Jokes will be made. Some will be funny. Others will fail to hit their mark. But they will be made.
An attempt to implode the Pontiac Silverdome, the old home of the Detroit Lions, failed miserably Sunday morning.
Here is the failed #Silverdome implosion from SkyFOX pic.twitter.com/6hD7PyTHIM
— Sky Kerstein (@SkyKersteinSJSU) December 3, 2017
The Lions played at this venue from 1975-2001, earning just eight playoff appearances during that span. Maybe the Silverdome itself was just fed up with seeing too many implosions in the past (we’re here all day).
The Detroit-based Adamo Group was responsible for taking down the old dome Sunday morning. Apparently, 10 percent of the explosive charges used to demolish the Lions’ old stomping grounds failed to go off.
“Unless we find something in the next few hours researching the wiring, we will take it down mechanically,” Adamo executive VP Rick Cuppetilli said Sunday, via the Detroit Free Press. “We haven’t found the wire yet. It’s going to take us a while to research it all.”
What’s one more failure for a venue that had seen so many of them over the course of the Lions’ quarter century at the Silverdome?
Long abandoned, the stadium has been a subject of debate around the Detroit area. We’re sure that debate will heat up even more following Sunday’s epic fail.