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Sunday, April 11. 2010

Texas (& Other) Stadium Implosion Videos

The Texas Stadium demolition video:



The Texas Stadium deconstruction and transformation video is even more interesting:



If you like explosions, here's the Three Rivers Stadium implosion:



And, here's the Cinergy Stadium implosion, with good soundtrack:



The Kingdome implosion looks kinda like it was in a SciFi film:


 


More cool ones at YouTube, of course.

Posted by Bruce Kesler in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:11 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Reminds me of Bill Clinton in Bosnia --racking up all that reconstruction dough --
#1 buddy larsen on 2010-04-11 15:46 (Reply)
Ain't nuttin' like a good old fashioned explosion.

DO IT AGAIN!!!

Heh...
#2 Tom Francis on 2010-04-11 17:40 (Reply)
Leaving the coolness factor aside, it is infuriating that politicians have such little regard for our money that they have to build new stadiums and then blow them up after 25-30 yrs, replacing them with exponentially more expensive stadiums. My wallet weeps.
#3 feeblemind on 2010-04-11 18:00 (Reply)
My wallet weeps too, feeblemind. The Houston City Council or the Harris County Supervisors, I can't remember which, have just decided that Houston needs yet another stadium. We already have the Astrodome, which is still perfectly functional but which nobody uses any more unless there's a Hurricane, Reliant Stadium, which is almost brand new and the football teams and other first line sports activities use, a baseball stadium for -- yes, you guessed it, the Houston Astros -- and now, they're planning to build a soccer stadium too.

I ask you ... why can't they play soccer in either Reliant Stadium or the Astros stadium? This is like having a bathtub for each member of the family, for gosh sakes.

My wallet weeps and feels really pinched.

Marianne
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2010-04-11 21:56 (Reply)

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