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31 sports stadiums most likely to be haunted

By John Buhler

Aug 22, 2014; Green Bay, WI, USA; General view of statue of Green Bay Packers former coach Vince Lombardi before the game against the Oakland Raiders at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 22, 2014; Green Bay, WI, USA; General view of statue of Green Bay Packers former coach Vince Lombardi before the game against the Oakland Raiders at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 30, 2014; Atlanta, GA, USA; A general view of the stadium during the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Arizona Cardinals during the first quarter at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 30, 2014; Atlanta, GA, USA; A general view of the stadium during the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Arizona Cardinals during the first quarter at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports /

18. Georgia Dome

After the Cavaliers won the NBA Championship this summer, Atlanta moved up to fourth on the list of cities (with a minimum of three pro teams) with the longest championship droughts.

People have actually died reaching for foul balls at the Atlanta Braves’ Turner Field and it took the Atlanta Hawks nine years to make the NBA Playoffs after relocating to Philips Arena. But the most cursed stadium in Atlanta has to be the Georgia Dome.

Like Turner Field, the Georgia Dome is about to enter its final year hosting a professional sports franchise. Its primary occupant, the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, will move next door to brand-new Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Turner Field will be the new home of Division I’s Georgia State Panthers, as the Braves travel north up I-75 to new SunTrust Park in nearby Cobb County.

It isn’t just the Falcons that have had tough luck in the Georgia Dome. One area of the field has been a particular demon in three different events. The Georgia Bulldogs lost the 2012 SEC Championship as time expired on the Alabama Crimson Tide’s five-yard line.

Five yards back of that, the Falcons missed out on their second Super Bowl in the same 2012 season, blowing a 17-0 lead at halftime to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship.

Even the United States Men’s National Team suffered an embarrassing home loss at the Georgia Dome to Jamaica in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Finals in 2015. In that game, Jamaica scored an easy goal when goalie Brad Guzan failed to properly set up his wall for a free-kick.

Any Atlanta native knows that something absolutely horrible had to have happened on that end of the end zone when Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burnt the city to the ground during the Civil War in 1864. That spot in the Georgia Dome is the most cursed patch of real estate in the Southeastern United States. Falcons fans can’t wait to leave it behind.

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