Foxboro Stadium

Foxboro Stadium
Former names	Schaefer Stadium (1971–1983); Sullivan Stadium (1983–1989)
Location	Foxborough, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°5′33.72″N 71°16′2.79″W / 42.0927000°N 71.2674417°W
Owner	Stadium Management Corporation (New England Patriots, 1970–1988); Robert Kraft (1988–2002)
Capacity	60,292
Surface	Grass (1991–2001); AstroTurf (1977–90); Poly-Turf (1971–76)
Construction
Broke ground	September 23, 1970
Opened	August 15, 1971
Closed	January 19, 2002
Demolished	Winter–spring 2002
Construction cost	US$7.1 million; ($53.4 million in 2023 dollars)
Architect	David M. Berg Associates Inc.
General contractor	J. F. White Construction
Tenants
	New England Patriots (NFL) (1971–2002); New England Tea Men (NASL) (1978–1980); New England Revolution (MLS) (1996–2001)

Foxboro Stadium, originally Schaefer Stadium and later Sullivan Stadium, was an outdoor stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, United States. It opened in 1971 and served as the home of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) until 2001 and also as the home venue for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer (MLS) from 1996 to 2001. The stadium was the site of several games in both the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup which the U.S. won. Foxboro Stadium was demolished in 2002 and replaced by Gillette Stadium and the Patriot Place shopping center.

History

The stadium opened in August 1971 as Schaefer Stadium, primarily as the home venue for the renamed New England Patriots of the National Football League. The team was known as the Boston Patriots for its first eleven seasons 1960–70,^[3] and had played in various stadiums in the Boston area. For six seasons, 1963–1968, the Patriots played in Fenway Park, home of baseball's Boston Red Sox.^[4] Like most baseball stadiums, Fenway was poorly suited as a football venue. Its seating capacity was inadequate—only about 40,000 for football—and many seats had obstructed views.

The Boston Patriots played the 1969 season at Alumni Stadium at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, and the 1970 season, their first in the NFL, at Harvard Stadium in Boston's Allston neighborhood.^[4]

The site was selected when the owners of Bay State Raceway donated the land, midway between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. The general contractor who built the stadium was a Massachusetts-based company named J.F White Contracting Co.^{[citation needed]}

Ground was broken in September 1970.^[5] It cost $7.1 million^[5] (or $41.3 million in 2015 dollars)^[6]—only $200,000 over budget.^[7] Even allowing for this modest cost overrun, it was still a bargain price for a major sports stadium even by 1970s standards. This was because the Patriots received no funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the town of Foxborough; indeed, it was one of the few major-league stadiums of that era that was entirely privately funded.^[5]

Seating capacity

Years	Capacity
1971	61,114^[8]
1972	60,999^[9]
1973–1977	61,279^[10]
1978–1983	61,297^[11]
1984–1987	60,890^[12]
1988–1994	60,794^[13]
1995–2001	60,292^[14]

Playing surface

Like the majority of outdoor sports venues built in North America in the 1970s, Foxboro Stadium was designed for the use of an artificial turf playing surface. The original field was Poly-Turf,^[15] succeeded by AstroTurf.^{[citation needed]} A natural grass field was installed before the start of the 1991 season.^{[citation needed]}

Naming rights

The original name in 1971 was Schaefer Stadium for the brewery of that name in an early example of the sale of naming rights. When this agreement expired in 1983, Anheuser-Busch took over the rights. Instead of putting the name of one of its brands of beer on the stadium, Anheuser-Busch agreed to name it Sullivan Stadium in honor of the Sullivan family, majority owners of the Patriots. After the family sold their majority interest in the team to Victor Kiam, the stadium was officially renamed "Foxboro Stadium".^[16] Although the official spelling of the town's name is "Foxborough", the shorter spelling was used for the stadium.^[17]

Notable events

Soccer

The venue hosted numerous significant soccer matches, including six games in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.^[7] Foxboro Stadium was the last stadium where Diego Maradona scored a World Cup goal, in a game against Greece, and where he last played in an official FIFA World Cup match against Nigeria on June 25, 1994.

The stadium hosted five games in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, the 1996 and 1999 MLS Cups, and the inaugural Women's United Soccer Association Founders Cup.

1994 FIFA World Cup

Date	Time (EDT)	Team #1	Res.	Team #2	Round	Attendance
21 June 1994	12:30	Argentina	4–0	Greece	Group D	54,456
23 June 1994	19:30	South Korea	0–0	Bolivia	Group C	54,453
25 June 1994	16:00	Argentina	2–1	Nigeria	Group D	54,453
30 June 1994	19:30	Greece	0–2	Nigeria	Group D	53,001
5 July 1994	13:00	Nigeria	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Italy	Round of 16	54,367
9 July 1994	12:00	Italy	2–1	Spain	Quarter-finals	53,400

1999 FIFA Women's World Cup

Date	Time (EDT)	Team #1	Res.	Team #2	Round	Attendance
20 June 1999	16:00	Norway	2–1	Russia	Group C	14,873
20 June 1999	19:30	Australia	1–1	Ghana	Group D	14,873
27 June 1999	16:30	Mexico	0–2	Italy	Group B	50,484
27 June 1999	19:00	United States	3–0	North Korea	Group A	50,484
4 July 1999	19:30	Norway	0–5	China	Semi-finals	28,986

Major League Soccer finals

Event	Date	Champions	Res.	Runners-Up	Attendance
MLS Cup '96	20 October 1996	D.C. United	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Los Angeles Galaxy	34,643
MLS Cup '99	21 November 1999	D.C. United	2–0	Los Angeles Galaxy	44,910

Women's United Soccer Association finals

Event	Date	Time (EDT)	Champions	Res.	Runners-Up	Attendance
2001 WUSA Founders Cup	25 August 2001	14:00	Bay Area CyberRays	3–3 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Atlanta Beat	21,078

Other events

The stadium was also the venue at times for the home football games of Boston College and hosted numerous other outdoor events, primarily concerts, along with music festivals, including The Monsters of Rock Festival Tour and The Vans Warped Tour, as well as the WWF King of the Ring tournament on July 8th 1985 and July 14th 1986. U2 played on The Joshua Tree Tour on September 22 1987, and later performed three nights of their Zoo TV Tour on August 20, 22, and 23, 1992. Schaefer Stadium hosted Elton John on July 4, 1976, as well as Boz Scaggs, The Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac on July 25, 1976.

Sullivan Stadium hosted The Who's 25th anniversary tour on July 12 and 14, 1989.

Paul McCartney brought the Flowers In the Dirt Tour to the stadium on July 24 and 26, 1990.

New Kids on The Block brought The Magic Summer Tour to the stadium on July 29 and July 31, 1990. An audience of 52,000 people attended one of two concert dates.

Genesis brought the We Can't Dance Tour to the stadium on May 28, 1992.

Metallica and Guns N' Roses brought the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour to the stadium on September 11, 1992, with Faith No More as their opening act.

Elton John performed at the venue in front of 62,000 on US Bicentennial on July 4, 1976. Madonna performed her "Who's That Girl" tour there on July 9, 1987, to a sell-out crowd. Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead recorded a portion of their collaborative live album, entitled Dylan & the Dead, there on July 4, 1987. Pink Floyd played a two-night stand in May 1988 (on one of the nights their inflatable pig was torn to shreds). They also played a three-night sold-out stand in May 1994 on their The Division Bell Tour which was recorded and readily available on bootleg. (The second night was filmed by MTV for promotional purposes.) The Dave Matthews Band played seven shows at the stadium from 1998 to 2001.

The Rolling Stones played three nights on September 27 and 29 and October 1, 1989, then two more nights on September 4 and 5, 1994 and lastly October 20 and 21, 1997.

Additionally, in 1994, the Drum Corps International World Championships were held in the stadium.

Closing

By the late 1990s, Foxboro Stadium had become functionally obsolete by modern NFL standards. Despite excellent sight lines to view game action or concerts and having fewer of the issues that multi-sport multi-purpose stadiums in other cities had, the stadium was otherwise outmoded. The facility was built in a low-cost 'bare bones' manner with unexceptional architectural elements, and had very few modern amenities. The stadium's plumbing was not planned with large crowds in mind, and was completely inadequate for a professional venue. After a sewage issue overflowed the restroom facilities during its first game, stadium officials were forced to augment the permanent toilets with rented portable toilets for the rest of the stadium's existence. It also lacked luxury boxes, an increasingly important source of revenue for other teams in the league. Most patrons had to sit on backless aluminum benches (or bring in their own stadium cushions, especially in cold weather when the benches were ice cold), as only a small fraction of the seats had chairbacks (painted blue, red and white near the 50-yard line). During heavy rains, the numerous unpaved spots in the parking lot turned to mud. It frequently took an hour or more to leave after games, due to its location on a then-undivided four lane portion of U.S. Route 1.^[7] In order to host the FIFA World Cup (and later, the New England Revolution), several rows of seats were removed to accommodate a soccer pitch with acceptable dimensions to FIFA.^[18]

With a capacity of just over 60,000 (only 10,000 above the NFL's minimum seating capacity), it was one of the smallest stadiums in the NFL. It was also almost completely exposed to the elements, meaning that there was almost no protection for the fans in any type of storm outside of beneath the stands. Additionally, the Sullivan family had lost millions promoting the Jackson Victory Tour in 1984. Due to their relatively modest wealth compared to other NFL owners, they pledged the stadium as collateral for the tour. Knowing that the revenue from the Patriots would not be nearly enough to service the debt, the Sullivans quietly put the team and the stadium on the market.^[19] The Sullivans' financial picture didn't improve even when the Patriots made Super Bowl XX. With most of their money tied up in the team, they sold the Patriots to Victor Kiam in 1989. The stadium, however, lapsed into bankruptcy and was bought by paper magnate Robert Kraft.

When Kiam and Sullivan tried to sell the team to interests in Jacksonville, Kraft effectively stymied the deal by refusing to let the team out of an ironclad commitment to serve as the stadium's main tenant until 2001. As a result, when Kiam himself was crippled by financial troubles, he sold the Patriots to James Orthwein in 1992. After only two years, Orthwein tried to move the Patriots to his hometown of St. Louis. However, Kraft refused to let the Patriots out of their lease. Orthwein then put the team on the market, but the wording of the operating covenant required any potential buyer to negotiate with Kraft. With this in mind, Kraft swooped in and bought the team himself.^[20]

After 31 NFL seasons, Foxboro Stadium was scheduled to be demolished on December 23, 2001, the day after the Patriots' final home game. However, the Patriots made a run to get into the playoffs and went on to win their first Super Bowl. As a result, the stadium wasn't demolished until late January 2002, after the conclusion of the 2001 postseason. The last game played in the stadium, "The Tuck Rule Game", was played in a snow storm; a Patriots win against the Oakland Raiders, which famously featured an overturned fumble call based on the then applicable tuck rule in the final minutes. The stadium's former site became parking lots for its successor, Gillette Stadium, before being developed into the open-air shopping center Patriot Place.

References

^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Foxboro Stadium
^ New England Is Their Third Name
^ ^a ^b They Played at Four Different Stadiums In Their First 11 Years
^ ^a ^b ^c FOXBORO STADIUM
^ Inflation Calculator
^ ^a ^b ^c Foulds, Alan (2005). Boston's Ballparks and Arenas. University Press of New England.
^ Will McDonough (September 3, 1972). "Bell Hopes Patriots Knock 'Em Around". Boston Globe.
^ Al Harvin (October 16, 1972). "Riggins, Boozer Combine for 318 Yards; Jet Ground Game Crushes Patriots". New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
^ "Patriot Goal: Field Winner". Rome News-Tribune. April 11, 1976.
^ "Shoulder May Keep Griese From Returning This Year". Palm Beach Post. April 1, 1981.
^ "Hannah May Miss Jets". The Lewiston Journal. October 26, 1984.
^ "AFC East". USA Today. September 2, 1988.
^ Bill Plaschke (September 11, 1995). "Dolphins Have Few Problems in 20-3 Victory". Los Angeles Times.
^ Sports Illustrated – "Rug" – Scorecard – October 18, 1971
^ The League by David Harris
^ Ask PFW: Winning vs. whining^{[permanent dead link]} Patriots.com
^ Mallison, Lloyd (August 25, 2015). "Before the Patriots played at Gillette Stadium". The Boston Globe. pp. slideshow image number 27. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
^ Harris, David (1986). The League: The Rise and Decline of the NFL. New York City: Bantam Books. pp. 629–32. ISBN 0-553-05167-9.
^ Burke, Monte (September 19, 2015). "Unlikely Dynasty". Forbes.

Preceded by Harvard Stadium	Home of the New England Patriots 1971–2001	Succeeded by Gillette Stadium
Preceded by first stadium	Home of the New England Revolution 1996–2001	Succeeded by Gillette Stadium
Preceded by First Rose Bowl	Host of the MLS Cup 1996 1999	Succeeded by RFK Stadium RFK Stadium
Preceded by Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium	Host of the Drum Corps International World Championship 1994	Succeeded by Rich Stadium
Preceded by Three Rivers Stadium	Host of AFC Championship Game 1997	Succeeded by Three Rivers Stadium

[inflation-US-1] 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.

[construction-2] Foxboro Stadium

[3] New England Is Their Third Name

[stadiums-4] They Played at Four Different Stadiums In Their First 11 Years

[sop-5] FOXBORO STADIUM

[6] Inflation Calculator

[Foulds-7] Foulds, Alan (2005). Boston's Ballparks and Arenas. University Press of New England.

[8] Will McDonough (September 3, 1972). "Bell Hopes Patriots Knock 'Em Around". Boston Globe.

[9] Al Harvin (October 16, 1972). "Riggins, Boozer Combine for 318 Yards; Jet Ground Game Crushes Patriots". New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2011.

[10] "Patriot Goal: Field Winner". Rome News-Tribune. April 11, 1976.

[11] "Shoulder May Keep Griese From Returning This Year". Palm Beach Post. April 1, 1981.

[12] "Hannah May Miss Jets". The Lewiston Journal. October 26, 1984.

[13] "AFC East". USA Today. September 2, 1988.

[14] Bill Plaschke (September 11, 1995). "Dolphins Have Few Problems in 20-3 Victory". Los Angeles Times.

[15] Sports Illustrated – "Rug" – Scorecard – October 18, 1971

[16] The League by David Harris

[17] Ask PFW: Winning vs. whining^{[permanent dead link]} Patriots.com

[18] Mallison, Lloyd (August 25, 2015). "Before the Patriots played at Gillette Stadium". The Boston Globe. pp. slideshow image number 27. Retrieved December 27, 2017.

[The_League-19] Harris, David (1986). The League: The Rise and Decline of the NFL. New York City: Bantam Books. pp. 629–32. ISBN 0-553-05167-9.

[Forbes-20] Burke, Monte (September 19, 2015). "Unlikely Dynasty". Forbes.

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