Updated: (First posted: November, 2003)
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) | |||||
| Polo Grounds | New York | Giants (1922- | Giants | Giants | Giants -1955) | Titans (1960-63) | |||||
| Comiskey Park | Chicago | Cardinals (1922-25) | Cardinals (1929- | Cardinals | Cardinals -1959) | ||||||
| Braves / "Nickerson" Field | Boston | Braves (1932) | Patriots (1960-62) |  | |||||||
| Baker Bowl | Philadelphia | Eagles (1933-35) | |||||||||
| Forbes Field | Pittsburgh | Steelers (1933- | Steelers * | Steelers * | Steelers -1963) * | ||||||
| Fenway Park ! | Boston | Redskins (1933-36) | Patriots (1963-68) | ||||||||
| Griffith Stadium | Washington | Redskins (1937- | Redskins | Redskins -1960) | |||||||
| Cleveland Municipal Stadium ! | Cleveland | Rams (1937- | Rams -1945) * | Browns (1946- | Browns | Browns | Browns | Browns -1995) | |||
| Tiger Stadium ! | Detroit | Lions (1938- | Lions | Lions | Lions | Lions -1974) | |||||
| Shibe Park | Philadelphia | Eagles (1940- * | Eagles -1957) | ||||||||
| Memorial Coliseum ! | Los Angeles | SUPER BOWLS: 1967, 1973 | Rams (1946- | Rams | Rams | Rams -1979) | Raiders (1982- | Raiders -1994) | |||
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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 | ||||
| Milwaukee County Stadium ! | Milwaukee | Packers (1953- * | Packers * | Packers * | Packers * | Packers -1994) * | ||||
| Yankee Stadium ! | New York | Giants (1956- | Giants | Giants -1973) | ||||||
| Exhibition Stadium ! | Toronto |  | (CFL) | Argonauts (1959- | Argonauts | Argonauts -1990) | ||||
| Busch Stadium (I) | St. Louis | Cardinals (1960-65) | ||||||||
| Mile High Stadium ! | Denver | Broncos (1960- | Broncos | Broncos | Broncos -2000) | |||||
| Metropolitan Stadium ! | Minnesota | Vikings (1961- | Vikings -1981) | |||||||
| Candlestick Park ! | San Francisco | Raiders (1961) | 49ers (1971- | 49ers | 49ers | 49ers | ||||
| Robert F. Kennedy Stadium ! | Washington | Redskins (1961- | Redskins | Redskins | Redskins -1996) | |||||
| Municipal Stadium ! | Kansas City | Chiefs (1963-71) | ||||||||
| Shea Stadium ! | New York | Jets (1964- | Jets * | Jets -1983) | ||||||
| Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ! | Atlanta | Falcons (1966- | Falcons | Falcons -1991) | ||||||
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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) | ||||||
| Oakland Coliseum ! | Oakland | Raiders (1966- | Raiders -1981) | 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 -1996) | ||||||
| Three Rivers Stadium ! | Pittsburgh |  | Steelers (1970- | Steelers | Steelers -2001) | |||||
| Riverfront Stadium ! | Cincinnati | Bengals (1970- | Bengals | Bengals -1999) | ||||||
| Veterans Stadium ! | Philadelphia | Eagles (1971- | Eagles | Eagles | Eagles -2002) | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | Montreal | (CFL) | Alouettes (1977- | Alouettes * | Alouettes -1997?) | |||||
| Kingdome | Seattle | Seahawks (1977- | Seahawks | Seahawks -1999) | ||||||
| Anaheim Stadium ! | Los Angeles | Rams (1980- | Rams -1994) | |||||||
| H.H.H. Metrodome ! | Minnesota | SUPER BOWL: 1992 | Vikings (1982- | Vikings | Vikings | |||||
| Dolphin Stadium ! | Miami | SUPER BOWLS: 1989, 1995, 1999; | Dolphins (1987- | Dolphins | Dolphins | |||||
| Skydome ! | Toronto | (CFL) | Argonauts (1991- | Argonauts | ||||||
| Recent NON-pro football use | ||||||||||
| Bank One Ballpark ! | Phoenix | Insight Bowl, 2001 to date | ||||||||
| Safeco Field | Seattle | Seattle Bowl, 2001 | ||||||||
| AT&T Park* ! | San Francisco | Emerald Bowl, 2002 to date | XFL Demons (2001) | |||||||
| KEY | ||||||||||
| Stadiums built for baseball | ||||||||||
| Stadiums built for football | ||||||||||
| Dual-use stadiums | ||||||||||
Red exclamation marks indicate that football-only diagrams have been completed.
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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SOURCE: The 1999 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac, Gerry Brown and Michael Morrison, eds. (New York: Hyperion Books, 1998).
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