Hard Rock Stadium is a football stadium located in Miami Gardens, Florida. The stadium hosts the city's pro football team, the Miami Dolphins. The venue has also hosted 5 Super Bowls, 2 World Series, WrestleMania, and more. Now without any groundskeepers to maintain the stadium, fans to attend sporting events, and players to play the game, how long can this venue last in a Life After People?
1 Day After People[]
The lights shut off around Miami-Dade County, plunging the stadium into darkness forever
2 Weeks After People[]
Birds and other animals have worked their way into the stadium, raiding the concession stands and private kitchens in the suites, water starts to pool in some sections of the field.
3 Months After People[]
Rain water from storms have pooled at midfield. Small aquatic animals start to colonize the stadium, bringing in more predatory animals.
6 Months After People[]
The humidity of the Florida weather takes it toll on the Team Shop, ruining the jerseys and clothes, turning them into moldy, bug-eaten rags. It is also taking its toll on the wires that hold up the 4 almost 360-foot (109 m) tall spires on the stadium. But they are galvanized, and will resist corrosion for many more years to come.
1 Year After People[]
A category 1 hurricane sweeps into Florida, flooding the field and blowing out the screens on each of the stadium's jumbotrons. The windows hold out, being made of impact resistant glass, but they won't do so forever.
5 Years After People[]
The field is now a lush pond ecosystem, the roof channeling rain into the field. The giant jumbotrons are still hanging onto the structure, but their time will soon come.
20 Years After People[]
Hard Rock Stadium's Jumbotrons are in bad shape. They are connected to the steel girders of the roof by intersecting panels bolted together, the screens built into the steel that surrounds it. The cables that also support the jumbotrons are rusting away gradually, with the constant Florida heat and humidity making the metal weaker and more bendy, it is only a matter of time before one of the jumbotrons go.
50 Years After People[]
The jumbotrons are now about to go out forever. The girders and cables that help support the screens are now rusted and warped from the Florida heat. The cables to one of the screens snap, losing support from the upper decks. With all the weight all placed on the girders, they snap, sending the screen crashing down on top of the upper decks.
100 Years After People[]
The ocean has now creeped up the shores of Florida as it starts to revert back to the swamp the state once was. Being 25 miles from the coast line, the stadium doesn't have to worry about the ocean, but it's doom won't come from any water, but a curious design of the building's roofs that may spell doom for the Miami Dolphins' home.
125 Years After People[]
The cables that hold the massive spires of the roof upright are about to snap. After 1 century without maintenance, the cables snap, causing the spires to topple over, smashing onto the canopy of the stadium. The corroded steel girders that hold up the rest of the canopy are now subjected to an even larger weight load. It's now only a matter of time before the structure collapses.
150 Years After People[]
The steel girders that hold the roof up are corroded to the point of catastrophic failure. They snap, causing the roof to crash down into the stadium's lower decks in a section-by-section collapse. But the stadium's walls still stand, and will remain standing for a very long time.