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Superdome
Superdome Address: 1500
Poydras Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
Superdome is Home to the: New Orleans Saints
Superdome Opened: September 28, 1975
Superdome Capacity: 70,000
The crown jewel of the New Orleans skyline is the Louisiana
Superdome. The Superdome is the home field of the National
Football League’s New Orleans Saints. This 72,003
seat stadium hosts eight regular season NFL football
games a season. The Superdome doesn’t hold just
football games within its confines though. It is also
the host of a veritable cornucopia of events. Tulane
University uses the Superdome for all their home games.
It’s also where the annual Essence Music Festival
holds its festivities. The Superdome not only hosts a
great number of events but it hosts a great number of
big events. It’s been the setting for the New Orleans
Bowl, which pits the Sun Belt Conference champion against
a Conference USA team, for the Southeastern Conference
(SEC) Basketball tournament in 1996 and 2003, and for
the Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classic which is the Louisiana
high school state championships. The Superdome also hosts
some of the NCAA’s most prestigious events. It
has been the location of four NCAA Division I Basketball
Regionals and of four NCAA Basketball Final Fours the
last coming in 2001. It is also the place where the BCS
championship was held last year. The Sugar Bowl is annually
held in the Superdome. The biggest of events is also
held in the Superdome. The Super Bowl has come through
New Orleans on six different occasions the most recent
was in 2002 when the New England Patriots defeated the
St. Louis Rams in what some think to be the greatest
Super Bowl of all time.
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