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Top 10 Sports Venues To See Before You Die


these are the venues that are home to
the best teams and the greatest games
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
sports venues to see before you die well
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a wriggly it’s an institution of Chicago
it’s home away from home for this list
we’ve cast our eye over the stadia and
grounds that have something that sets
them apart from the rest whether it’s
their architecture atmosphere or unique
history we’ve decided to exclude
historical landmarks in favor of more
modern buildings as well as golf courses
as they aren’t quite a physical venue
that meets our criteria three two one
now number 10 Matakana stadium football
is essentially a religion in Brazil and
the meta kana is the Brazilian football
fans place of worship it’s already seen
in this World Cup memorable moments such
as menses one destroyer Argentina
against Bosnia it was the largest
stadium in the world when it opened in
1950 seating nearly 200,000 people the
stadium one of the soccer world’s most
famous has been renovated three times
since 2000 and at a great cost a recent
renovation has taken it down to a still
very respectable 79,000 named a national
landmark in 1998 it’s hosted numerous
impressive events from Pele’s 1961 Golgo
placa to Germany’s victory in the World
Cup of 2014 a stadium featuring an
unbeatable historical vibe and
unparalleled atmosphere it will further
its already considerable prestige when
hosting the opening and closing
ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics as well
as football matches during the games
this is Brazil’s opportunity to shine
with the final match kicking off in
Rio’s iconic Moroccan are number nine
Lambeau Field and Lambeau is right there
we are literally in a neighborhood
tailgating and there is Leo
otherwise known as the frozen tundra
this is the home of the Green Bay
Packers and the oldest continually used
stadium in the NFL opening its doors to
cheeseheads in 1957 as City Stadium it
was the first modern venue created
specifically for an NFL team the name to
see going around the facade up there we
have 21 of those those are the names the
Green Bay Packer players the years they
played for the Packers then the National
Football League Hall of Fame in Canton
Ohio named after the club’s late founder
Curly Lambeau those who run the stadium
have managed to resist the temptation of
selling the naming rights unlike many
other venues as the games at the site
are consistently sold out you do well if
you got tickets to any game if you are
so lucky be sure to watch for the
legendary Lambeau leap in celebration of
a Packers touchdown well they don’t know
where the college nobody wants to call
anything number eight the Daytona
International Speedway
drivers and fans alike know when they
set foot in the world center of racing
they’re truly standing on the rarest of
earth playing host to the most famous
race in NASCAR the Daytona 500 this
monster venue packed in almost 150,000
thrill-seeking spectators at its peak
although recent renovations will provide
flexible seating for between one hundred
one thousand and one hundred and twenty
five thousand but these four hundred
million dollar renovations will
drastically improve the experience for
the fan with more comfortable seats and
better amenities everything about the
race experience from seeding to
concessions to conveniences will be
reimagined to create the world’s first
true motor sports entertainment complex
the Speedway features a track that can
be configured in several ways and for
ardent fans the fans own allows a more
up-close and personal experience of the
races absolutely fantastic
look the cars they got people walking
around and join themselves absolutely
wonderful man best time I’ve ever had
number seven the All England Club more
commonly known simply as Wimbledon this
is the venue of the only grass court
Open Championship in tennis the club
features dozens of playing courts 19 of
which are the classic and now rare grass
variety the famed Centre Court is the
world’s fourth largest tennis venue and
features a translucent retractable
ceiling to let light in and keep rain
out the big issue is on a grass court if
you’re going to enclose it with 15,000
people how do you stop the grass
sweating in keeping with British
tradition players must wear white and
the usual food court offering is a bowl
of strawberries and cream the palpable
sense of British tradition and ceremony
gives the club a very special atmosphere
that you should experience at least once
I can say no any chef no man is injured
the chef what about two Belgian girls
and nope neither their meter number six
Wembley Stadium one of the biggest
challenges was to make every one of the
90,000 seats feel like the best in the
house appropriately dubbed the home of
football Wembley is the base for the
national team of the country where the
game was perfected the towers of the
first Wembley were iconic and the arch
of the new stadium finished in 2007 is a
prominent part of today’s London skyline
I was just stood there I looked at my
feet I looked up so London I was like
I’m on top of one year it hosts the
biggest matches in the English domestic
game as well as many huge international
fixtures the old stadium torn down in
2002 played a huge role in English
football the greatest praise the new
version can receive is that it continues
the legacy that the old ground lay down
number five Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden has been the place
for entertainers since 1879 touted as
the world’s most famous arena MSG stands
out even among the many other famous
landmarks in NYC although frequently
used for concerts basketball hockey and
even boxing fans know it as the home of
the New York Knicks and the New York
Rangers as well as the site of many
historic boxing bouts several other
structures bore the name before the
current stadium was built in midtown
Manhattan in 1968 the oldest major
sporting facility in the New York
metropolitan area the garden is the only
major sporting facility with a concave
ceiling this structural oddity allows
unobstructed views from all seats but
there’s an unspoken unexplainable
quality that truly makes MSG stand out
from similar sites around the world
number four Wrigley Field the stadium is
a hundred years old this year and has
become hallowed ground for baseball fans
it’s had a couple of different names
since it opened in 1914 but it’s pretty
much always been the home field of the
Chicago Cubs since 1916 as the second
oldest major-league ballparks still in
use it’s brimming with features that
would never be seen at a modern stadium
the ivy-covered walls are famous and the
hand-turned scoreboard is one of the
last of its kind nothing has changed
since then except maybe his laptop and
maybe a few chairs the bizarre wins and
impressive views of the city are also
among the many legendary features that
make Wrigley unique while some newer
stadiums like AT&T Park in San Francisco
and Camden Yards in Baltimore have
sought to replicate the old feel of
ballparks like Wrigley nothing matches
the original and yes it’s named after
the chewing gum maker cool refreshing
Wrigley’s spearmint gum great to chew
even better to share number three god no
possibly the coolest part of all though
was getting to stand pitch side it’s
fitting that Europe’s largest stadium
houses one of the greatest football
clubs in the world
FC Barcelona aside from having a
committed local fanbase the Blaugrana
attract spectators from across the globe
who travel
to the concrete monoliths to see the
likes of Messi Suarez and Neymar with a
capacity of almost 100,000 calm no is
frequently used for some of the biggest
games in Europe that’s where you get to
really see how big this stadium actually
is it seats around ninety nine thousand
people and as Santiago bernabéu stadium
is significant for those in Madrid cap
now is an integral part of FC Barcelona
identity and is much more than a mere
stadium you have no idea how stunning it
is to hear 100,000 people sing the FC
Barcelona the pitch
number two old trafford walking on that
tunnel so many memories going through
your head when I came to England and I’m
actually going to play here theater
range 75,000 people just amazing dubbed
the theater of dreams by club legend
Bobby Charlton the ground at Old
Trafford is as much a tourist attraction
as it is the home of the most successful
club in English football Manchester
United
although the atmosphere may not be what
it once was this stadium can pack in 76
thousand fans and is still a must visit
for any fan of English football the
ground has seen some of the greatest
players and teams grace its turf but
during sir Alex Ferguson’s historic 27
year reign the ground earned its
reputation as an indomitable fortress
before we reveal our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions this
place is just going to be electric I
think for the next 3-4 days here can you
imagine we right at the edge of what is
the boundary rope it’s a pretty long
boundary all the way to to where the
people are playing
in a city with massive air pollution
officials have mandated that this
Olympics be the green Olympics this is
the home of the Dallas Cowboys it’s a
spectacular enclosed stadium and of
course the AI goes immediately to this
massive screen right here number one
Fenway Park it’s dripping with history
its iconic its quirky I’ve only just got
here and I love it already
just surpassing Wrigley Field as the
quintessential American Ballpark
Fenway’s history cannot be matched by
any other venue in the USA by capacity
it’s actually one of the smallest parks
in the MLB but that pales compared to
the history that the home of the Boston
Red Sox has developed over time the most
unique seating option is on the
Budweiser right-field roof deck which
has tables high above right-field the
lone red seat is a symbol representing
the longest home run ever hit at Fenway
at 502 feet and the wall known as the
Green Monster dominates left-field the
park is on the National Register of
Historic Places
meaning that features like Pesky’s Pole
and Duffy’s cliff will forever be part
of American history do you agree with
our list I put the case of sleep look at
the mall which sporting venue is on your
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