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.