Pontiac Silverdome set to explode with a bang on Dec. 3

[TexasTowelie]

The Pontiac Silverdome is going out with a bang next month.

The city of Pontiac issued a permit Friday for the long-awaited demolition of the abandoned stadium, once home to the Detroit Lions.

Demolition is set to begin Dec. 3 with a dramatic explosion inside the 42-year-old sports venue. The blast is needed to break metal beams that support the Silverdome's upper ring, which once held equipment used to keep its now-tattered roof inflated. The stadium’s original Teflon-coated fiberglass roof famously collapsed in 1985.

"Each vertical beam surrounding the Silverdome will house a small charge, which upon detonation, will cause the beams to break and the steel ring to fall to the ground," the city announced in a news release.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/money/2017/11/03/pontiac-silverdome-explosion-demolition/830703001/

[RandySF]

1. Good riddance. It was a shitty place to attend an event.

[RGinNJ]

2. I grew up just north of Pontiac.

As a kid I watched it get built. I'm not sad at all to see it go.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Sat in the nosebleed seats there one Sunday for a Bears-Lions game after a long night of indulgence.

I was scared crapless of the incline. The whole game I felt like one wrong move and I'd be tumbling down the aisle to my death.