* Melissa also sang the National Anthem before Game 6 of the 1991 World Series at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis.

The Metrodome has also served as one of the four regional venues for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006 and most recently, 2009.

Other small colleges also play games in the stadium during the weeks before Metrodome is open for Division I play.

It also ushered in the era of other fully domed stadiums, such as the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, the now-demolished Kingdome in Seattle, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, and the now-demolished RCA Dome in Indianapolis.

The university also gave up most concession and parking revenue, although their portion of the rent was the lowest of the three Metrodome tenants.

He also had two remarkable at-bats in this period which did not result in home runs, but nonetheless added to his legend: in the Metrodome at Minnesota, on May 4, 1984, he hit a pop-up that flew into a hole in the roof and got stuck for a ground rule double.

The building also replaced an earlier courthouse and also the earlier Hennepin County Jail, which was located where the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome now stands.

The department also covered the first two rounds of the NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium ( St. Paul ), the NCAA Volleyball Tournament at the Sports Pavilion on the campus of the University of Minnesota, the NCAA Basketball Tournament at the HHH Metrodome ( Minneapolis ), the NCAA Hockey Tournament at Mariucci Arena ( Minneapolis ), and the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships at the Sports Pavilion on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

In 2001, a DVD was released in the UK by Metrodome consisting of two versions, the complete " Director's Cut " containing the four minutes of previously censored violence, and an " Export Version ", also with the violence intact but including brief shots of nudity added to certain sequences.

The official names of those arenas also often included the word " Stadium ," such as the Houston Astrodome, whose formal name was " Harris County Domed Stadium " in 1965 ; the Kingdome, whose formal name was " King County Domed Stadium ," and the Metrodome, for which the Minneapolis highway signs direct the driver to " Metrodome Stadium.

The 2011 season schedule also called for all home games to be played at the Metrodome.

The Metrodome hosted the 1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Between 1982 and 2008, the school hosted their home games in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis until they moved back to campus on September 12, 2009, when their new home, TCF Bank Stadium, opened with a game against the U. S. Air Force Academy Falcons, which Minnesota won 20 – 13.

The game was played on January 26, 1992 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the first time the Super Bowl was held in that city.

The 1985 MLB All-Star Game, several games of the 1987 and the 1991 World Series, Super Bowl XXVI in 1992, and the 1998-99 NFC Championship all were held at the Metrodome.

The NCAA Final Four was held at the Metrodome in 1992 and 2001.

The Metrodome is the only venue to host a MLB All-Star Game ( 1985 ), a Super Bowl ( 1992 ), an NCAA Final Four ( 1992 & 2001 ), and a World Series ( 1987 & 1991 ).

Metrodome set up for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament | 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament ; temporary stands enclose the basketball court on two sides with the permanent stands on the other two.

With Metrodome being available for the tournament starting in 2010, the team could easily place a bid, and have a better possibility of hosting, an NCAA baseball regional or super regional.

His shining moment came at the Metrodome in Minneapolis when, after first hitting a shot to tie the game and send it to overtime, Jeff hit the game winning shot in overtime, a 26-ft jumper at the buzzer, to give ISU its first NCAA tournament victory since 1944, beating Miami University, March 14, 1986, 81 – 79.

Minnesota has taken advantage of the use of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome to play the majority of their games, including hosting a prestigious preseason tournament, and with the 2010 departure of the MLB Minnesota Twins for the new Target Field, hope to use the Metrodome for future Big Ten tournaments and bids on the NCAA tournament.

Minneapolis is the only city and the Metrodome is the only arena to host all three events in a 12-month span ( all three of these events aired on CBS, who would go on to purchase their Twin Cities affiliate, WCCO-TV, later in the year ).

The attendance mark of 63, 130 was second lowest only to the first Super Bowl's attendance of 61, 946, and the Metrodome was the smallest stadium to ever host the Super Bowl.

Twins management claimed Metrodome generated too little revenue for the Twins to be competitive ; specifically, they received no revenue from luxury suite leasing ( as those are owned by the Vikings ) and only a small percentage of concessions sales.

ET on Saturday afternoon – the only day game of the series, and the last World Series game to date to be played in the daytime ( although as the game was played in the Metrodome, the game took place under artificial illumination all the same ).

With the replacement of Minneapolis's Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome by Target Field in 2010, only two MLB stadiums, both in the American League East, are still using artificial turf: Tropicana Field and Toronto's Rogers Centre, which converted to a next generation AstroTurf in 2010.

The Vikings play their home games at the Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis as they have since 1982 ( a bill was passed in May 2012 to build a new stadium for the team, which is expected to open by the 2016 season ).

* The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome domed stadium in Minneapolis and home to the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League

The Metrodome has been the current home to the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings since 1982, but is scheduled to be replaced by a new stadium on the current site.

The Metrodome is similar in design to BC Place before that stadium was reconfigured with a retractable roof and the former RCA Dome.

Construction on the Metrodome began on December 20, 1979 and was funded by a limited hotel-motel and liquor tax, local business donations, and payments established within a special tax district near the stadium site.

One stadium official once said that all the Metrodome was designed to do was " get fans in, let ' em see a game, and let ' em go home.

The Metrodome is the loudest domed NFL stadium.

Because the roof is very nearly the same color as a baseball, and transmits light, the Metrodome had a far higher error incidence than a normal stadium during day games, so instead of losing a fly ball in the sun, as is common for non-roofed stadiums, fly balls could easily get lost in the ceiling.

The Twins ' appearance in this series gave Metrodome the distinction of being the first American League stadium to end its Major League Baseball history with post-season play.

The concert capacity of the Metrodome is around 60, 000 people, depending on seating and stage configurations, which made it a profitable location for stadium tours during the late eighties and nineties.

Metrodome is not a true multipurpose stadium.

On May 10, 2012, the Vikings were granted a new stadium by the Minnesota legislators that will be built on the Metrodome site and is projected to open in 2016.

Metropolitan Stadium ( often referred to as " the Met ", " the Ice Palace " when the Minnesota Vikings played, " Met Stadium ", or now " the Old Met " to distinguish from the Metrodome ) was a sports stadium that once stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis.

This accelerated the push for construction of a new stadium, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which was completed in 1981.

Rumors abounded that the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, which by then had taken over the stadium from the city of Minneapolis, had deliberately let the Met go to seed in order to aid the push for the Metrodome.

On March 1, 2012, plans to build the stadium in either Arden Hills or the Linden Hills farmers market after an agreement was announced by Dayton for a new stadium to be built on the site of the Metrodome, pending approval by the state legislature and the Minneapolis city council.

In May 2012, the proposal to build the stadium on the Metrodome site was passed by the Minnesota Legislature and soon afterwards signed into law by Dayton ; On May 25, the proposal was officially finalized after receiving the approval of the Minneapolis City Council.

TCF Bank Stadium replaced the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome as the Gophers ' home stadium in 2009.

Pressured by downtown Minneapolis business interests and athletic boosters, the school elected to move out of the stadium to the new Metrodome, about two miles ( 3 km ) away, during the spring of 1982.

The 1987 Series was remarkable in several regards: It featured the first World Series games played in an indoor stadium ( the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome ) and the final Series game to start earlier than prime time in the eastern United States ( Game 6, with a 4 p. m.

For example, on December 12, 2010, the roof of the Minnesota Vikings ' stadium, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed due to a snowstorm.