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NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium (2002-2013) is a multipurpose stadium in Houston, Texas. The stadium is primarily used by the NFL's Houston Texans and has hosted the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship 4 times (2008, 2010, 2011, 2015), and is hosting the 2016 NCAA men's tournament.

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  • NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium (2002-2013) is a multipurpose stadium in Houston, Texas. The stadium is primarily used by the NFL's Houston Texans and has hosted the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship 4 times (2008, 2010, 2011, 2015), and is hosting the 2016 NCAA men's tournament.
  • NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, USA. Reliant Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,054, a total area of 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) with 97,000 sq ft (9,000 m2) of natural grass playing surface. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, host to many international soccer matches for the USA National Soccer Team, and other events. The stadium served as the host facility for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004 and WrestleMania XXV on April 5, 2009.
  • NRG Stadium (formerly Reliant Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, United States. NRG Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,795, a total area of 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) with a 97,000 sq ft (9,000 m2) playing surface. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, host to many international soccer matches for the USA National Soccer Team, and other events. The stadium served as the host facility for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004 and WrestleMania XXV on April 5, 2009.
  • The Houston NFL Holdings group came to Populous (then HOK Sport) to begin the schematic design for the first-ever NFL retractable roof football stadium in 1997. The intention was to create a football stadium to replace the Astrodome that would operate like an open-air facility but have the intimacy and comfort of an indoor arena. With the design for football and the square footage requirements of the rodeo, the building was designed in the -square-foot ( m2) range. Groundbreaking for the stadium was on March 9, 2001 and the building was officially topped off in October 2001. The stadium opened on August 24, 2002 and hosted its first football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans on September 8, 2002. Construction was completed in 30 months. The first rodeo was held in the
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