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“I guarantee I’m right in 25 years.” Damon Amendolara doesn’t hold back on the Browns' and Bears' plans to build domes in Cleveland and Chicago. In this fiery monologue, D.A. calls it short-sighted, reactionary thinking — trading tradition for temporary rewards like Final Fours and Super Bowls.
🏟️ He compares these future domes to the cookie-cutter stadium disasters of the 1970s
🌨️ Says cold-weather football is a sacred part of the identity for cities like Cleveland and Chicago
📆 Predicts that by 2050, fans will crave authenticity and open-air nostalgia in sports again
💥 "History will not be kind to this decision," D.A. declares
This is a bold forecast, a cultural critique, and a passionate defense of what football should feel like. Don’t miss it.
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We got news this week that there was
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another potential hurdle to the Browns
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new stadium
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being knocked down. And while it's
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anything but settled, the Cleveland
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Browns and the Hasslam family want to go
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full steam ahead for a domed stadium in
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the suburbs.
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And I believe that the idea that the
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Browns andor the Bears andor the
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Commanders going to do
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sounds good right now, but ultimately is
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going to age extremely poorly.
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I'll tell you this. I think that
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today you're going to get the people
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that say, "Well,
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real football is played at neutral
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sights.
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Real football is played without the
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elements.
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Snow and freezing rain and sleep.
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These things only neuter great football.
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And if you really want to watch the best
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athletes play the best football, you
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have to have controlled climate. That's
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why you don't want weather at the Super
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Bowl. And they'll also tell you, well,
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you need a roof on something because,
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you know, you need the Final Four there,
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don't you want? You want indoor events
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as well. Why would you build a stadium
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just for football? Put a roof over it.
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Now you can have all of the other
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events.
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You know what? You'll never get snowed
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out. You'll never get and maybe you can
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have a Super Bowl because if you're
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outdoors, you're not going to get one.
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But indoors with a roof, oh, suddenly
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Cleveland can have a Super Bowl. There's
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all these things you will hear from the
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people that think about the here and the
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now. Well, we could get the final four
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in five years. We could get the Super
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Bowl in 10 years. We don't have to sit
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through the snow next season.
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But that is not long-term thinking. And
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I'll tell you why.
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Let's go back to the early 70s
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when Three River Stadium opened up in
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Pittsburgh and Riverfront Stadium opened
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up in Cincinnati.
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The VET opened up in Philadelphia. Bush
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Stadium opened up in St. Louis
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and Atlanta Fulton County Stadium opened
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up in Atlanta. Sheay Stadium opened up
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in New York. All of these
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multi-purpose
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circular stadiums that would swing from
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a baseball diamond to a football
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stadium. And the idea in the late 60s
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and early 70s was look at multi-purpose,
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you're saving so much money.
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Look at this. It's beautiful. Brand new
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artificial turf. For football, you can
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seat 75,000 fans. For baseball, if you
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have a huge game, you could also have
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65,000 fans. Wow. You know what? You
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don't have to spend for two stadiums,
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utilitarian,
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it's set downtown, everyone. Massive
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parking lots. This is the future. This
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is great.
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And what they lost in that transaction
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was the soul of the old ballparks. And
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so in Pittsburgh, you lost the soul of
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Forbes Field.
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You lost the feel of of the old
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ballparks that had character,
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that had a personality
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that you would then look back and say,
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"Man, wasn't that special?" And
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ultimately when Camden Yards came
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around, we could see, oh my god, the
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future's actually the past. To go back
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to the soul of ballparks was to mean we
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don't want cookie cutter
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multi-purpose
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utilitarian massive parking lot
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stadiums. That actually doesn't work for
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us. We want personality and soul.
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And so those ballparks aged so poorly
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that they were built in the early 70s.
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By the late 80s, by the '9s, it was
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like, "Oh god, these things are
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terrible. They're so outdated. Can't
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wait to blow them up." The Kingdome in
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Seattle, dark,
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sterile.
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the
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Metrodome in Minnesota dark, sterile,
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depressing. What is going to end up
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happening is we're going to start
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building a bunch of domes we already
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already have to make the climate control
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the thing to make the final four the
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thing to make the upcoming Super Bowl
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the thing. And that will be so
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short-lived because what people will
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want in the future is actually
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connection to the past. And they will
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see
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the photographs or the NFL films footage
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of Jameus Winston dancing in the snow
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or the 85 Bears barking in the NFC
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Championship game as snow falls down.
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And they will want that because
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everything else will have become so
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sterilized in life.
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AI and computers,
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the way that we develop architecture.
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Look at your laptop, your phone. There's
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no personality there. It's all sleek and
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uniform. It's minimalist. That will be
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how we build a lot of things in the
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future and how life will feel in the
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future. Sterile, artificial,
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inauthentic.
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And sports will give us a connection
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through video, through feel, through
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photograph of what it used to be. And
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people will want that. And I guarantee
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you, guarantee
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that when we get 20 years from the
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opening of a dome in Cleveland or
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Chicago, people will go, I miss the old
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days. You might say, well, the Lions
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never went back and the Vikings never
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went back. That's true. But there is a
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longing for what it meant to be outside
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at Tiger Stadium. What it meant to be
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outside in a cold weather climate,
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especially in football. And I think when
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you start thinking that you're building
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something for Super Bowls or for
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Final Fours or for climate control, I
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think what you're doing is ignoring that
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so much of sports is about nostalgia. So
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much is about previous generations and
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care and love and passion
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dates back to those things. And you want
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people to care. Well, you want them to
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feel connected to the past.
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It's a really bad gamble for the Browns
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and the Bears, the Commanders or
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whomever who have had outdoor stadiums
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before to believe that the future's
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indoors. And this is going to sound
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like, oh, DA is all about throwback
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jerseys and natural grass. And of
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course, I feel very strongly about this.
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In the future, the old days of sports
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will matter even more. It'll matter so
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much because so much of the world will
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have changed to where it feels
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artificial and you will desperately care
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for that. You look at cities now,
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municipal planning, urban planning.
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There is now a big push to getting
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people back into urban centers, live
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there, walk to cafes, walk to
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restaurants, live in apartments, build
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these entertainment areas to live and
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work in. Truest Park in Atlanta is a
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great example of this. They built a
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neighborhood that you can live, work,
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play all in this area because suburban
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sprawl is not for everybody in terms of
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culde-sacs and white picket fences and
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driving to your cheesecake factory, but
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instead being in a walking area. There
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are municipalities ripping up
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interstates that ripped through
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neighborhoods and made it sterile.
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In the future, we will want and and
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crave
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doing things that feel like they used to
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feel. And sitting outdoors at a football
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game is always going to be one of those
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things. Always. Guarantee you. And you
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pull up this video. Let's see. It's 2025
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today. Somewhere in the future, if
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YouTube is still around, this video will
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exist in 2050.
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You tell me how those dome stadiums
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aged. I guarantee you I'm right. I
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guarantee you.
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