The only facility in the world to host the Olympics, Super Bowl and Final Four was reduced to rubble Monday morning. A little more than 25 years after opening, the Georgia Dome, former home of the Atlanta Falcons and the scene for several historic sporting events, was imploded. The adjacent Mercedes-Benz Stadium opened this summer. More than 1,400 events took place at the Georgia Dome in its short life span, bringing in 39 million guests.
On hand to capture the event for a live broadcast was the Weather Channel, whose cameraman can be heard losing his mind as a public transit bus blocks his view at the exact moment the building collapses.
The timing, the reaction and the casual drive away by the bus driver, it’s all perfect. The memes have already begun (see below)
