A tour of the world’s most iconic stadiums and arenas. ThrillZing covers the history, capacity, signature moments, and fan experience of the venues where championship games and unforgettable events happen.
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/ October 19, 2026
Universal Stadium opened in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1928, built with private funding after local bond measures to pay for a stadium repeatedly failed. Its wooden stands and concrete box seats were raised specifically to give the city’s semi-pro football ambitions a proper home, and within…
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/ October 19, 2026
Nippert Stadium sits on the University of Cincinnati campus on a playing field, known as Carson Field, that has hosted football continuously since 1901, making it one of the oldest football sites in the country still in use. The current brick-and-concrete stadium was dedicated in…
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/ October 19, 2026
Normal Park was a modest football and baseball field on Chicago’s South Side that played an outsized role in NFL history. Tucked into a city block bounded by South Racine Avenue, South Throop Street, and West 61st and 62nd Streets, the grounds operated from roughly…
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/ October 19, 2026
Frank Youell Field was a 22,000-seat football stadium built in 1962 at 900 Fallon Street in Oakland, California, right next to the channel connecting Lake Merritt to the Oakland Estuary. The city built it as a stopgap venue, at a cost of about $400,000, while…
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/ October 18, 2026
Rynearson Stadium has served as the home field of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team since it opened on September 27, 1969, when EMU upset the University of Akron 10-3 in the stadium’s debut game. Located at 799 N. Hewitt Rd in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the…
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/ October 18, 2026
Allegacy Financial Stadium has served as the home of Wake Forest Demon Deacons football since it opened in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in September 1968. Built for around $4 million, the venue has carried several names over the decades, starting out as Groves Stadium before becoming…
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/ October 18, 2026
InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field is the on-campus football stadium at the University of Akron, built to give the Akron Zips a true home-field advantage after decades of playing miles away from campus. The venue opened on September 12, 2009, with a sold-out crowd watching Akron defeat…
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/ October 18, 2026
GEODIS Park opened on May 1, 2022, as the new home of Major League Soccer’s Nashville SC, rising on the grounds of the historic Nashville Fairgrounds just south of downtown. Designed by the sports architecture firm Populous, the venue was built specifically for soccer, giving…
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/ October 18, 2026
Waldo Stadium has been the home of Western Michigan University football since October 7, 1939, when the Broncos opened the venue with a 6-0 win over Miami University. Named for Dwight B. Waldo, the school’s first president, the stadium sits at 1903 West Michigan Avenue…
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/ October 17, 2026
Aggie Memorial Stadium sits on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where it has served as the home field of the New Mexico State Aggies football program since it opened in September 1978. The venue replaced an earlier, much…
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/ October 16, 2026
Wallace Wade Stadium opened on October 5, 1929, on Duke University’s campus in Durham, North Carolina, and has served as the home of Duke Blue Devils football for nearly a century. Originally known simply as Duke Stadium, it was renamed in 1967 to honor Wallace…
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/ October 15, 2026
CEFCU Stadium sits in the Spartan Keyes neighborhood of San Jose, California, where it has served as the home field for San Jose State Spartans football since the stadium first opened in 1933. For more than eight decades it was known simply as Spartan Stadium…
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/ October 15, 2026
Dignity Health Sports Park is a 27,000-seat soccer-specific stadium in Carson, California, sitting on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills about 14 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. Opened in 2003 as the Home Depot Center, the venue has carried three different naming-rights…
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/ October 15, 2026
Johnny “Red” Floyd Stadium has anchored Middle Tennessee State University athletics in Murfreesboro, Tennessee since it opened on October 14, 1933, when the Blue Raiders played Jacksonville State to a scoreless tie. Built as Horace Jones Field by the Civil Works Administration during the Depression…
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/ October 14, 2026
Albertsons Stadium sits on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, and has served as the home of the Boise State Broncos football team since it opened in 1970. For its first 44 seasons the venue was known as Bronco Stadium, until the…
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/ October 14, 2026
Valley Children’s Stadium sits on the campus of California State University, Fresno, and has served as the home field of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team since it opened on November 15, 1980. For more than four decades, fans have known the venue by its…
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/ October 14, 2026
DATCU Stadium is the home football venue for the University of North Texas Mean Green, sitting at the junction of Interstate 35E and 35W in Denton, Texas. Opened on September 10, 2011 as Apogee Stadium, the $78 million facility replaced the aging Fouts Field, which…
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/ October 14, 2026
UB Stadium has been the home of Buffalo Bulls football, soccer, and track and field since it opened in the summer of 1993, with the first football game played on September 4, 1993, against Maine, on the University at Buffalo’s North Campus in Amherst, New…
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/ October 14, 2026
Cajun Field has served as the home of Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns football in Lafayette, Louisiana, since it opened on September 25, 1971. Officially known today as Cajun Field at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium, the venue sits on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus…
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/ October 12, 2026
Gerald J. Ford Stadium sits on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas, serving as the home field for the SMU Mustangs football program since it opened on September 2, 2000. The venue replaced the aging Ownby Stadium on the same site and was…
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