NFL Stadiums Quiz — 10 Free Questions

Question 1

This downtown domed stadium was built into and around the brick facade of a century-old department-store warehouse, which forms one wall of the seating bowl. It hosted a Super Bowl in 2006.

Question 2

A round, multipurpose "cookie-cutter" stadium shared by a city's football and baseball teams from 1970 to 2000, it was the site of the "Immaculate Reception." It was imploded in 2001 and replaced by a stadium next door.

Question 3

Its sharply angled black-and-glass exterior is meant to evoke a Viking longship, and five huge pivoting glass doors open one end to the outdoors. The clear roof panels have drawn criticism over bird collisions. It hosted a Super Bowl in 2018.

Question 4

A sleek black dome near the Strip, nicknamed the "Death Star," it has a fixed roof but a natural-grass field that rolls in and out of the building on a giant tray so it can grow in sunlight. A 90-plus-foot flaming torch honouring a late owner burns during games.

Question 5

Opened in 1965 and billed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World," it was the first fully enclosed, air-conditioned sports stadium. Glare from its roof killed the natural grass inside, which led to the invention of the artificial turf that took the building's name.

Question 6

When it opened in 2002 it was the first NFL stadium with a retractable roof. It shares its site with the pioneering domed stadium it effectively replaced and hosts the world's largest livestock show and rodeo each spring.

Question 7

This suburban Detroit dome, home of the Lions for 27 seasons, hosted the first cold-weather Super Bowl, in 1982. After the team left it fell into ruin, its deflated roof collapsed, and it sold at auction for about $583,000 before demolition.

Question 8

This open-air stadium in a suburb of the NFL's snowiest market has no roof and routinely hosts games in blizzards and single-digit cold, with crews and paid volunteer fans shovelling it out. A replacement is being built across the street to open in 2026.

Question 9

This domed stadium held up its inflatable fabric roof with air pressure and fans. The roof deflated or tore several times, most famously collapsing under heavy snow in December 2010 and forcing a game to be relocated.

Question 10

About 70 percent of its seats are roofed, not for weather but to trap and amplify noise, and a giant "12" flag is raised before games to honour the fans. Crowd noise here has registered on nearby earthquake sensors.

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About NFL Stadiums

An NFL stadium is a billion-dollar argument about weather, money and identity. Green Bay and Buffalo lean into the cold, with no roof and fans paid to shovel snow. Miami, Phoenix and Jacksonville answer the heat with shade canopies and, in the desert, an entire natural-grass field that rolls out of the building on rails to sit in the sun between games. Domes solved the weather problem outright: the Houston Astrodome did it first in 1965, so novel it was called the Eighth Wonder of the World, and its glare-killed grass gave the world artificial turf.

The modern era is defined by the retractable roof and the enormous screen. NRG Stadium in Houston opened the first NFL retractable roof in 2002; AT&T Stadium in Dallas hung a video board so large over the field that a punt once hit it; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta built a roof of eight sliding triangular petals and a circular halo board around the seats. SoFi Stadium, sunk a hundred feet into the ground under a translucent canopy in Inglewood, cost around five billion dollars, the most ever spent on a stadium, and like MetLife Stadium in New Jersey it is shared by two teams.

The best ones carry a signature. Lambeau Field, opened in 1957 and part-owned by the fans, has the Lambeau Leap. Arrowhead in Kansas City holds a Guinness record for crowd noise, and Seattle's Lumen Field roofs 70 percent of its seats purely to bounce the sound back down. Pittsburgh's stadium frames the skyline through an open end and displays six Lombardi Trophies inside; Tampa Bay's has a full-size pirate ship that fires cannons; Cleveland's sits on the edge of Lake Erie with a bleacher section called the Dawg Pound.

The numbers tell their own story. Soldier Field in Chicago opened in 1924 and is the oldest venue in use, and after a jarring 2003 rebuild it is also the smallest, at about 61,500 seats. Lambeau Field is the oldest to have kept its name and character. The Superdome in New Orleans has hosted more Super Bowls than any other building, eight, and sheltered tens of thousands of people during Hurricane Katrina. Almost every stadium now sells its name: Pittsburgh's was a ketchup company for 21 years and is now an insurance broker, Washington's has run through at least four sponsors, and Cleveland's has had three since 2013 alone. Levi's Stadium put solar panels on the roof; several teams play a real home game in London every year.

And stadiums die. Three Rivers, Texas Stadium with its famous hole in the roof, Candlestick Park and its wind, the Pontiac Silverdome that sold at auction for the price of a nice house, all imploded or demolished, usually so a replacement could rise next door. Nashville and Buffalo are building new ones now. This quiz covers all 30 current NFL venues and six of the memorable dead ones: read the clues, sometimes with a photo, and name the place.