What former CFL stadium was offered for sale for $1, but was instead demolished, because no one wanted to buy it?
The
Autostade in Montreal, home field of the
Alouettes from 1968-71 and 1973-76.
The stadium is best remembered for its odd shape: to allow the stadium to be dismantled and re-erected on a new site if required, the architects employed a segmental structural system comprising 19 independent but linked pre-cast concrete grandstands, each 40 seats wide, arranged around the central field.
The stadium itself was offered for sale for $1, but not the land in was on. Had there been a buyer, they would have had to move the sections to a new location.
The Autostade was also used for some large rock concerts in the early 1970's, most notably, a
Pink Floyd show in 1971 or 1972, when an airplane crashed into the stadium as a special effect, and much of the crowd thought it was real, but they were too stoned to panic.
If
Rob Ford had been mayor back then, maybe he would have bought the stadium with taxpayer money, so that up to 33,000 people could watch the
Don Bosco Secondary School home games.