Why aren’t football stadiums in colder climates always designed as a closed dome?

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For example, when the Green Bay Packers built their stadium they had to have known it would constantly be snowing. Same with Kansas Citt Chiefs.

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Couple points from a Wisconsin resident.

For starters City Stadium, which would eventually be renamed Lambeau Field was built in 1957. The first domed sports stadium, aka The Astrodome, wasn’t built until 1965. City Stadium was also community funded, so even if the technology existed at the time they probably couldn’t have afforded it. Football is also historically considered to be an outdoor sport.

And it also is not constantly snowing. Football season starts in September, the first snowfall typically doesn’t happen until late November/early December. And there are very few days that it actually snows.

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