Metrodome

Metrodome Address: 34 Kirby Puckett Place. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415

Metrodome is Home to the: Minnesota Vikings

Metrodome Opened: April 3, 1982

Metrodome Capacity: 55,883

The Metrodome is an incredibly versatile stadium that hosts a number of events. It’s the home field for the NCAA’s Minnesota Golden Gopher football team, Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins and the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings. This stadium can hold 64,121 for a football game and 46,487 for a baseball game. The stadium is also referred to as the “thunder dome” because during the 1987 World Series ABC-TV had put a decibel meter to see how loud it go in the stadium and the meter broke. The noise that night was borderline illegal for Minneapolis metropolitan area.

The Twins stadium is very unique in the fact that it has 10 acres of Teflon coated fiberglass as a roof. The roof is kept afloat by 20 electric fans that keep it in the bellowing shape that it is always in. Many a baseball player has had a problem with the roof of the Metrodome. The color of the roof is an off white color which coincidentally happens to be the same color as the ball. So every couple of weeks or so SportsCenter will show a highlight of some guy looking for the ball and then trying to get out of the way of it before the ball comes back to hit him in the head. It always makes for great entertainment.