The Pontiac Silverdome continues its achingly slow march into becoming a pile of rubble as the owners put stadium fixtures up for sale, including seats at $100 a pop:
http://www.thespec.com/sports-story/4421777-silverdome-seats-signs-and-more-up-for-auction/
The stadium is in rough shape these days with the roof being in tatters (it has become even worse since this photo was taken):
Source: Fieldofschemes.com
It blows me away that this massive stadium was used for a grand total of 27 NFL seasons.
Totally daydreaming here, but if the CFL was a little more on the ball I wonder if it wouldn't have been wise to scoop up the Silverdome (the current owner bought it a couple years ago for $583,000) and put a Windsor CFL expansion franchise in there?
I know it would have been a hassle to get Windsorites to cross the border, but considering it would have effectively had a free stadium to play in (apart from whatever renos were needed to expand the field to CFL dimensions), I'm sure the low overhead would have allowed for profitability even with slightly smaller crowds than the league average.
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