American football stadium in Foxborough, MA, US demolished in 2002
Foxboro Stadium
, originally
Schaefer Stadium
and later
Sullivan Stadium
, was an outdoor stadium in the
New England
region of the
United States
, located in
Foxborough, Massachusetts
. It opened in
1971
and served as the home of the
New England Patriots
of the
National Football League
(NFL) for 31 seasons (through January
2002
) and also as the first home venue for the
New England Revolution
of
Major League Soccer
(MLS) from 1996 to 2002. The stadium was the site of several games in both the
1994 FIFA World Cup
and the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
. Foxboro Stadium was demolished in 2002 and replaced by
Gillette Stadium
and the
Patriot Place
shopping center.
History
[
edit
]
The stadium opened in August
1971
as
Schaefer
Stadium,
[2]
primarily as the home venue for the renamed
New England Patriots
of the
National Football League
.
[1]
The team was known as the
Boston Patriots
for its first eleven seasons
1960
?
70
,
[5]
and had played in various stadiums in the
Boston
area. For six seasons,
1963
?
68
, the Patriots played in
Fenway Park
, home of baseball's
Boston Red Sox
.
[6]
Like most baseball stadiums, Fenway was poorly suited as a football venue. Its
seating capacity
was inadequate?only about 40,000 for football?and many seats had obstructed views. With the completion of the
AFL?NFL merger
in
1970
, the league required its teams to play in stadiums which seated more than 50,000, and no venue in Boston proper could accommodate a crowd this size with the NFL's then-new requirements. Indeed, before the Patriots arrived, numerous previous attempts at pro football in Boston had been stymied by the lack of a pro-caliber stadium. (The
Redskins
left for Washington, D.C. after the
1936
season, in which they hosted the
NFL Championship Game
, not in Boston but at the
Polo Grounds
in
New York City
.)
The then-Boston Patriots played the
1969
season at
Alumni Stadium
at
Boston College
in
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
, and the
1970
season, their first in the NFL, at
Harvard Stadium
in Boston's Allston neighborhood.
[6]
The site was selected when the owners of
Bay State Raceway
donated the land, midway between Boston and
Providence, Rhode Island
. The general contractor who built the stadium was a Massachusetts-based company named
J. F. White Contracting Co.
[
citation needed
]
Ground was broken in September 1970,
[7]
and it cost $7.1 million,
[7]
only $200,000 over budget.
[8]
Even allowing for this modest cost overrun, it was still a bargain price for a
major sports
stadium even by 1970s standards. This was because the Patriots received no funding from the governments of either the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
or the town of Foxborough; indeed, it was one of the few major league stadiums of that era that was entirely privately funded.
[7]
Seating capacity
[
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]
Years
|
Capacity
|
1971
|
61,114
[9]
|
1972
|
60,999
[10]
|
1973?1977
|
61,279
[11]
|
1978?1983
|
61,297
[12]
|
1984?1987
|
60,890
[13]
|
1988?1994
|
60,794
[14]
|
1995?2002
|
60,292
[15]
|
Playing surface
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]
Like the majority of outdoor sports venues built in North America in the 1970s, Foxboro Stadium was designed for the use of an
artificial turf
playing surface. The original field was
Poly-Turf
,
[16]
succeeded by
AstroTurf
.
[
citation needed
]
A natural grass field was installed before the start of the
1991
season.
[
citation needed
]
Naming rights
[
edit
]
The original name in 1971 was Schaefer Stadium for the
brewery
of that name in an early example of the sale of
naming rights
to a company that did not own the stadium. When this agreement expired after the 1982 season,
Anheuser-Busch
took over the rights. Instead of putting the name of one of its brands of beer on the stadium, Anheuser-Busch agreed to name it in honor of the
Sullivan
family, then the majority owners of the Patriots. The name Sullivan Stadium took effect on May 23, 1983.
[17]
After Sullivan went bankrupt and
Robert Kraft
purchased the stadium, Kraft stripped Sullivan's name and renamed the venue "Foxboro Stadium".
[18]
Although the official spelling of the town's name is "Foxborough", the shorter spelling was used for the stadium.
[19]
During the ownership of
Victor Kiam
,
ESPN
anchor
Chris Berman
humorously referred to the facility as "Shaver Stadium", a pun on Kiam's fame from Remington razor commercials and the stadium's original name.
Notable events
[
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]
Soccer
[
edit
]
The venue hosted numerous significant
soccer
matches, including six games in the
1994 FIFA World Cup
.
[8]
Foxboro Stadium was the last stadium where
Diego Maradona
scored a World Cup goal in a game against Greece, and where he last played in an official
FIFA World Cup
match against Nigeria on June 25, 1994.
The stadium hosted five games in the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
, the 1996 and 1999
MLS Cups
, and the inaugural
Women's United Soccer Association
Founders Cup.
The stadium's final soccer match was the
qualifying match between the United States and Jamaica
, which the United States won 2-1.
- 1994 FIFA World Cup
- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
- Major League Soccer finals
- Women's United Soccer Association finals
Holy Cross Crusaders
[
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]
During the final week of the 1971 season, Holy Cross moved its home game against rival Boston College to the newly-constructed Schaefer Stadium, due to a heavy snowstorm that rendered
Fitton Field
in
Worcester
unplayable.
[20]
Boston College Eagles
[
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]
In the opening week of the 1975 season, Boston College hosted Notre Dame at Schaefer Stadium in their first ever meeting.
[21]
From 1983 through 1987, BC used Schaefer/Sullivan Stadium as an alternate home venue to host crowds larger than could be accommodated on campus at
Alumni Stadium
.
Date
|
Visiting Team
|
Result
|
Home Team
|
Attendance
|
Source
|
November 27, 1971
|
Boston College
(rivalry)
|
21-7
|
Holy Cross
|
22,205
|
[22]
[23]
[24]
|
September 15, 1975
|
#9
Notre Dame
(Holy War)
|
17-3
|
Boston College
|
61,501
|
[21]
[25]
[26]
|
October 29, 1983
|
Penn State
|
17-27
|
#19
Boston College
|
56,605
|
[27]
[28]
|
November 19, 1983
|
Holy Cross
(rivalry)
|
7-47
|
#18 Boston College
|
38,512
|
[29]
[28]
|
November 26, 1983
|
#13
Alabama
|
13-20
|
#15 Boston College
|
58,047
|
[30]
[31]
[28]
|
September 22, 1984
|
North Carolina
|
20-52
|
#10
Boston College
|
44,672
|
[32]
[33]
|
November 17, 1984
|
Syracuse
(rivalry)
|
16-24
|
#13 Boston College
|
60,890
|
[34]
[33]
|
September 14, 1985
|
#17
Maryland
|
31-13
|
Boston College
|
30,210
|
[35]
[36]
|
September 28, 1985
|
Miami (FL)
|
45-10
|
Boston College
|
31,864
|
[37]
[36]
|
September 20, 1986
|
#5
Penn State
|
26-14
|
Boston College
|
42,329
|
[38]
[39]
|
September 26, 1987
|
#15
Penn State
|
27-17
|
Boston College
|
50,267
|
[40]
[41]
|
Rankings from
AP Poll
released prior to the game
|
Other events
[
edit
]
The stadium hosted numerous other outdoor events, primarily concerts, along with music festivals, including The
Monsters of Rock Festival
Tour and The
Vans Warped Tour
, as well as the
WWF
King of the Ring
tournament on July 8,
1985
and July 14,
1986
.
U2
played on
The Joshua Tree Tour
on September 22, 1987, and later performed three nights of their
Zoo TV Tour
on August 20, 22, and 23, 1992.
Schaefer Stadium hosted
Elton John
on July 4, 1976, as well as
Boz Scaggs
,
The Eagles
, and
Fleetwood Mac
on July 25, 1976.
Sullivan Stadium hosted
The Who
's 25th anniversary tour on July 12 and 14, 1989.
Paul McCartney
brought the
Flowers In the Dirt Tour
to the stadium on July 24 and 26, 1990.
New Kids on The Block
brought
The Magic Summer Tour
to the stadium on July 29 and July 31, 1990. An audience of 53,000 people attended one of two concert dates.
Genesis
brought the
We Can't Dance
Tour to the stadium on May 28, 1992.
Metallica
and
Guns N' Roses
brought the
Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour
to the stadium on September 11, 1992, with
Faith No More
as their opening act.
Elton John performed at the venue in front of 62,000 on
US Bicentennial
on July 4, 1976. John again appeared in a Face to Face concert with
Billy Joel
on July 18, 1994.
Madonna
performed her "Who's That Girl" tour there on July 9, 1987, to a sell-out crowd.
Bob Dylan
and the
Grateful Dead
recorded a portion of their collaborative live album, entitled
Dylan & the Dead
, there on July 4, 1987.
Pink Floyd
played a two-night stand in May 1988 (on one of the nights their inflatable pig was torn to shreds). They also played a three-night sold-out stand in May 1994 on their
The Division Bell Tour
which was recorded and readily available on bootleg. (The second night was filmed by MTV for promotional purposes.) The
Dave Matthews Band
played seven shows at the stadium from 1998 to 2001.
The Rolling Stones
played three nights on September 27 and 29 and October 1, 1989, then two more nights on September 4 and 5, 1994 and lastly October 20 and 21, 1997.
Additionally, in 1994, the
Drum Corps International
World Championships were held in the stadium.
Closing
[
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]
By the late 1990s, Foxboro Stadium had become functionally obsolete by modern NFL standards. Despite excellent sight lines to view game action or concerts and having fewer of the issues that multi-sport
multi-purpose stadiums
in other cities had, the stadium was otherwise outmoded. The facility was built in a low-cost "bare bones" manner with unexceptional architectural elements, and had very few modern amenities. The stadium's plumbing was not designed with NFL-sized crowds in mind, which became evident when a sewage issue overflowed the restroom facilities during its first game.
[42]
Stadium officials were forced to augment the permanent toilets with rented
portable toilets
for the rest of the stadium's existence. It also lacked
luxury boxes
, an increasingly important source of revenue for other teams in the league. Most patrons had to sit on backless aluminum benches (or like still done in the lower
Lambeau Field
bowl today, rent or bring in their own stadium cushions and portable chairbacks, especially in cold weather), as only a small fraction of the seats had permanent chairbacks (painted blue, red and white near the 50-yard line). During heavy rains, the numerous unpaved spots in the parking lot turned to mud. It frequently took an hour or more to leave after games, due to its location on a then-undivided four-lane portion of
U.S. Route 1
.
[8]
In order to host the
FIFA World Cup
(and later, the
New England Revolution
), several rows of seats were removed to accommodate a
soccer pitch
with acceptable dimensions to
FIFA
.
[43]
With a capacity of just over 60,000 (only 10,000 above the NFL's minimum seating capacity), it was one of the smallest stadiums in the NFL. It was also almost completely exposed to the elements, meaning that there was almost no protection for the fans in storms (outside of beneath the stands) or in extreme cold. Additionally, the Sullivan family had lost millions promoting the
Jackson Victory Tour
in 1984. Due to their relatively modest wealth compared to other NFL owners, they pledged the stadium as collateral for the tour. Knowing that the revenue from the Patriots would not be nearly enough to service the debt, the Sullivans quietly put the team and the stadium on the market.
[44]
The Sullivans' financial picture was so dire that even when the Patriots made
Super Bowl XX
, the team didn't bring in nearly enough money to service the debt from the Victory Tour. With most of their money tied up in the team, they sold controlling interest in the Patriots to
Victor Kiam
in 1989. The stadium, however, lapsed into bankruptcy and was bought by Boston paper magnate
Robert Kraft
in 1988.
When Kiam and Sullivan tried to sell the team to interests in
Jacksonville
, Kraft effectively stymied the deal by refusing to let the team out of their lease, which contained an ironclad commitment to play in the stadium until 2001. As a result, when Kiam himself was crippled by financial troubles, he sold the Patriots to
James Orthwein
in 1992. After only two years, Orthwein
tried to move the Patriots
to his hometown of
St. Louis
. However, as in 1992, Kraft refused to let the Patriots out of their lease. Orthwein then put the team on the market, but the wording of the operating covenant required any potential buyer to negotiate lease terms with Kraft. With this in mind, Kraft swooped in and bought the team himself.
[45]
Two years later, Kraft bought the parcel of land containing neighboring
Bay State Raceway
, allowing him to build a new and privately-financed stadium on the raceway property after proposals to build a new stadium in
Hartford, Connecticut
and
South Boston
failed.
After 31 NFL seasons, Foxboro Stadium was scheduled to be demolished on December 23, 2001, the day after the Patriots' final home game. However, the stadium would instead play host to the first season of the
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick era
, with the team making a run to get into the playoffs and going on to win
their first Super Bowl
. As a result, the stadium was not demolished until late January 2002, after the conclusion of the
2001 postseason
. The last game played in the stadium, "The
Tuck Rule Game
", was played in a
snow storm
; a Patriots win against the
Oakland Raiders
, which famously featured an overturned fumble call based on the then-applicable
tuck rule
in the final minutes. The stadium's former site became parking lots for its successor,
Gillette Stadium
, before being developed into the open-air shopping center
Patriot Place
.
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(Atlanta Falcons)
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(San Diego Chargers)
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(Baltimore Colts)
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(Cleveland Browns)
- Comiskey Park
(Chicago Cardinals, Card-Pitt)
- Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium
(Philadelphia Eagles, Phil-Pitt Steagles)
- Cotton Bowl
(Dallas Texans, Dallas Cowboys)
- District of Columbia Stadium/RFK Memorial Stadium
(Washington Redskins)
- Dyche Stadium
(Chicago Bears)
- Ebbets Field
(Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers)
- Fenway Park
(Boston Yanks, Boston Patriots)
- Forbes Field
(Pittsburgh Steelers, Phil-Pitt Steagles, Card-Pitt)
- Frank Youell Field
(Oakland Raiders)
- Franklin Field
(Philadelphia Eagles)
- Griffith Stadium
(Washington Redskins)
- Harvard Stadium
(Boston Patriots)
- Jeppesen Stadium
(Houston Oilers)
- Kansas City Municipal Stadium
(Kansas City Chiefs)
- Kezar Stadium
(San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders)
- League Park
(Cleveland Rams)
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
(Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers)
- Metropolitan Stadium
(Minnesota Vikings)
- Miami Orange Bowl
(Miami Dolphins)
- Milwaukee County Stadium
(Green Bay Packers)
- Nickerson Field
(Boston Patriots)
- Nippert Stadium
(Cincinnati Bengals)
- Oakland?Alameda County Coliseum
(Oakland Raiders)
- Philadelphia Municipal Stadium
(Philadelphia Eagles)
- Pitt Stadium
(Pittsburgh Steelers)
- Polo Grounds
(New York Giants, New York Bulldogs, New York Titans/Jets)
- Rice Stadium
(Houston Oilers)
- Riverfront Stadium
(Cincinnati Bengals)
- San Diego Stadium
(San Diego Chargers)
- Shea Stadium
(New York Jets)
- Tulane Stadium
(New Orleans Saints)
- War Memorial Stadium
(Buffalo Bills)
- Wisconsin State Fair Park
(Green Bay Packers)
- Wrigley Field
(Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals)
- Yankee Stadium I
(New York Yanks, New York Giants)
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Current era:
1970
?present
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Stadiums
used by
NFL teams
temporarily
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†= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time
1 = A team used the stadium when their permanent stadium was unable to be used as a result of damage.
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Active
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Defunct
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Never built
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