Ford Field Tickets Information
Ford Field
Ford Field is a well-known indoor football stadium in Detroit, Michigan. It is the home venue of the Detroit Lions that play in the NFL. Ford Field is just opposite the Comerica Park. Ford Field can seat 65,000 viewers, and can expand its capacity to 70,000 for football and 80,000 seats for basketball. Ford paid for the naming rights, which cost them $40 million over a period of 20 years. The Ford family has control of the rights and interest in the company.
Ford Field was planned alongside the Comerica Park. The latter opened in April 2000, and was supposed to replace Tiger Stadium and the Pontiac Silverdome. Ford Field was built after the Comerica Park, and opened in 2002. The project cost around $430 million, and was financed mostly through public money and also through the sale of the naming rights.
The stadium's design includes a 6-story former Hudson's warehouse. This was built in the 1920s. Architecturally speaking, the stadium looks like its sister stadium, the Ford Center, with a multipurpose sports/concert arena that is located in downtown Oklahoma City.
This warehouse has a seating arrangement that is most unique among professional American football stadiums. This was particularly the case at the time of Ford Field's opening. Most suites at Ford Field are situated at the Hudson Warehouse along the stadium's southern sideline. The lounges are also situated in this way, and serve the premium club seats in that part of the field. Most of the grandstand seats are situated near the northern sideline.
The upper deck of the stadium's northern sideline has one tier of suites along with a smaller section of club seating. A similar design was used for the renovated Soldier Field.
Unlike many other indoor stadiums, Ford Field allowed the use of natural light on the playing field. This was possible through the skylights and large glass windows in the structure. The southwest corner of the building gives the seating bowl and concourse sunlight throughout the year. It also provides fans with a view of downtown Detroit.
In order to prevent the stadium from becoming over imposing in the Detroit skyline, the playing field as well as the lower bowl (100 level) was set below street level. This is similar in design to the adjacent Comerica Park.
Ford Field has been host to the Super Bowl XL [February 5, 2006]. The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks, 21-10 to claim their fifth Super Bowl championship here.
Ford Field stadium is home to the Motor City Bowl, which features a top Mid-American Conference team as well as a Big Ten Conference team. Ford Field has also been host to the annual Mid-American Conference Championship Game since 2004. Ford Field was host to the largest recorded crowd to ever have attended a basketball game [December 13, 2003]. It took in 78,129 people that packed the stadium, as the University of Kentucky played and beat Michigan State University, 79-74.
The MHSAA Football Finals are also held at Ford Field. It takes place annually on Thanksgiving weekend, and draws more than 60,000 fans. Ford Field hosted the World Wrestling Entertainment's WrestleMania 23 [April 1, 2007]. The attendance at this event was 80,103.
The University of Detroit Mercy and Ford Field plant to host 2008 NCAA Basketball Tournament regional semifinal and final games (March 28 and 30, 2008), the 2009 Final Four (April 5 and 7, 2009), and the 2010 Frozen Four (April 8 and 10, 2010). There is indeed a great deal of preparation that goes into these events, and there are budgets in place for them.
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