 2008 )〕 The first rodeo was held in the stadium in February 2003.〔 During a Texans preseason game on August 30, 2012, against the Minnesota Vikings, an intoxicated fan fell to his death from an escalator. On March 19, 2014, the stadium was renamed NRG Stadium, after NRG Energy, the parent company of Reliant Energy.〔http://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Reliant-Park-will-now-be-NRG-5331970.php〕 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「NRG Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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