I think this was the exact broadcast I watched live at 7 years old; it was the first time I heard the word "implosion", ha ha. Now that Safeco Field's been around for 12-13 years, I often completely forget about the Kingdome ever existing (then again, I don't ever remember watching baseball or attending a Mariners game pre-1999, so it wasn't a huge part of my childhood :p). Ah, memories.
@CelesteK A number of reasons. Primarily to make room for the new football stadium which now stand on the site. Also, the Mariners no longer used the Dome after they built Safeco Field. Also, many people thought the building was ugly and wanted it gone.
@hillmert The roof was actually a ribbed dome of steel re-bar with concrete poured around it. The shape was designed to maximize support. The interior of the roof was lined with acoustic tiles, a few of which fell off in 1994 and caused the stadium to close in the middle of the baseball season. The tiles were replaced and other remodeling work done at a cost of $120M, which was more than double what the stadium cost to build in the first place. Five years later, they blew it all up.
@maroci64 And the Kingdome could hold various events. When the Kingdome was around, Seattle hosted the NCAA Final Four three times. Seattle has never hosted the Final Four since the Kingdome was demolished, and probably won't in the foreseeable future. The Kingdome had crazy concerts by bands like Zeppelin, Metallica, and Wings. Safeco has only ever hosted one concert. The Kingdome is the only stadium that held All Star Games for the MLB, NFL, and NBA. Bottom line is, Kingdome>Safeco Field.
@maroci64 Wow. You realllly don't get it. Read my initial comment again. Character doesn't equal charm. The Kingdome was a concrete monolith, but it had history, it had character, and it had better numbers than Safeco both seating and decibel wise. Also as an added bonus it was already built!!!!!! As my good friend Buck Marley has noted below, and as I noted in my initial post, we are still paying off tens of millions of dollars of debt on the Kingdome AND WE VOTED AGAINST IT.
The Kingdome was demolished before the debt issued to finance its construction was fully paid and as of September 2010, residents of King County are still responsible for more than $80 million in debt on the demolished stadium.
david stern is a backstabbing c***sucker. i wonder how much he was paid under the table to allow that deal to happen. who lets a major NBA team in a MAJOR NBA market leave for a small town market and is only known for a terrorist attack. That may sound bad but honestly that is the only way i knew okc before the thunder came to town. O wait its because of that brand new arena that they built when the hornets shitted out on them. can't leave em hangin. personally i think the nba f'd up.
i remember being really pissed at the time but i think qwest and safeco are bad ass stadiums now. i might have a different opinion if i lived in the area it got taxed though
I was like 5when it went down but i missed it now i saw what i missed not as spectacular as i was expecting but i love seattle i live in olympia though
I remember what a huge deal it was when the Kingdome was built, and watching it implode was VERY sad. I have great memories of Mariner games there, and one week when the Billy Graham Crusade was held there. I envy you rickyhenry for having a piece of it!!
I was there to watch the implosion when I was about nine years old (My tenth birthday was three days away BTW). I still remember being there like it was yesterday.
um for those of you that are bitching about the fatc that they did this in case you didn't remember a earthquake did severer damage to the structure and they were worried about the integrity of the structure.
Wow Seattle, you could have put your basketball team back in there again but you tore it down, the team cried Seattle Center(Key Arena) still wasn't enough. I think the Sonic fan got screwed.
@Survivor87 sonics fans did get screwed, i live in seattle, it's terrible what happened to the sonics. there was nothing wrong with the key arena, they didn't have to move away from it to ok city. the key is nice, sits 17,000, state of the art arena
@cbarrett34 and Key has the suites, etc that the NBA wants correct? I still haven;t understood it besides the fact that the new owner decided to move the team just because he wanted to. Here in Indiana we used to have Market Square Arena, I loved that place...but i had no suites so down it went and up went the Fieldhouse.
@Survivor87 yes, the key arena is a very nice place. go to wikipedia and type in key arena, it's very nice. it can only hold like 17,100 people, but that is enough really for games. and there are over 100 suites, easily. it used to be called the Seattle Center Coliseum, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. The Coliseum Arena seated only around 14,000. from 1993-1995, the arena was totally gutted and renovated/rebuilt, into the Key Arena
@Survivor87 The court was lowered 40 feet into the earth, and they created an upper deck level of seating, and added all the luxury suites around the whole building. the renovation cost Seattle taxpayers a couple hundred million, money that we are still paying on. the end result, was a nice new arena, called Key Arena, after Key Bank out here. with a lot more room, and over 17,000 seats. the former owner, Howard Schultz, who owns Starbucks, sold the team to Clay Bennett in 2006
@Survivor87 also, the taxpayers were still paying on the renovation from 1995, and the taxpayers were also screwed because we had to help pay for the Mariners Safeco field and the Seahawks Quest Field, which were new stadiums. we had enough of this new stadium stuff. Anyway, many prominent local CEO's, from Microsoft, like Steve Balmer and Bill Gates, were talking about paying half the money for a new arena to be built, but it never happened, and then after the 2007-2008 season, the sonics
@Survivor87 were hijacked and moved to ok city, and became the Thunder. there were still 2 years left on the lease between the Sonics and the Key Arena, which would've kept the team in seattle through the 2009-2010 season, but basically Clay Bennett bought out those 2 years, and paid Key Arena and the city, something like 50 million. As a result of the court ruling, the Sonics were able to keep their naming rights, colors, logo, everything that was associated with the Sonics team from
@Survivor87 1967-2008. and David Stern said that Seattle would be the first city to get a team, if a team relocated. but, it's been over 2 years now, and no one really talks about the Sonics anymore out here, and there are really no talks or rumors about a team coming back, it's a real shame. The NBA would probably want Seattle to build a new arena again, to get back an NBA team, but with a recession going on, that's not going to happen anytime soon, and why would we even do that, with no
@Survivor87 guarantees that a team would even be relocated here even if we built a new arena. what would probably happen is, a team would come back to Seattle and then the Sonics would have to promise to build a new arena within the first 5 years or something. basically, clay bennett and all his millions from oil profits, stole and hijacked our team. i can't believe the nba let him get away with this. it's a shame the city let our team go, fuck the thunder
I give one last salute to that marvelous building. I mean yeah I know it was a dangerous building and everything, but the history that took place in that building was just amazing.
DUDE! Stop harping on the "most unbelievable thing" comment! You probably said something very similar before 9/11, so by harping on it, you're just being a hypocrite.
She never said that it was the most incredible thing she ever **will see**. She said that, prior to March 26, 2000, she has not personally witnessed anything like this.
damn. makes me want to cry man. i remember watching this in person. the Kingdome was a Seattle icon. It was the loudest stadium in the country for football and baseball. We are still paying it off until 2017, and they built Safeco Field AFTER we voted no on it. The dome could hold 10,000 more people then Safeco too. I could go on and on, but the truth is that no matter what all the artists and activists said about the "bunker", the Kingdome had something that Safeco never will: character
just a "fucking eye-sore slab of concrete"? Well then what stops Safeco and most other modern stadiums from being "eye-sore mash-ups of steel"? By the way, the way it looks has nothing to do with it, unless the only time you dealt with it was when you drove by it on I-5. Also, you probably aren't wasting million of your tax dollars on a blown up stadium, and two that we voted against every year, which is the thing that pisses me off most.
The taxes don't matter to me, no. Sorry to hear that, but I'm just looking at it from the perspective of it as a stadium. And as a stadium, the Kingdome was the pits. Good seats were hard to come by, and in the Safe, it seems like every seat is a good one. There's really no comparison between Safeco and the Kingdome -- Safeco is better in every respect.
@FriendofEddieCoyle I couldn't agree with you more. While Safeco is a beutitul stadium, and it's true that there are no bad seats there, in my mind it will never have the sense of history that the Kingdome had. It should have been declared a national landmark. I'll always remember Dave Niehaus there, moreso than at Safeco. R.I.P Dave
@FriendofEddieCoyle Amen to that brother, countless memories. I remember when the thing was built back in 75' and seeing bands like Zeppelin, Floyd and UFO and Bon Jovi play there. So many Mariners games, so many great people I met. The Kingdome was a place where Washingtonians could forget their troubles and have fun, and I remember the Dome opening when I was 25 years old. Sad to see so many great memories turn to dust in ten seconds. RIP Kingdome, the Northwest Shall Never Forget You *tear*
@FriendofEddieCoyle Safeco field is a beautiful stadium with a grass field, great sight lines and a great view of the city skyline. It's was the Kingdome not Fenway Park, you have a much better stadium now.
Was a great place for football with the absolutely deafining crowds. Qwest is good too but nothing will ever be as loud as the kingdome during a Hawks game. The real sad part about losing the Kingdome is the fact that Seattle will never again get a Final Four since there isn't a big enough place anymore to host it.
I can just imagine the shock on people's faces who were flying into Sea-Tac and had no idea that this was happening. One moment they're looking out of an airplane at the Kingdome, then boom, where'd it go?
good riddance, the place was a dump for baseball games and was falling apart thanks to that ill conceived concrete dome. what a waste, it didnt even stand for 25 years.
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Damn right! And no you're not an idiot. You're someone who understands the terms "rate of gravity" and "freefall speed". But we're crazy right? We're conspiracy theorists right? Good for you.
I'm on the same page with you. I wasn't eluding that we were crazy but it's the people who don't do the research that immediately label us as "crazy" or "kook" or conspiracy theorist. If one looks at a casino in Vegas and the Trade Center falling, it's the same speed. Freefall. Next time, why don't they just light a casino on fire when they want to demolish it? That obviously wouldn't work. You need explosives. Hence, the explanation of the Trade Center.
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I see we are looking at the cold hard facts and not what the govt is telling us. Truth be told, anyone who will not at least consider the facts are crazy for not opening thier minds to what our eyes are really observing.
Yeah, I do agree the Kingdome was an inside job. I'm cuckoo because I think differently than you and I don't believe everything the government tells me. Go back to sleep.
@SeattleSportsFanic well dont be fucking cheap and fucking keep it up....hate seattle ..im from there and i HATE the people there...FUCK SEATTLE YOU ALL SUCK
Yeah, we're all the same. Every single person in Seattle has the same personality, the same agenda, and apparently, we all stole your lunch money in high school.
On a scale of 1-10, how drunk were you when you wrote this? I'm assuming that number will be higher than your IQ.
Well, let me say this stadium sucked from what I have read about it, but I was never there,so maybe I shouldn't say anything.But it's fun to watch it being demolished.
I remember going there when i was little To watch the seattle supercross series. Its sad that they dont have it anymore. Does anybody else remeber supercross being there?
That dome really needed to go I mean come on visiting NFL teams even had to practice under loud rock music just to acclimate to the loudness of Seahawks games. Not to mention how distorted the baseball field was and how hot it got in their on summer days with 50000 people in the "puget puke". Stadiums have got to have the shortest life expectancy of any kind of construction I mean they just axed the Miami Arena that was built fucking 20 years ago!
This country can't make anything that last's anymore except debt. The King Dome was supposed to be a modern marvel and only ended up lasting only a quarter century. I mean what a waste of funds to build it in the first place if it isn't going to last. I know the sight lines were bad and the roof was falling apart, but did we really need to rip it apart? Other venues have kept the facades and put in new seating bowls, so I don't by necessity. It's about luxury boxes and shinny new stadiums now.
well city planners and engineers aren't there for nothing - i think there was nothing that could be done to save it it was just too small and although the roofing could and should have been fixed it was certainly cheaper to just tear it down then enlarge it
God damn it, the Redskins owner was talking about building another facility? I wonder who's going to pay for that after little over a decade since opening the last home Cooke built? Honestly, this countries have bridges and roads that have more wear and tear yet we go all out for million dollar franchises. It's a scam and I hate how owners try to extort stadiums from the local governments by threatening to move the franchise. If anything, replace the Stick in SF which is long overdue.
Wasn't that the 1995 series? There's no way that could have been 1996 as the Division winner was Texas with NYY and Texas representing the east. There can be no more than 2 playoff teams form the same division and they can't meat in the first round.
I was there, front row, drinking a cold one. It was kind of sad. I had lots of great memories in the dome. With that said, what we have there is so much better. I will say this, what a waste of tax paying dollars. (I'm a sports fan too).
I remember watching this live on television. My wife tells me she was there. Only now has she been able to see what I saw. I suppose vantage point can make a difference.
They should demolish the Montreal Olympic Stadium this way, just no one wants to do it.
Like Kingdome, it too was built in 1976, made entirely out of concrete (or was it just Kingdom's roof?), literally falling apart in pieces/chunks and long since lost its baseball and football teams.
Mind you, the Kingdom cost $67 million. The Montreal stadium cost $1.5 billion (yes, billion!), and now they're now saying $500 million to demolish! Maybe that's why it's still standing...
Sad day. The new stadiums (Quest and Safeco) are great and all but they don't compare in volume that this stadium produced. I remember the volume being deafening when Randy Johnson came out of the bullpen in the 1995 ALDS and they played Gun's and Roses "Welcome to the Jungle".
To get to the boom 1:54
Funkgun 1 week ago
Perfect implosion. They must have took part in the wtc attacks. Another perfect implosion. On 9 11
FdubErik 1 week ago
R.I.P King dome
bizzbizz10 3 weeks ago
I think this was the exact broadcast I watched live at 7 years old; it was the first time I heard the word "implosion", ha ha. Now that Safeco Field's been around for 12-13 years, I often completely forget about the Kingdome ever existing (then again, I don't ever remember watching baseball or attending a Mariners game pre-1999, so it wasn't a huge part of my childhood :p). Ah, memories.
LogoFan121092 2 months ago
Why did the King Dome get imploded?
CelesteK 2 months ago
@CelesteK A number of reasons. Primarily to make room for the new football stadium which now stand on the site. Also, the Mariners no longer used the Dome after they built Safeco Field. Also, many people thought the building was ugly and wanted it gone.
hobie9999 2 months ago
@hobie9999 Safeco Field. Huh! My cousin's 5 year old could have come up with a better name than that.
CelesteK 2 months ago
Who doesn't love a good implosion?
poshko41 5 months ago
the kingdome got brought down faster then Ashley Simpsons career.
AmericanPride1234 6 months ago
i already destroyed it in World in Conflict, this is fake
SanderWits 8 months ago
How did they keep that concrete roof from collapsing throughout all of those years?
hillmert 8 months ago
@hillmert The roof was actually a ribbed dome of steel re-bar with concrete poured around it. The shape was designed to maximize support. The interior of the roof was lined with acoustic tiles, a few of which fell off in 1994 and caused the stadium to close in the middle of the baseball season. The tiles were replaced and other remodeling work done at a cost of $120M, which was more than double what the stadium cost to build in the first place. Five years later, they blew it all up.
captainvideo111 6 months ago
Did I hear -
Jessie are you clear?
Then silence
Then the next name
WTF???
shawngangar 9 months ago
@shawngangar I heard that too!!!!!!!! RIP Jessie
flyinbrian619 3 months ago
Too bad Paul Allen wasen't inside.
liam13coins 10 months ago
@maroci64 And the Kingdome could hold various events. When the Kingdome was around, Seattle hosted the NCAA Final Four three times. Seattle has never hosted the Final Four since the Kingdome was demolished, and probably won't in the foreseeable future. The Kingdome had crazy concerts by bands like Zeppelin, Metallica, and Wings. Safeco has only ever hosted one concert. The Kingdome is the only stadium that held All Star Games for the MLB, NFL, and NBA. Bottom line is, Kingdome>Safeco Field.
FriendofEddieCoyle 10 months ago
@maroci64 Wow. You realllly don't get it. Read my initial comment again. Character doesn't equal charm. The Kingdome was a concrete monolith, but it had history, it had character, and it had better numbers than Safeco both seating and decibel wise. Also as an added bonus it was already built!!!!!! As my good friend Buck Marley has noted below, and as I noted in my initial post, we are still paying off tens of millions of dollars of debt on the Kingdome AND WE VOTED AGAINST IT.
FriendofEddieCoyle 10 months ago
Still paying for this?
cochranexyz 11 months ago
The Kingdome was demolished before the debt issued to finance its construction was fully paid and as of September 2010, residents of King County are still responsible for more than $80 million in debt on the demolished stadium.
ain't that some god damn shit.
BuckMarley 1 year ago
david stern is a backstabbing c***sucker. i wonder how much he was paid under the table to allow that deal to happen. who lets a major NBA team in a MAJOR NBA market leave for a small town market and is only known for a terrorist attack. That may sound bad but honestly that is the only way i knew okc before the thunder came to town. O wait its because of that brand new arena that they built when the hornets shitted out on them. can't leave em hangin. personally i think the nba f'd up.
oregonducksrpimpen 1 year ago
@oregonducksrpimpen Don't worry you'll probably be getting the Hornets soon
seankeefe84 10 months ago
i remember being really pissed at the time but i think qwest and safeco are bad ass stadiums now. i might have a different opinion if i lived in the area it got taxed though
oregonducksrpimpen 1 year ago
I was like 5when it went down but i missed it now i saw what i missed not as spectacular as i was expecting but i love seattle i live in olympia though
higgins9911 1 year ago
That reporter definitely took that comment back a year later in September...
bjf7v5 1 year ago 5
i loved that place
cbarrett34 1 year ago
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it come down just like wtc building 7
vidarjens 1 year ago
I remember what a huge deal it was when the Kingdome was built, and watching it implode was VERY sad. I have great memories of Mariner games there, and one week when the Billy Graham Crusade was held there. I envy you rickyhenry for having a piece of it!!
mysterious1961 1 year ago
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That thing was so damn ugly
16mmDJ 1 year ago
Is everyone here clear?
kylelachelt 1 year ago 5
@kylelachelt clear
nonu12 1 year ago
@kylelachelt lets blow up this biatch
burgerking949 1 year ago
@kylelachelt ClearO_O
yellowfish32 1 year ago
I was there to watch the implosion when I was about nine years old (My tenth birthday was three days away BTW). I still remember being there like it was yesterday.
DJBlueX 1 year ago
@malcolmcox Yeah real mature..
jordythegiant10 1 year ago
@jordythegiant10 Two things. A: I agree. And B: Not appropriate. We don't want to know that.
joberfeld113 1 year ago
MidgardEagle, of course it was live coverage...if it wasn't live coverage on that day, KING 5 wouldn't have shown it live on that day.
southlandnative 1 year ago
um for those of you that are bitching about the fatc that they did this in case you didn't remember a earthquake did severer damage to the structure and they were worried about the integrity of the structure.
andrewmidkiff 1 year ago
I can't believe this was over 10 years ago. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Lot's of AMAZING memories in that building!
seattlesonlypensfan 1 year ago 2
LIVE COVERAGE... of an event that took place decades ago.
MidgardEagle 1 year ago
@MidgardEagle Decades? With an "s"? Plural? Meaning 20 years or more? Try 10 years ago, douchebag. It was in 2000.
SexSteakSoda 1 year ago
2:25 she's obviously never seen my junk.
malcolmcox 1 year ago
HOW DARE U VOTE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!! WHY DID THEY DO THIS! SHITTY MAYOR, WHICH POLITICIAN AGREED TO THIS?
sylicone221 1 year ago
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fuck seattle cheapskates!~ you all fucking SUCK!
sylicone221 1 year ago
Wow Seattle, you could have put your basketball team back in there again but you tore it down, the team cried Seattle Center(Key Arena) still wasn't enough. I think the Sonic fan got screwed.
Survivor87 1 year ago
@Survivor87 sonics fans did get screwed, i live in seattle, it's terrible what happened to the sonics. there was nothing wrong with the key arena, they didn't have to move away from it to ok city. the key is nice, sits 17,000, state of the art arena
cbarrett34 1 year ago
@cbarrett34 and Key has the suites, etc that the NBA wants correct? I still haven;t understood it besides the fact that the new owner decided to move the team just because he wanted to. Here in Indiana we used to have Market Square Arena, I loved that place...but i had no suites so down it went and up went the Fieldhouse.
Survivor87 1 year ago
@Survivor87 yes, the key arena is a very nice place. go to wikipedia and type in key arena, it's very nice. it can only hold like 17,100 people, but that is enough really for games. and there are over 100 suites, easily. it used to be called the Seattle Center Coliseum, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. The Coliseum Arena seated only around 14,000. from 1993-1995, the arena was totally gutted and renovated/rebuilt, into the Key Arena
cbarrett34 1 year ago
@Survivor87 The court was lowered 40 feet into the earth, and they created an upper deck level of seating, and added all the luxury suites around the whole building. the renovation cost Seattle taxpayers a couple hundred million, money that we are still paying on. the end result, was a nice new arena, called Key Arena, after Key Bank out here. with a lot more room, and over 17,000 seats. the former owner, Howard Schultz, who owns Starbucks, sold the team to Clay Bennett in 2006
cbarrett34 1 year ago
@Survivor87 also, the taxpayers were still paying on the renovation from 1995, and the taxpayers were also screwed because we had to help pay for the Mariners Safeco field and the Seahawks Quest Field, which were new stadiums. we had enough of this new stadium stuff. Anyway, many prominent local CEO's, from Microsoft, like Steve Balmer and Bill Gates, were talking about paying half the money for a new arena to be built, but it never happened, and then after the 2007-2008 season, the sonics
cbarrett34 1 year ago
@Survivor87 were hijacked and moved to ok city, and became the Thunder. there were still 2 years left on the lease between the Sonics and the Key Arena, which would've kept the team in seattle through the 2009-2010 season, but basically Clay Bennett bought out those 2 years, and paid Key Arena and the city, something like 50 million. As a result of the court ruling, the Sonics were able to keep their naming rights, colors, logo, everything that was associated with the Sonics team from
cbarrett34 1 year ago
@Survivor87 1967-2008. and David Stern said that Seattle would be the first city to get a team, if a team relocated. but, it's been over 2 years now, and no one really talks about the Sonics anymore out here, and there are really no talks or rumors about a team coming back, it's a real shame. The NBA would probably want Seattle to build a new arena again, to get back an NBA team, but with a recession going on, that's not going to happen anytime soon, and why would we even do that, with no
cbarrett34 1 year ago
@Survivor87 guarantees that a team would even be relocated here even if we built a new arena. what would probably happen is, a team would come back to Seattle and then the Sonics would have to promise to build a new arena within the first 5 years or something. basically, clay bennett and all his millions from oil profits, stole and hijacked our team. i can't believe the nba let him get away with this. it's a shame the city let our team go, fuck the thunder
cbarrett34 1 year ago
I give one last salute to that marvelous building. I mean yeah I know it was a dangerous building and everything, but the history that took place in that building was just amazing.
MasterSamurai 1 year ago
"boom" lol
khunopie 1 year ago
one of the best blow ever.
DJRoadRunner1 1 year ago
eye sore slab of concrete or not. Still a lot of great memories watching baseball in that place!
Joesquared3350 1 year ago
Wow, it's been 10 years since they demolished the Kingdome.
wooohooo771 1 year ago 16
and its almost been 10 years since they demolished TOWER 7!
NICKRITZER 1 year ago
DUDE! Stop harping on the "most unbelievable thing" comment! You probably said something very similar before 9/11, so by harping on it, you're just being a hypocrite.
She never said that it was the most incredible thing she ever **will see**. She said that, prior to March 26, 2000, she has not personally witnessed anything like this.
iamtheyak 1 year ago
most unbelievable thing you ever seen until 9/11
GamingPalooza 2 years ago
lol
DjWade3734 2 years ago
I remember going to the Monster Trucks here when I was a kid. I miss the Kingdom. It was HUGE!
CindeeQ 2 years ago
hehe i went inside it once, and i was there when they blew it up. I love Seattle, it's such an awsome home town. : )
NRGninjaC 2 years ago
"Most Unbelievable thing I have ever seen"
Yeah well just wait 18 months.
Christianrocker1990 2 years ago
@Christianrocker1990 haha funny but at the same time horrible
Zimbabweland 2 years ago
too bad. i watched a mariners game here once. all i remember was that it was REALLY loud lol
tcaito33 2 years ago
The second best event in Seattle...
tomwmloppe 2 years ago
damn. makes me want to cry man. i remember watching this in person. the Kingdome was a Seattle icon. It was the loudest stadium in the country for football and baseball. We are still paying it off until 2017, and they built Safeco Field AFTER we voted no on it. The dome could hold 10,000 more people then Safeco too. I could go on and on, but the truth is that no matter what all the artists and activists said about the "bunker", the Kingdome had something that Safeco never will: character
FriendofEddieCoyle 2 years ago 13
yeah man i had alot of good times there with my fam and that was the time my fam was really all happy together just being at the games
twistedf3ar 2 years ago 2
Oh christ, please stop. The Kingdome was a fucking eye-sore slab of concrete. Good riddance.
utubegod35 2 years ago
just a "fucking eye-sore slab of concrete"? Well then what stops Safeco and most other modern stadiums from being "eye-sore mash-ups of steel"? By the way, the way it looks has nothing to do with it, unless the only time you dealt with it was when you drove by it on I-5. Also, you probably aren't wasting million of your tax dollars on a blown up stadium, and two that we voted against every year, which is the thing that pisses me off most.
FriendofEddieCoyle 2 years ago
The taxes don't matter to me, no. Sorry to hear that, but I'm just looking at it from the perspective of it as a stadium. And as a stadium, the Kingdome was the pits. Good seats were hard to come by, and in the Safe, it seems like every seat is a good one. There's really no comparison between Safeco and the Kingdome -- Safeco is better in every respect.
utubegod35 2 years ago
@utubegod35 HEY FUCK U SEATTLE! HOW DARE U DO THIS! FUCK U PEOPLE THERE SUCK
sylicone221 1 year ago
@sylicone221 Are you even from Seattle?
WENCHY101 1 year ago
@FriendofEddieCoyle I couldn't agree with you more. While Safeco is a beutitul stadium, and it's true that there are no bad seats there, in my mind it will never have the sense of history that the Kingdome had. It should have been declared a national landmark. I'll always remember Dave Niehaus there, moreso than at Safeco. R.I.P Dave
mysterious1961 1 year ago
@FriendofEddieCoyle Amen to that brother, countless memories. I remember when the thing was built back in 75' and seeing bands like Zeppelin, Floyd and UFO and Bon Jovi play there. So many Mariners games, so many great people I met. The Kingdome was a place where Washingtonians could forget their troubles and have fun, and I remember the Dome opening when I was 25 years old. Sad to see so many great memories turn to dust in ten seconds. RIP Kingdome, the Northwest Shall Never Forget You *tear*
ufofan1980 1 year ago
@FriendofEddieCoyle Safeco field is a beautiful stadium with a grass field, great sight lines and a great view of the city skyline. It's was the Kingdome not Fenway Park, you have a much better stadium now.
seankeefe84 10 months ago
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FriendofEddieCoyle 10 months ago
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FriendofEddieCoyle 10 months ago
@seankeefe84 So, I'm guessing that you didn't read my initial comment? Cool.
FriendofEddieCoyle 10 months ago
i remember watcn this when i was 8, such a waste
donovancrenshaw 2 years ago
I remember watching this very channel at my friends house when I was 12. I'm 21 now and it brings back some awesome memories!
michaelprodigy 2 years ago
dude me too! except im 18 now
x0utsideofthis 2 years ago
So many memories..........
XXTHE12THMANXX 2 years ago
Kinda makes my "inner child" who remembers the Kingdome sad... >.>
Pikestaff 2 years ago 4
The dome was built by recommendation of MLB to re-award Seattle a franchise in account of rain events.
Open in 1976, demolished in 2000, after 24 years of operation, such a waste of taxpayer dollars.
bigpopparamma 2 years ago 4
Was a great place for football with the absolutely deafining crowds. Qwest is good too but nothing will ever be as loud as the kingdome during a Hawks game. The real sad part about losing the Kingdome is the fact that Seattle will never again get a Final Four since there isn't a big enough place anymore to host it.
yulewave 2 years ago
I can just imagine the shock on people's faces who were flying into Sea-Tac and had no idea that this was happening. One moment they're looking out of an airplane at the Kingdome, then boom, where'd it go?
Atoutlem0nde 2 years ago
Why do I always hear helicopters when ANY building is imploded? Just noticing a trend.
ecoRfan 2 years ago 3
Because they are filming the implosion from the helicopter.
Willjk89 2 years ago 4
LOL, the King Dome came down fast!!!
dingdongditch1000 2 years ago
good riddance, the place was a dump for baseball games and was falling apart thanks to that ill conceived concrete dome. what a waste, it didnt even stand for 25 years.
wisecritic 2 years ago
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just like the world trade center buildings came down...controlled demo!
myronkelly67 2 years ago
you are an idiot.
bagel08 2 years ago
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yo mama likes it!!!
myronkelly67 2 years ago
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Damn right! And no you're not an idiot. You're someone who understands the terms "rate of gravity" and "freefall speed". But we're crazy right? We're conspiracy theorists right? Good for you.
lauras1978 2 years ago
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We are not crazy as you have eluded to...I just wish people would wake up and at least look at all of the facts.
myronkelly67 2 years ago
I'm on the same page with you. I wasn't eluding that we were crazy but it's the people who don't do the research that immediately label us as "crazy" or "kook" or conspiracy theorist. If one looks at a casino in Vegas and the Trade Center falling, it's the same speed. Freefall. Next time, why don't they just light a casino on fire when they want to demolish it? That obviously wouldn't work. You need explosives. Hence, the explanation of the Trade Center.
lauras1978 2 years ago
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I see we are looking at the cold hard facts and not what the govt is telling us. Truth be told, anyone who will not at least consider the facts are crazy for not opening thier minds to what our eyes are really observing.
myronkelly67 2 years ago
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Amen. I saw that you are USAF. I was USN from 96-02. Are you active or reserve?
lauras1978 2 years ago
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I think the collapse of the Kingdome was an inside job!
THEY want you to think that explosives brought it down, but in reality bigfoot piloted a 757 into it.
Chirp-chirp, why are there birds in my living room? MOMMY I DON'T WANT PUDDING!!! Coo koo!!
detoth67 2 years ago 7
Yeah, I do agree the Kingdome was an inside job. I'm cuckoo because I think differently than you and I don't believe everything the government tells me. Go back to sleep.
lauras1978 2 years ago
Haha. Fucking satire makes me laugh XD
KhmerDubbed 2 years ago
@detoth67 I agree, A perfectly good ballpark. Gone for what?
SpamZoid 1 year ago
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Are you serious? The Kingdome was horrible. The titles fell down, and it was a eye sore.
SeattleSportsFanic 1 year ago
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yeah, but it was a waste, they only played there for about 20 years. they could of kept that thing around for another 10 years.
SpamZoid 1 year ago
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@SeattleSportsFanic well dont be fucking cheap and fucking keep it up....hate seattle ..im from there and i HATE the people there...FUCK SEATTLE YOU ALL SUCK
sylicone221 1 year ago
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Yeah, we're all the same. Every single person in Seattle has the same personality, the same agenda, and apparently, we all stole your lunch money in high school.
On a scale of 1-10, how drunk were you when you wrote this? I'm assuming that number will be higher than your IQ.
utubegod35 1 year ago
@detoth67 i dont understand, elaborate on your thought a little more...
markkochubey 1 year ago
& GOODBYE BASEBALL!!! MY OH MY!!! lol =D
TheGreatBunghole16 2 years ago
They weren't going to do anything in Tacoma.
Willjk89 2 years ago 5
New stunt for Jackass.
Sitting down in a building that was supposed to be imploded.
adamsnider92 3 years ago 10
Lmao!! Priceless
grunger81 2 years ago 2
@adamsnider92 the dudesons already did that
ConBandMetal 1 year ago
i have a chunk of that on my dresser.
rickyhenry35 3 years ago 15
@rickyhenry35 I envy you
MasterSamurai 1 year ago
@rickyhenry35 Cool.
joberfeld113 1 year ago
@rickyhenry35 really
The319cid 1 year ago
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The319cid 1 year ago
@rickyhenry35 brings ya back doesn't it
buttwonderskins 1 year ago
that place was a shithole near the end of it's time
theone2225 3 years ago
I was at the final Seahawks game here. They faced the Dolphins in a playoff match in the Wild Card round and lost.
Keefence 3 years ago 2
They lost their first game there too.
everettpf3 2 years ago 3
Shortly before the did that, the city of Seattle spent several million dolars redoing the roof, then they nuked it. Tax dollars at work
jjohn2k 3 years ago
Don't forget the deaths!
everettpf3 2 years ago
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@everettpf3 @ your post: "Don't forget the deaths!"
Didn't someone jump or get pushed off the 3rd level?
WENCHY101 1 year ago
I have a big-ass chunk of that in my front yard! :)
67mustangreg 3 years ago
that dust cloud is HUGE!!
TornadoSirens 3 years ago 2
Well, let me say this stadium sucked from what I have read about it, but I was never there,so maybe I shouldn't say anything.But it's fun to watch it being demolished.
TedLillyfan15 3 years ago
That stadium was great. It's unfortunate they had to tear it down.
TedLillyfan15 3 years ago 7
I remember going there when i was little To watch the seattle supercross series. Its sad that they dont have it anymore. Does anybody else remeber supercross being there?
musicmax61 3 years ago
yeah, but i remember going there for a Monstertruck Ralley.
harborkid84 3 years ago
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911 was inside job!
pugzilllla 3 years ago
They should build the kingdome again. JK
puetohoi 3 years ago
"JK" No they really should.
StayMarlboro 2 years ago 2
That dome really needed to go I mean come on visiting NFL teams even had to practice under loud rock music just to acclimate to the loudness of Seahawks games. Not to mention how distorted the baseball field was and how hot it got in their on summer days with 50000 people in the "puget puke". Stadiums have got to have the shortest life expectancy of any kind of construction I mean they just axed the Miami Arena that was built fucking 20 years ago!
Railer505 3 years ago
This country can't make anything that last's anymore except debt. The King Dome was supposed to be a modern marvel and only ended up lasting only a quarter century. I mean what a waste of funds to build it in the first place if it isn't going to last. I know the sight lines were bad and the roof was falling apart, but did we really need to rip it apart? Other venues have kept the facades and put in new seating bowls, so I don't by necessity. It's about luxury boxes and shinny new stadiums now.
ishmaiden 3 years ago
well city planners and engineers aren't there for nothing - i think there was nothing that could be done to save it it was just too small and although the roofing could and should have been fixed it was certainly cheaper to just tear it down then enlarge it
Railer505 3 years ago
God damn it, the Redskins owner was talking about building another facility? I wonder who's going to pay for that after little over a decade since opening the last home Cooke built? Honestly, this countries have bridges and roads that have more wear and tear yet we go all out for million dollar franchises. It's a scam and I hate how owners try to extort stadiums from the local governments by threatening to move the franchise. If anything, replace the Stick in SF which is long overdue.
ishmaiden 3 years ago
That was the death of seattle
You lost the sonic's what's next?
MCEProd22 3 years ago 2
no it wasn't numb nuts. U suck
harborkid84 3 years ago
the mariners...
drmeithos 3 years ago
I was there.
crazyjay1977 3 years ago
This was a sad day in Seattle history.
It is not quite as momentus as Yankee stadium next year, but his was one of the saddest days from my childhood
i had a front row seat in 1996 when edgan hit the game winning runs scoreing griffey in the drematic finish of the american league divisional series.
adamwmaxon 3 years ago 5
Wasn't that the 1995 series? There's no way that could have been 1996 as the Division winner was Texas with NYY and Texas representing the east. There can be no more than 2 playoff teams form the same division and they can't meat in the first round.
ishmaiden 3 years ago
let him have his moment. I miss going to the Kingdome for Mariners games, too.
KoNGZ49 3 years ago 2
I was in a building rite across the street watCHIN IT GO DOWN
GunsNRosesmaniac01 3 years ago
they make it look so easy
Obelisk2290 3 years ago
that is the most mother fucking unbelievable thing i have ever felt in my ass
desertegle81 3 years ago
I saw this live on TV when I was 9 years old. I was living in Portland, Oregon at the time.
SuperHornetPilot 3 years ago
I missed that dome I live in Vancouver and it looks alot like our stadium BC Place
LESTERNIDOY 3 years ago
the house that griffey built
whobo456 3 years ago
He didn't build the Kingdome ... but Safeco Field!
gorbidog 3 years ago
the season the mariners started at safeco was when they traded griffey to the reds
whobo456 3 years ago
lollllllllllllllllllll
KoNGZ49 3 years ago
I was there, front row, drinking a cold one. It was kind of sad. I had lots of great memories in the dome. With that said, what we have there is so much better. I will say this, what a waste of tax paying dollars. (I'm a sports fan too).
wrsawy 3 years ago
my grandfather was the person in the legion hall who had the idea of the flag on top of it.
kathers123 3 years ago
I sure miss the Dome. Good times.
DarkWillUser 3 years ago
imaggine how tough it was to see a truly legenday stadium like the orange bowl being brought down beam by beam over 3 months
Obelisk2290 3 years ago
BOO on KING5. *WHY* were they zoomed in so close to the roof during the implosion? I understand it should zoomed in, but not zoomed THAT far in!
sparkpop 3 years ago
I remember watching this live on television. My wife tells me she was there. Only now has she been able to see what I saw. I suppose vantage point can make a difference.
k9builder 3 years ago
they left there camera inside?
pega57 3 years ago
We're still paying for the Kingdome; it wasn't paid off when it was imploded...
Jeff98177 3 years ago
haha the voice at :40 "cleah"
oeddawg 3 years ago
rofl
kangaroosterman 3 years ago
They should demolish the Montreal Olympic Stadium this way, just no one wants to do it.
Like Kingdome, it too was built in 1976, made entirely out of concrete (or was it just Kingdom's roof?), literally falling apart in pieces/chunks and long since lost its baseball and football teams.
Mind you, the Kingdom cost $67 million. The Montreal stadium cost $1.5 billion (yes, billion!), and now they're now saying $500 million to demolish! Maybe that's why it's still standing...
Apple2gs 3 years ago
One of the best places on Earth.
mcOlli3 3 years ago 6
Sad day. The new stadiums (Quest and Safeco) are great and all but they don't compare in volume that this stadium produced. I remember the volume being deafening when Randy Johnson came out of the bullpen in the 1995 ALDS and they played Gun's and Roses "Welcome to the Jungle".
huskydrum1 3 years ago
this stadium i think did not last thirty years wow. the orange bowl is painfully coming down over weeks with a wrecking ball. So sad after 70 years
Obelisk2290 4 years ago
haha i saw this from way up in the Columbia Center, too cool :-p Poor Kingdome though.
GeraudinIndia 4 years ago