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The Pontiac Silverdome (also known as the Silverdome) was a stadium in Pontiac, Michigan.It opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres (51 ha) of land. When the stadium opened, it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure, the first use of the architectural technique in a major athletic facility.
The Pontiac Silverdome, formerly known as the Silverdome, was a stadium located in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1975 and sits on 127 acres (51 ha) of land. When the stadium opened, it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure, the first use of the technique in a major athletic facility.
This was the only Super Bowl to be played at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Super Bowl did return to Michigan for Super Bowl XL, but that game was played at Ford Field in Detroit, which in 2002 had replaced the Silverdome as the home of the Detroit Lions. This was also only the second Super Bowl to not take place in one of the three so-called 'big ...
The Silverdome crowd minutes before the Detroit Lions' playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys in Pontiac on Jan. 5, 1992.
The town of Pontiac, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, sold the 80,300-seat Silverdome on Monday, along with 127 acres of nearby land. The massive stadium complex, which once hosted the Detroit Lions ...
The Pontiac Silverdome was sold this week at auction for $583,000, or about 1% of the $55.7 million it took to build it. What a difference a year makes. Or 34 years. Take your pick. Either way, it ...
It was the first season for the Detroit Lions at the new Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium in Pontiac, a Detroit suburb, which was built specifically for the team. It was also their first ever season outside Detroit since the franchise's move and name change in 1934; its first three seasons were played in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans .
SB 16: San Francisco 26, Cincinnati 21 (Pontiac Silverdome) SB 40: Pittsburgh 21, Seattle 10 (Ford Field) Super Bowls in Minneapolis (2) SB 26: Washington 37, Buffalo 24 (Metrodome)