Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets

Although its glory days have passed, the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum remains one of the world’s most famous sports venues. The massive stadium’s list of major events is incredible - two Olympic Games, two Super Bowls and a World Series since opening in 1922. Although its current capacity is listed as 92,516, the Coliseum used to seat more than 100,000 and often exceeded that number by quite a bit before renovations, including some because of a 1994 earthquake, changed the configuration of the stadium. If you want the best Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum tickets, check with Gotickets first.

The first Summer Olympics held at the Coliseum was in 1932, when many countries couldn’t afford to send a team because of The Great Depression. The Olympics returned in 1984 and the United States dominated as the Soviet Union, East Germany and several other countries boycotted the Games.

The Coliseum hosted the first Super Bowl in 1967 with the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeating the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Interestingly, the game was not a sellout (the only time that has happened in Super Bowl history) and it wasn’t even called the “Super Bowl” then, but rather the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The Super Bowl name didn’t appear until the third year of the game. And no complete footage of the first Super Bowl even exists, as both CBS and NBC recorded over the original tapes.

Although not known as a baseball stadium, the Coliseum was home to the Dodgers before Dodger Stadium was completed and hosted the 1959 World Series.

The Coliseum was the home of the Los Angeles Raiders before they moved to Oakland, and is still the home stadium of the two-time defending national champion USC Trojans. With quarterback Matt Leinart, the Heisman Trophy winner, returning for his senior season and coach Pete Carroll still at the helm, the Trojans have an excellent chance for a threepeat. The Trojans have home games in 2005 against Arkansas, Arizona, Washington State, Stanford, Fresno State and UCLA. USC tickets are going to be hard to come by this year, so if you want the very best USC football tickets and L.A. Coliseum tickets, then go with Gotickets.