Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

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The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is an American outdoor sports stadium located within the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. The stadium serves as home to the Trojans University of Southern California (USC) soccer team from the Pac-12 Conference. It is also the temporary home of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). The Coliseum was home to the Rams from 1946 to 1979, when they moved to the Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California, and served as their home stadium again until the completion of the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California. The facility has a permanent seating capacity of 93,607 for soccer games and Rams USC, making it the largest soccer stadium in the Pac-12 Conference and the NFL.

The stadium is located in Exposition Park, owned by the State of California, and across the street from USC. The Coliseum is jointly owned by the State of California, Los Angeles County, the City of Los Angeles and is managed and operated by the Department of Relief Service of the University of Southern California. From 1959 to 2016, the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is located adjacent to the Coliseum; Sports Arena is closed in March 2016 and destroyed between August and October 2016. The Banc of California Stadium, a soccer and stadium special of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles FC, was built on the former Sports Arena site and opened in April 2018.

The Coliseum will be the first stadium to host the Summer Olympics three times, in 1932, 1984 and the upcoming Summer Olympics in 2028, after the International Olympic Committee reaffirms the agreement established on 31 July 2017, during the 131st IOC Session.

The stadium was also the temporary home of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball from 1958 to 1961 and was the venue for games 3, 4 and 5 of the 1959 World Series. It was the first AFL-NFL World Championship Tournament, later called Super Bowl I, and Super Bowl VII. In addition, he has served as a home field for a number of other teams, including Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL, and UCLA Bruins football. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on July 27, 1984, the day before the opening ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, which consists of six voting members appointed by three ownership interests and meets monthly, provides public oversight of major lease agreements with USC. Under the lease the University has day-to-day management and operational responsibilities for both the Coliseum and Banc of California Stadium properties. The 98-year lease is valid on 29 July 2013, and signed by the parties on September 5, 2013. This agreement requires the University to make approximately $ 100 million in physical repairs to the Coliseum, paying $ 1.3 million annually in rent to the State of California for the state-owned property of the Coliseum occupies at Exposition Park, maintains the physical condition of the Coliseum at the same standards used on the USC Campus, and assumes all financial obligations for the operation and maintenance of the Coliseum and Banc of California Stadium Complex.

On Monday, January 8, 2018, the University initiated a $ 300 million project to renovate and upgrade the Coliseum. The project, funded entirely by the University, is scheduled to be completed in the 2019 football season and is the first major increase of the stadium in twenty years. Upon completion the capacity will go from about 93,607 to 78,500 and the project includes replacing any seats in the stadium along with the addition of luxury boxes and club suites. On January 29, 2018, United Airlines became the first naming partner of the stadium, thus making the stadium United Airlines Memorial Coliseum ; name changes will take effect in August 2019.

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Current use

The Coliseum is now primarily the home of the USC Trojans football team and home of the Los Angeles Rams (until their new stadium is completed). Most of the regular USC home games, especially the alternating games with UCLA rivals and Notre Dame, attracted a capacity crowd. The current official capacity of the Coliseum is 93,607. The lacrosse and the USC women's soccer team use the Coliseum for the chosen game, usually involving major opponents and television games. USC also leases the Coliseum to various events, including international football matches, music concerts, and other large outdoor events.

Olympic Cauldron

The Olympic cauldron (also known as the Olympic Torch ) was built for two Olympic stadiums. It's still lit up during USC football games and for the Los Angeles Rams game, and other special events (for example, when the Olympics are held in other cities).

In addition, the torch has been turned on at the following historic events:

To honor the fallen Israeli Athlete of the 1972 Olympic Games of Munich.
For a few days after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
For over a week after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Relentlessly for seven days after Ronald Reagan's death in 2004, the former California governor who opened the 1984 Summer Olympics.
In April 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II, who celebrated Mass at the Colosseum during his visit to Los Angeles in 1987.
On the 50th anniversary of the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 29, 2008, during ThinkCure! charity ceremony (While Neil Diamond's "Heartlight" is played and most of the participants turn on the free keychain flashlight.)
During the Special Olympics World held in Los Angeles from July 25, 2015 to August 2, 2015.
For the first home game of the Los Angeles Rams on September 18, 2016 against the Seattle Seahawks.
The Olympic torch is lit during official gifts expected from the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles on September 13, 2017.
For the MMA Coliseum Gladiator Championship Final on Sat. September 23, 2017.
For the first Los Angeles Rams playoff game in Los Angeles in 38 years on January 6, 2018 against the Atlanta Falcons.

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History

Planning

The Coliseum was commissioned in 1921 as a warning to veteran L.A. World War I (rededicated to all US veterans of World War I in 1968). The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 21 December 1921 with construction completed in more than 16 months, on May 1, 1923. Designed by John and Donald Parkinson, the initial construction cost was $ 954,873. When the Coliseum opened in 1923, it was the largest stadium in Los Angeles with a capacity of 75,144. In 1930, however, with the Olympics because in two years, the stadium extended upwards to seventy-nine row seats with two tunnel tiers, expanding the seating capacity to 101,574. The Olympic torch now-signature added. For that time it is known as the Olympic Stadium . The Olympic cauldron torch burned through both Games remains on the peristyle at the eastern end of the stadium as a reminder of this, as does the Olympic ring symbol over one of the main entrances. The soccer field runs from east to west with a press box on the south side of the stadium. Scoreboard and video screens looming peristyle dates back to 1983; they replaced the smaller scoreboard over the central arches that were installed in 1972, which in turn replaced the 1937 model, one of the country's first electric scoreboards. Over the years new light towers have been placed along the north and south rim. The large analog clock and thermometer above the office window at both ends of the peristyle was installed in 1955. By the mid-1950s, the press box had been renovated and the "Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum" wrote and the Olympic ring, lit up at night, added to the east face peristyle tower. Among the double peristyle arches at the eastern end is the Court of Honor Coliseum - a plaque that recognizes many unforgettable events and participants in the history of the Coliseum, including the full list of Olympic gold medalists 1932 and 1984. (Full list of honors can be seen below).

A pair of large bronze nude statues of male and female athletes over 20,000 pounds (9,000 kg) post-and-lintel frames formed the Olympic Gateway created by Robert Graham for the 1984 game. The sculptures, which are modeled on water polo player Terry Schroeder and long jumper from Guyana, Jennifer Inniss, who participated in the game, noted for their anatomical accuracy. A decorative facade carrying the Olympic ring was set up in front of the peristyle for the 1984 game, and the structure remained in place through the football season of that year. Rims and tunnels of the stadium are repainted with alternating pastel colors that are part of graphic design architect Jon Jerde for the game; these colors remained until 1987.

Remodeling

Over the years the Coliseum was able to accommodate over 100,000 spectators. In 1964 the stadium underwent the first major renovation in more than three decades. Most of the original pale wood-and-metal bench seats were replaced by individual dark red, cream, and yellow individual theater chairs; these chairs remain in place today, though the yellow color was removed in the 1970s. Seating capacity was reduced to around 93,000.

The Coliseum is problematic as a NFL place. At various times in its history, it is the largest stadium or one of the largest stadiums in the NFL, making it difficult to sell. Because the NFL blackout rules prohibit games from being broadcast locally unless they are sold out 72 hours before the game, this means Rams (and then Raiders) games are often blacked out in Southern California.

Partly because of this, from 1964 to the late 1970s it was common practice to move the playing field to the closed end of the stadium and install benches in the final zone in front of the peristyle, thus limiting the number of seats available for sale. For USC-UCLA and USC-University of Notre Dame games, which often drag the audience above 90,000, the benches are moved eastwards and the field is marked back in its original position. When the bigger east tribune was installed in 1977-1978 by owner Rams Carroll Rosenbloom, its capacity was only 71,500. With the upcoming 1984 Summer Olympics, new tracks are installed and the playing field is permanently placed in it. However, the combination of a large, relatively shallow stadium design, along with the presence of tracks between the playing field and the stands, means that some of the original end zone chairs are as far away from the field with other football equivalents. field. To solve this and other problems, the Coliseum underwent a $ 15 million renovation prior to the 1993 football season which included the following:

The field is lowered by 11 feet (3.4 m) and fourteen new row seats replace the track, carrying the first row of seats closer to the playing field (maximum 54 feet (16.5 feet) in the east 30-yard-line).
Portable seating sections are built between the eastern endline and the peristyle bench (the tribune is removed for concerts and similar events).
The locker rooms and public toilets are modernized.
The benches are replaced with their own seats.

In addition, for home games Raiders, tarps placed over the rarely sold parts, thus reducing the seating capacity to about 65,000. The change is anticipated to be the first of a multi-stage renovation designed by HNTB that will turn the Coliseum into a split-bowl stadium with a two-level mezzanine suite (the peristyle end will be left as is). After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, however, $ 93 million was required from government agencies (including the Federal Emergency Management Agency) to repair the damage caused by the earthquake, and renovations requested by the Raiders were held indefinitely. The Raiders then directed their efforts towards the proposed stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood before choosing to return to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum before the 1995 season. The last element of Northridge's earthquake repair was the replacement of a cursed press box with a new press box in 1995.

In August 2011, construction began in the west of the Coliseum on a 6,000 square foot high-definition video scoreboard, which accompanies the video scoreboard in the peristyle (eastern end) of the stadium. The official video scoreboard began operating on September 3, 2011, at the home of USC football versus the University of Minnesota, with a game broadcast on television at ABC.

In July 2013, the USC acquired the Coliseum main lease, after which the previously ruled Coliseum Commission failed to provide the promised renovations. Part of the 98-year lease contract states that USC will provide $ 100 million in repairs in the first half of the contract, with $ 70 million from coming in the first 10 years.

Coliseum Renovation Project

On October 29, 2015, the University of Southern California launched a $ 270 million project for massive renovation and Coliseum restoration. Upgrades include: replacing all seats in the stadium, adding new aisles and expanding some seats, new surround sound systems, larger and more modern press box development (containing new box suites, premium lounges, observation decks and VIP sections), recovery and replacement Peristyle name (soon to be called Julia and George Argyros Plaza ), spacious Wi-Fi stadium, new jumbotron high definition video and scoreboard, LED ribbon introduction, new stand concessions, updated entrances, lighting new interior and exterior, modernization of pipes and electrical systems, and a capacity reduction of about 16,000 seats, with a final total of about 78,500 seats. Plans have been met with mixed reactions from the public. The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic bid committee proposed spending $ 300 million in additional renovations to support its offer added to USC total.

Construction begins when the 2017 football season is over, and is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2019. USC officials declared that construction will be planned around the 2018 home football schedule (and RAM), without interruption.

Important event

1920s

In 1923, Pomona College and USC played in the inaugural match at the Coliseum on October 6, with the prevailing Trojans 23-7. Located just across the street from Exposition Park, USC agreed to play all of its home games at the Coliseum, a state that contributed to the decision to build the arena.

From 1928 to 1981, UCLA Bruins also played a home game at the Coliseum. When USC and UCLA play with each other, the "home" team (USC in odd years, even at UCLA), occupies the sideline and the north bench, and its bands and rooters sit on the north side of the stadium; the team "visited" and his contingent took to the south side (tap box) of the stadium. Except in the mid-1950s and 1983-2007, both teams had put on their home T-shirts for a competition match for Victory Bell; The tradition was renewed in 2008, although both schools are now playing in different stadiums. UCLA moved to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in 1982.

1930s-1940s

In 1932, the Coliseum hosted the 1932 Summer Olympics; the first of two Olympics held at the stadium. The Coliseum serves as a field hockey site, gymnastics, jumping show part of horse riding, and field tracks and events along with opening and closing ceremonies. The game of 1932 marked the introduction of the Olympic Village as well as the victory podium.

Former Cleveland Rams of the National Football League moved to the Coliseum in 1946, becoming the Los Angeles Rams; but the team then moved again, first to Anaheim in 1980, then to St. Louis, Missouri in 1995 only to return to Los Angeles in 2016. Don Los Angeles of the All-America Football Conference played at the Coliseum from 1946 to 1949, when the franchise don joined the NFL cousin just before the two leagues joined.

The Coliseum organized the NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1934, 1939, 1949 and 1955.

1950s-1960s

Among other sporting events held at the Coliseum for many years was the Major League Baseball game, held at the Coliseum when Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League moved to the West Coast in 1958. Dodgers played here until Dodger Stadium finished in time for the 1962 season Even allowing for temporary status, the Coliseum is not very suitable for baseball, which takes about 2.5 times more area than a football tennis court. The playing surface was barely big enough to hold a baseball diamond. As a result, the gross area is virtually absent in the first underline, but is very wide in the third base line with a very large backstop for the catcher. The vision line also leaves a lot to be desired; some seats as far as 710 feet (216 m) from the plate. Also, from a baseball standpoint, the locker room is huge, as they are designed for soccer teams (not baseball).

In order to even shoe spoons forecasting the baseball field to surface play, the left field fence is set just 251 feet (77 m) away from the plates. This would seem to ensure that there would be many "Chinese home runs", because such short shots were called at the time, and sports writers began joking referring to improvised parks as "The O'Malley Chinese Theater" or "The House That Charlie Chan Built" drawing protests from the American Chinese community in the Los Angeles area. They also expressed concern that the beloved home run record, especially the 1927 mark from Babe Ruth, might easily fall as a result of the 250-foot pop flies leapfrogging the left field fence. Sports Illustrated titled critical editorial "Every Sixth Hit a Homer!" Players, too, complain, with Milwaukee Braves' ace Warren Spahn calling for a rule that would require a home run to travel at least 300 feet (91 m) before it can be considered a home run.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick ordered Dodgers to install two 42 foot (12.8 m) screens on the left field to prevent pop flies into a home run. One screen will go beyond the left field wall, while the second will be in the stands, 333 feet (101 m) from the plate. The ball shot to the left should clear both screens into the home run; if it clears the first screen, it will be a double ground-rule. However, Dodgers found that the country's earthquake security law banned the construction of the second screen. The first screen was built, however; cable, tower, cable, and girder are being played.

As it is, the "short porch" in the left field looks appealing to the battery. In the first week of play during the 1959 season, the worst fears of pre-season media seemed to be realized when 24 home runs were beaten at the Coliseum, three of which by Chicago Cubs outsider Lee Walls were not specifically distinguished as hitters. But the pitchers soon adapt, throw it out into the right hand, and force them to pull the bat hard if they want to hit the left. Perhaps no player is taking advantage better than outfielder Dodgers Wally Moon, who figured out how to hit a high flying ball that falls almost vertically right behind the screen. At the end of the season, he has reached 19 homers, all but five of them in the Coliseum. In recognition, such homers dubbed "Moon Shots."

Unable to force Dodgers to correct the situation, the big leagues passed a letter to Rule 1.04 stating that any stadium built after 1 June 1958 must provide a minimum distance of 325 feet (99 m) on each rotted row. Also, when the expansion of the Los Angeles Angels joined the American League for 1961, Frick refused their original request to use the Coliseum as a temporary facility. This rule was revoked (or possibly, ignored) when Baltimore Orioles launched the "Retro Ballpark" era in 1993, with the opening of Camden Yards. With right angle of field just 318 feet, this becomes short. However, baseball fans wholeheartedly welcome the "new/old" style, and all new baseball stadiums have since been allowed to set their own distances.

At the end of the season, the screen depicts a banner in the National League. The Braves played Dodgers at the Coliseum on Sept 15, 1959, and Joe Adcock hit the ball that cleared the screen but hit the steel girder behind him and got stuck in the net. According to the basic rules, this should be a home run. However, the referee decides it as a double ground rule. Then fans shook the screen, causing the ball to fall into the chair. The referee changed the call to the homer, only to change their mind again and to rule it with a double ground rule. Adcock left stranded in seconds. The match was tied at the end of nine innings and the Dodgers won in the tenth inning. At the end of the regular season, Dodgers and Braves complete the match. Dodgers won the next playoff and won the World Series.

Although less ideal for baseball due to poor vision lines and short dimensions (left field at 251 feet [mentioned above] and electric passageways at 320 feet (98 m)) it is suitable for large paid crowds. Each of the three games from the 1959 World Series played there drew more than 92,000 fans, with a 5 drawing 92,706 game, a record that is unlikely to be seriously threatened in the near future, given the smaller seating capacity of today's baseball park. An exhibition match of May 1959 between Dodgers and the New York Yankees to honor the legendary catcher Roy Campanella drew 93,103, the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in the Western Hemisphere until an exhibition match in 2008 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox to mark the 8th anniversary. 50 MLB in Los Angeles. The Coliseum also hosted the second All-Star Game 1959 MLB.

The Coliseum was also the site of Kennedy Kennedy's forgotten acceptance speech in 1960 of the Democratic National Convention. In that speech Kennedy first used the term "New Frontier".

The Rams hosted the 1949, 1951, and 1955 NFL championships at the Coliseum. The Coliseum was the site of the first NFL-AFL Championship Game in January 1967, an event since being renamed the Super Bowl. It also hosted the Super Bowl in 1973, but the future Super Bowl in the Los Angeles area will instead be held at the Rose Bowl, which has never had an NFL tenant. It was also the location of the NFL Pro Bowl from 1951 to 1972 and again in 1979.

In 1960, the American Football League Los Angeles Chargers played in the Coliseum before moving to San Diego the following year; the team returns to its home in 2017.

The United States men's national football team played its first game as a stadium in 1965, losing to Mexico in the 1966 World Cup qualifiers. Also, the Los Angeles Wolves of the United Soccer Association played their home game at the Coliseum for a year (1967) before moving to the Rose Bowl.

1963 Billy Graham Crusade: The Greatest Meeting in History

The greatest meeting in the history of the Coliseum was Billy Graham's crusade which took place on 8 September 1963 with 134,254 present, noted by the Coliseum website as an all-time record. With a 1964 renovation, the Coliseum capacity was reduced to around 93,000 for upcoming events.

1970s-1980s

In July 1972, the Coliseum hosted the "Super Bowl" Motocross. This event is the first motocross competition held in the stadium. It has evolved into an AMA Supercross championship held at stadiums throughout the United States and Canada.

On August 20, 1972, Wattstax, also known as "Black-Woodstock", took place at the Coliseum. More than 100,000 Black residents in Los Angeles attend this concert for African American pride. Then, in 1973, a documentary was released about the concert.

In 1973, Evel Knievel used the entire distance of the stadium to jump over 50 cars stacked in the stadium. Knievel launches his motorcycle from one end of the Coliseum, jumps over the cars in the middle of the field, and stops high at the other end. The leap was filmed by ABC Wide World of Sports. Also in 1973, the Coliseum hosted the Super Bowl VII that saw AFC champions Miami Dolphins (17-0) defeat NFC champion Washington Redskins (13-4), 14-7, and became the first, and currently the only , the team at the NFL to complete a perfect season, unbeaten and postseason.

Los Angeles Rams played their home games at the Coliseum until 1979, when they moved to Anaheim before the 1980 NFL Season. They hosted the NFC Championship Game in 1975 & 1978 where they lost both times to the Dallas Cowboys by a sloping margin.

Los Angeles Aztec of the North American Football League used the Coliseum as their home land in the 1977 and 1981 seasons.

The Coliseum was also home to the USFL's Los Angeles Express between 1983 and 1985. In this capacity, the stadium is also the site of America's longest professional football game in history; a triple-overtime game on June 30, 1984 (a few weeks before the start of the 1984 Summer Olympics) between the Express and the Michigan Panthers, decided on a 24-yard touchdown by Mel Gray of the Express, 3:33 entered the third round to give Los Angeles a victory 27-21. Until 2012, this game marks the only time in the history of professional football that there is more than one kickoff in overtime playing in the same game.

In 1982, the former Oakland Raiders moved on. That same year, UCLA decided to move, relocating its home game to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

The Coliseum is also the venue of the 1982 World Speedway Final, held for the first and, to this day, only time in the United States. The show features Newport Beach's native Bruce Penhall retaining the title he won in front of 92,500 fans at London's Wembley Stadium in 1981. About 40,000 fans were at the Coliseum to see Penhall defend his title before announcing his retirement from motorcycles to take over the acting role in the series drama NBC CHIPS .

Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics, and the Coliseum became the first stadium to host the Summer Olympic Games twice; again serves as the main route and the venue and venue for the opening and closing ceremonies.

The Coliseum hosted the 2-day World Music Festival in California on 7-8 April 1979.

The Rolling Stones played at the stadium in their 1981 Tattoo You tour (October 9 & 11), powered by George Thorogood, J. Geils Band, and a relatively unknown newcomer called Prince.

Bruce Springsteen & amp; E Street Band ended the Born in the United tour, with four consecutive concerts on September 27, 29-30 and October 2, 1985. The show was recorded and eight songs from the September 30 show appeared on their box set, titled Live 1975- 85 .

U2 played at the stadium on leg 3 of their Joshua Tree tour in 1987 with two consecutive nights, 17 and 18 November 1987. They then returned to their Pop Mart tour on June 21, 1997.

The native of Los Angeles, MÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¶tley CrÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¼e, played at the stadium on December 13, 1987 during their second leg of their Girls, Girls, Girls, World Tour with fellow heavy metal band and band based in Los Angeles, Guns N 'Rose as the opening. MÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¶tley CrÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¼e at the time was one of the most popular and successful musical acts on the planet, while Guns N 'Roses was one of the upcoming acts. Guns N 'Roses would then return for four shows in October 1989 as an opening act for The Rolling Stones, then again on September 27, 1992 on their famous co-headlining tour with Metallica.

The stadium hosted the Monsters of Rock Festival Tour, featuring Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica and Kingdom Come, on July 24, 1988. The second show was planned to take place on the 23rd, but was later canceled.

The stadium also hosts Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Benefit Concert on September 21, 1988. The show was titled by Sting and Peter Gabriel and also featured Bruce Springsteen & amp; Band E Street, Tracy Chapman, Youssou N'Dour and Joan Baez.

1990s-2000s

The Coliseum was designated a WrestleMania VII site on 24 March 1991. However, the event was eventually transferred to the nearby Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Officially, the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) claims the decision to move the event is due to security concerns (this may refer to Sgt Slaughter, who plays the character of an Iraqi heel sympathizer to coincide with Operation Desert Storm). However, such claims are often disputed and changes in places are associated with low ticket sales. When it was first announced that the Coliseum would host WM7, the original WWF owner Vince McMahon for the event said they were expecting more than 100,000 fans to attend. Attendance reported at the Sports Arena is 16,158. The 100,000 plus figure will appear 25 years later on April 3, 2016 when AT & T Stadium in Arlington, Texas holds 101,763 fans for WrestleMania 32.

The Raiders began looking to get out of the Coliseum in early 1986. In addition to delays in renovating the stadium, they never drew well; even after they won the Super Bowl XVIII in 1984, they had trouble filling it. The NFL is scheduling all of the Raiders appearances on Monday Night Football as a road game because the Los Angeles market will faint as the Coliseum is not sold out. Finally, in 1995, Raiders left Los Angeles and returned to Oakland, leaving the Coliseum without professional soccer tenants for the first time since the close of World War II.

The latest pro ten footballer before the Rams return is the short-lived Xtreme Los Angeles, the first and only champion of XFL. It won the championship game at the Coliseum over San Francisco.

The Legends Football League begins as a spectacular break known as the Lingerie Bowl. The first 3 years (2004, 2005, 2006) are played in the Coliseum. From 2009 to 2011, some Los Angeles Temptation games are played on the Coliseum. Starting in 2015, The Temptation returned to play at the Coliseum after 3 seasons at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario.

The stadium hosts several matches, including the semi-finals and finals, the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2014 tournament. The USA national team defeated Honduras in the final. The Coliseum also hosted the Gold Cup final in 1996, 1998 and 2000 tournaments. In October 2000, the United States played its last game in the stadium in a friendly against Mexico. Since then, the team has preferred the Rose Bowl Stadium and StubHub Center as home stadiums in Greater Los Angeles.

The stadium hosts K-1 Dynamite !! Mixed US martial arts events. Promoters claim that 54,000 people attend the event, which will set a new attendance record for mixed martial arts events in the United States; However, other officials estimate a crowd of between 20,000 and 30,000.

In May 1959, Dodgers hosted an exhibition match against the New York Yankees World Series champion at the Coliseum, a game that drew more than 93,000 people. The Yankees won the game 6-2. As part of their 50th anniversary celebration of their west coast in 2008, Dodgers again hosted an exhibition match against the ruling World Series Champion, Boston Red Sox. The central match of the three-game set in Los Angeles, held on March 29, 2008, was also won by the visitors, with a relatively low score of 7-4, given the layout of the field - Red Sox Catcher Jason Varitek has joked that he expects the score in 80 -an.

As mentioned earlier in the 1950s 1960s, during 1958-1961, the distance from the home plate to the left field foul pitch was 251 feet (76.5 m) with a 42-foot (13 m) display running on the lid of the field left. Due to the addition of another part of the rimming field, the field crew in 2008 had less room to work, and the result was a left-field rotten path only 201Ãƒ, ft length (61.3 m), with 60-foot (18 m screen) which a Boston writer named "The Screen Monster". Even at that distance, 201 feet is also 49 feet (14.9 m) away from the minimum legal distance run at home. This is an exhibition game, the ball that crashed into the 60-foot (18 m) wrought screen is still counted as a home run. There are only a few home runs above the screen, as the pitcher is adjusted (and Manny Ramirez does not play). Diagram () illustrates the dimensional differences between 1959 and 2008:

2008 - LF 201Ãƒ, ft (61.3 m) - LCF 280Ãƒ, ft (85.3 m) - CF 380Ãƒ, ft (115.8 m) - RCF 352Ãƒ, ft (107.3 Ã¢ â‚¬ <Ã¢ â‚¬

1959 - LF 251 ft (76.5 m) - LCF 320 ft (97.5 m) - CF 417 ft (127.1 m) - RCF 375 ft (114.3 m) - RF 300 ft (91 , 4 m)

A sold crowd of 115,300 was announced, which set the Guinness World Record to attend a baseball game, breaking the record at a 1956 Summer Olympic baseball game between teams from the United States and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The Coliseum previously hosted a major US electronic dance music festival, Daisy Carnival Elektrik. The last time the event was held in 2010; following drug-related deaths from minors at the EDC that year, organizers of the Insomniac Events festival were blacklisted from the upcoming event event, and then moved to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway starting in 2011.

In 2006, the Commission Coliseum focused on signing long-term leases with USC; the school offered to buy facilities from the state but was rejected. After some controversial negotiations, with the university threatening at the end of 2007 to move its home stadium to the Rose Bowl, the two sides signed a 25-year contract in May 2008 by giving the Commission Coliseum 8% of USC ticket sales, about $ 1.5 million a year , but do the agency to renovation list.

In 2006, the Mexican RBD group held a concert during RBD Tour USA for over 70,000 people, tickets sold out in less than 30 minutes.

On June 23, 2008, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission announced that it was laying the Coliseum naming rights on the market, predicting deals worth $ 6 million to $ 8 million per year. The funds will be used to finance more than $ 100 million in renovations over the next decade, including new video boards, bathrooms, concession areas and locker rooms. Additional seating was included in the renovation plan which increased the seating capacity of the Coliseum to 93,607 in September 2008.

On June 17, 2009, the Coliseum was the terminus for the Los Angeles Lakers 2009 NBA Championship parade victory. A crowd of over 90,000 people attended the celebration, alongside a crowd of supporters marching the 2 mile-long parade route. The Coliseum peristyle was redesigned in purple and gold to commemorate the Lakers team and court transported from the Staples Center to the Coliseum field to act as a stage. The past parade has ended at the Staples Center, but because of the complex L.A. Live newly built, limited space around the arena.

2010s-present

On July 30, 2011, LA Rising festivals with Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill, Immortal Technique and El Gran Silencio are held at the Coliseum.

On 27 April 2013, the stadium hosts the Super Truck Stadium.

On 29 July 2013, the Commission of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and USC implements the Second Amendment to Lease and Agreement between the Coliseum Commission and USC that transferred to USC responsibility for long-term (98 years) operation of both the Coliseum and later Sports Arena facilities and the capital's renewal Coliseum.

On September 13, 2014, the Coliseum held its 5th game, 3rd place game, and the 2014 Copa Centroamericana Final in front of 41,969 spectators.

In August 2015, the Coliseum hosted Opening and Closing Events for the 2015 World Special Olympics.

On October 29, 2015, the University of Southern California launched a $ 270 million plan to renovate and restore the historic stadium.

Los Angeles Rams

On January 13, 2016, the NFL authorized St. Louis Rams to move back to Los Angeles. The Rams returned to play at the Coliseum, pending the completion of the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

On August 13, 2016, the Coliseum hosted its first NFL match at the stadium since 1994, when the Rams entertained Dallas Cowboys in a pre-season game to a crowd of 89,140 people.

On September 18, 2016, the Coliseum hosted the first regular Rams season home match since 1979, against Seattle Seahawks.

On January 6, 2018, the Coliseum hosted the first Rams playoff game since the 1978 NFC Championship game, against defending champion Atlanta Falcons.

Naming rights and 2028 Summer Olympics

On January 29, 2018, it was announced by the University of Southern California that United Airlines had purchased the naming rights to the Coliseum. The Memorial Coliseum will be retained on behalf of the stadium by the conditions of the Commission Coliseum requirement in the master lease agreement with the University. This will be called United Airlines Memorial Coliseum beginning in August 2019.

The International Olympic Committee announced that Los Angeles will return to host the Summer Olympics in 2028. Athletics will be held at the Coliseum during the Summer Olympics in 2028 as well as the closing ceremony. During the 131st IOC Session, the International Olympic Committee officially awarded the 2028 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles. The Coliseum will be the first stadium to host events for three different Olympic games.

Coliseum and NFL

There is much debate about the potential of the Coliseum to become a modern NFL place. Although the Coliseum has significant historical value, it is considered by some as insufficient to be the home of the major professional sports teams. Designed and built long before the age of club chairs, luxury boxes and other income-generating facilities owned by modern football stadiums, any professional team moving to the Coliseum may have to undergo extensive renovations. Also, its status as a National Historic Landmark means any renovation should be a complement to the most identifiable part of the building, a guideline not followed during Soldier Field renovation in 2002. Soldier Field was stripped of its landmark status as a result of renovation. Los Angeles County voters are generally not interested in tax revenue to build a new stadium. Without public funds, renovation costs should be borne by the Coliseum tenants in the future. Due to the difficulties that the NFL has with trying to fund a renovated Coliseum, the Rose Bowl or until 2016 the new stadium, pro football is absent from the second largest media market in the United States for two decades. (The NFL was to give the franchise to Los Angeles in 2002, but the debate over the stadium, coupled with the aggressiveness of Houston, led the NFL to give the franchise to Houston instead.)

On November 10, 2005, the then NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced that the NFL and city officials had reached an initial agreement to bring the NFL team back to the Coliseum. However, this did not work.

An article in the May 24, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times makes a bright proposition to spend tens of millions of dollars in city funds to renovate the stadium, and shows that the city can make more than $ 100 million in additional funds available at the future towards further renovation. City leaders who support spending despite significant rejection from locals who mention that renovations are needed to help attract new NFL teams to the city and that the tax revenues generated by the presence of the new franchise team will eventually pay back the investment multiply.

While the proposal to bring pro football back to the Los Angeles area is still in the works (at the time), there was little action taken in the last years of the NFL's absence from the Los Angeles market to bring the NFL team to the big Stadium. Until 2013, USC has a series of rentals for most one and two years with commissions. In November 2007, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stated that the policy requires the NFL to move to the Coliseum will change and other options will be explored. The decision of the Commission on Coliseum June 23, 2008 to sell naming rights to the stadium has signaled the possibility of the end of the NFL prospect returning to the Coliseum because the prospect of a right naming agreement by future NFL team tenants could help lure the new pro teams.

In August 2011, Tim Leiweke, President of AEG, Inc., publicly stated that his interest in using the Coliseum as a temporary place for an NFL team that might move to Los Angeles would require such negotiations with AEG conducted with USC and not with the Commission Coliseum.

On September 7, 2011, the Commission Coliseum unanimously requested USC to negotiate for possible management agreements regarding the Coliseum and the later Sports Arena. USC and the Commission started negotiations at the end of September and concluded in December 2011 with a Terms Sheet that outlines the basic points of the negotiations negotiated between the USC and the Commission's commission on negotiations. The full Commission on 21 December 2011 unanimously endorses the terms and instructs its legal counsel to proceed with the development of the actual lease agreement so that the draft can be made available for public comment. Over the next 18 months the Commission and its staff held several public meetings on the draft of a rental meeting and discussion with the California Science Center (a representative for State property at Exposition Park).

During an open session meeting on July 17, 2013, the Commission passed an amendment to the existing USC-Coliseum Lease Commission for the operation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. On July 25, 2013, the Commission Coliseum and USC entered into this new long-term lease agreement. This became effective on July 29, 2013, and the Commission transferred day-to-day management and financial responsibility to the Coliseum and Sports Arena to USC. This includes reinstatement by USC, on a fixed period basis, from employees of the Coliseum/Sports Arena who had worked for the Commission earlier in the day. For most former Commission Coliseum employees, the fixed term of their work will be short-lived, ending 10 months later on May 30, 2014.

The new lease master contains provisions requiring USC to cooperate with any request by City or County Los Angeles for the temporary use of the Coliseum (not more than 4 years) by the NFL team. USC is required to negotiate in good faith with the NFL to draw up sublease or residential agreements on fair market terms; USC may ask the NFL team to contribute to capital raising in the Coliseum; USC is under no obligation under the master lease to incur any additional fees or obligations from the use of the Coliseum by the NFL team. In addition, under the master lease USC has the right to refuse to enter into an agreement with the NFL if the school is reasonably determined that the proposed NFL team raises security or safety concerns for the USC campus or if activities associated with the NFL team will lead to breaches of regulations, regulations , or NCAA or Pac-12 policies/procedures.

The terms of the lease were executed when the Rams moved back to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season, the Coliseum served as their temporary stadium until the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park finished in 2020.

On December 6, 2016, it was reported by USA Today that the San Diego Chargers (a candidate to move to Los Angeles) associated with the Coliseum Commission about playing in the stadium if they moved; The fillers end up choosing a much smaller StubHub Center as their temporary home.

Beginning in the 2017 season, seating capacity for Rams games is limited to 70,000 as the logistics are limited to larger crowds.

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Seating and attendance

Seating capacity *

* For college football

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Attendance note

College football

The notes differed between the USC 2006 football media guides and the 2006 UCLA football media guides. (This may be because it only kept records for "home" games until the 1950s.) The USC Media Guide lists the top five people as:

1. 104,953 - vs. Notre Dame 1947 (USC home game; highest attendance for football matches at Coliseum)
2. 103303 - vs. UCLA 1939 (USC home game)
3. 103.000 - vs. UCLA 1945 (UCLA home game)
4. 102,548 - vs. UCLA 1954 (UCLA home game)
5. 102,050 - vs. UCLA 1947 (USC home game)

The UCLA Media guidelines did not include the 1939 match against USC, and only registered for the second game in 1945 for a record of the Coliseum's presence. These are the top three UCLA lists recorded by Coliseum crowds:

1. 102,548 - vs. USC 1954 (UCLA home game)
2. 102.050 - vs. USC 1947 (UCLA home game)
3. 100,333 - vs. USC 1945 (USC home game, second from two meetings in 1945)

The biggest crowd to attend USC football games against opponents other than UCLA or Notre Dame is 96,130 for the November 10, 1951 contest with Stanford University. The biggest contestant for the UCLA contest against a school other than USC was 92,962 for the November 1, 1946 game with Saint Mary's College of California.

National Football League

Los Angeles Rams played the San Francisco 49ers prior to the NFL 102.368 attendance record on November 10, 1957. This was a paid attendance record that stood until September 2009 at the Cowboys Stadium, although the overall NFL regular season record was broken in 2005 regular season matches between Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. Both records were broken on September 20, 2009 in the first regular season game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas between Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants.

In 1958, the Rams averaged 83,680 for their six home games, including 100,470 for the Chicago Bears and 100,202 for the Baltimore Colts.

In their 13 seasons in Los Angeles, the Raiders on several occasions drew crowds of people close to the Coliseum. The biggest was 91,505 for the October 25, 1992 match with the Dallas Cowboys, 91,494 for the 29 September 1991 contest with the San Francisco 49ers, and 90,380 on 1 January 1984 for a playoff game with Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Coliseum hosted the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later called the Super Bowl. The January 15, 1967 game, pitting the Green Bay Packers against Kansas City's Chief, attracted 61,946 fans - lower than anticipated spectators (by comparison, regular season games between the Packers and Rams a month earlier drew 72,418). For the Super Bowl VII in 1973, which fits the Miami Dolphins against the Washington Redskins, its presence is almost 90,182, a record that will last until the Super Bowl XI at the Rose Bowl. The 1975 NFC Championship Game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys has an attendance of 88,919, still the largest crowd for a conference championship game since the conference-title format begins with the 1970 season. The 1983 AFC Championship Game between Raiders and Seattle Seahawks drew 88,734.

The first NFL Rams game in the Coliseum since 1979, after spending fifteen years at the Anaheim Stadium and then twenty-one seasons in St. Louis, a pre-season contest against the Cowboys on 13 August 2016, drew the 89,140 crowd. The regular first team home game of the season, on Sept. 18 against the Seattle Seahawks, drew 91,046 - the greatest presence for the Rams game at the Coliseum since 1959.

Major League Baseball

Baseball contemporary baseball captures the theoretical baseball seating capacity as 92,500. Thousands of seats at the eastern end are very far from home plate, and are not sold unless needed. The biggest regular attendance season is 78,672, Dodgers' home debut at the Coliseum, against the Giants of San Francisco on April 18, 1958.

The May 7, 1959, an exhibition game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the 1958 New World Series Champion of the New York Yankees, in honor of the former defender Roy Campanella Dodgers, drew 93,103, which is a Major League Baseball record before 2008.

All three Dodgers home games in the 1959 World Series with the Chicago White Sox exceeded 90,000 spectators. Game 5 attracted 92,706 fans, a major league record for non-exhibition matches.

Attendance for the exhibition match on March 29, 2008, between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers, was 115,300, setting a new Guinness World Record to attend the baseball game. The previous record was estimated at 114,000 at the 1956 Summer Olympics at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for an exhibition match between teams from the branches of the American and Australian Military Forces.

Football

Several factors allow the city of Los Angeles and its metropolitan area to become the center of American soccer, both for local and international football. Including general demographic factors in the area since the mid-twentieth century began to hold thousands and then millions, especially Mexican Latin American immigrants; California leads the city's fondness for so-called soccer. For the tradition of football this new city since 1902. Initially found joining the football stadium host a small area such as Wrigley Field (Chicago Homonymous Stadium) and the Veterans Memorial Stadium, but the growing passion for football, moved the dispute over the biggest stage encounter in city, Memorial Coliseum.

The first official match in a seriously developed property competition was on March 7, 1965, matching the qualification for England's 1966 World Cup between the US and Mexico which ended in series on two goals.

Although the stadium represents the second most active place in the history of the US national team (after Robert F. Kennedy), the stadium only played 20 games in it, the last in 2000.

However, the national team with increased activity at the Memorial Coliseum is Mexico, which has played 61 matches in the building. Even the Los Angeles stage is the second stage in which most of Mexico's representatives close, only after its official seat of Estadio Azteca, more than any other enclosure in the country and the United States. It was the mid-1980s when the Mexican national team began to adopt it as a regular place for their friendly game in neighboring countries, largely by the uniqueness of the Los Angeles population, which placed it as the second largest city with Mexicans in the world.

Given the capacity and importance of the area in which it is located, it has been striking for different club and international matches, both friendly and official. While emphasizing the fact it was not considered a venue for the 1994 World Cup, it was awarded to its neighbor the Rose Bowl Stadium.

Although the stadium has never hosted the MLS Cup (Major League Soccer last title game) or Lamar Hunt's final US Open Cup (the oldest football state of the tournament), it is the first place of the first professional football tournament in the country, when it is setting for the Soccer Bowl 1967, organized by the United Soccer Association.

USC Wants to Give the Coliseum a $270-Million Restoration - Curbed LA

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"Court of Honor" plaque

"Commemorating exceptional people or events, athletic or otherwise, who have a definite impact on the history, glory, and growth of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum"

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In popular culture

Due to its location near Hollywood, the Coliseum has been used in numerous commercials, TV programs and movies for years.

Movies

1976: The Two-Minute Warning is mostly filmed inside the Coliseum, featuring a football game known as the "Championship X" between Los Angeles and Baltimore, similar to the Super Bowl.
1978: Heaven Can Wait was filmed inside the Coliseum, featuring a fictional Super Bowl XII game between Los Angeles Rams & amp; Pittsburgh Steelers.
1979: The football scene of North Dallas Forty is taken at the Coliseum. The scene was filmed at night, with very low light, both for effect and to downplay the fact that the booth was empty.
1997: Money Discussion : A climactic shoot-out scene occurred at the Coliseum.

Television

1982: Episode CHiPs featured Bruce Penhall on his TV debut on the episode of "Speedway Fever". Like Penhall himself, his character on the screen Bruce Nelson won the 1982 World Speedway Championship final at the Coliseum. The scene was filmed in a pit (located inside a tunnel) during a meeting between the actual races of Penhall and this episode also uses actual television footage from the 1982 World Finals.
2003: The Coliseum was used in the filming of the last season's second episode of the television series 24 .
2008: This is the starting point of the popular reality show, The Amazing Race in the thirteenth season.

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References

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External links

LA Memorial Coliseum.com - Official website (operated by USC)
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission - operated by Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Sports Council
USC Trojans.com - L.A. Memorial Coliseum
LA Coliseum Astrovision - Everything you want to know about Astrovision

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