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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I think those were the first Olympics I kind of paid attention to. I was 6. Man, that was a pretty basic stadium. Reminiscent of any NFL stadium of the time. Instead of building the Georgia Dome and this, they could have just built this and moved the Falcons after the Olympics.
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Originally Posted by J.OT13
They built two $200+ million stadiums within 5 years. They should have found a way to retrofit after the Olympics to shoe-horn some NFL football in there after the Olympics.
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The Atlanta Olympic Stadium was what opened the following year as Turner Field after the temporary bowl beyond the outfield wall was demolished. It was designed as an MLB ballpark and not suitable at all for NFL. Keep in mind the Georgia Dome was already open for the Falcons (and was in fact planned and under construction well before Atlanta was awarded the 96 Games). It had about 50,000 seats for baseball and after renovation for Georgia State after the Braves moved out, it only seats about 24,000. They could open the upper level and go above 30k but they never have (even when the Panthers played in the Georgia Dome, their capacity was set to about 24k there as well).
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