When the stadium opened it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure the first use of the architectural technique in a major athletic facility.
The silverdome roof.
With a seating capacity of 82 666 it was the largest stadium in the national.
This collapse was the final tragic event in the history of the great stadium.
The pontiac silverdome also known as simply the silverdome was a stadium in pontiac michigan it opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres 51 ha of land.
The roof of the pontiac silverdome collapsed monday under the weight of an overnight snowfall sending three detroit lions players james jones gary danielson and eric hipple scurrying for cover.
After a storm shredded the roof in 2012 the silverdome has spent the last few years open to the elements the centerpiece of a battle between the facility s current owner and local government.
However the next collapse of its inflatable roof in january 2013 due to a winter storm destroyed all such plans.