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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

The stadium paid for itself in sixteen sellouts at five dollars a ticket. Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium at 335 South Hollywood Street opened on 16 September 1965 as Memphis Memorial Stadium, a 3.7-million-dollar bowl on the old Mid-South Fairgrounds dedicated to the city's war dead - and built in large part to give the wandering Liberty Bowl a permanent home. The bet paid immediately: the Liberty Bowl arrived that December and has been played here every year since, the city renamed the stadium f...