It hosts American football, soccer, basketball, hockey and indoor soccer. Ray Marcham says: "The Tacoma Dome is the ultimate multi-purpose arena - and, frankly, not good for any sport. It seems unlikely in this day and age that a multi-purpose stadium would ever host hockey again – if nothing else, the Seattle Thunderbirds are 22 miles closer to Tacoma now than they were in the early 90’s. The Dome only hosted the WHL between 19, and from what I understand, there has hardly been ice inside it since 2002, when the last hockey tenant packed up and left. From the outside, at least, the Tacoma Dome is spectacular, a massive silver bubble with an American flag atop it. In spite of its location near downtown, there are parking lots surrounding it, and it feels kind of like the Pontiac Silverdome or other suburban stadiums of its era – a blob anchoring an ocean of concrete.
The Dome still stands in Tacoma, right beside the interstate and across the street from the Lemay Automotive Museum, one of America’s best. The seating was all temporary, and the cavernous space meant any crowd noise quickly dissipated. With such a high ceiling and the field expandable to accommodate anything from cricket to football, when the Tacoma Dome hosted the Rockets, it was a uniquely terrible hockey arena. It opened in 1983 with a signature geodesic roof, and unlike virtually all other indoor arenas in the world, there’s almost no fixed seating inside the building, which makes it uniquely adaptable, but also kind of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of rink.
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