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That’s crazy, in the Netherlands (though about 16x smaller than Texas) the 10 biggest stadiums in the country are Football (soccer) stadiums ranging from 10400
by stwr 3mo ago
That’s crazy, in the Netherlands (though about 16x smaller than Texas) the 10 biggest stadiums in the country are Football (soccer) stadiums ranging from 10400 capacity at #10 to about 56000 capacity for the #1 stadium (build for 130 million euro). All at the highest paid level of professional football.
30 _high school_ stadiums at 10000+ I can’t even fathom!
- joe_mamba 3mo ago>30 _high school_ stadiums at 10000+ I can’t even fathom! Just like those European football fans visiting the US for the world cup this summer, the European mind cannot fathom the American (over)abundance.
- iso1631 3mo agoWhere do they even find 300,000 people to watch high school football each week. The big high school sports games here in the UK get the parents, at least of most of the kids playing. Do non-sports events get massive following from non-parents -- school plays for example? Still the US tax payer is an infinite gold mine I guess. Local football teams in the UK tend to pay for their own stadiums