The stadiums on this page are listed in chronological order according to when they were first used by a professional football team. In some cases this was many years before or after they were used in major league baseball. Many of the thumbnail images on this page show the football configuration; eventually, all of them will. To see thumbnail images, roll the mouse cursor over the stadium names.
Top ~ Early: 1920s-1940s ~ Middle: 1950s-1960s ~ Late: 1960s-1980s
| Stadium name | City | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrigley Field | Chicago | Bears (1921- | Bears | Bears | Bears | Bears -1970) | to Soldier Field | ||||
| Polo Grounds | New York | Giants (1922- | Giants | Giants | Giants -1955) | Titans (1960-63) | to Yankee Stadium / Shea Stadium | ||||
| Comiskey Park | Chicago | Cardinals (1922-25) | Cardinals (1929- | Cardinals | Cardinals -1959) | to Busch Stadium I | |||||
| Braves / "Nickerson" Field # | Boston | Braves (1932) | to Fenway Park | Patriots (1960-62) |  | ||||||
| Baker Bowl # | Philadelphia | Eagles (1933-35) | to Municipal Stadium / Shibe Park | ||||||||
| Forbes Field | Pittsburgh | Steelers (1933- | Steelers * | Steelers * | Steelers -1963) * | ||||||
| Fenway Park | Boston | Redskins (1933-36) | to Griffith Stadium | Patriots (1963-68) | to Foxboro Stadium | ||||||
| Griffith Stadium | Washington | Redskins (1937- | Redskins | Redskins -1960) | to RFK Stadium | ||||||
| Cleveland Municipal Stadium # | Cleveland | Rams (1937- | Rams -1945) * | Browns (1946- | Browns | Browns | Browns | Browns -1995) | to Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) | ||
| Tiger Stadium | Detroit | Lions (1938- | Lions | Lions | Lions | Lions -1974) | to Silverdome | ||||
| Shibe Park # | Philadelphia | Eagles (1940- * | Eagles -1957) | to Franklin Field | |||||||
| Memorial Coliseum | Los Angeles | SUPER BOWLS: 1967, 1973 | Rams (1946- | Rams | Rams | Rams -1979) | Raiders (1982- | Raiders -1994) | to Anaheim Stadium / Oakland Col. | ||
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| Stadium name | City | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Stadium | Baltimore | Colts (1953- | Colts | Colts | Colts -1983) | CFL Stallions & Ravens | to Hoosier Dome / M&T Bank Stadium | |||
| Milwaukee County Stadium | Milwaukee | Packers (1953- * | Packers * | Packers * | Packers * | Packers -1994) * | Lambeau Field | |||
| Yankee Stadium | New York | Giants (1956- | Giants | Giants -1973) | to Giants Stadium | |||||
| Exhibition Stadium # | Toronto |  | (CFL) | Argonauts (1959- | Argonauts | Argonauts -1990) | to Skydome | |||
| Busch Stadium I | St. Louis | Cardinals (1960-65) | to Busch Stadium II | |||||||
| Mile High Stadium | Denver | Broncos (1960- | Broncos | Broncos | Broncos -2000) | to Invesco Field | ||||
| Metropolitan Stadium | Minnesota | Vikings (1961- | Vikings -1981) | to Metrodome | ||||||
| Candlestick Park | San Francisco | Raiders (1961) | 49ers (1971- | 49ers | 49ers | 49ers | ||||
| Robert F. Kennedy Stadium | Washington | Redskins (1961- | Redskins | Redskins | Redskins -1996) | to FedEx Field (Eagle Bank Bowl) | ||||
| Municipal Stadium | Kansas City | Chiefs (1963-71) | to Arrowhead Stadium | |||||||
| Shea Stadium | New York | Jets (1964- | Jets * | Jets -1983) | to Giants Stadium | |||||
| Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium | Atlanta | Falcons (1966- | Falcons | Falcons -1991) | to Georgia Dome | |||||
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| Stadium name | City | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Busch Memorial Stadium (II) | St. Louis | Cardinals (1966- | Cardinals | Cardinals -1987) | to Sun Devil Stadium | |||||
| Oakland Coliseum | Oakland | Raiders (1966- | Raiders -1981) | to Memorial Coliseum | Raiders (1995- | Raiders | ||||
| Jack Murphy Stadium | San Diego | SUPER BOWLS: 1988, 1998, 2003 | Chargers (1967- | Chargers | Chargers | Chargers | Chargers | |||
| Astrodome | Houston | Oilers (1968- | Oilers | Oilers | Oilers -1996) | to Liberty Bowl (temp.) | ||||
| Three Rivers Stadium | Pittsburgh |  | Steelers (1970- | Steelers | Steelers -2001) | to Heinz Field | ||||
| Riverfront Stadium | Cincinnati | Bengals (1970- | Bengals | Bengals -1999) | to Paul Brown Stadium | |||||
| Veterans Stadium | Philadelphia | Eagles (1971- | Eagles | Eagles | Eagles -2002) | |||||
| Olympic Stadium # | Montreal | (CFL) | Alouettes (1977- | Alouettes * | Alouettes -1997?) | to McGill Molson Stadium | ||||
| Kingdome | Seattle | Seahawks (1977- | Seahawks | Seahawks -1999) | to Husky Stad. (temp.) | |||||
| Anaheim / Angels Stadium | Los Angeles | Rams (1980- | Rams -1994) | to [Trans World Dome] | ||||||
| H.H.H. Metrodome | Minnesota | SUPER BOWL: 1992 | Vikings (1982- | Vikings | Vikings | |||||
| Dolphin / "Land Shark" Stadium # | Miami | SUPER BOWLS: 1989, 1995, 1999; | Dolphins (1987- | Dolphins | Dolphins | |||||
| Rogers Centre | Toronto | (CFL) | Argonauts (1991- | Argonauts | ||||||
| Recent NON-pro football use | ||||||||||
| Chase Field # | Phoenix | (Insight Bowl) | ||||||||
| Safeco Field # | Seattle | (Seattle Bowl, 2001) | ||||||||
| AT&T Park* | San Francisco | XFL Demons, 2001 (Emerald Bowl) | ||||||||
| KEY | ||||||||||
| Stadiums built for baseball | ||||||||||
| Stadiums built for football | ||||||||||
| Dual-use stadiums | ||||||||||
Number signs (#) indicate that the diagrams for that stadium are subject to revision.
Note that the classifications of stadiums are based on the primary intended use in the stadium's FINAL configuration, if there were major modifications.
Stadiums are generally counted as "in use" by a football team for a particular decade if games were played there for at least three years.
Names used on this page are the ones normally used for most of the time during which the stadium was used for football, and may differ from the "standard" names at the top of the respective stadium pages.
* (ASTERISK): There was some irregularity or discontinuity in the usage of the stadium; see the particular stadium page for details.
CFL = Canadian Football League, eh?
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Diagrams are © by Andrew G. Clem. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: The 1999 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac, Gerry Brown and Michael Morrison, eds. (New York: Hyperion Books, 1998); Web sites of respective NFL teams, etc.
Updated: (First posted: November, 2003)
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