Now, the likes of Bastille, Imagine Dragons and Prides come stadium-sized as a starting point – in the latter's case, that means a synth-heavy debut that sounds like Chrvches hooked up to an air pump.
As night came, stadium-style lights lit up a sea of cheering faces - most of them men - draped in the green and saffron colours of the BJP.
From military deployment as remote surveillance and killing machines, to hobbyist toys, future delivery bots and now, coming later this year, stadium rockers… Drones have quite the application trajectory.
Andrew Gillies profiles the Austrian company whose security systems will be used for crowd management and may be coming to stadiums in North America before too long.
And when that crash finally came, the stadium took off in flight.
Despite Mr Reynolds' confidence that, "If we build it, they will come", the stadium found it difficult to attract large enough crowds to meet its costs.
"They're coming into our stadium.
"I support a stadium coming in.
Two temporary changes will be coming to Michigan Stadium for the Winter Classic: alcohol and advertising.
Then, coming to the stadium, my kitman says to me: 'I've got a problem.
