An iconic NFL stadium which cost $45million to construct now lies dormant and abandoned but is banned from being demolished.

Larry Wayne / Houston Post file The background shows: Elderly woman in a stadium, pointing towards the empty field. Roy Doak, scoreboard technical director at the Astrodome, demonstrates how live ...

The first-ever dome had the first-ever animated scoreboard ... to the Astrodome as “a symbol of Texas bluster.” EXPLAINED: Inside the rise and fall of the Houston Oilers football team ...

Houston's futuristic Astrodome is home of the first skybox and an animated scoreboard,150 yards wide ... shoes—breaking ground on the new home of football’s Oilers and baseball’s Colt ...

the Houston Buffalo, who played there for over 40 years. A home run by Bob Aspromonte sets off the Astrodome scoreboard’s first ever home run display in a 5-0 win against the Pirates.

The Houston Astrodome opened in 1965 and was originally named the Harris County Domed Stadium. The Astrodome was the first fully-enclosed sports stadium and first air-conditioned event venue.

Forgive Houston ... with the Astrodome known by flirting with moving the beloved Houston Oilers to Jacksonville. In response, the city tore down the Dome’s iconic exploding scoreboard to add ...