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Fawcett Stadium

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The stadium seats around 22,400.

Fawcett Stadium is a football stadium in Canton, Ohio.

Five Canton high schools have played their football seasons on this field McKinley High School – Bulldogs, Lincoln High School – Lions, Lehman High School – Polar Bears, GlenOak High School – Golden Eagles, and Timken High School – Trojans.

Future Cleveland Browns great and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marion Motley, who along with fellow Hall of Famer Bill Willis broke the color barrier in modern professional football with the Cleveland Browns in 1946, scored the first touchdown in the stadium in 1938.

The stadium was officially dedicated in 1938.

It also hosts the annual NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame Game at the beginning of the exhibition season.

Aloha Stadium

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Aloha Stadium is a stadium located in the Halawa CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

Currently Aloha Stadium is home to the University of Hawai?i Warriors football team Western Athletic Conference, NCAA Division I FBS.

It has also been home to the National Football League’s Pro Bowl from 1980 to 2009 and the NCAA’s Hula Bowl from 1975 to 1997 and again in 2006.

It also hosts numerous high school football games during the season, and serves as a venue for large concerts and events.

A swap meet in the stadium’s parking lot every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday draws large crowds.

Aloha Stadium once served as home field for the AAA Hawai?i Islanders of the Pacific Coast League from 1975 to 1987 before the team moved to Colorado Springs.

Rogers Centre

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While it is primarily a sports venue, it also hosts other large-scale events such as conventions, trade fairs, concerts, funfairs, and monster truck shows.

Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario.

Originally opened in 1989, it is home to the American League’s Toronto Blue Jays, the Canadian Football League’s Toronto Argonauts, the site of the annual International Bowl American college football bowl game, and as of 2008, the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills’ second playing venue in the Bills Toronto Series.

The stadium was renamed “Rogers Centre” following the purchase of the stadium by Rogers Communications in 2005.

Wembley Stadium

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It is the home venue of the England national football team, and hosts the latter stages of the top level domestic club cup competition, the FA Cup.

It is owned by English football’s governing body, the Football Association The FA through their subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Ltd WNSL.

The 90,000 capacity venue is the second largest stadium in Europe, and serves as England’s national stadium.

The old Wembley stadium, which opened in 1923 as the Empire Stadium, often referred to as “The Home of Football”, was one of the world’s most famous football stadiums until its demolition in 2003.

Wembley Stadium often referred to simply as Wembley, pronounced /?w?mbli/, or sometimes as the New Wembley, to differentiate it from the former stadium on the same site is a football stadium located in Wembley Park, northwest London, UK, which opened in 2007 on the site of the previous 1923 structure.

It held UEFA five-star stadium status which was superseded by a new system of classification.

Soldier Field

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Soldier Field formerly Municipal Grant Park Stadium is located on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently home to the NFL’s Chicago Bears.

It reopened on September 29, 2003 after a complete rebuild the second in the stadium’s history.

Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

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Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is a stadium located in Oakland, California, United States that is used for baseball, football, and soccer games.

It is commonly referred to as The Oakland Coliseum or simply The Coliseum.

It was formerly known as Network Associates Coliseum 1998-2004 and McAfee Coliseum 2004-2008 before its original name was restored in 2008.

University of Phoenix Stadium

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University of Phoenix Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLII and the 2007 BCS National Championship Game, a game that it hosts every four years.

It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League NFL and the annual Fiesta Bowl.

The stadium also hosted WrestleMania XXVI, which set the venue’s entertainment attendance record of 72,219 on March 28, 2010.

An opening on one side of the stadium allows the playing field to move to the exterior of the building, allowing the entire natural turf playing surface to be exposed to daylight when it is not in use and also allowing the floor to be used for other purposes without damaging the playing surface.

University of Phoenix Stadium is a multipurpose football stadium located in Glendale, Arizona.

The stadium is located next door to the Jobing.com Arena, where the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes play, and it features the first fully retractable natural grass playing surface built in the United States on top of an AirField Systems synthetic drainage system.

Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

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The field was renamed Mall of America Field at the Hubert H.

The stadium was also the home of the Minnesota Twins from 1982 to 2009 and the Golden Gophers football team from 1982 to 2008.

Humphrey Metrodome in October 2009.

Mall of America Field at the Hubert H.

Opened in 1982, it replaced Metropolitan Stadium, which was on the current site of the Mall of America in Bloomington which, beginning a three year deal on October 5, 2009, now holds naming rights for the Metrodome’s field, and Memorial Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus.

Humphrey Metrodome, often simply called The Metrodome, is a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

The Metrodome is home to the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings, and is occasionally used by the Big Ten’s University of Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team.

Ford Field

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Ford Field is an indoor football stadium located in Detroit, Michigan, USA that is the current home field of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.

The naming rights were paid for by Ford at $40 million over 20 years; the Ford family including Lions owner William Clay Ford, Sr.

It regularly seats 65,000, though it is expandable up to 70,000 for football and 80,000 for basketball.

It is across the street from Comerica Park, the home field of the Detroit Tigers.

Holds a controlling interest in the company.

Heinz Field

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The stadium is named for locally based H.

It primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Steelers and University of Pittsburgh Panthers American football teams, members of the National Football League NFL and National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA respectively.

Heinz Field is a stadium located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The stadium opened in 2001, after the controlled implosion of the teams’ previous stadium, Three Rivers Stadium.

Heinz Company, which purchased the naming rights in 2001.