Caesars Superdome

Mercedes-Benz Superdome 2011
Flygbild vid översvämningen efter orkanen Katrina 2005.

Caesars Superdome, före detta Louisiana Superdome samt Mercedes-Benz Superdome, är en arena för amerikansk fotboll i New Orleans i Louisiana i USA. Byggnaden uppfördes 1974 och fungerar som hemmaarena för New Orleans Saints i NFL. Den är världens största konstruktion med kupoltak. [källa behövs]

Antal sittplatser är under NFL-säsongen 73 208, men under Super Bowl har en publiksiffra på nästan 80 000 rapporterats. Sju gånger har Super Bowl spelats i arenan, fler gånger än någon annan enskild arena.

2005 genomled 9 000 människor orkanen Katrina under Superdomes tak. Takhöjden uppgår till hela 83,2m.

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Superdome from Garage.jpg
Författare/Upphovsman: Nwill21, Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0
Louisiana Superdome. This was taken October 14, 2011 on the 7th floor of the adjacent New Orleans Center parking garage at roughly 5:30pm, with my iPhone 4, HDR Mode off. By Nicholas Williamson.
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050831-N-8154G-115 New Orleans, La. (Aug 31, 2005) – Aerial view from a U.S. Navy helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two Eight (HSC-28), showing the rising flood waters threatening the entire downtown New Orleans city center, including the famed New Orleans Saints Super Dome. Tens of thousands of displaced citizens sought shelter at the dome, before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, but have been forced to evacuate as flood waters continue to rise throughout the area. HSC-28 flies the MH-60S Seahawk variant, based out of Norfolk, Va., and is embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) participating in humanitarian assistance operations led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in conjunction with the Department of Defense. Bataan has been tasked to be the Maritime Disaster Relief Coordinator for the Navy’s role in the relief efforts. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Jeremy L. Grisham

An aerial view from a United States Navy helicopter showing floodwaters around the entire downtown New Orleans area. The Louisiana Superdome is in the center.